TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the role of team environment in building project performance
AU - Franz, Bryan
AU - Esmaeili, Behzad
AU - Leicht, Robert
AU - Molenaar, Keith
AU - Messner, John
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Design and construction projects incorporate stakeholders from many different organizations, often with conflicting goals, overlapping responsibilities and differing areas of expertise. With an increasing interest in improving the integration and collaboration on construction projects, there is a need for empirical research to understand the contributions of project team interactions to project-level performance. The purpose of this paper is to explore the correlations among several indicators of the collaborative team environment and traditional measures of project success. With the assistance of an industry advisory board, a survey questionnaire was developed to collect detailed information for recently completed building projects in the United States. The questionnaire was distributed via mailing lists, conferences, and industry contacts to reach a diverse set of respondents. Using this large data set of 124 projects, bivariate Spearman rho correlation coefficients are calculated and reported. Significant correlations suggest the role of on-time communication in reducing construction cost growth, higher team chemistry in reducing overall schedule growth, and larger administrative burdens in increasing construction cost growth and final unit cost. Multicollinearity among the measures of team environment suggests the presence of latent variables and the need for future multivariate analyses.
AB - Design and construction projects incorporate stakeholders from many different organizations, often with conflicting goals, overlapping responsibilities and differing areas of expertise. With an increasing interest in improving the integration and collaboration on construction projects, there is a need for empirical research to understand the contributions of project team interactions to project-level performance. The purpose of this paper is to explore the correlations among several indicators of the collaborative team environment and traditional measures of project success. With the assistance of an industry advisory board, a survey questionnaire was developed to collect detailed information for recently completed building projects in the United States. The questionnaire was distributed via mailing lists, conferences, and industry contacts to reach a diverse set of respondents. Using this large data set of 124 projects, bivariate Spearman rho correlation coefficients are calculated and reported. Significant correlations suggest the role of on-time communication in reducing construction cost growth, higher team chemistry in reducing overall schedule growth, and larger administrative burdens in increasing construction cost growth and final unit cost. Multicollinearity among the measures of team environment suggests the presence of latent variables and the need for future multivariate analyses.
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U2 - 10.1061/9780784413517.0204
DO - 10.1061/9780784413517.0204
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904675024
SN - 9780784413517
T3 - Construction Research Congress 2014: Construction in a Global Network - Proceedings of the 2014 Construction Research Congress
SP - 1997
EP - 2010
BT - Construction Research Congress 2014
PB - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
T2 - 2014 Construction Research Congress: Construction in a Global Network, CRC 2014
Y2 - 19 May 2014 through 21 May 2014
ER -