Analysis of factors affecting quality performance of construction equipment.

Abstract

Quality performance is a numerical measurement of the performance of an organization or process assessed through the measurement of physical products and statistical sampling of the output of processes. Construction equipment’s are heavy-duty vehicles specifically created for carrying out construction activities, most usually including earthwork operations. Excavators, Backhoe loaders are the most common equipment’s used for excavation in the construction industry. Defects or lapses in the quality performance of such equipment can lead to increased costs and delays in project completion. This project involves the identification of the factors that affect the quality performance of construction equipment used for excavation in construction sites through a literature review. After the identification of these factors, a questionnaire is prepared from the factors identified and site visits are conducted to various construction sites across Ernakulam district and interviews were conducted with construction practitioners including project managers, site engineers, equipment contractors and the response data is collected. After the collection of data analysis is done using Statistical Package for Social Science software (SPSS) and the
major factors that affect the quality performance were ranked. The factors with RII value of 0.841 affects majorly the performance of excavation equipment and the factor with RII value of 0.588 affects the performance of excavation equipment’s the least.