Determining Factors Affecting Critical Success of Construction Project: Review

Construction project involve many participants such as designers, consultants, contractors, construction managers and specialists from different disciplines. Many researchers have tried to regulate factors for successful project for the long time. Lists of variables have been abounded in the literature; however no general agreement can be made. The aim of this paper is to determine critical factors for construction projects. Eleven main research papers in construction project field were selected to review prior works on project accomplishment. Five main collections of independent variables namely, project related factors, project management action, project procedures, human related factors and external environment are identified as vital to project achievement. This study is an exertion to describe success of the project, failure of the projects and many research papers were discussed.