THE CRITICAL FACTORS OF PROJECT LIFE CYCLE IN SUDANESE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

The Sudanese construction sector is characterized by many small and large projects and high labor intensity, and accounted for 3.2% of the Sudanese country’s GDP. The factors which affect the performance of Sudanese construction projects are the basic problem. The main objectives of this study are to identify the factors affecting the performance of Sudanese construction projects, and to determine the critical factors. The literature review has been done to gather the information about the causes and their factors that affect the performance of construction projects from the previous researches. The methodology which was conducted to gather the data was questionnaire which was examined to be reliable and valid according to statistical tests. The (52) factors were identified as factors affect construction projects. Thus, (17) factors of them were the critical factors which may lead to poor performance of Sudanese construction projects. This study has some conclusions such as the instrument for measuring the critical factors on the performance is reliable and valid, so the construction project performance is 64.2%.