Scrutinizing the Adoption of Integrated Project Delivery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Construction Sector

Fahad K. Alqahtani; Abdulaziz Alsanad; Ahmed Alsadan; Mohamed Sherif; Ahmed Gouda Mohamed

doi:10.3390/buildings12122144

Buildings (Dec 2022)

Scrutinizing the Adoption of Integrated Project Delivery in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Construction Sector

Fahad K. Alqahtani,
Abdulaziz Alsanad,
Ahmed Alsadan,
Mohamed Sherif,
Ahmed Gouda Mohamed

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Fahad K. Alqahtani: Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
Abdulaziz Alsanad: Construction Engineering and Management, Civil Engineering Department, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Alsadan: Construction Engineering and Management, Civil Engineering Department, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Sherif: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Dole Street, Honolulu, HI 2540, USA
Ahmed Gouda Mohamed: Department of Construction Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, The British University in Egypt, El Sherouk City P.O. Box 43, Egypt

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12122144
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 12
p. 2144

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The Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach has been acquiring applause worldwide attributable to its certified and attested outcomes in efficiently sharing threats and costs confronting the construction project. Regardless of its popularity and rationality, no substantial studies have been conducted into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s (KSA) construction. Hence, the novelty of this paper is probing the Saudi Arabia government tender process and procurement regulation for IPD theme deployment, reliant on a thorough literature assessment to bestow construction parties with the barriers of incorporating the IPD paradigm in KSA. The research objectives are attained via a questionnaire survey steered toward (1) pondering respondents’ cognizance of IPD eventuality and deployment in the KSA’s construction sector, (2) stipulating the survey’s participants’ preparedness for IPD implementation in KSA’s construction market, (3) specifying the project phase in which the contractor should be entangled as part of the IPD method, and (4) scrutinizing the respondents’ knowledge to classify the anticipated barriers to IPD from the global market in KSA. Findings unearth that the KSA construction sector still entails being more conscientious and adequate, pointing out the difficulties triggered by a dearth of awareness, apprehension, and pragmatic implementation. Further, respondents showed impartiality towards construction project stakeholders’ prescience and exuberance, the existing government procurement and tendering laws, and revolutionary technological infrastructure and competency for IPD implementations in the KSA construction industry. Additionally, the contractor should be implicated and embroiled in the construction project from the early design phase. Addedly, the hurdles to deploying IPD in KSA are ranked as follows: technological, knowledge, financial, legal, and cultural barriers.

Published in Buildings

ISSN: 2075-5309 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Building construction
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings

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