The purpose of the study is to identify factors causing project distress and assess projectrndistress prevention and intervention strategies in sunshine construction plc. Arncomprehensive literature investigation of academic articles was carried out to determinern14 critical factors causing project distress in the Ethiopian construction industry. Then, arnquantitative study was carried out using a questionnaire survey as a method to obtain therndata. 15 respondents (project managers, Team Leaders and Engineers) from 3 Projectsrn(Bole Marriot international hotel project, Bole Beshale sunshine real estate Project, andrnCMC-2 sunshine real estate Project) were selected using purposive sampling as theirrneducation level and experience is highly important for the study. Collected data from thernsurvey were analyzed using SPSS (version 27) software by using mean and standardrndeviations for ranking purposes. The study found that the top three ranking factorsrncausing distress at sunshine construction plc are poor project implementation strategies,rnproject environment, and lack of integrated Planning. The study also assessed projectrndistress prevention and intervention strategies and found that sunshine construction plcrnfocuses on mostly on designing, preparing work breakdown, and then rush tornconstruction, instead of giving all the 10 project management knowledge areas equalrnemphasis as they all contribute towards the successful completion of a project. The studyrnalso found specific issues in areas of dynamic risk management, scope management, andrnstakeholder management. And recommended several management tools to address thesernissues.