Assessment Of Practices Of Closing Out Water Supply Projects The Case Of Oromia Region Water Mines And Energy Bureau

This research conducted to identify from literature the general project closure practices, the steps and the standard practices of project closure implemented by Oromia Water, Mineral and Energy Bureau for its Water Supply projects as well as judging obedience and conformity of project closure practices and recognize challenges associated with project closure. It engage the qualitative method of research. Questionnaires were prepared and distributed among thirty nine (39) respondents comprising of fourteen (14) employees of Oromia Water, Mineral and Energy Bureau, twelve(12)employees of contractors and thirteen(13) employees of consultants to OWMEB's water supply projects. Data collected were scrutinized using the Relative Importance Index (RII)and the mean score. The research found that the common project closure methods included contractual and administrative closeout actions according to literatures.These characterize the fundamental steps of project closure practices, which are being focused by OWMEB in their water supply projects. OWMEB in their water supply projects obeys and conforms greatly with contractual closure practices but fulfill and stick reasonably to administrative closure practices. Further, it discovered that the challenges connected with OWMEB project closure are slow close out process and documentation of usual methods and building events which will serve the foundation for project evaluation and lessons learned for future projects. The research proposes that Oromia Water, Mineral and Energy should deal with the causes of slow close out as spell out by the current work and file typical practices and construction dealings for each project for future references. For the sake of future study, it is also suggested that potential research should center on the effects of slow close out from the perceptions of the client, consultant and the contractor.

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