Construction Contract Administration Performance Modelling towards a Sustainable and Efficient Project Delivery

Poor construction administration performance is a significant cause of inefficient construction process which is a major problem for construction projects in Nigeria. This research developed a model to appraise the contract administration performance of construction project. A total of ninety-three (93) construction administration process grouped into eleven (11) phases were rated by expert respondents in a questionnaire survey. A Structural equation model between the construction contract administration performance (CCAP) and the eleven (11) Construction Contract Administration (CCA) phases which include the governance and start-up management (GS), team management (TM), communication and relationship management (CR), document and record management (DRM), claims and dispute resolution management (CDM), performance monitoring and reporting development (PR), financial management (FM), quality and acceptance management (QA), changes and change control management (CM), contract risk management (CR) and contractor close out management (CCM) were developed. From the resulting model generated, PR, QA and GS had the highest influence on CCAP with model coefficients of 0.977, 0.962 and 0.954 respectively, while the least influential is CR with coefficients of 0.744. This further enunciates the importance of monitoring to the overall success of all contractual obligations of a construction project.