Track: Engineering Management

Abstract

 This study titled as Identification of Challenges Facing Public Construction Industry (PCI) in Palestine end at finding out the challenges facing PCI in Palestine and clarifying the ways those are dealt with. To achieve its objective the researcher has designed the questionnaire for this purpose. Besides that, the researcher has conducted some interviews with the key stakeholders of construction industry in Palestine .The questionnaire was analyzed using SPSS program. The major results of this study are:  
The major challenges related to health and safety, time, and quality that faces Public Construction industry in Palestine .The result found no statistical differences out to demographic factors to this study. 
The objective of this research is to study to set a recommendation for dealing those challenges and help in developing the future of this sector by minimizing the problems with using the maximum resources and opportunities to make construction management more efficient and responsive, by discusses how to implement best management practices in public construction project PCP in West Bank. And recommended the designer to be more creative and the special condition for every single project should be considered such as location, used material, end user...etc. and the government is recommended to be stricter, to be more effective, and to facilitate this issue with the specialized authorities to make such a step is easier to typical citizen. Also legislate laws giving labors their rights. Increase staff realizing and understanding of safety importance by training, and achieve a certified degrees in quality commitment the ISO by hiring quality engineer. The recommendations introduce some solution for practitioners by acquiring the right skills and apply appropriate management strategies in managing construction projects.