ABSTRACT

Eben Heaser Adam, 2010. The Factors Affecting The Unachieved Time and Cost
Targets in Provincial Road Maintenance Project in East Nusa Tenggara.
Supervisor: Lalu Mulyadi. Co-supervisor: H. Edi Hargono D. Putranto.
Keywords: Time, Cost, Road Maintenance
Road maintenance project in East Nusa Tenggara involves some activities
such as road improvement, periodic maintenance or routine maintenance.
However, there are some barriers such as the unachieved time and cost targets in
road maintenance project. Research is carried out to acknowledge the factors
affecting the unachieved time and cost targets in provincial road maintenance
project in east Nusa Tenggara, to search for the most dominant factor in its effect,
and to determine the strategy used by contractor to deal with these factors.
Data analysis method there are used in the research such as descriptive
statistic, factorial analysis, and path analysis. The questionnaire is distributed to
43 respondents. They are contractor, owner, and supervisory consultant who are
involved in the provincial road maintenance project in East Nusa Tenggara with
unachieved time and cost targets in budget years of 2007 and 2008.
Considering with these results, factors significantly affecting the
unachieved time and cost targets in provincial road maintenance project in East
Nusa Tenggara are: human resource by -standard coefficient of 0.342; material
by -standard coefficient of 0.326; equipment by -standard coefficient of 0.287;
work environment by -standard coefficient of 0.260; design modification by standard coefficient of -0.361; and time target by -standard coefficient of 0.580.
All independent variables do not give indirect effect on dependent variable of cost
target (Y2). The most dominant factor affecting unachieved time target is human
resource by -standard coefficient of 0.342. The most dominant factor influencing
unachieved cost target is time target by -standard coefficient of 0.580. A
proposed strategy to deal with the unachieved time and cost targets in road
maintenance project in East Nusa Tenggara is by recruiting the professional from
outside East Nusa Tenggara, including them from Bali or Java due to their
competence and experience in meeting the demand of work implementation. By
the way, contractor should to prepare the labours with high skill and productivity,
and to hire or use the experience and educated foreman and field supervisor in
project implementation.

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