Stakeholder’s Perception of Critical Success Factors for Design-Bid-Build Highway Projects in Nigeria

: Project success factors are germane in achieving project objectives by stakeholders. The research investigates the stakeholder’s perception of project success factors for highway project in Nigeria. Therefore, the specific objectives is to identify and assess factor influencing the success of highway project in Nigeria. To achieve the main objective of this paper, two hundred (200) questionnaires were administered on major stakeholders in the highway sector; comprising highway engineers both in consultancy firms and client organisations, and quantity surveyors using random sampling technique. Ninety-four (94) questionnaires were found useful for the analysis, yielding a response rate of 47%. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM SPSS Version 22) was used in analysing the data. The results indicated that clear project goals (4.68), experienced design team (4.59), proper project planning (4.51), availability and adequacy of resources (4.50) and on time decision making (4.48) in that order are the most CSFs in highway projects in Nigeria. However, a Kruskal-Wallis test conducted showed that there is no statistically significant difference in the ranking scores among the three (3) stakeholders at 5% significance level, except for four out of the twenty two factors assessed. The group means vary slightly from the individual means obtained from different stakeholders but there is no significant difference in the means. The slight variation is due to the difference in opinions of the stakeholders as each group has priority for different project objectives. The paper concluded that these CSFs need to be given serious attention if the issues of cost and time overrun, project abandonment and litigation have to be a thing of the past in the Nigerian construction industry.