Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.2478/otmcj-2024-0006
ISM model for assessing critical productivity factors in the Jordanian construction industry post-COVID-19 pandemic
Ala’a Saleh Alshdiefat
; Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
The construction industry is a human-intensive
industry despite the massive development in technologies. Nowadays, after crossing COVID-19 pandemic, the
construction industry is an important sector for saving the
national economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has created
new ways of thinking due to massive and unpredictable
socioeconomic consequences. Thus, understanding the
critical productivity factors after the COVID-19 pandemic
will enhance the construction industry by improving the
understanding of the professionals who are involved at
an early stage of the project lifecycle. This study aims to
determine the critical productivity factors after the COVID
19 pandemic for enhancing the construction industry in
developing countries such as Jordan. A review of available
literature similar to the related topics before the COVID
19 pandemic was explored, and then a questionnaire was
distributed across the Jordanian construction industry to
determine the main productivity factors post-COVID-19
pandemic. A focus group was used to determine the inter
relationship among the factors with the Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) approach. The obtained results
indicated that 22 main productivity factors affected the
Jordanian construction industry. The hierarchy of these
factors is categorised into six levels of ISM whereas the
sixth level has the greatest factors that influence productivity in the construction industry. Thus, enhancing productivity in construction projects requires solving problems related to factors in level 1, which will help to solve
problems at the next level and so on.
Keywords
construction, productivity, factors, Jordan, post-COVID-19 pandemic
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321150
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Publication date:
3.10.2024.
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