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Abstract

Governmental construction projects receive a large proportion of the annual Kingdom budgets. The Kingdom’s government has been interested in addressing the problem of stumbling projects by establishing and launching several programs, initiatives, and projects. Despite this interest, the problem of stumbling government projects still exists.

This study aims to reach recommendations that lead to practical solutions to solve the problem of stumbling municipal sector construction projects in the Kingdom, by identifying the reasons for government construction projects stumbling in general and construction municipal sector projects in particular, classifying the reasons for stumbling of municipal sector construction projects, and arranging them statistically based on importance,

This study used a descriptive method in the theoretical part of the study by describing and studying the reasons for the stumbling of government construction projects in the Kingdom by focusing on municipal sector projects, and descriptive analytical method in the practical part of the study through designing and developing data collection tools (questionnaires and interviews) to answer questions of the study.

The Study concluded by knowing the ranking of the most important reasons that lead to the stumbling of construction municipal projects arranged according to their importance; waste of time and cost resulting from change orders, inaccuracy of technical specifications and schedules of quantities, and lack of clarity in the documents and plans that were prepared by the owner, in addition to identifying the parties involved in the construction projects stumbling in the municipal sector, and at the end of the study, many recommendations were reached that can be applied to most construction projects in the Kingdom, and these recommendations are classified according to municipal sector, general recommendations, and recommendations related to future studies. This is what distinguishes this study, as it is considered one of the few studies that sheds light on municipal sector projects and covers the period between (2011 - 2021), which shows the reasons for stumbling before the announcement of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 in (2016) and the corrective measures that were taken in this regard.

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