TABLE OF CONTENT

Chapter Title Page

TITLE PAGE i

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii

ABSTRACT iii

LIST OF FIGURES vi

LIST OF TABLES vii

1. INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 Objectives of the Research 1

1.1.1 General objectives 1

1.1.2 Specific objectives 2

1.2 Scope and Limitations of the Research 2

1.3 Organisation of the Research 2

2. OVERVIEW ON CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN VIETNAM 4

2.1 Construction Industry and Foreign Direct Investment 4

2.2 Vietnamese Contractors and Construction Quality 6

3. CONSTRUCTION PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND M&E WORK 8

3.1 Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) Construction Work 8

3.2 Relevance of this research 10

3.2.1 Different systems of standards for M&E work 10

3.2.2 Development of local M&E contractors and their concerns for quality 11

3.2.3 M&E project performance and management issues. 11

4. LITERATURE REVIEW 13

4.1 Project quality performance 13

4.2 Critical success/failure factors in projects 15

4.3 Determining factors of construction project success 18

5. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 22

5.1 Research framework 22

5.2 Term definitions and measures 22

5.2.1 Quality performance 22

5.2.2 Choice of success variables and measures 24

5.3 Sample and procedure 28

5.4 Questionnaire design and pilot study 28

5.4.1 Questionnaire design 28

5.4.2 Pilot study 28

5.5 Data analysis procedure 29

5.5.1 Basic concepts of Factor Analysis (FA) and Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) 30

6. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 32

6.1 General statistics 32

6.2 Sample descriptive statistics and preliminary analysis 33

6.3 Data Reduction by FA 36

6.3.1 Data examining and assumptions in factor analysis 36

6.3.2 Factor extraction 36

6.4 Data analysis with CCA 40

6.4.1 Canonical model, assumption and data examining 40

6.4.2 Deriving the canonical functions and assess overall fit 42

6.4.3 Interpreting the results 43

7. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 49

7.1 Conclusions 49

7.2 Recommendations 50

REFERENCES 52

APPENDIX 5