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Assignment No. 3
1. Identify and discuss issues that confront the construction
industry in the Philippines in the current situation.
Propose solutions. Propose solutions to address the issues
you identify and discuss their impact.
I. INTRODUCTION
There are two ways to understand “construction” in the Philippine economy. First,
as an industry, construction sector includes “activities of establishments primarily
engaged in the putting up of buildings and structures and other land improvements;
secondary activities such as the provision of technical/engineering services and the
manufacture of construction materials undertaken by horizontally integrated
construction firms; and informal construction activities like repair and maintenance and
own-account construction.”
Construction as an investment or capital formation, on the other hand, is classified
either as a private and public construction. In particular, “all construction owned by the
government and government corporations are classified as public construction; while
all other construction activities are classified as private.”
The construction industry everywhere faces problems and challenges. However, in
the developing countries, these difficulties and challenges are present alongside a
general situation of socio-economic stress, chronic resource shortages, institutional
weaknesses and a general inability to deal with the key issues. There is also evidence
that the problems have become greater in extent and severity in recent years.
In terms of labor productivity (measured as the ratio of Gross Value Added of the
industry to corresponding employment), construction industry does not do well relative
to other sectors in the Industry Group. In fact, Construction lags behind mining &
quarrying, manufacturing, and Electricity, Gas, and Water Supply sectors in terms of
labor productivity. Factors for the low productivity in construction industry include
outdated technology, more complicated projects and complex implementing rules and
regulations by the government. The bright side is that labor productivity of
Construction industry has been consistently increasing for the past three years.
9. Non-Universality of Information
When a different team carries over work to a different team for the next process
and when a problem comes up arising from the previous process, the construction
project manager may have a hard time understanding how to proceed. For example, the
procurement team deals with complicated contracts and when a problem with the
contracts arise while in the middle of construction, it may confuse the CPM
(construction project management) lead.
All of the mentioned issues greatly affect the construction industries, but we
should not only focus on these issues, because every problem there is a solution. The
following are the list of solutions that we have to work on
III. REFERENCES
https://www.philstar.com/business/2017/07/14/1719598/contractors-
bullish-infra-amid-politics-pricing-issuesAssociated
https://www.pressreader.com/
https://www.bworldonline.com/the-building-blocks-of-the-countrys-future/
http://www.asranet.com