Abstract:
This research investigated factors that caused problems or conflicts between works in structural and electrical system. The factors were categorized into 5 groups. They are; 1) communications, coordination, and data exchange; 2) planning, scheduling, and working period; 3) attitude, responsibility, and performance; 4) techniques and working procedures; and 5) management of a temporary facility, equipment and working-area sharing, and safety. The data were gathered by means of questionnaire from 70 contractors. The data were sorted into 2 main groups comprising of data from 30 civil engineers and 36 electrical engineers. The rest of the data were from people in other fields. It was found that both groups agreed that planning, scheduling, and working period factors caused the most of the problems or conflicts between structural and electrical system works. The civil engineering group chose the management of a temporary facility, equipment and working- area sharing, and safety factors to be the secondary factors that caused conflicts while the electrical engineering group voted for the communications, coordination, and data exchange factors. The attitude, responsibility, and performance factors, and the techniques and working procedures factors were ranked the lowest by both groups. The guidelines to resolve the problems were also presented in this study.