An-Najah Staff

The objective of this researches to study the project management of construction projects in Palestine. Construction sector is considered as a vital sector in today’s economy, due to the development in construction which is taking place in the world in general and the West Bank. The construction sector has a great importance not only to the economic and social life, but also to the needs and inspiration of the local culture. This study stressed on many aspects on the subject of project management in terms of problems and impediments, and suggested solutions through this research, in order to motivate and develop the management of the projects. The researcher used mainly qualitative method and partly quantitative method to complete the research work in the study. The researcher met with a number of specialists in this area and conducted 36 interviews with project managers in different parts of the West Bank, with three categories of the companies in the Palestinian Union of Contractors category in both its first, second and third categories in the structural area. After examining the text of the interviews within a set of questions that were posed to project managers in construction companies, the analysis showed that there are several factors and many problems faced by the management of construction projects in the West Bank. The most important problems were the poor planning, poor project management and poor communication between all parties to reach optimal solutions, in addition to gaps and pointsthat are clarified in the context of the search. The researcher developed a framework to arrange and organize the management of construction projects, to be an effective tool to help project managers in setting priorities and show places of success and failure. Moreover, it shows the management process as an important part of the success of any engineering project by several factors. First by understanding the main objectives and goals of the project and try to apply these goalsclearly on the ground, and second by developing coherent system through which the project will be implemented within clear basis. Then the exploitation of each project will be documented and used in future work. Furthermore, the researcher tried to clarify success factors in construction projects to achieve better results for engineering companies and to meet the needs of the local community projects through good qualityand best value to the engineering projects and to the Palestinian society.