Reality check against skilled worker parameters and parameters failure effect on the construction industry for Bangladesh

Abstract

Labour skill has a significant impact on time, cost, and quality of a construction project. The competitive construction industry forces companies to increase their labour skill to remain their positions in the industry. It is universally agreed that the skilled worker is one of the main fuels to run construction industry. A skilled worker must have a professional training, minimum 2 years working experience, and have the knowledge of construction materials, equipment and safety and physically fit. To check the status of the worker against nine main parameters of skilfulness of the worker is the key to the study. A questionnaire was designed with very deep literature research and expert opinion. The data were collected through questionnaire survey amongst the construction workers in Bangladesh. The percentages of workers found in this study having full knowledge and practicing regulation of construction safety, materials, equipment’s and tools, labour codes and building code are 19.35%, 6.45%, 9.68%, 4.87% and 2.30%, respectively. The workers in the study area having the professional training, minimum education and minimum working experience are 6.45%, 46.06% and 62.50%, respectively. A total of 62.25% workers are found physically sound. Building code practices and awareness building is the driving key to enhance skills of worker.

Keywords:

• Bangladeshi Construction Industry
• parameter failure effects
• questionnaire survey
• worker status level
• skilled worker parameter

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.