Client Requirements Management and Design-Build Delivery: The Moderating Role of Transactional Leadership

Nathan Ikoja¹ , M.M. Muktar² , Nuru Gambo³

1. Dept. of Quantity Survey, Faculty of Environmental Technology, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, Nigeria.
2. Dept. of Quantity Survey, Faculty of Environmental Technology, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, Nigeria.
3. Dept. of Quantity Survey, Faculty of Environmental Technology, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, Nigeria.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.11 , Issue.1 , pp.65-70, Jan-2025

Online published on Jan 31, 2025

Copyright © Nathan Ikoja, M.M. Muktar, Nuru Gambo . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
An examination was conducted on the Design-Build project delivery in FCT Nigeria with a view of finding out if effective Transactional leadership would moderate the relationship between client’s requirement information elicitation and the Design-Build cost delivery. A sample of 400 participants were drawn from a completed Design-Build project between (2015 and 2023) Presidency Publicity Unit (PPC), 2023. Relevant data were analysed based on study constructs. Findings from descriptive analysis reveal moderate differences on DB cost delivery (3.37), findings on correlation between elicitation and cost, the result shows that there is negligible negative correlation between the elicitation and cost variables, r = -.010, n = 300, p = 0.867 making it statistically insignificant p < .0.05 (Pallant, 2011). The result also shows that there is weak insignificant, negative correlation between the analysis and cost variables, r = -.087, n = 300, p = 0.134 making it a statistically insignificant at p < .0.05 (Pallant, 2011). Finding on structural model reveal a moderated value of (p<0.05) between information elicitation and DB cost delivery. The theoretical implication is that information elicitation influences DB cost delivery while the practical implication reveal that the influence is contingent on the moderator. The study therefore it recommends the use of moderation particular to DB variant in use standard form of building contract in Nigerian (SFBCN).

Key-Words / Index Term :
Client requirements; client requirement management (CRM), Elicitation, Design Build delivery, Transactional Leadership.

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