Analysis of Relationship between Design and Implementation Stages within Construction Projects in Iraq

Within last years, construction projects have quickly accelerated in both number and size. This study deals with some of effects of performance management and its outputs from service and cost viewing. By focusing on the relationship between the two main stages in construction projects, that is the design and implementing stages, the research is going on using method of questionnaire survey including four main factors: the state of design process, the state of implementing process, the state of interaction between the two stages (design and implementation) and the state of problems resulted during and after construction. A questionnaire was distributed into 50 construction projects and the data are collected and analysed through SPSS. The results have shown that there is a weak relationship between design and construction stages in local construction projects. Research showed also that it could not be claimed that this situation (weakness of the interaction of stages) is responsible of defects in the performance of these projects, which in turn results in service and cost problems. Interpreting for this situation was that the results reflected the weakness in the actual management performance in the local construction projects.