Mega Challenge for Mega Project : Stakeholder’s Perspective.

The mega project are large, complex project, and unique in their construction venture into the authorities of many other utilities and disciplines. The purpose of this paper attempt aims to identify, prioritize and categorize assess the likelihood of occurrence and level of impact of the risks perceived factors in construction mega project with the Kuwait Construction industry. A structure questionnaire of random selected sample produced from different group of stakeholders that are employed in both private and public sector, within the Kuwait construction industry. The literature review and semi-structure interview used to identify 54 risk factors which are grouped and categories into six group have been identified and prioritized on the basis of criticality in the construction mega project, and then incorporated into the design of the survey instrument. Survey respond data subject to descriptive statistics analysis and inferential statistics. A significant difference observed in the perception of stakeholder’s professionals from the type of organization and their experience on the criticality of these factors. This study will assist the construction stockholders practitioners to develop plans to achieve their goals and improve the megaproject process based on these outlined concepts. The study contributes by exploring the degree of risk occurrence and its impact on construction mega projects. Moreover, the study imparts insights on the perception of risk ranking among different group of stakeholders in Kuwait and it’s also provides some insights on the current level of risk.