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State-OF-THE-ART REVIEW OF CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE MODELS AND FACTORS Tanaya Korde, Mingen Li, and Alan D. Russell Abstract Measuring and assessing construction project performance on an ongoing basis is an important part of management and control of a project. Described in this paper is the current state-of-the-art of research on prediction and explanation of construction project performance gleaned through an extensive literature search that identified 122 relevant articles published over the last 20 years. This review was carried out in support of an ongoing research program that seeks to embed within a decision support system a transparent reasoning schema that operates on fundamental relationships amongst influencing factors as well as user-defined, experience-based hypotheses for explaining project performance. Findings from the review are presented in two tables that identify performance measures treated (productivity, time, cost, scope, quality, safety, project success and others), level of analysis (overall project, work package, individual activity), and factors that affect performance outcomes. The paper concludes with a discussion of the findings in terms of areas of consensus, knowledge gaps, and steps to be pursued to develop a robust and practical schema for interpreting project data in order to explain the basis for performance to date. KEY WORDS State-of-the-art, performance measures, critical factors, model of performance. Introduction Over the last two decades in particular, a considerable amount of research has been focused on identifying important factors that affect construction performance at one or more of the overall project level, individual organizational participant level, and work package or activity level, as measured in terms of cost, time, productivity, safety, and so forth. To date, however, researchers have not reached a consensus as to the most important or critical factors that influence achievements with respect to each perfor