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  1. PDF Causes and Effects of Delays in Road Construction Projects in South

    stakeholders on the major effects of road construction project delays. The results of the Kruskal-Wallis test revealed that there is a statistically significant difference in the views of all project stakeholders on the delay minimising measures. The study concludes that project delays occur on road construction projects in South

  2. Strategies to Reduce Cost Overruns and Schedule Delays in Construction

    is a critical success factor for construction projects (Olawale & Sun, 2015). Often, senior managers fail to control time and cost of construction projects despite the advanced available PM processes, tools, and systems (Mir & Pinnington, 2014). Cost overruns and project delays have a severe effect on the economy of GCC countries (Ruqaishi ...

  3. PDF Causes and Effects of Delay in The Construction Project

    The seven effect of delay were cost overrun, time overrun, interior quality of works, blacklisted by relevant authorities, loss of interest by stakeholders, non-payment by employer and rescheduling of works. 'Cost overrun' and 'time overrun' has been the main effect to the project causes by project delay. iv. TABLE OF CONTENT.

  4. PDF Developing a Comprehensive Construction Delay Analysis Technique

    A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of ... ABSTRACT The need to minimise potential disputes regarding construction project delays has resulted in the use of numerous delay analysis techniques to apportion parties' responsibilities concerning the time and cost overruns. While existing techniques have ...

  5. PDF Causes of Delay in Construction Projects: A Systematic Review

    Delays in construction projects are acknowledged as one of the most conspicuous challenge facing the industry, Cost and time overruns are common in construction projects and infrastructure development (Mahmidi, 2011; Oyeguke and Kiyumi, 2017; Anysz and Buczkowski, 2018). In the construction industry, delay refers to the time exceeding beyond ...

  6. PDF Investigating Causes of Delay in U.S. Construction Projects

    budget and time efficiently in mitigating the main causes of delay, decreasing the risk of delay in U.S. construction projects. Keywords: construction delay, relative criticality ranking, construction projects, causes of delay Introduction On-time completion of the projects is an indicator of efficiency. Requiring any time more than what is

  7. Exploring the significant factors that influence delays in construction

    Table 2 presents the results of the Cronbach's Alpha reliability test for the seven categories of the causes of delay in construction project in Hargeisa. As depicted in Table 2, the coefficient of internal consistency of the reliability test for the owner-related and contractor-related delay factors is found to be 0.827 and 0.813, respectively.. This implies that 82.7% of the answers provided ...

  8. (PDF) Factors Influencing Project Delays in Construction: A New

    Factors Influencing Project Delays in Construction: A New Methodology Approach to the Problem. February 2017. Conference: "Supply Chain & Operations in the Era of Big Data". At: California ...

  9. (Pdf) Schedule Delay Analysis in Construction Projects: a Case Study

    The criteria were graded on their potential of creating a construction project delay, and the results were tabulated. The top five reasons of delays in any building project, according to the conclusions of this study, are: Material failure (Rank 1), Labour shortages (Rank 2), Delays in subcontractor work (Rank 3), Equipment failure (Rank 4) and ...

  10. Causes of Delays on Construction Projects: A Comprehensive List

    construction projects face schedule delays and this issue has become a chronic problem worldwide (Doloi, Sawhney and Iyer, 2012; Doloi, Sawhney, Iyer and Rentala, 2012; Durdyev et al ., 2017).

  11. PDF Delays in Global Engineering Procurement and Construction Projects

    delays within global Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects. Delays hinder successful completion of global EPC projects within energy sector. Yet, timely ... into technical and engineering issues that also might affect EPC projects. The thesis contains seven sections. Section 1 is the introduction. Section 2 describes

  12. (PDF) A STUDY OF CONSTRUCTION DELAYS

    A STUDY OF CONSTRUCTION DELAYS. H. A. Alobadi S. Naimi. Department of Civil Engineering, Altinbas University, Istanbul, Turkey. [email protected], [email protected] ...

  13. Causes of delays on construction projects: a comprehensive list

    A total of 149 causes of CPD were identified in a thorough review of 97 selected studies. Weather/climate conditions, poor communication, lack of coordination and conflicts between stakeholders, ineffective or improper planning, material shortages, financial problems, payment delays, equipment/plant shortage, lack of experience/qualification ...

  14. PDF Causes and Effects of Delay on Roads Construction Projects: the ...

    Among the effects which arise in most countries as a result of road construction project delay are: cost overrun, time overrun, disputes, arbitration and litigation and total abandonment of project. Figure 2.1 Diagrammatic representations of effects of project delay. Disputes and claims.

  15. PDF Causes and Effects of Delay in Public Construction Projects in ...

    delays of major projects. The second was by [9] which are concentrated on the analysis of delay causes in construction project to minimize delays. In Jordan, [10] investigated the causes of delay at the traditional construction contracts. The research revealed that the most significant factor is the labour productivity.

  16. An integrative literature review on the causes of delays in

    The main findings of this study are that the questionnaire survey is the most commonly used data collection method, the project phases at which the causes of delays are identified is not clearly stated in the majority of the reviewed articles, there is no agreement on the classification of causes of delays, the number of causes of delays ...

  17. PDF An Investigation Into the Causes of Delay in Large Construction

    1.3 Aim of the Study. The rationale of this evaluation is: (a) to appraise the major causes of delay in large construction projects in terms of the impact on the parties involved. (b) to minimize the delays by improving the functionality of management of projects within the construction industry.

  18. A Critical Literature Review on Main Cause of Delay in Construction

    delay causes are r elated to the project holder, contractor's. activity, the original planning, duration forecast and. preparation of the project. Main causes are (1) finance (2) delay in ...

  19. Dissertation- Delays in Building Construction Projects

    The four main effects of delays as per the results of the study are overruns, cost overruns, lose of profits and disputes. The four most effective solutions to the delays in the building construction industry in Qatar as per the results are proper project planning and scheduling, project management skills, training project team on time and cost ...

  20. Dissertations / Theses: 'Construction project delays'

    Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to investigate reasons for delays and disruptions in project management, with specific reference to the building and construction industries of the Western Cape.

  21. Causes and Effects of Project Delay in Public Construction Projects in

    Generally project delay speci cally public construction projects delay effects are multidimensional that affects the life of thousands of residents of the town directly or indirectly economically or socially. To sum up, it costs the country a lot. References Abdo, A. (2006). Delays in Public Building Construction Projects and their Consequences.

  22. Delay in Construction Projects: Types, Causes and Effects

    Master thesis, Islamic . University, Gaza. Divya, R., & Ram ya, S. (2015). ... Delays in construction projects are usually inevitable, and most projects are not completed on time. The scope of ...

  23. Comparing hand-held augmented and virtual reality for the on-site

    Switzerland's major cities have been dealing with a persisting housing crisis and increased resistance towards densification, exemplified by a surge in building appeals. This thesis investigates the role that hand-held Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) could play in urban planning and the established public participation process of construction projects.

  24. Broadway Curve Improvement Project gets delayed by Salt River flooding

    The Broadway Curve Improvement Project is experiencing delays that are pushing the time of completion back because of construction on the Interstate 10 bridges. The project largely runs along 11 ...

  25. Study of Delay Factors in Construction Projects

    While, the most important factors causing. time overruns are design cha nges, poor labor productiv ity, inadequate planning, and resource shortages. Chan and Kum araswamy (1997) conducted a survey ...