Causes of Delay in Construction Project of Private Real Estate
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2018-06-01
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Current practice of the real estate industry shows that it is a rare event that the
projects are completed on the scheduled time, budgeted cost, and desired
quality because the construction projects experience a tremendous amount
of delays. Timely completion of construction project is a major criterion of
project success. The need to control the causes of delays during the
construction process comes out when the number of delay project has been
increasing from time to time. Hence, it is essential to identify the causes of this
problem from the early stage of construction project. The objectives of this
study are to study the causes of delay in term of frequency occurrence and
severity effect. A total of 70 contractors and consultants with an experience in
construction of private real estate project are involved in the study. A
questionnaire survey was conducted to identify the significant causes of delay
in order to avoid or minimize their impact on construction project. The
perspective of contractors, consultants and client has been analysed and
ranked based on Relative Important Index (RII). The study indicate that the top
major causes of delay were ´Owner interference´, ´Frequent change orders´,
´Long waiting time for approval of tests and inspection´, ´Shortage of
construction material´, ´Mistakes in design documents´, ´Inappropriate
organizational structure linking all parties involved in the project´, ´Mistakes and
discrepancies in design documents´, ´Discrepancies in contract document´
and ´Delays caused by subcontractors´. In addition, the top major effects of
delay were; time overrun, cost overrun, dispute, arbitration, litigation and
abandonment.
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Real estate, building, construction, delay, contract,