A Review on the Critical Factors Causing Delay of Delivery Time in Construction Projects

Abstract

Completing the construction projects as per the scheduled time is an underlined issue for the success of the projects. However, several construction projects are confronted in completing within the agreed contractual project duration. In addressing influential factors contributing to delay of delivery time in construction projects, a remarkable number of studies have been conducted and published over the past decades. However, it seems that a summary and organizing of the research development in this discipline is not popularized. Therefore, this paper aims to review the existing research trend on the factors causing delays in construction projects. The review is very useful for industry practitioners and scholars to provide comprehensive and precious sources. Also, it provides a discussion, conclusion, and future research directions.

Analysis Performance for Evaluation of Schedule Irregularities on Bore Pile Foundation with FTA

“…Contractors, consultants, owners, materials, equipment, and labor are usually the main groups or category factors that delay building projects. Research shows that the primary significant elements causing delays usually involve material, workforce, equipment, financing, environmental changes, government action, business agreement, and scheduling and regulating techniques (Tafesse, 2021).…”

Complexity in Construction Projects: A Literature Review

“…In project management, complexity is acknowledged as one of the factors most affecting the success of any project as it affects planning and control activities, organization selection, goal and objective identification, and project outcomes [1]. Construction projects are not an exception as many researchers have linked the high degree of complexity with many construction project outcomes including, but not limited to, cost overrun, delays, low quality, poor safety conditions, disputes between partners, inappropriate management of risks, low levels of client satisfaction, and poor communication between stakeholders [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Accordingly, improper understanding of the complexity and its sources was considered one of the reasons for construction project failure [18,19].…”

“…These orders might appear due to many reasons such as design errors, design changes, modifications in specifications, improper technical study during the bidding phase, owner's desire to add or change work, and lack of coordination between different stakeholders [83][84][85]. The impact of change orders is expected to increase the complexity of construction projects as it evidently can affect a project's duration and cost, decrease productivity, impact the uniformity of the work, and increase pessimistic feelings and disputes and litigations between project stakeholders; especially if these orders appear after the contractual agreement and the construction of major parts of the project [3,20,38,41,[85][86][87].…”

Systematic review of critical drivers for delay risk prediction: towards a conceptual framework for BIM-based construction projects

“…planning and scheduling deficiencies in Australia, delay in payment certificates in Ghana and poor site management in Malaysia by Shah (2016); ground problems and inefficient structural connections for prefabricated components in both the UK and India by Agyekum-Mensah and Knight (2017) and Ji et al (2018), respectively and finally shortage of adequate equipment and poor communication among contracting parties in China by etc. Sequel to these studies, a few literature-reviews/systematicreviews studies (Derakhshanfar et al, 2019) (Sanni-Anibire et al, 2020) (Tafesse, 2021) were conducted to identify key drivers that causes construction project delay in the construction industry. These drivers put together forms the variables that inform construction project delay.…”

“…, 2019) (Sanni-Anibire et al. , 2020) (Tafesse, 2021) were conducted to identify key drivers that causes construction project delay in the construction industry. These drivers put together forms the variables that inform construction project delay.…”