Causes of Construction Delays in Countries with High Geopolitical Risks

Kadry, M; Osman, Hesham; Georgy, M

doi:10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0001222

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“…• Digital design communication tools: Digital Twin, Building Information Systems (BIM) including Revit, ArchiCAD, Navisworks, BIMx, BricsCAD, Archibus, Constructor, IntelliCAD, VisualARQ, Revizto; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) including QGIS, ArcGIS, and ArcMap [17]. The literature frequently reports that design mistakes, errors, changing orders and scopes, later approvals, and late technical decision makings were the main causes of delay in different contexts [95,99,104]. • Digital communication systems: cloud-based tools, emails, smart phones, and radio communication systems.…”

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“…Unique factors (with the frequency of three or less) are: "'Slow decision making process by owner" in Norway [90], UAE [84], and Oman [98]; "Changes in material types and specifications during construction" in Saudi Arabia [102], Turkey [117], and Zambia [113]; "Change/selection of subcontractors in the project" in India [79], Saudi Arabia [112], and Vietnam [105]; "Mobilization delay" in India [127], Malaysia [109], and Malawi [81]; "Site constraints (site blockage, impact of other's land)" in Bangladesh [87], Cambodia [103], and countries with high geopolitical risks [104]; "Impact of subsurface (underground) conditions" in Libya [91], Cambodia [103], and Egypt [123]; "Conflict between parties' in Iran [101], Turkey [70], and Egypt [107]; "Errors in construction" in Iran [93], Zambia [113], and Denmark [89]; "Fluctuation in price of materials" in Saudi Arabia [102] and Ghana [100]; "Conflict between labours" in Saudi Arabia [88] and Zambia [113]; "Labour strikes" in countries with high geopolitical risks [104] and Zambia [113]; "Using inappropriate construction methods" in India [92] and Iran [110]; "Insufficient/inaccurate document preparation" in Turkey [70] and Iran [110]; "Inaccurate first drafts/plan" in Iran [110] and Taiwan [132]; "Delay/weak interaction due to vendor" in India [127] and Oman…”

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“…The effects of new digital tools and technologies on delay have not been evaluated in the literature. Some of the key digital technologies are listed as follows: The literature frequently reports that design mistakes, errors, changing orders and scopes, later approvals, and late technical decision makings were the main causes of delay in different contexts[95,99,104]. • Digital communication systems: cloud-based tools, emails, smart phones, and radio communication systems.…”

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Delay Causes and Emerging Digital Tools: A Novel Model of Delay Analysis, Including Integrated Project Delivery and PMBOK

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Delay is one of the main challenges of construction projects, and there is still much to overcome in order to reach near zero delay in all construction projects. This project aims to conduct a systematic critical review including a bibliography analysis on delay literature in construction. The main questions consider what has been learnt from a decade investigating delay causes and effects in the construction literature and what factors have been missed in the literature. This paper also presents a new and challenging question regarding how digital tools and associated technologies may prevent any delay in construction projects, which can change the research direction from delay investigations to identifying prevention factors. The paper identifies the delay dataset, including 493 papers investigating delay in construction, and establishes a specific dataset of papers focusing on delay effects and causes (DEC), including 94 selected papers covering different factors examined in over 29 countries such as Iran, India, Turkey, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Cambodia, Oman, Malaysia, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, the US, the UK, and Egypt. In addition, the paper identifies 30 critical factors with the frequency of occurrences over three times in the DEC dataset and computes their medians of ranking. This paper also discusses digital tools and methods that can be used for delay analysis and preventions, including MS Project, Oracle Primavera P6, and Open Plan by Deltek. The paper discusses the project schedule delay analysis from project management methodology perspectives. It also discusses the current method's limitations and future directions, which are based on the identification of the deficiency areas. In total, four overlooked factors are identified and suggested, including faulty data analysis, unmatched structure of the research questionnaires with new knowledge and standards [e.g., Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)], overlooked effects of digital technologies [e.g., Digital twin, Navisworks, Building Information Model (BIM), Geographic Information System (GIS), and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)], and ignored job-site technologies. In addition, the paper presents the DEC model for future studies, including four main key factors. These factors are resources (e.g., project budgets, labour, material, equipment, and digital tool), project context, stakeholders performance (e.g., owner/client, consultant/designer, contractor, vendor/supplier), and external factors (e.g., ground condition, site location, regulation, natural disaster), which may significantly affect delay prevention and should be concurrently considered in the future delay investigations, since they may be required for designing an effective mitigation strategy when these proof points are identified. This would significantly help to utilise digital systems to prevent time overruns in different construction contexts. Several cases of 24 projects were delayed more than 100% of contract duration [44]. Indonesia 38% o...

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“…Some have even argued that most researchers have wrongly concluded that cost overrun, escalation and growth are the same. Almost all publications in this area acknowledged that the problem of rework still remains an inescapable issue and common occurrence for Governments internationally [34,35,36,31,37,38,39,40,41,42]. Most studies have it that incongruous design information contributes to this menacing problem.…”

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The Effects of Design Information on Reliability of Progress and Cost Estimates of Construction Projects: The Case of Two Civil Engineering Projects

Agyeman¹

2016

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Abstract:Continuing national disquiet concerning the late completion of road construction projects, high-cost overruns and premature failures of roads partly attributed to inadequate design information is quite worrying. The paper investigated the effects of design information on reliability of progress and cost estimates on two road construction projects in the Brong Ahafo and the Upper East Regions of Ghana. A case study was conducted on the two projects which involved the content analysis of the design documents, interviews with the industry players and personal observations. The study revealed among other things such as lack of design plans before tendering, disparities between design drawing information and Bill of Quantity (BoQ) information, inadequate site investigation and delays in taking decision on variations, affected the smooth progress of these projects. It is recommended that all the stakeholders in the road construction industry treat road design and its related matters with the maximum attention it deserves to curtail the huge avoidable cost the nation is incurring.

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“…Any parties of a project might be responsible for the delay cause (Chan, Kumaraswamy 2002;Assaf, Al-Hejji 2006;González et al 2014;Kadry et al 2016). So, when a problem relating to delay is being settled, these different parties must decide about their share in delay occurrence.…”

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A model of discrete zero-sum two-person matrix games with grey numbers to solve dispute resolution problems in construction

Khanzadi

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Amiri

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Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Abstract. Conflict between parties is a common issue in construction projects. In the present article, the conflicts between contractor and employer in delayed Design-Bid-Build projects have been studied. Defining a case study, a dispute resolution method has been proposed. This case has been considered as a MCDM problem. This problem has been assumed as a discrete zero-sum two-person matrix game with grey numbers. Among the four alternatives available for contractor and employer in the proposed case study, termination is the last alternative that decision makers choose. Based on different risk values, authors determined the optimal solution for both parties. This article integrates some linguistic criteria together with time and cost, providing the better conditions to avoid lengthy bargaining.

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Causes of Construction Delays in Countries with High Geopolitical Risks

Cited by 67 publications

References 51 publications

Delay Causes and Emerging Digital Tools: A Novel Model of Delay Analysis, Including Integrated Project Delivery and PMBOK

Delay Causes and Emerging Digital Tools: A Novel Model of Delay Analysis, Including Integrated Project Delivery and PMBOK

The Effects of Design Information on Reliability of Progress and Cost Estimates of Construction Projects: The Case of Two Civil Engineering Projects

A model of discrete zero-sum two-person matrix games with grey numbers to solve dispute resolution problems in construction

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