Causes of Delay in Construction Projects in the Oil and Gas Industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Case Study

Ruqaishi, Mohammed; Bashir, Hamdi

doi:10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000248

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“…Oman: 2010-2013; A major public organisation 62% within their schedule [27]. (1) 65.7% of projects were delayed [28]; (2) 70% were delayed for average of 17 months [29]; (3) 22% of projects were delayed for more than 2 years [30]; (4) 70% of projects were delayed [30].…”

Section: Delay Cases Reported In the Literature Evidence Of Delay In mentioning

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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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Section: Delay Cases Reported In the Literature Evidence Of Delay In mentioning

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“…Statistical analysis was conducted using analysis of variance ANOVA to test delay causes obtained from the survey. Ruqaishi and Bashir [12] explored the factors behind failure in the oil and gas industry in Oman. They circulated 59 questionnaires among project managers to nd the major causes of project delay.…”

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The Root Causes of Construction Project Failure

2017

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Abstract. Construction projects play an important role in the economic development of every country. Nevertheless, review of projects' documents indicates that, in most cases, the projects are not nished on assigned budget as scheduled, such that they sometimes loss their economic justi cation and simply fail. Consequently, devising suitable solutions is essential to the prevention of such failures. This is impossible without identifying the foremost causes of failure. In this study, rst, all factors of failure are identi ed using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). FTA as a diagnostic tool allows us to e ciently isolate root causes of failure. To rank these factors, dedicated specialists are requested to assess the risk of each cause using linguistic terms; thereby, relevant calculations are carried out using the Linguistic Weighted Average (LWA). Undeniably, considering the complexity of construction projects and incomplete expert knowledge, judgments must not be made using crisp value conception. Hence, fuzzy theory is utilized to achieve more accurate results. Results indicate that the majority of problems in projects stem from nancial concerns and shortcomings of bidding process. In the last section, an actual case study is used to validate our results.

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“…The results suggested that some of the main causes of delays in Egypt's road construction projects are high price of heavy equipment used in road building, contractors inadequate supply of materials, poor experience of contractors or improper performance of the subcontractor and changes in design or implementation stages of the project. Ruqaishi and Bashir (2015) examined causes of delays in construction projects of Oman gas and oil facilities and employed it as a case study for the countries of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The results showed that there is a high degree of consensus among stakeholders, employers, contractors and consultants about causes of delays one of which is poor interaction with vendors in the engineering and goods supply stages.…”

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Causes of Delay in Khuzestan Steel Company Construction Projects

Saeb¹,

Khayat²,

Telvari³

2016

Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

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Construction project is a competitive business with high risk especially in developing countries like Iran which faces with many problems such as delay and time and costs increases. Thus, the first priority here is to determine the causes of prolongation of construction projects and to evaluate their importance. Khuzestan Steel Company (KSC) has made important contribution to the projects in Iran and in turn is required to finish them on time. In this study, an attempt was made to investigate the causes of delay in implementation of construction projects held by this company. Data was collected through questionnaire distributed among the sample including 10 owners, 10 consultants and 15 contractors. Accordingly, participants rated the causes in the questionnaire so the most important priorities of each area were specified using TOPSIS method. The results showed that according to the employers, consultants and contractors' viewpoints, the most important reason for delays in construction projects of KSC is related to the financial matters. Hence, according to the results obtained, causes for delays in the company's projects are largely related to the drilling permits and long administrative cycle to renew them. Besides, continuous production of steel in this company is another reason to delays of construction projects.

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Causes of Delay in Construction Projects in the Oil and Gas Industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Case Study

Cited by 129 publications

References 40 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 Root Causes of Construction Project Failure

Causes of Delay in Khuzestan Steel Company Construction Projects

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