Factors Affecting Time Overruns in Public Construction Projects: The Case of Jordan

Sweis, Ghaleb

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v8n23p120

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“…Sweis, Rateb Sweis, Abu Rumman, Abu Hussein & Dahiyat, 2013). The causes and impacts of delay factors in construction industry not only vary from project to project but also from geographical location to another due several reasons including and not limited to the environmental, the topographical and the technological constraints (Sweis, 2013;Shebob, Dawood & Shah, 2012). Shebob et al (2012) mentioned in his study that in addition to country and projects variances in term of delay there is a certain projects are only a few days late while some projects are delayed by over a month or a year.…”

Section: Critical Delays Reviewmentioning

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Analysis of Critical Success Factors Influence on Critical Delays for Water Infrastructure Construction Projects in the Abu Dhabi emirate Using PLS-SEM Method

Altarawneh¹,

Thiruchelvam²,

Samadi³

2018

IBR

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The objective of this study is to investigate the significance impact of critical success factors on critical delays in the field of water infrastructure construction projects (WICPs) in the Abu Dhabi emirate in particular. Investigation was conducted utilizing quantitative approach by means of questionnaire survey to examine the understanding of professionals engaged in water infrastructure construction towards several critical success factors influencing critical delays. A total of 323 completed responses from owners, consultants and contractors representatives were gathered against 450 distributed questionnaires.The gathered questionnaires were analysed using an advanced multivariate statistical method of P artial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). Data analysis was conducted in two major phases. The first phase involved a preliminary analysis of the data, to ensure that the data adequately meet the basic assumptions in using SEM. The second phase applied the two stages of SEM. The first stage included the establishment of measurement models for the latent constructs in the research. After confirming the uni-dimensionality, reliability and validity of the constructs in the first stage, the second stage developed to test the research hypotheses through developing the structural models. The results indicated

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Analysis of Critical Success Factors Influence on Critical Delays for Water Infrastructure Construction Projects in the Abu Dhabi emirate Using PLS-SEM Method

Altarawneh¹,

Thiruchelvam²,

Samadi³

2018

IBR

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“…Sweis (2008) [17] found that change orders from clients are considered one of the five major factors causing delays in the Jordanian construction industry. Moreover, Sweis (2013) [18] concluded that governmental delays and design changes are the major causes of time overruns in construction projects.…”

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“…Similarly, Alshdiefat (2013) [13] found that claims in construction projects have become normal and expected, with most building projects in Jordan suffering from cost overruns and A. Alshdiefat, Z. Aziz Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research delays in completion; according to the results of this research, change orders are the main cause of these claims. Sweis et al (2013) [14] also found that change orders in construction projects in Jordan are considered to be one of the major factors that cause cost overruns. Such findings highlight the negative impact of change orders, and especially cost overruns, on Jordanian construction projects.…”

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Causes of Change Orders in the Jordanian Construction Industry

Alshdiefat¹,

Aziz²

2018

JBCPR

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Change orders are common and clearly noticeable in Jordanian construction industry. Several studies have identified change orders as significant problem in Jordanian construction projects, and they mainly cause delay and cost overrun. This situation spurs the researchers for investigating the significant causes of change orders in construction projects. Thus, this paper aims to determine the main causes of change orders in the Jordanian construction private sector which responsible for significant cost overrun. Both qualitative and quantitative methods, i.e. interview and questionnaire techniques, were used to achieve this aim. Interviews were conducted as the first stage of data collection, and the results formed the basis of the questionnaire, which was distributed across the Jordanian construction sector. Content analysis was used to analyse the interview responses, while factor analysis, correlation and the Severity Index (SI) were used to analyse the questionnaire results. The findings identified three main categories of causes of change orders in private sector, namely engineering causes, causes related to the client, and circumstances of the project, with sub-causes in each category which are related to each other in significant ways and which affect each other.

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“…Cost is amongst the major issues throughout a project lifecycle and is considered as a key factor of project success in this universal. Cost overrun is determined as a major concern within the construction industry worldwide [9]. The transportation projects are the most significant projects that have faced cost overruns factors from time to time [10].…”

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Cost Overrun Factors Involving Local Private Residential

Yahya¹,

S.K²,

Osman³

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IJET

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Cost is the prime factor for driving to the successful of a project. A poor cost performance become a common problem in worldwide which bring a significant financial risk to both contractors and clients. Construction projects are relatively risky because the projects operate in a complexity and dynamic situation. This study aimed to explore the major contributors of cost overrun and propose strategies in minimizing the cost overrun factors involving local private residential projects in Malaysia. A quantitative method was applied to the respondents from contractors firm Grade G7 in Selangor area, and the data were analyzed using Likert scale to obtain mean score. There are 5 categories of cost overrun factors found from previous studies. Design error and poor contractors site supervision were ranked as the top two contributors to cost overrun in Private Residential Projects. Additionally, 79% of the respondents agreed that construction projects face cost overrun with an average amount of 1-5% of contract sum. 9 strategies are available to overcome the problems and the result shows that effective strategic planning is the most effective mitigation.

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Factors Affecting Time Overruns in Public Construction Projects: The Case of Jordan

Cited by 70 publications

References 25 publications

Analysis of Critical Success Factors Influence on Critical Delays for Water Infrastructure Construction Projects in the Abu Dhabi emirate Using PLS-SEM Method

Analysis of Critical Success Factors Influence on Critical Delays for Water Infrastructure Construction Projects in the Abu Dhabi emirate Using PLS-SEM Method

Causes of Change Orders in the Jordanian Construction Industry

Cost Overrun Factors Involving Local Private Residential

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