FACTORS CONTRIBUTING THE DEALY OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: THE CASE OF PLAN INTERNATIONAL

Abstract

Construction industry has complexity in its nature because it involves large number of parties as clients, contractors, consultants and others. Construction projects suffer from many problems and complex issues in performance such as cost, time, scope and quality. The same is true for Plan International construction projects and it is important to minimize the existing time over run issue in by knowing who are responsible for main identified factors and provides possible recommendations. Therefore, this thesis tries to identify and evaluate the main factors affecting that contribute to the delay of construction projects in the organization. A questionnaire survey was conducted using forty one identified factors which are categorized into four groups. 66 Questionnaires were distributed, and 55 questionnaires were returned: 9 (90%) from owners and 46 (82%) from contractors. The results were analyzed using relative importance index method (RII) to determine owners and contractors’ perceptions toward the identified delay factors in construction projects. From the results it was found that more than 90% of the construction projects suffered delays. Accordingly, the top most important factors agreed by both parties were: Political instability (eg. Security issues), Inadequate Contract duration, Price fluctuations (inflation/escalation), Shortage in material/equipment/tool on site, Poor skill and experience of labor/technical staff, Inadequate planning and scheduling of work, Delay in finance and payments of completed work, unexpected surface and subsurface conditions, delay in delivery of material on site and leaders commitment to provide the required resources to implement performance management system were ranked the top ten most important performance factor by contractors and owners.