“…Unavailability of resources (Chan & Kumaraswamy, 1996); ; (Mukherjee, Winn, & Rojas, 2005); (Assaf & Al-Hejji, 2006); (Sun & Meng, 2009) Delay in resource delivery (Chan & Kumaraswamy, 1996); (AlMomani, 2000); ; (Mukherjee, Rojas, & Winn, 2004); (Wu, Hsieh, Lu, & Cheng, 2004); (Rojas & Mukherjee, 2006); (Assaf & Al-Hejji, 2006); (Arun & Rao, 2007) Increase in unit cost of resources (Frimpong, Oluwoye, & Crawford, 2003); (Mukherjee, Rojas, & Winn, 2004); (Arain & Pheng, 2005); (Rojas & Mukherjee, 2006); (Arun & Rao, 2007) Unexpected conditions (e.g., bad weather, labor strike, unforeseen ground conditions) (Chan & Kumaraswamy, 1996) Table 3, adverse financial issues and adverse market conditions have an influence on the owner's decision, while the remaining ones determine contractor's decision on construction method selection. Owner has the authority to initiate change in design as a condition to contractor.…”