Ranking of Effects of Construction Delay: Evidence from Malaysian Building Projects

Abstract

The problem of delay is a regular phenomenon in construction projects all around the world and the Malaysian building projects has no exclusion. The aim of this paper is to determine and rank the effects of delay in Malaysian building projects with respect to their Relative Importance Index. Literature review and questionnaire survey were used to gather data for this study. A thorough literature review was performed to identify the common effects of delays in building construction projects. A questionnaire was distributed among key project participants; contractors, clients and consultants, to rank the effects of delay in Malaysian building projects based on the perception of survey respondents. In total 300 questionnaires were distributed, as a result of 240 questionnaires were received. The collected data of questionnaire survey was analysed using statistical software SPSS. In total, 17 effects of the delays have been determined and findings from the survey revealed that time overrun, cost overrun, dispute, loss of profit, arbitration, claims, contract termination, litigation, poor quality of work, and total project abandonment were the main effects of delay in Malaysian building projects. The findings of this study might encourage construction stakeholders to focus on the issue of delays in building projects.

The Effects of Delays in Algerian Construction Projects: An Empirical Study

“…2, the top 10 effects of delay in Algerian construction project were: 1) Time overrun: all the three parts agreed to classify 'time overrun' as the first most important effect with an importance index of 4.14; when projects are delayed, more days of work is required to finish the execution of the project, as a result, the prescribed delivery time is extended and the project is said to have experienced time overrun [19,41]. This result was supported by various researches [1,3,15,24,28,30,31,33,35,37,39,41,45] in which 'time overrun' was the first most important effect of delay.…”

“…The collected data were analysed using the relative importance index (RII) as stated by many researchers [3,17,23,24,25,31,30,39,45] an RII N  …”

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“…The delays in the delivery of work contracts still appear as a recurring issue in engineering projects, which often occur from design to completion, whether in public or private works, in developing or developed countries. The consequences are disputes and litigation between the parties, cost escalation, loss of profit, poor service quality, arbitrage, overrun of the deadline defined for executing the works or closing the project (AKOGBE;FENG;ZHOU, 2013;DOLAGE;PATHMARAJAH, 2015;GONZÁLEZ et al, 2014;GUNDUZ;OZDEMIR, 2015;KHAN;GUL, 2017;EL-RASAS, 2014;SWEIS, 2008;ULLAH et al, 2018). It is further observed that the delays in construction projects is a fact observed globally or on a large scale, affecting not only the industry itself, but the economy of nations in general; thus negatively impacting the success of the project due to changes in the original execution schedule and the previously established costs, quality criteria and management of safety conditions (CHAUHAN; SHAH; RAO, 2008;DORAISAMY;AKASAH;YUNUS, 2020;FARIDI;EL-SAYEGH, 2006;FLYVBJERG et al, 2002;MYDIN et al, 2014a).…”