The Iron Triangle of Projects Management: Quality, Schedule and Cost of Road Infrastructure Projects in Egypt

El-Maaty, Ahmed Abu; Akal, Ahmed Yousry; El-Hamrawy, Saad

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“…Most recently, Akal and Abu El-Maaty [13] in Egypt highlighted that quality shortfall and short-term pavement performance problems have been noted on several highways in Egypt during the past ten years. Moreover, Abu El-Maaty et al [14] conducted a study on a sample of 56 road projects in Egypt in order to judge these projects' performance and determine whether these projects suffer from the issues related to time and cost or not. The results of the field survey showed that all the surveyed projects suffering from time and cost overruns with average percentage = 73.80% and 46.30% respectively.…”

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“…According to Akal et al [15] project completed in time, project completed within budget, and construction in quality are the prime measures for highway projects success. Furthermore, in order to increase the national's economy benefits of the road construction projects in Egypt these projects have to be delivered without quality shortfall, time overrun, and cost escalation [14]. For that, it is of key importance to accomplish this study, in order to identify the casual causes of the previously mentioned issues (poor quality level, delay, and cost overrun), and set recommendations to avoid and overcome the negative implications of these overruns on the performance of the public highway projects in Egypt.…”

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Mapping the Causes of Time, Cost Overruns and Quality Shortfall in Egyptian Public Highway Projects

Akal¹

2017

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Transportation infrastructure development specifically public highway projects remains a major tool for achieving the aspirations of the newly introduced economic principles of the Government of Egypt. However, the importance of this industry and its impact on the national economy, concerns are raised frequently on the poor performances of these projects in terms of time, cost, and quality which directly subjected the construction of these projects to schedule delay, cost overrun, and quality shortfall problems. The main objective of the current study is to identify the causal causes of theses overruns in the public highway projects in Egypt. Using a detailed literature review and questionnaire surveys, the results of the study confirmed the prevalence of schedule delay, cost escalation, and quality shortfall in public highway projects in Egypt. Furthermore, the study establishes that contractor's technical staff is insufficient and ineligible to accomplish the project, lack of communication between the construction parties, and unavailability of experienced staff in the owner's and contractor's teams during the project execution are the major factors responsible for causing schedule delay, cost overrun, and quality shortfall respectively. In addition, recommendations for avoiding and overcoming the negative implications of these factors on the performance of the public highway projects in Egypt have been emphasized.

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confidence: 99%