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Causes and effects of delays in Malaysian construction industry

Murali Sambasivan, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2007 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 5, pp 517-526
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In this article, the authors identified 10 most important causes of delay from a list of 28 different causes and 6 different effects of delay, and established an empirical relationship between each cause and effect.
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This article is published in International Journal of Project Management.The article was published on 2007-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1277 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cost overrun.

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Analysing factors affecting delays in Indian construction projects

Hemanta Doloi, +3 more
- 01 May 2012 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified the key factors impacting delay in Indian construction industry and established the relationship between the critical attributes for developing prediction models for assessing the impacts of these factors on delay.
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Delay and cost overruns in Vietnam large construction projects: A comparison with other selected countries

Long Le-Hoai, +2 more
- 06 Nov 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a questionnaire survey to elicit the causes of this situation by interviewing 87 Vietnamese construction experts and found that there are no differences in the viewpoints between three principal parties in the project.
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Delays in construction projects: The case of Jordan

Ghaleb J. Sweis, +3 more
- 01 Aug 2008 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a host of causes of construction delays in residential projects were identified and classified according to Drewin's Open Conversion System, and most common causes were evaluated by using both, the data collected in a survey conducted to residential projects consultant engineers, contractors, and owners, and interviews with senior professionals in the field.
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Big Data in the construction industry

Muhammad Bilal, +8 more
- 01 Aug 2016 - 
TL;DR: This paper presents a wide-ranging interdisciplinary review of literature of fields such as statistics, data mining and warehousing, machine learning, and Big Data Analytics in the context of the construction industry and discusses the future potential of such technologies across the multiple domain-specific sub-areas of theConstruction industry.
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Quantification of Delay Factors Using the Relative Importance Index Method for Construction Projects in Turkey

Murat Gunduz, +2 more
- 01 Apr 2013 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify delay factors on construction projects and analyze these factors with the relative importance index method using the Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram and interviews with experts from the construction industry.
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Research Methods for Business: A Skill Building Approach

Uma Sekaran, +1 more
TL;DR: Examples are drawn from different areas of business - such as human resources management, strategic management, operations management, finance, accounting, and information management - to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the applications of research methods.
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Causes of delay in large construction projects

Sadi Assaf, +1 more
- 01 May 2006 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a survey on time performance of different types of construction projects in Saudi Arabia was conducted to determine the causes of delay and their importance according to each of the project participants, i.e., the owner, consultant and the contractor.
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A comparative study of causes of time overruns in Hong Kong construction projects

Daniel W. Chan, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1997 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a survey undertaken to determine and evaluate the relative importance of the significant factors causing delays in Hong Kong construction projects, including poor site management and supervision, unforeseen ground conditions, low speed of decision making involving all project teams, client-initiated variations and necessary variations of works.
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Causes of delay and cost overruns in construction of groundwater projects in a developing countries; Ghana as a case study

Yaw Frimpong, +2 more
- 01 Jul 2003 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a questionnaire survey conducted to identify and evaluate the relative importance of the significant factors contributing to delay and cost overruns in Ghana groundwater construction projects.
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Causes of construction delay: traditional contracts

Abdalla M. Odeh, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the findings of a survey aimed at identifying the most important causes of delays in construction projects with traditional type contracts from the viewpoint of construction contractors and consultants.
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Frequently Asked Questions (1)
Q1. What have the authors contributed in "Causes and effects of delays in malaysian construction industry" ?

The main purpose of this study is to identify the delay factors and their impact ( effect ) on project completion. Earlier studies either considered the causes or the effects of project delays, separately. This study takes an integrated approach and attempts to analyze the impact of specific causes on specific effects. This study identified 10 most important causes of delay from a list of 28 different causes and 6 different effects of delay. This study has also established an empirical relationship between each cause and effect.