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Important causes of delay in public utility projects in Saudi Arabia

Al-Khalil, Mohammed; Al-Ghafly, Mohammed - In: Construction Management and Economics 17 (1999) 5, pp. 647-655

This study was conducted to determine the most important causes of delay in public utility projects, based on the … out to assess the frequency of occurrence and the severity of impact of sixty potential delay causes. A frequency index … importance ranking of delay causes. The causes were grouped also into six major categories of delay. The analysis showed lack of …

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Delays and cost increases in the construction of private residential projects in Kuwait

Koushki, P. A.; Al-Rashid, K.; Kartam, N. - In: Construction Management and Economics 23 (2005) 3, pp. 285-294

Time-delays and cost-increases associated with the construction of private residential projects in the State of Kuwait are determined. A person-interview survey of 450 randomly selected private residential project owners and developers in 27 representative districts in metropolitan Kuwait formed...

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Claims for extensions of time in civil engineering projects

Yogeswaran, Kumaru; Kumaraswamy, Mohan; Miller, Douglas - In: Construction Management and Economics 16 (1998) 3, pp. 283-293

This paper focuses on the principles and practices in formulating and assessing claims for extensions of time due to excusable delays. Typical frequency and magnitude profiles of claims for extensions of time are derived from a surveyed sample of 67 civil engineering projects in Hong Kong, and...

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Contributors to construction delays

Kumaraswamy, Mohan; Chan, Daniel - In: Construction Management and Economics 16 (1998) 1, pp. 17-29

between clients, consultants and contractors. There was general agreement about the relative importance of delay factors such …

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Significant factors causing delay in the UAE construction industry

Faridi, Arshi Shakeel; El-Sayegh, Sameh Monir - In: Construction Management and Economics 24 (2006) 11, pp. 1167-1176

Construction delay is considered one of the most recurring problems in the construction industry. Delays have an … delay in order to avoid or minimise their impact on construction projects. A detailed questionnaire was developed and used … are the top causes of delay in the UAE construction industry. …

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Conceptual delay mitigation model using a project learning approach in practice

Abdul-Rahman, Hamzah; Yahya, Imran Ariff; Berawi, … - In: Construction Management and Economics 26 (2008) 1, pp. 15-27

There is universal agreement that construction delay is a common phenomenon in the construction industry worldwide … project delays. Knowledge management is used to reduce the impact of construction projects delay using a project learning … approach. Three different phases of data collection were used for the development of a delay mitigation model, namely …

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Assessing the performance of Libyan supervising engineers

Krima, Najat Abdallah; Wood, Gerard; Aouad, Ghassan F.; … - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 5, pp. 509-518

In the Libyan construction industry, the supervising engineer plays an important role in checking time schedules and protecting the client from delays and associated claims but there is no existing means of determining their proficiency in performing this task. A list of factors identifying a...

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