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Identification and assessment of risk factors affecting construction projects Open
Cost saving and time performance are usually essential to all parties who are involved in a construction project, that is owner, contractor, subcontractor. The main causes of disputes in construction projects involve delay and failure to c…
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Analysis of Delay Impact on Construction Project Based on RII and Correlation Coefficient: Empirical Study Open
The occurrence of a delay in the construction projects is common and significantly affects by enormous ways. This study investigates the typical causes of delay at different stages of construction and its effect in the Ethiopian constructi…
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Delay and Cost Overrun in Infrastructure Projects in Jordan Open
The aim of this study is to investigate the factors that may cause overrun of the planned cost, allocated resources and scheduled time of infrastructure engineering projects in Jordan. To achieve the goal of this study, final reports of a …
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Significant Factors Causing Cost Overruns in the Construction Industry in Afghanistan Open
It is generally acknowledged that one criterion for judging the success of a construction project is whether it is completed within budget. Due to various factors, this is often more of a challenge in developing countries where budget prob…
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Time Delay and Cost Overrun in Qatari Public Construction Projects Open
This paper investigated cost overruns and delays in Qatari public construction projects. An extensive review of regional and international publications was conducted to get a better understanding of the problem and the various methodologie…
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Cost overruns of public sector construction projects: a developing country perspective Open
Purpose Cost overrun of construction projects has been a key concern for all stakeholders of projects for many decades now. Many studies have been done in the past and continue to be done currently to understand the underlying causes of co…
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Risk Factors That Lead to Time and Cost Overruns of Building Projects in Saudi Arabia Open
Rapid transformation across all sectors through Saudi Arabia’s vision 2030 initiatives led to an increase in construction activities. However, the construction industry has been already facing huge cost and time overruns, affecting all sta…
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Cost Overrun Causative Factors in Road Infrastructure Projects: A Frequency and Importance Analysis Open
Road infrastructure projects are essential for a country’s economic and social development. Due to the magnitude, the projects are associated with considerable economic investments that in the case of failure can seriously affect regions’ …
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Studying the Reasons for Delay and Cost Overrun in Construction Projects: The Case of Iran Open
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\nThe relationships between the natural and man-made environments are among the essential components in ensuring the sustainability of a region. The interactions and process across these components operate from the regional scale, …
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Time and Cost Overrun in the Saudi Arabian Oil and Gas Construction Industry Open
Many construction projects exceed time and budget. The Saudi Arabian construction projects are not an exception to this phenomenon. However, the causes of time and cost overrun of Saudi Arabian oil and gas construction projects have never …
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Examining the role of value management in controlling cost overrun [application on residential construction projects in Egypt] Open
Actual cost of construction projects generally differs from planned cost, where this could reach a value between 21% and 55%. In Residential construction, cost overruns form a crucial problem. A suggested methodology to mitigate this probl…
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COST OVERRUN IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, GAS-OIL INDUSTRY OF IRAN AS A CASE STUDY Open
Cost overrun in construction projects is a common issue affecting project performance, and Gas-Oil construction projects in Iran are no exception. This paper presents the results of a questionnaire conducted to identify and evaluate the r…
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Delay Causes and Emerging Digital Tools: A Novel Model of Delay Analysis, Including Integrated Project Delivery and PMBOK Open
Delay is one of the main challenges of construction projects, and there is still much to overcome in order to reach near zero delay in all construction projects. This project aims to conduct a systematic critical review including a bibliog…
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Explaining successful and failed investments in U.S. carbon capture and storage using empirical and expert assessments Open
Most studies of deep decarbonization find that a diverse portfolio of low-carbon energy technologies will be required, including carbon capture and storage (CCS) that mitigates emissions from fossil fuel power plants and industrial sources…
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Design Changes in Construction Projects – Causes and Impact on the Cost Open
Isolation of design phase from construction has made the design changes inevitable in construction projects. Extensive literature appraisal has acknowledged the detrimental effect of design changes on project performances. However, the imp…
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BIM and Digital Tools for State-of-the-Art Construction Cost Management Open
Cost overrun has remained a key risk of construction projects that can be prevented by utilizing new technologies. This paper aims to identify the gap in the literature, which can potentially be addressed by using digital tools and technol…
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An Exploration of Causes for Delay and Cost Overruns In Construction Projects: Case Study of Australia, Malaysia & Ghana Open
Cost and time overruns are the key problems of any construction projects. These issues are causing the negative impact on the development of country economic growth and prosperity. To overcome these issues, the paper is aimed to discover t…
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Cost performance of public infrastructure projects: the nemesis and nirvana of change-orders Open
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The cost performance of a wide range of public sector infrastructure projects completed by a contractor are analysed and discussed. Change-orders after a contract to construct a…
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Construction Costs Analysis and its Importance to the Economy Open
Reliable estimates of construction costs and schedules presented by contemporary construction companies, their consultants and suppliers at the time of project approval are important for justifying a project on economic ground and for plan…
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Towards a sustainable construction industry: Delays and cost overrun causes in construction projects of Oman Open
Every nation in the globe endeavours to achieve sustainable growth in its various industries. The construction industry has an enormous contribution to the economy primarily for the developed nations experiencing urgent demands to develop …
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Model of Predicting Cost Overrun in Construction Projects Open
During the construction phase, significant differences between the planned and actual costs of construction projects frequently occur. The paper describes the concept of a model of prediction of the increase in the costs of construction wo…
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Causes and Effects of Cost Overrun on Construction Project in Bahrain: Part I (Ranking of Cost Overrun Factors and Risk Mapping) Open
Cost performance is one of the basic criteria for measuring construction project success. Despite its proven importance it is not uncommon to see a construction project failing to achieve its objectives within the specified cost. The paper…
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THE COST PERFORMANCE AND CAUSES OF OVERRUNS IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN ASIA Open
Infrastructure plays a major role in the economic development of countries, especially in Asia which has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. The procurement of infrastructure continues to be characterized by cost overruns result…
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Identifying and Measuring Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Key Performance Indicators and Management Strategies Open
Delay and cost overrun in construction projects are two widespread problems that arouse practitioners’ and scholars’ concern. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in each of Engineering, …
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Delay and cost overrun in road construction projects in Jordan Open
This study aims to identify the most important factors that cause delay in road construction projects in Jordan, which results in cost and time overrun allocated for this type of engineering projects and cause critical problems for both th…
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Ranking of human factors affecting contractors’ risk attitudes in the Malaysian construction industry Open
Project risk assessment is an operative tool for development and controlling cost, time, and attaining the technical performance of a construction project. Construction projects often face a lot of uncertainties, which place building and r…
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Cost Overrun Risk Assessment and Prediction in Construction Projects: A Bayesian Network Classifier Approach Open
Cost overrun risks are declared to be dynamic and interdependent. Ignoring the relationship between cost overrun risks during the risk assessment process is one of the primary reasons construction projects go over budget. Conversely, recen…
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Causes of Problems in Post-Disaster Emergency Re-Construction Projects—Iraq as a Case Study Open
This study examines the causes of time delays and cost overruns in a selection of thirty post-disaster reconstruction projects in Iraq. Although delay factors have been studied in many countries and contexts, little data exists from countr…
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A Fuzzy-bayesian Model for Risk Assessment in Power Plant Projects Open
Cost overrun in power plant projects is a global problem. Assessing potential risks at preliminary stage of the project is important to control cost overrun. Existing models are discovered as ineffective for assessing cost overrun risks in…
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Time Delay and Cost Overrun of Road over Bridge (ROB) Construction Projects in India Open
This paper aims at studying the factors that contribute to time delay and cost overrun
\nof Road over Bridge (ROB) projects in India. Data for the research study were collected from
\n62 respondents, including owners, contractors, and cons…