CAUSES AND IMPACT OF DELAY IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY OF INDIA

Vishalkranti.myneni@Spav.ac.in Vishalkranti.myneni@spav.ac.in,Kranti kumar Myneni

doi:10.29121/ijetmr.v8.i1.2021.851

Abstract

Delays can be well-defined as the escalation of the stipulated time for the completion of the project. Delay is always the major loss to any construction project. In construction projects delay is a very usual thing and it can have an adverse effect on the project’s time and cost. As construction is one of the largest economic activity in India, the effects of delay are still in millions, which surely decreases the GDP of the country. Delay makes the process tardy and management of delay is extremely challenging as most of the projects do not meet the expected requirement and fails to perform within time. Therefore, various types and causes of delays should be studied accurately. There are many researches on construction delays but they talk about the wide-ranging reasons of delay, so there stays a high requirement of a notable and feasible study on delays at different stages of construction process in India. The aim of the paper is to identify the causes of delays at different stages of construction through questionnaire survey in Indian construction industry. Analytical tools used in this research are relative importance index (RII) and spearman’s rank correlation coefficient to rank the sources of delay with respect to its occurrence in the various stages of the construction project. The study concludes based on the correlation coefficient analysis between the construction stages, that the delays associated with before-construction stage is least related, with after-construction stage is third highly related, with construction stage is second highly related and delays associated with average/overall construction is highly related.

Highlights

The construction projects all over the world share a common problem which is “delay”
The objective of this paper is to investigate the most critical causes of delay in the construction process and their effects in the different construction stages of the Indian construction industry
The top ten most cardinal causes of delay identify in overall construction of project according to their rank obtained after analyzing relative importance index (RII) value. see table 3

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Introduction

The construction projects all over the world share a common problem which is “delay”. The basic explanation of the term “delay damages” is the cost that is increased because of delaying an event on a project These increased costs could be direct or indirect costs [2]. Delay is defined as an event that causes extended time to Causes and Impact of Delay in Construction Industry of India complete all or parts of a project [3]. Though some major concern is given to manage the planned schedules, a major number of projects is regarded unsuccessful when it comes to time and cost management goals. This further adds up to some adverse impact with respect to the construction project performance. There is a need to evolve a framework which can quantify the cost overrun plus the impact of delay which together will generate the true delay cost of the project

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