Identification of late deliverables and their true effects on industrial construction projects

Abstract

Given that a construction site is both temporary and unique, the outcome of every construction project is dependent upon having all of the proper resources delivered to the site at the appropriate time. Although construction supply chains, logistics, and materials management systems have been scrutinized in recent years, the full range of potential late deliverables has not yet been investigated. Furthermore, the true impacts of these late deliverables are much more far-reaching and less understood. This paper, part of a larger research project being developed by the Construction Industry Institute Research Team 300, describes the process followed to list and categorize common late deliverables to industrial construction sites using team knowledge, expert interviews, industry surveys, and in-depth case studies as well as a review of the existing literature on the topic. This information will serve as a starting point for an investigation into how these late deliverables impact the cost, schedule, quality, and safety performance of construction projects along with the effects on the organizations involved. The enumeration and classification of these project impacts, incorporating the perspectives of both owners and contractors, are also described in this paper.