Reclassifying Housing Delivery Delay Classification

Chang Saar Chai,Aminah Md Yusof

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v8n22p107

Chang Saar Chai, Aminah Md Yusof

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https://doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v8n22p107

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Abstract

This paper intends to analyze, define and reclassify delay in housing delivery system in Malaysia. The latedelivery in construction project has become common problem in the industry, especially housing project inMalaysia. As old school approaches are not effective to mitigate the delay occurrence, there is a need to rethinkand reclassified the delay factors so that the housing delivery delay could be effectively avoided. The aim of thispaper is to reclassify the housing delivery delay factors in order to simplify the delays detection and mitigationprovisions. The delay factors are classified into structural, institutional and cultural. A comprehensive literaturereview from various sources has made to carry out the study. The study found that construction stage is themajor contribution to housing delivery delay. Besides, the study also identified 18 critical structural delayfactors, 3 institutional delay factors, and 3 cultural delay related factors in Malaysian housing industry.

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Construction industry is denoted as the key player in a country development
By referring to Appendix A, 78 delay factors had been extracted from Principal Component Analysis (PCA), arranged in three (3) components namely structural, institutional and cultural 24 delay factors are considered critical as the factor loadings are above 0.8 (Appendix B)
It can be concluded that the major delay factors contributed to housing delivery system in Malaysia is resulted in construction stage which mostly related to structural delay

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Construction industry is denoted as the key player in a country development. The industry acts as a catalyst for the economy through the creation of wealth to other industries. The complexity nature of the construction industry is aggravated by its reactive characteristic are generally due to its fundamental business core and temporary relationship among the players (Knight, 2001). The fragmented and sequential way of working has creates endless problems in the industry. The project delivery from inception to hand over involves various parties which deteriorate the information delivery, results in communication failure and delay. The construction projects have tended to become time constrained, especially in housing sector

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