SIMULATION-BASED DEVELOPMENT FOR UNCERTAINTY IN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON PROJECT DELAY

Abstract

Costs, schedule and planning overruns due to late delivery in project completion or project delay have become issues for construction companies. These companies know there are uncertainties but they are not aware of the specific factors and the degree of impacts of these factors that can actually cause delay in projects completion. This paper aimed to identify the environmental factors that contributed towards project completion late delivery through literature review and integrating them with the business processes of the case study. A simulation-based model was developed using ProModel software. The methods involved were identifying the problem of project completion delay and collecting data relating to the business processes. Design analysis was then conducted to determine the input, process and output using Promodel before the simulation model was created and conclusion was being finalized. The development of simulation models will allow construction companies to monitor and minimize project completion delay.