Assessment of Critical Construction Delay Factors: Maharashtra Region

Abstract

Delays are most frequent phenomena in construction sector and one of the biggest challenges for delivering quality projects. The problem occurrence is very repetitive and some time its complexity leads to disputes & litigation which holds the total project work. The main objective of this paper is to statistically explore the severity of critical construction delay factors. Subsequently, a questionnaire survey was performed with experts from field in government as well as private sector, assessing the rank of delay factor so that importance index and score of delay factors could be scrutinized. One hundred and sixteen delay factors were identified during the research. SPSS®, VERSION 16 was used to evaluate statistical parameters for large database within short period. Non parametric test was conducted for the evaluation of relationship between the participants on their agreement about critical construction delay factors. The critical construction delay factors were determined with the help of statistical methods: relative importance index and mean score.