Effects of delay in the Construction Industry

Abstract

The construction industry in Sudan is an important sector due to its enormous contribution to the country’s economic development. However due to the geographical, political, social and economical situation of the country, many construction projects are prone to many factors of delay. These delay factors can only be avoided by first identifying the factors and their sources. The research aimed to find out and analyze the main causes of delay in construction projects. The research was designed to identify the possible causes of delay at construction projects from the literature review and previous studies which there are over than thirty causes of delay were displayed, then these causes tested by the analyzing the data and information that were collected from clients, consultants and contractors, researcher conduct site visits to interpretation the causes of delay that emerged during the implementation of the project. The analysis of correspondences letters between project parties; contractor, client, and consultant lead to characterize investigate are project finance, design changes, fluctuation of prices and incomplete design. The research defines who is responsible and type of delay in addition to the discussion of effects, risks, and mitigating of delay. Finally the research concluded with Recommendations such as security funding for the project at the project preparation stage, the contractors should be classified according to the experience which commensurate with the size of the project, The application of value engineering to avoid incomplete design problems , it’s also strongly recommended future researchers to focus on building construction projects in other parts of the country since this was limited only to the capital city Khartoum through the case study.