Analysing factors affecting delays in construction of institution projects

Abstract

The socio-economic progress of each emerging nation is significantly influenced by the construction industry. The duration of the project's construction period acts as a benchmark for assessing its performance. Unwanted delays in project completion were frequently caused by unexpected issues that occurred during the conception, planning, and construction phases. Project delays have a number of negative results, including disputes and disagreement between the contractors and owner of project, high prices, a loss of productivity and revenue, and contract cancellation. Therefore, a complete study on construction project delays is important. The current study focuses on identifying and ranking the reasons why construction of institutional buildings in the state of Haryana have been delayed. The main causes of delay in institutional projects are identified by survey of people working in the construction industry. This is accomplished by conducting a critical analysis of the published literatures and distributing and collecting responses from surveys among consultants, project managers, architects, engineer and clients involved in building projects.  Finally, using the relative important index, the most important factor is determined (RII). In a field survey, the delay in institutional building of Haryana is investigated. For each of the 48 reasons of delay that were discovered through research for institutional construction, the relative importance index (RII) is generated. This research reveals ‘Delay in obtaining municipal permits’0is one of the most important causes of building delays overall having (RII-0.869%) of group eight that is (external factor) which was ranked the highest by all the respondents and the nationality of labours (RII-0.476%) from group four (labour related factors) was ranked the lowest. This paper provides the actionable information, recommendation and some guidelines which can be used to improve the construction process and helps to mitigate the unwanted delays.