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ABSTRACT<br/>Construction delay occurs whenever a project is not completed within the scheduled<br/>contract period, thereby causing the project to go beyond schedule delays and <br/>possibly leading to additional overall costs for the project, as well as claims from <br/>some key stakeholders. This is a typical problem in construction projects. <br/>Construction project delays remain a big issue in the Palestinian construction <br/>industry. This study seeks to evaluate the causes and effects of delays in construction <br/>projects within the Gaza strip, Palestine to inform critical decisions that could help <br/>minimize various losses in several forms such as monies, reputation, and livelihood <br/>among several others. Within this study, numerous construction project delays <br/>factors were obtained and further stratified into ten (10) strata such as project owner <br/>factors, project factors, design factors, contractor factors, material factors, equipment <br/>factors, consultant factors, labour factors, external factors and environmental factors. <br/>Also, eleven (11) effects of delay in construction projects around the Palestine region <br/>were established; these would include issues arising from time-overrun, cost overrun, <br/>dispute, project abandonment by the owner, litigation, arbitration, project suspension <br/>by the owner, non-productive loss, forfeiture of future projects by contractors, <br/>clients’ dissatisfaction, and devaluation of contractor’s market worth. All of the <br/>respondents were either consultants, contractors or on-site/office engineers; project <br/>managers, as well as project engineers, dominated the sample population <br/>(approximately about 72%). majority of the respondents (approximately 48%) <br/>specialized in residential and commercial buildings, while the next most <br/>specialization of the respondents was “industrial facilities”. After analysis of the data <br/>from the survey, it was obtained that the most important delay factor for construction <br/>projects in Gaza was the “equipment factor”, while the least important delay factor <br/>was “environmental-based factors”. Also, it was obtained that the most significant <br/>effect of delay is “suspension of work by owner”, while the least important effect of <br/>delay was “forfeiture of future project by contractors”. After carrying out a reliability <br/>test on the data, Cronbach’s alpha was obtained at 0.944; indicating a high level of <br/>internal consistency in the responses to the appraisal questions provided by the <br/>respondents. The outcome of this study will then drive the focus as to the area(s) to <br/>which many concerns are to be focused if delays and their economic/social <br/>consequences on construction projects are to be averted in the Palestine region, as <br/>well as the global construction industry by extension.<br/>Keywords: Causes Of Delay; Construction Industry; Construction Management; <br/>Effects Of Delay; Gaza Strip. |