TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alzaneen,Mahmoud Naseen
AU  - Öztemir,Ali Erhan
TI  - CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF DELAYS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN PALESTINE
PY  - 2022///
KW  - Construction industry
KW  - Dissertations, Academic
KW  - Management
N1  - Thesis (MSc) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Civil Engineering Department; Includes bibliography (sheets 101-104)
N2  - ABSTRACT
Construction delay occurs whenever a project is not completed within the scheduled
contract period, thereby causing the project to go beyond schedule delays and 
possibly leading to additional overall costs for the project, as well as claims from 
some key stakeholders. This is a typical problem in construction projects. 
Construction project delays remain a big issue in the Palestinian construction 
industry. This study seeks to evaluate the causes and effects of delays in construction 
projects within the Gaza strip, Palestine to inform critical decisions that could help 
minimize various losses in several forms such as monies, reputation, and livelihood 
among several others. Within this study, numerous construction project delays 
factors were obtained and further stratified into ten (10) strata such as project owner 
factors, project factors, design factors, contractor factors, material factors, equipment 
factors, consultant factors, labour factors, external factors and environmental factors. 
Also, eleven (11) effects of delay in construction projects around the Palestine region 
were established; these would include issues arising from time-overrun, cost overrun, 
dispute, project abandonment by the owner, litigation, arbitration, project suspension 
by the owner, non-productive loss, forfeiture of future projects by contractors, 
clients’ dissatisfaction, and devaluation of contractor’s market worth. All of the 
respondents were either consultants, contractors or on-site/office engineers; project 
managers, as well as project engineers, dominated the sample population 
(approximately about 72%). majority of the respondents (approximately 48%) 
specialized in residential and commercial buildings, while the next most 
specialization of the respondents was “industrial facilities”. After analysis of the data 
from the survey, it was obtained that the most important delay factor for construction 
projects in Gaza was the “equipment factor”, while the least important delay factor 
was “environmental-based factors”. Also, it was obtained that the most significant 
effect of delay is “suspension of work by owner”, while the least important effect of 
delay was “forfeiture of future project by contractors”. After carrying out a reliability 
test on the data, Cronbach’s alpha was obtained at 0.944; indicating a high level of 
internal consistency in the responses to the appraisal questions provided by the 
respondents. The outcome of this study will then drive the focus as to the area(s) to 
which many concerns are to be focused if delays and their economic/social 
consequences on construction projects are to be averted in the Palestine region, as 
well as the global construction industry by extension.
Keywords: Causes Of Delay; Construction Industry; Construction Management; 
Effects Of Delay; Gaza Strip
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