Assessment And Evaluation Of Delay Factors For Highway Construction Project By Relative Importance Index Method

Abstract

For the construction business, delays are a perennial concern. Most studies have examined why projects go behind schedule during the execution phase, but far less attention has been paid to the causes of snags in the earlier stages of planning and design. Thus, the purpose of this article is to investigate the factors that caused project schedules to fall behind during the planning, design, and implementation phases, throughout the Era of Terror. Engineers working in both the public and commercial sectors of the building business have been handed a questionnaire detailing the causes of delay throughout all three stages. The findings of the legitimate replies have been verified using the Relative Importance Index (RII), which displays the average repeat of delay occurrence. According to the findings, a lack of access to primary data is directly responsible for most delays occurring during the planning stage. A study of questionnaires used during the design phase of projects revealed that owner financial difficulties were the main cause of delay. Terrorist actions and severed roadways are also the primary causes of implementation delays.