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Causes of delay in the planning and design phases for public works department construction projects
Azrul Hanif Ab. Halim1, Rosli Mohamad Zin2.
A construction delay is anything that impedes the ability of a certain obliged party to
maintain a schedule. Delays manifest during all project phases, where they might initiate even in
the design phase. There exist a limited volume of studies in the literature that have analysed
delay problems or the outcomes on strategies for mitigating the delays in the planning and design
phases, specifically for the Public Works Department (PWD) construction projects. Hence, this
research aims to assess the extent of delay issues in PWD construction projects, their critical
causes, and the possible strategies or opportunities to minimize delays in the planning and design
phases. Information from SKALA JKR was retrieved to enable analysis of delay issues in PWD
construction projects to be carried out. Meanwhile, a structured questionnaire was also
disseminated to two main target groups which were, PWD officers and private consultants. Mean
index and relative importance index (RII) analysis methods were adopted to rank delay causes in
terms of their severity as perceived by the respondents. Delays in the planning and design phases
for PWD construction projects were literally in a critical state. Changes in clients’ requirements,
poor scope definition and miscommunication were among the most critical causes of delay in the
planning and design phases. The communication aspect could have been the principal key
strategy to resolve some major delay causes, in the effort to mitigate delays in the planning and
design phases, as well as in the construction phase.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
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