The Most Important Causes of Delays in Highway Construction Projects: Libyan Investigation Based
Keywords:
Libya, causes of delay, Highway, construction ProjectAbstract
The study is laying its foundation on quantities’ statistical data collected from current and former consultants who have had the opportunity to investigate the delaying of the construction such as projects, identifying the system bottle-necking and accelerate the system performance by overcome any delaying obstacles. The purpose of this study is to investigate the most important causes of delays in Libyan highway construction projects. The participants, who were a representative segment of Libyan people all commented on 35 possible reasons for delay and their views were evaluated using data analysis techniques (Relative importance index (RII) by the SPSS program and average index calculation) to report on the data collected. Within the limits of the data analysis the results revealed that; the effective delays are caused by mainly six reasons which including the following; obstacles from government, poor contract management by consultant, delays in payment by clients to implementing companies, ineffective planning by contractor and inaccurate scheduling, poor site management, and sluggishness in the decision-issuing process from clients.
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