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dc.contributor.author Chathurangi, BNM
dc.contributor.author De Silva, L
dc.contributor.author Francis, M
dc.contributor.editor Sandanayake, YG
dc.contributor.editor Gunatilake, S
dc.contributor.editor Waidyasekara, KGAS
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-12T08:37:49Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-12T08:37:49Z
dc.date.issued 2018-06
dc.identifier.citation ********** en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/20149
dc.description.abstract Delay can be defined as a slipping over the scheduled construction duration beyond the agreed completion date. Notwithstanding the all project participants suffer from inevitable consequences originated from construction delays, they all themselves influence to engender delays in more or less portions while contractors, consultants and employers conclusively afford massive deal. Therefore, this research tends to investigate the causes of delays from the perspective of responsible parties thereby suggest solutions to avoid them. Initially the researchers conducted a comprehensive literature review to identify the causes of project delay. A total of 50 previously conducted researches were examined and 130 delay causes were found. Thereafter, 59 of the delay causes which frequently stand in Sri Lankan building construction context were filtered and responsible parties were recognised through opinions of 15 experts. Thence, the main questionnaire survey was carried out adapting 30 samples for each perspective of contractor, consultant and employer in order to identify the significance of delay causes by ranking them in each of the perspectives utilising Relative Importance Index (RII). The agreement between perspectives for the ranking was obtained from Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient (rs) and Kendall’s Correlation of Concordance (W). Thereafter, the preventive measures to enrich responsibilities of major participants in order to avoid delays were explored through ten interviews. Consequently, the study revealed that the contractor is the most responsible party for construction delays. Eventually, the strategic framework was developed to enrich responsibilities of the major participants on avoiding construction delays ameliorating elicited facts from the study thereof. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ceylon Institute of Builders en_US
dc.relation.uri https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2018-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.subject Construction delays en_US
dc.subject Causes en_US
dc.subject Major participants en_US
dc.title Construction delays in Sri Lanka: perspective of major participants en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Building Economics en_US
dc.identifier.year 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 7th World Construction Symposium 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 157-184 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Built Asset Sustainability: Rethinking Design, Construction and Operations en_US


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