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Ahadzie, D K, Proverbs, D G, Olomolaiye, P O and Ankrah, N (2009) Towards developing competency-based measures for project managers in mass house building projects in developing countries. Construction Management and Economics, 27(01), 89–102.

Al-Kharashi, A and Skitmore, M (2009) Causes of delays in Saudi Arabian public sector construction projects. Construction Management and Economics, 27(01), 3–23.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: delays; public sector; Saudi Arabia; survey
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190802541457
  • Abstract:
    Many public construction projects have been undertaken throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of the government's national development plans in the past three decades, with significant public expenditure involved. One of the critical problems concerning these projects is the frequent and lengthy delays that occur. In order to improve the situation, it is first necessary to identify the major causes involved. Several studies have already been reported which do this but all use different sets of variables. Also, none has attempted to identify the extent to which improvements are possible in practice. A new survey is reported that uses all the variables from the previous work and measures for both current degree of effect on delays and the extent to which each can be practically improved. These are contained in seven groupings: client, contractor, consultant, materials, labour, contract and relationship-related causes. The survey covers a sample of 86 clients, contractors and consultants working in the Saudi construction industry. The analysis reveals some considerable heterogeneity between the cause groupings and respondent groupings in terms of means and correlations, apparently partly due to lack of knowledge of respondents and a tendency for the consultants to blame the contractors for the delays and vice versa. The main results, therefore, are disaggregated to reflect the views of each respondent group concerning each group of causes. In general however, it is found that the most influencing current cause of delay is the lack of qualified and experienced personnel—attributed to the considerable amount of large, innovative, construction projects and associated current undersupply of manpower in the industry.

Bageis, A S and Fortune, C (2009) Factors affecting the bid/no bid decision in the Saudi Arabian construction contractors. Construction Management and Economics, 27(01), 53–71.

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Daget, Y T and Zhang, H (2019) Decision-making model for the evaluation of industrialized housing systems in Ethiopia. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 296–320.

Du, J, Jing, H, Castro-Lacouture, D and Sugumaran, V (2019) Multi-agent simulation for managing design changes in prefabricated construction projects. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 270–95.

Durdyev, S, Hosseini, M R, Martek, I, Ismail, S and Arashpour, M (2019) Barriers to the use of integrated project delivery (IPD): a quantified model for Malaysia. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 186–204.

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Hossain, L (2009) Communications and coordination in construction projects. Construction Management and Economics, 27(01), 25–39.

Hwang, B, Zhao, X and Lim, J (2019) Job satisfaction of project managers in green construction projects. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 205–26.

Lam, P T I and Wong, F W H (2009) Improving building project performance: how buildability benchmarking can help. Construction Management and Economics, 27(01), 41–52.

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Liao, X, Lee, C Y and Chong, H (2019) Contractual practices between the consultant and employer in Chinese BIM-enabled construction projects. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 227–44.

Liu, S, Jin, H, Liu, C, Xie, B and Mills, A (2019) Government compensation and costs of non-competition guarantee for PPP rental retirement villages. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 128–49.

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Moohialdin, A S M, Lamari, F, Miska, M and Trigunarsyah, B (2019) Construction worker productivity in hot and humid weather conditions. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 83–108.

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Sarhan, J G, Xia, B, Fawzia, S, Karim, A, Olanipekun, A O and Coffey, V (2019) Framework for the implementation of lean construction strategies using the interpretive structural modelling (ISM) technique. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 27(01), 1–23.

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