Factors Causing Delays For Residential Building Construction in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abstract

Delay is the lack of performance or the extension of time required to complete a project that results from unexpected events may be caused by the contractor, the owner, third parties, or by unanticipated natural or artificial site conditions. The aim of this study is to explore the factors causing delays for residential building construction in Abu Dhabi. To meet the study aim, the questionnairers were distributed to 200 participants from Contractor’s firms and 201 participants from Consultant’s firms. Data were collected from 200 participants from Contractor’s firms and 201 participants from Consultant’s firms. Quantitative analysis by using ANOVA analysis in SPSS Software was applied to the collected data. The majority of contractor’s participants (102=52.04%) and the consultant’s participants (93=46.97%) indicated that client’s financial difficulties is ‘’sometimes’’ causing a delay in construction projects in UAE. The majority of consultant’s participants (138=70.77%) indicated that change order is ‘’usually’’ causing a delay in construction projects in UAE. However, the findings from this study become more important, if more studies are conducted to extend the exploring of the different factors causing delays for residential building construction in Abu Dhabi for wide range of projects in Abu Dhabi