DELAY ANALYSIS FOR CONSTRUCTION （施工延误分析）.pdf

DELAY ANALYSIS FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS: CLASSIFICATION OF EXISTING METHODS by Alena VASILYEVA-LYULINA ** 1. Introduction Delay is one of the common and typical problems in construction projects. In the study of Assaf and Al-Hejji (2006) 1) construction delay was defined as “the time overrun either beyond completion date specified in a contract, or beyond the date that the parties agreed upon for delivery of a project”. In the United Kingdom, a 2001 report by the National Audit Office, entitled “Modernising Construction,” revealed that 70% of the projects undertaken by government departments and agencies were delivered late (Lowsley and Linnett 2006)2). Assaf and Al-Hejji (2006) 1) did a survey on time performance of different types of construction projects in Saudi Arabia ran into the same conclusion (45 out of 76 projects were delayed). A study conducted by the Infrastructure and Project Monitoring Division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in 2004 in India reported that of 646 central sector projects, costing about $50 trillion (U.S. dollars), approximately 40% were behind schedule, with delays ranging from 1 to 252 months (Iyer and Jha 2006)3). To recover the damage caused by delays, both the delays and the parties responsible for them should be identified. However, delay situations are complex in nature because multiple delays can occur concurrently and can be caused by more than one party, or by none of the principal parties (force majeure, etc.). As a result contract schedule and payment dispute are becoming two most common items of dispute during the construction phase. 2. Types of Delay Construction project delays can be classified according to their origin into four g