Identifying Factors Causing Delays and Cost Overruns in Construction Projects in Colombia
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Construction projects in Colombia, construction delays, construction cost overruns, statistical analysis
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Construction project delays and cost overruns represent a source of concern for project developers, potentially affecting project feasibility. Thus, it is important to determine the causes of these issues, especially in Colombia where such causes are not well understood. In this research, a literature review was performed to identify causes of time delays and cost overruns around the globe. Subsequently, a survey of project-development professionals in Colombia was carried out in order to ascertain, in their opinion, the significant factors leading to time and cost deviations. Lastly, a statistical significance analysis was reported using the influential factors determined in the previous two steps, in order to establish correlations among these and other aspects, including scale and project type, business size, among others, implementing statistical and computational tools. This paper demonstrates that inadequate planning and lack of integration among professionals are the most significant factors contributing to construction delays and cost overruns in Colombia.
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[17] M. Sambasivan and Y. W. Soon, “Causes and effects of delaysin malaysian construction industry,”International Journal of ProjectManagement, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 517 – 526, 2007. [Online]. Available:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263786306001700 120, 127
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[20] G. Sweis, R. Sweis, A. A. Hammad, and A. Shboul, “Delays inconstruction projects: The case of jordan,”International Journal of ProjectManagement, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 665 – 674, 2008. [Online]. Available:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263786307001573 120, 127
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[31] R. de Cássia dos Santos Navarro da Silva, V. P. R. Minim, A. N. da Silva,A. A. Simiqueli, S. M. D. Lucia, and L. A. Minim, “Balanced incompleteblock design: an alternative for data collection in the optimized descriptiveprofile,”Food Research International, vol. 64, pp. 289 – 297, 2014. [Online].Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2014.06.042 124
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Lozano Serna, S., Patiño Galindo, I., Gómez-Cabrera, A., & Torres, A. (2018). Identifying Factors Causing Delays and Cost Overruns in Construction Projects in Colombia. Ingeniería Y Ciencia, 14(27), 117–151. https://doi.org/10.17230/ingciencia.14.27.6
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Sara Lozano Serna, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Egresada Ingeniería Civil
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Ivonne Patiño Galindo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Egresada Ingeniería Civil
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Adriana Gómez-Cabrera, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Profesor Asistente II, Departamento de Ingeniería Civil.
Grupo de investigación Estructuras y Construcción
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Facultad de Ingeniería. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Andrés Torres, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Profesor Titular, Departamento de Ingeniería Civil.
Grupo de Investigación Ciencia e Ingeniería del Agua y el Ambiente
Facultad de Ingeniería. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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