Project Delays In Mechanical Factory Construction Project: A Case Study Of A Industry Park, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam

A project is considered successful if it is completed on time, within the estimated cost and with good quality. Some previous researchers proved that based on their experiences, as much as half of the project had time delays. Therefore, construction delays could be seen by comparing the actual progress and the baseline construction schedule.

Construction delays in residential and light construction are often the result of miscommunication between contractors, subcontractors, and property owners. These types of misunderstandings and unrealistic expectations are usually avoided by detailed critical path schedules, which specify the work, and timetable to be used, but most importantly, the logical sequence of events that must occur for a project to be completed. Delays in construction projects are frequently expensive, since there is usually a construction loan involved which charges interest, management staff dedicated to the project whose costs are time dependent, and ongoing inflation in wage and material prices.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Hung made a study to find the main factors causing delays and its effects to other aspects in construction projects at construction stage. These factors can be analyzed in different ways of parties such as the owner, the contractor, the designer and consultant. From that, it can be seen that delay in construction projects were caused by human factor and force majeure.

The objective of Mr. Nguyen’s study were to: (1) find out delay factors in construction and analyzing the relationship of these factors and thereby enhance understanding of construction delays; (2) propose recommendation for avoid delays; and (3) formulate implementable policies that may aims to reducing time construction project in Viet Nam.

Conclusion

The problem of time delay in the construction industry is a serious problem. Project delays occurred in most construction projects in Viet Nam. Therefore, the results of this study provide a framework for project management can better understand the dynamics of project management and implementation of efforts to reduce incidences of delay time.

By using survey research, it was found out that there are some important factors affecting the project time in implementing a project to build in mechanical factory construction project. Completion time of any project is affected by many factors such as policy, budget, human source and materials.

In order to improve the schedule of mechanical factory construction project, five most potential policies were evaluated. The result showed that delay can be reduced by carrying out several important policies during the construction phase such as (1) accuracy design; (2) quality contractor (design, construction); (3) Bidding work; (4) Fluctuation and scarcity of material; and (5) budget.

The summary of cases revealed that the problems in weakness on capacity of designer; fluctuation and scarcity materials in 2008 and the owner's budget unavailability have medium delay impact while the ability of the organization of construction contractor have high delay impact.

His thesis abstract is copied and posted.

Abstract

In current period (in Viet Nam), almost construction projects cannot be completed within specified time; and achieving the project inside predetermined time is the basic purpose of construction project control. That's the main purpose for those who work project managing.

Generally, the problem involved with project delays are avoidable. In an effort to solve these problems, there are various strategies have been applied. Among them, some factors were found as the main source lead to manage time in project efficiently.

This final report analyzes factors affecting project time in construction project in Viet Nam. The qualitative research is conducted to perform the objective of the research. Details collection is based on case study in mechanical factory construction project in Ho chi Minh City (Viet Nam). It will be found out from this study that there are a lot of factors affecting project time in mechanical factory construction project. Research problems is the development of the model involved with the factors affecting project time in mechanical factory construction project.

Finally, by these analysis, the factors for reducing project time in mechanical factory construction project will be found out and some strategies deal with project delays are proposed.