THE DELAY FACTORS DURING CONSTRUCTION PHASE OF

A RESIDENTIAL PROJECT IN BINH DUONG, VIET NAM

CASE STUDY OF AN DIEN URBANIZED RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL ZONE

By

Bui Viet Thi

Abstract

             

A project is considered to be perfectly performed when it obtains three basic criteria such as completing on time within the planned budget, ensures the required quality such as winning the customer’s demands and meets labor safety requirements successfully in the performance stage. However, all the residential zones built in Viet Nam have had problems of project management leading to construction delays. Giving solutions for these problems has become project manager’s integral requirements.

  Delays in construction projects are able to be solved. In striving to give solutions for these problems, the significant factors influencing badly construction duration should soon be found out. Therefore, it is very critical to form a systematical approach that should be applied as a device for the investigation.

This report will evaluate and analyze twenty factors which caused delay matters at Residential Zones and were fulfilled at Ben Cat District Binh Duong Province. The qualitative methods will be used, basically based on the principal of evaluating the risk level of factors having a negative influence on the construction schedule of the Residential Zone. It is conducted to realize the objective of the study.

Finally, some solutions to deal with delay problems in the construction duration of projects are given in the text.

Executive summary

Rationale of research

This research has been conducted to identify factors causing delay in construction projects during construction phase.

Objectives of study

To study and analyze delay happening in residential area An Dien Commune, Ben Cat District, Binh Duong province. Recommend strategies for improving project delivery.

Methodology  

Case study approach is considered a major philosophy. In addition, many sources of data will be collected in this study and project reports, documents from local authorities and related agencies, construction standards, and exploratory approach by reviewing available literature to deploy the research of construction delays at Binh Duong and Viet Nam.

Findings and conclusion

By analyzing factors to affect delay in the project, this research showed the problems causing delays in construction stages. This research has identified that delays of the projects were originated from survey stage till construction one. From these result, most delays have generated   from the project owner who is responsible for inexcusable and excusable delays with some compensability and non-compensability.

 In this project, the owner committed some mistakes in blown-off leveling process due to improper planning and slowness decisions given. Then, the owner lacks of qualification and experiences to nominate main contractor, suppliers and Tender Prequalification consultants, to draft Specification resulting in disagreements amongst sub-contractors and fraudulent tender occurring. Also, to deal with uprising problems related to surrounded inhabitants and environmental protection, the owner was not activated and flexible in those eventualities, failed to avoid disputes happening.

In case of the study, the project has 20 factors causing delays in the construction process of An Dien Residential Zone. Delay related to accident of labor safety is so serious, delay related to material delivery is mean effect, and delay related to break-down of machineries and equipments had smallest impacts to the project.

 Suggest for future research

The research has analyzed the factor of delays, reason / severity rate and solution for each cause of delay problem in this construction project. Hence, the similar study can be realized in different type of project such as: Apartment- zone, Resettlement project, etc… in Viet Nam.