TY  - JOUR
T1  - Reasons for Delaying in Completion Construction Projects in the City of Diwaniyah
AU - Ammash, H.K. AU - Hasan, S.A. AU - Abo Dhaheer, M.S. 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 13
IS  - 14
SP  - 5838
EP  - 5842
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2018.5838.5842
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2018.5838.5842
KW  - Reasons of delay
KW  -realistic projects
KW  -delay rates
KW  -delays under control
KW  -delays out of control
KW  -owner
KW  -delay
AB  - Recently, the cities of Iraq including the city of Diwaniyah have witnessed massive reconstruction
projects, accompanied with marked delays in the completion of these projects. The present study aims to
identify the most pressing issues that have caused delays in the delivery time of the projects as well as to reveal
all factors affecting the occurrence of these cases in the city of Diwaniyah. It also, aims to avoid or minimise
the impact of these factors by investigating their influence from real projects and identifying effective ways to
overcome the causes of delays. The study was based on data from 31 completed realistic projects in the city
of Diwaniyah from 2005-2014. An analysis of these real data has been conducted to investigate the
reasons for owner delays and possible ways to avoid such delays. It was found that the average total rate of
reasons associated with the owner was 61.56%. The Additional Events (AE) were the most effective reason for
delaying related to the owner at 21.05% which includes political reasons such as sudden holidays. The
Difference of Quantities reason (DOQ) which was the second most reason was less than one-fifth (around
18.42%) compared to a rate of appearance equal to 14.2% for the Inaccuracies of Design (IOD). It was also,
concluded that more than a third (around 32.52%) of these reasons were under full control of the owner as
opposed to 29.04% were out of control.
ER  -