A sutdy of factors influencing public construction project delay in bhutan

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to identify the factors influencing public construction project delay in Bhutan, rank the important level of factors and to provide useful recommendations to prevent public construction project delay in Bhutan. The questionnaire survey, site investigation and interview technique with the government engineers and contractors were conducted for gathering the essential data. Statistical methods like mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, relative importance index and t- test were applied for data analysis. The important level for influencing the project delay is ranked and screened by mean value 3.50 and above. The result from the overall ranking showed that shortage of national construction labor is the main factor influencing to project delay in Bhutan. Similarly, the ranking of factors discretely from the viewpoint of contractors and government engineers showed that unqualified workforce at site is the main factor influencing to construction delay in Bhutan. To solve the problem of construction project delay, in depth interview with 10 construction experts suggested for increasing the number of vocational training institutes and facilitating the workers with better incentives and working environment. The experts have also suggest for introducing authorized distributor of quality labor center in the country.