Construction Research Congress 2020
An Empirical Analysis of Sources of Cost and Schedule Growth for Facilities Projects
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management and Controls, Materials, and Contracts
ABSTRACT
Cost and schedule growth have been a heavily studied topic within the construction industry, particularly related to the horizontal sector or within the context of projects of substantial size. Yet relatively little research has focused on smaller project sizes within the facilities operation and maintenance sector, which comprised of vertical projects that typically possess low individual dollar values but occur with high frequency. To address this gap, 881 projects were collected from the facilities management programs of 19 owner organizations in the public, vertical, and institutional sector. A unique contribution of this study was a comprehensive analysis of a project control tool: deviations report, which was updated weekly by the contractor for each project and contained all the issues that occurred during the construction phase of the project. Results not only show overall project cost and schedule growth rates, but also portion these into different causes, among the three main project stakeholders: owner, designer, contractor, and unforeseen conditions. Differences in the frequency and magnitude of the causes were investigated via the Kruskal-Wallis H test. Analysis revealed that owners were the largest cause of cost and schedule growth, followed by designers and unforeseen conditions, and, lastly, contractors. This study assists practitioners to plan for the leading sources of cost and schedule growth within facilities management programs of the vertical institutional sector. The study was limited to design bid build (D-B-B) project in vertical public sector.
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Construction Research Congress 2020: Project Management and Controls, Materials, and Contracts
Pages: 740 - 749
Editors: David Grau, Ph.D., Arizona State University, Pingbo Tang, Ph.D., Arizona State University, and Mounir El Asmar, Ph.D., Arizona State University
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8288-9
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Published online: Nov 9, 2020
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