Many factors such as unforeseeable events, managerial or financial problems of Contractor, insufficient technical capacity of Engineer' / s site team and so on may lead to delays in construction projects. Proper analysis of compensability and quantum of a delay event is very important. Any delay analysis application can be considered as a result of the combination of contract documents, scheduler, record keeping mechanism at site, communication among project participants, delay analyst and delay analysis methodology.
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the shortcomings frequently encountered in implementation of delay analysis applications and propose an integrated solution which synthesizes the solution methods for each. For this purpose seventeen (17) shortcomings were identified and solution methods were suggested for each. Moreover, these shortcomings were attributed to the previously identified elements of delay analysis applications such as contract documents, scheduler etc. Furthermore, an integrated approach is developed which synthesizes the suggested solution methods at different stages of delay analysis applications in order to obtain accurate and reliable results.
In order to test the validity of the proposed integrated approach on a real project, a resource and cost loaded construction schedule with approximately four thousand (4000) activities is created by using Primavera software which is currently being used to monitor " / Construction of One Reception Center and One Removal Center Project in Erzurum" / .
In the case study, the necessary events are created in order to be able to compare the results of the proposed integrated approach and the likely result of erroneous delay analysis applications. It was apparently figured out that the proposed integrated approach has yielded accurate and reliable results and a comparison table was prepared showing the difference between the results of the proposed integrated approach and the likely result of an erroneous application.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614791/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 August 2012 |
| Creators | Bektas, Sinasi |
| Contributors | Birgonul, Mustafa Talat |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for METU campus |
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