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Abstract
The construction industry is one of Egypt’s most significant industries. The
majority of construction projects are known to have time delays and cost
overruns. The research main objective is to identify the most significant causes
of schedule delay and cost overrun in educational building projects in Egypt. This
objective was accomplished by means of an extensive literature review and a
questionnaire-based survey for the purpose of evaluating the perceptions of the
key stakeholders participated in the construction of educational building projects.
The questionnaire was divided into three sections; the main section concentrated
on the causes of delay and cost overrun in construction projects, the other sections
focused on general information about respondents and the effects of delay on
construction projects. The forty causes of delay and cost overrun gathered
through the literature review were categorized into seven groups. Responses were
gathered from 130 participants representing the key stakeholders participated in
the project’s construction. The analysis was conducted to determine the amount
of delay and cost overrun experienced by the projects, in addition to the indices
concerning the frequency of occurrence, impact on time and cost, and
significance of the seven groups. As well, a ranking of the forty causes was
performed to identify the most critical causes of delay and cost overrun.
Concluded that the most crucial causes affecting the delay and cost overrun in the
educational building projects in Egypt are: Price instability, Price escalation of
material, delays in contractors progress payment, financial problems, contractor’s
difficulties in financing the project.