Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia

This thesis is about impact of cost overrun to the project delay in the project life cycle. This study will focus on the Grade 7 construction companies in the Pahang. 40 project managers and site contractors from the construction industry in Pahang participated in the survey questionnaire. There are...

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Main Author: Zhi Jia, Ling
Format: Undergraduates Project Papers
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10703/
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description This thesis is about impact of cost overrun to the project delay in the project life cycle. This study will focus on the Grade 7 construction companies in the Pahang. 40 project managers and site contractors from the construction industry in Pahang participated in the survey questionnaire. There are two variable in this study which are independent variables (Cost overrun factors) and dependent variable (Project delay). Reliability test is used to identify whether the variable is reliable or not. The result of Cronbach’s Alpha for all variables shows that the involved variables are reliable ranging from 0.874 to 0.951. Single mean t-test is used to identify the environmental factor which shows a high value of 4.37. Pearson correlation results indicate that the all the cost overrun factors has a positive relationships with the project delay. Finding in this study is beneficial to employer to understand how important cost overruns factors to project delay, as well as to prevent recurrences from happening in construction industry
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spelling ump-107032021-08-06T01:57:32Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10703/ Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia Zhi Jia, Ling TH Building construction This thesis is about impact of cost overrun to the project delay in the project life cycle. This study will focus on the Grade 7 construction companies in the Pahang. 40 project managers and site contractors from the construction industry in Pahang participated in the survey questionnaire. There are two variable in this study which are independent variables (Cost overrun factors) and dependent variable (Project delay). Reliability test is used to identify whether the variable is reliable or not. The result of Cronbach’s Alpha for all variables shows that the involved variables are reliable ranging from 0.874 to 0.951. Single mean t-test is used to identify the environmental factor which shows a high value of 4.37. Pearson correlation results indicate that the all the cost overrun factors has a positive relationships with the project delay. Finding in this study is beneficial to employer to understand how important cost overruns factors to project delay, as well as to prevent recurrences from happening in construction industry 2014 Undergraduates Project Papers NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10703/1/FIST%20-%20%20Ling%20Zhi%20Jia%201.pdf Zhi Jia, Ling (2014) Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia. Faculty of Industrial Management, Universiti Malaysia Pahang.
spellingShingle TH Building construction
Zhi Jia, Ling
Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia
title Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia
title_fullStr Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia
title_short Impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, Pahang, Malaysia
title_sort impact of cost overrun factors on the project delay in construction industry, pahang, malaysia
topic TH Building construction
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10703/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10703/1/FIST%20-%20%20Ling%20Zhi%20Jia%201.pdf