Significance of contractor's internal team collaborative practices to manage construction project delays during implimentation stage

Abstract

Completion of projects on time is one of the major challenge faced by the construction industry. There are many studies conducted on construction project delays focusing on causes and effects of delays and mitigation measures, etc. Initial literature survey has been highlighted that Internal Team Collaboration In order to achieve the objectives a pre-survey was done by reviewing literatures, gathering industry expertise ideas and incorporating researcher’s experience in the industry for conducting pilot questionnaire design. Subsequently, final questionnaire survey was conducted with industry experts comprised of engineers, managers and executives who directly involve in large scale construction projects representing client/consultant and contractor organizations. Questionnaire forms were emailed and hand delivered to eighty The results of the analysis from overall perspective revealed that these four major categories related to ITC practices; planning & scheduling, construction management, contract administration and document management are equally contributed to contractual management of construction project delays but high attention should be paid on document management practices. And also project manager has a major role to act as a focal point for making ITC process successful during implementation. Moreover, the researcher has identified the barriers to internal team collaborative approach and the methods and techniques that can be implemented to enhance the ITC process at project implementation stage in order to reduce and manage project delays.