A Review of Minimizing Delay in Construction Industries

¹ Programme of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43650 Bangi, Malaysia
² Smart and Sustainable Township Research Centre (SUTRA), Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43650 Bangi, Malaysia
³ School of Social, Development & Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia

^* Corresponding author: azrykhoiry@ukm.edu.my

Abstract

Construction is an important industry to determine the development of a country. However, this industry faced delay issues caused by various factors that affect proper construction project. Hence, minimizing delay in construction should be focused on overcoming the delay issue. Thus, the objective of this study is to critically review the main criteria of minimizing delay based on the most significant items that suggested in the previous journals. This paper reviewed 47 journals that studied the issues of delays in construction projects. Through this study, the authors have classified four main criteria for minimizing delays, which are; management, interpersonal, technical and technology. Management ensures the proper manage of time, financial and control system in construction to minimize delay. While, interpersonal promote a good relationship between construction parties, hire of competent and skilled labour and responsibility of the owner to avoiding delay. Besides, technical ensure the quality of project and technology could improve the productivity of construction based on fourth industrial revolution development in the construction field. Thus, this study contributes to construction parties able to focus on elements to overcome the delay issue in they faced and applied the ideas based on the element to minimize delay in the construction project.