The profile of construction delay cases

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Construction industry has been increasingly recognizing the need for more efficient and timely projects completion. However, there remain a number of unexpected problems and changes from the original design. This will arise during the construction phase which often leads to many negative effects such as increased costs, lost productivity and revenue, contract termination, arbitration or litigation and even total abandonment of the project. Therefore, this research is set out to develop a profile of the delay in construction projects which lead to disputes. The profiling of the cases has been done based on the year, types of parties involved, time of delay disputes occur, nature of delay disputes and court judgment for the construction delay disputes that have been occurring in Malaysian construction industry. The approach adopted in this research is case law based; only cases in Malaysia between years 1961-2010 reported by Malayan Law Journal specifically centered on issue of delay dis

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