Analysis of time and cost overrun in Malaysian construction

The construction industry in Malaysia is very important for creating employment, both
directly and indirectly. It faces two repeated problems during the construction stage: slippage of
project-schedules, i.e. time overrun and overrun of project cost; to the dislike of owners, contractors
and consultants. This paper studies the time delay and cost overrun factors for Design and Build
D&B projects in Malaysia. A Questionnaire was used to collect data from practitioners and analyse
the responses and rank the factors and groups on overall view of the contracting parties. Identified
risk factors from the theoretical domain were used to prepare 79 time related question and 18 cost
related question categorized in 9 groups and 1 group respectively. Total of 136 respondents
recorded their ratings to the factors in the questionnaire. Labour-related group has the top 1 rank
with RII 0.684. The results can be used as a guideline to successfully handle construction projects in
Malaysia; contributing for better project performance and lead to positive risks, opportunities.