Abstract:
Road Construction project delays can be defined as the late completion of work compared to
the planned schedule or contract schedule. South nation nationality and people /SNNP/ Road
authority is right hand of the region to give a solution to lack of road in rural area, it also
minimize the society’s road problems by its performance, but it’s not fully successes,
challenged by delay.
The main objective of this project paper was to identify the major causes of delays in South road
authority in Hossana district along with extent of delays and to know the impacts of this delay on
the performance of projects. This study was undertaken through an intensive literature review
and a survey on selected road projects, to know the opinion of client, contractors and consultants.
The survey was carried out through a questionnaire survey together with desk study and some
focus group discussion. The questionnaire contained questions on delay causing factors revealed
by the literature review. The identified causes of delay were calculated with Relative Importance
Index (RII).
The study revealed that the most contributing factors to delays were: delay to deliver the site
(right of way problem), financial problems inspections, equipment availability and failure,
suspension of work by owner or contractor and weather conditions were the most delay causing
factors of roads construction projects in South Road Authority road projects. Time and cost
overrun have been found to the most dominant impacts caused by delays in road construction
projects in the region.
Therefore, in order to minimize delay in road construction projects, the client should make ready
the site for work, and the contractor should have work plan comprising of financial resources and
should avoid suspension of work that lead for additional time
