| dc.description.abstract | Payment delay is one of the most
significant issues experienced in public
sector building construction projects.
Correspondingly, most of the building
construction projects in North-Western
Province (NWP) of Sri Lanka are often
characterized by delayed payments. Hence,
the objective of this research is to identify the
significant causes behind delayed payments
in public sector building construction
projects in NWP; as an initiation to develop a
preventive framework for payment delays.
First and foremost, a detailed literature
review was carried out and identified 28
number of payment delay causes, including
seven client related causes, nine consultant
related causes, seven contractor related
causes, and five other causes. Then a
questionnaire was articulated and
distributed among 100 (census) population
of experienced professionals belong to the
NWP Engineering Department and its 7
numbers of divisional engineers' offices in
NWP. Sixty-five of them were responded.
The Relative Importance Index (RII) method
was used to rank the most significant causes.
Results indicated, the client's failure to
follow the pre-set procedure as the most
significant client-related cause for payment
delays. The results further portrayed that
delays in subcontractor's interim payment
application, errors in contractors' claims,
and delay in the valuation of work done by
the quantity surveyor as the prominent
payment delay causes respectively fit into
other, contractor, and consultant related
category of causes. Besides, the client-related
causes category with highest average RII was
identified as the highly influential group of
causes behind payment delays in public
sector building construction projects in NWP
of Sri Lanka. | en_US |
