An Analysis of Time overruns during the construction of the Uganda Hotel and Tourism Training Institute (UHTTI) in Jinja, Uganda

Abstract

Many construction projects in developing countries including Uganda suffer from time and budget overruns. Generally, time overrun is inevitable in construction projects. There are various factors responsible for the time overrun which require serious attention to understand and address in order to achieve successful completion of projects on time. This is because time overrun has great impact to construction cost which can never be recovered. This paper focused on the discussion of the analysis of time overruns that occurred during the construction of the Uganda Hotel and Tourism Training Institute in Jinja, Uganda. The study in this report is a practical problem developed through experience and observation of the construction of the UHTTI project. This study presents a customized root cause analysis approach to identify the causes of delay, use of the schedule performance index to analyze the schedule performance of the project and provide improvements measures for the causes of the delays identified. From the literature review and project data, the delay factors were categorized into four main causes of delay by responsibility to the contract parties including; contractor, client, consultant and external- related factors. The approach is an analytical approach that uses actual technical data from the project documentation. Various analysis tools are embedded in the approach including: data collection, fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, Pie chart and S-curves. As a result, it was found that the main cause behind the schedule deviations was contractor-related factors. To ameliorate the effects of time overrun, the research recommends that clients engage competent hands to manage projects sites while ensuring they fulfill their own obligation of prompt payment to contractors thereby improving time performance