Review Analysis on Causes and Effects of Change orders on Construction Projects

Abstract

In the last ten years there has been huge volume of work in construction industry. This is because of wealth created by the overall development of the country. In construction industry projects facing a problem due to variation or changes of order. The changes issued by owner, consultant’s, site engineers,contractors.This changes lead do arises disputes among them which results in affecting construction projects. The changes always related to modification of work, design changes, material changes, and schedule change by owners. There for it is required to analysis of reasons and impact of change order to manage difficulty faced by issued change orders. Past research in this area provide lack of quantitative data Therefore, the objective of this Paper is to identify and analyze the causes and effects of change orders on construction projects. A questionnaire surveys was prepared and circulated to various respondents to obtain the information regarding with various causes and effects of change orders and the collected information is analyzed by using Relative Importance Index Method.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.1604101