Almusawi, Mohammed & Erzaij, Kadhim. (2019).

RETROSPECTIVE DELAY ANALYSIS IN

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS OF IRAQ. Construction projects are commonly acknowledged as
successful when it is completed at the specific time, within budget, and according
to the specifications. The delay of projects has negative effects on the value of
the contract because it is related to the elements of the expensive resources which
often lead to claims or arbitration. However, the projects that investigated in
this study included construction of ten hospitals with 400 beds in different cities
of Iraq. A frequency, severity and importance indexes were determined for 77
factors of delay divided into ten categorizations according to the stages of the
project, The results showed that the weakness of technical offers of companies
nominated to assignment as a result of adopting the principle of the lowest bid
price in the government tendering and ineffective delay penalties by the employer
in addition to Poor planning and scheduling the project by the contractor were the
major causes that delayed the projects in the middle and southern Iraq.