Construction Claims’ Impacts on Project Performance Baselines

Raji Z. Al- Ani, Ala'a M. Shdiefat

Abstract


Nowadays claims in construction projects became usual and expected during the construction procedure. In addition, claims are the most disruptive and unpleasant events of construction projects because of their impacts on project final cost and scheduled completion date. This study, as one of chain researches on construction claim management (the other researches were directed to study types of claims, the causes and the best management approach to prevent their impacts), identifies impacts of claims on construction projects in Jordanian construction industry. The actual data regarding claims and their impacts have been collected by using a questionnaire form distributed to selected number of stakeholders (clients, contractors, project managers) and arbitrators. In addition, more investigation were done on actual data collected from real life projects as case studies of actual claims up raised by contractors of finished construction projects. This study is expected to assist both, project management and contractors in identifying and manage contractual claims to mitigate their impacts on projects’ completion costs and time.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijce.v1i1.30

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