Major delays in construction projects — a case study of Malaysian Armed Forces Camps

The Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) camp, where most of the buildings, infrastructure, and facilities are located, needs reconstruction or renovation as time passes. The majority of the current buildings in military camps need to be upgraded in order to keep up with the growth in both the number of personnel and military hardware worldwide. Government projects now routinely experience construction delays; MAF is no exception. It is crucial to look into the reasons behind delays to reduce them, and it might be necessary to suggest some workable solutions to lessen delays and enhance the efficiency of the building project in MAF. To relate stakeholders involved in MAF construction projects that can aid in achieving the goal of this research, a quantitative approach was conducted using a questionnaire survey. Out of the 100 participants in the MAF construction project, 75 provided a reliability index of Cronbach Alpha of 0.96. To list the delays in the proper rank, Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation was performed using SPSS version 24. The element's mean is 266.733 according to the analysis. Consequently, it indicates that most respondents broadly agreed with the reasons given for the delays in MAF construction projects. Among the 65 factors contributing to delays, inadequate coordination, communication, supervision, work planning, and project financing challenges ranked as the top five. The range of the delays' means, 4.85 to 4.76, suggests that the most effective mitigating measures must be implemented to overcome the delays. Based on the findings, the required mitigation effort can be taken to improve the delays and save the cost and time of the project. In overall, the project can gain more advantages than disadvantage if the delays can be controlled from the initial stage of the project.