An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays

The modern business environment is operating in a highly turbulent time. Demand for operational activities to achieve effectiveness and efficiency, the environment has increased the need for organizational accountability both in private and public sectors. Meanwhile, one noteworthy gap in the mana...

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Main Authors:	Ansah, Richard Hannis, Sorooshian, Shahryar, Shariman, Mustafa, Duvvuru, Gomanth
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	IEOM Society 2016
Subjects:	TH Building construction
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/1/fim-2016-sorooshian-254.pdf

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spelling	ump-160272020-02-21T07:50:36Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/ An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays Ansah, Richard Hannis Sorooshian, Shahryar Shariman, Mustafa Duvvuru, Gomanth TH Building construction The modern business environment is operating in a highly turbulent time. Demand for operational activities to achieve effectiveness and efficiency, the environment has increased the need for organizational accountability both in private and public sectors. Meanwhile, one noteworthy gap in the management of projects is considering projects as systems existing in isolation from its surrounding environment. From an examination of the deficiencies in such an approach and how to avoid them, an understanding of the concept of the environment is very imperative. Besides, while many variables are said to cause process and system delays in construction projects, most have been conceptualized to assess aspects of project delays. However, most of these variables for assessing project delays still need improvement. This paper presents the concept of project environment, and proposes a comprehensive framework for evaluating delay sources in the external environment of construction projects through ‘PESTLE’ Framework Analysis namely; Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental. Following the synthesis and screening of the literature review and the identified main sources, it showed that the major external sources of delays are associated with the ‘PESTLE’ factors. Thus, it is therefore established that ‘PESTLE’ framework analysis, if well understood, could be an instrumental tool for project performance assessment studies and contributes to the knowledge and practice on delay control. IEOM Society 2016 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/1/fim-2016-sorooshian-254.pdf Ansah, Richard Hannis and Sorooshian, Shahryar and Shariman, Mustafa and Duvvuru, Gomanth (2016) An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays. In: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, 23-25 September 2016 , Detroit, Michigan, USA. pp. 764-772.. ISBN 978-0-9855497-5-6 http://ieomsociety.org/ieomdetroit/pdfs/254.pdf
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spellingShingle	TH Building construction Ansah, Richard Hannis Sorooshian, Shahryar Shariman, Mustafa Duvvuru, Gomanth An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays
description	The modern business environment is operating in a highly turbulent time. Demand for operational activities to achieve effectiveness and efficiency, the environment has increased the need for organizational accountability both in private and public sectors. Meanwhile, one noteworthy gap in the management of projects is considering projects as systems existing in isolation from its surrounding environment. From an examination of the deficiencies in such an approach and how to avoid them, an understanding of the concept of the environment is very imperative. Besides, while many variables are said to cause process and system delays in construction projects, most have been conceptualized to assess aspects of project delays. However, most of these variables for assessing project delays still need improvement. This paper presents the concept of project environment, and proposes a comprehensive framework for evaluating delay sources in the external environment of construction projects through ‘PESTLE’ Framework Analysis namely; Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental. Following the synthesis and screening of the literature review and the identified main sources, it showed that the major external sources of delays are associated with the ‘PESTLE’ factors. Thus, it is therefore established that ‘PESTLE’ framework analysis, if well understood, could be an instrumental tool for project performance assessment studies and contributes to the knowledge and practice on delay control.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Ansah, Richard Hannis Sorooshian, Shahryar Shariman, Mustafa Duvvuru, Gomanth
author_facet	Ansah, Richard Hannis Sorooshian, Shahryar Shariman, Mustafa Duvvuru, Gomanth
author_sort	Ansah, Richard Hannis
title	An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays
title_short	An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays
title_full	An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays
title_fullStr	An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays
title_full_unstemmed	An Environmental Impact Framework for Evaluating Construction Projects Delays
title_sort	environmental impact framework for evaluating construction projects delays
publisher	IEOM Society
publishDate	2016
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/16027/1/fim-2016-sorooshian-254.pdf
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