Mitigation of Delay in Malaysian Armed Forces Construction Projects Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • As time passes, the conditions of the camp where most of the buildings, infrastructures and facilities in the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) become older and require reconstruction or refurbishment. In line with the global development of many personnel and military equipment, most of the existing buildings in military camps need to be improved. Construction delays in government projects have become a norm, and MAF is no exception to this. The delay issues are important to be investigated to minimize the delays. Perhaps some practical rectification needs to be suggested to mitigate delays and improve the performance of construction projects in MAF. The quantitative approach was carried out using a questionnaire survey to relate stakeholders involved in MAF construction projects that can help to achieve the objective of this research. From 100 respondents of MAF construction project stakeholders, 75 respondents replied with a reliability index of Cronbach Alpha of 0.96. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 24 with ordinal measurement. Pilot studies with 30 respondents were conducted to improve the questionnaire design. Next, Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation was undertaken to list the delays in the appropriate rank and the mean of the element is 266.733. Therefore, it demonstrates the overall respondents approximately agree with the cause of delay listed for MAF construction projects. Out of 65 factors of delays top five were poor coordination, poor communication, poor work supervision, lack of work programming and finally difficulties in project financing with the mean of the delays ranging from 4.85 to 4.76. The study was able to rank the top five mitigation measures to overcome the delays with a mean score of 4.5 and above.

publication date

  • 2025

number of pages

  • 7

start page

  • 1459

end page

  • 1466

volume

  • 37

issue

  • 3