Determinants of Construction Project Success in India

This study presents exploratory work and seeks to identify and evaluate the success and failure factors that could form a guideline for further study and to some extent help professionals to understand some critical aspects that impact project performance

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Kumar Neeraj Jha

Determinants of Construction Project Success in India

Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability, and Quality Volume 23

Series Editor Adrian V. Gheorghe

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Kumar Neeraj Jha

Determinants of Construction Project Success in India

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Kumar Neeraj Jha Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Delhi New Delhi India

ISSN 1566-0443 ISBN 978-94-007-6255-8 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6256-5

ISBN 978-94-007-6256-5

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Preface

It gives me immense pleasure in presenting this book to you. Construction industry in most of the countries is infamous for schedule and cost overrun, poor quality, large number of disputes, and many other ills. This is truer in case of developing countries such as India. Not many researches have been conducted to understand the reasons behind poor performances in a scientific manner. Even the rare successes achieved in some of the projects implementation are not well documented. This book has been a result of research conducted at the IIT Delhi as part of my Ph.D. wo