study on reduction of cost overrun and time delay in building construction using six sigma

  salma.k,  sheik farid.a

There have been a lot of defects in recent years and errors may occur in a regular construction routine. In the construction of buildings, mistakes are very common. The time, complexity, budget and schedule of the proposed project can be affected by these major and some minor defects. The intent of this project is to identify and analyze the major and minor contributing problems and their corresponding defects happening in onsite construction work progress namely (Marking layout, Excavation, Foundation and Construction of brick walls) that they are responsible for causing cost overrun and time delay in construction management and also in this project six-sigma technique was implemented to rectify such defects and also the principle named as (DMAIC-Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) was incorporated to segregate and minimize such defects in each activities. And then the improve measures are recommended as well as the control plan was tabulated to control those defects and to secure the construction work progress from cost-overrun and time delay and control.

Keywords- six- sigma, cost overrun, time delay, reducing defects, on-site activities.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR2103006
Page Number(s) - 38-45
Pubished in - Volume 9 | Issue 3 | September 2021
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -    http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.27602
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  salma.k,  sheik farid.a,   "study on reduction of cost overrun and time delay in building construction using six sigma", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.9, Issue 3, pp.38-45, September 2021, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR2103006.pdf