Why do Construction Projects Fail?

What I feel is that, the prime reason for the failure of the construction project is bad management. Poor management can shoot up the cost be it material or labour and the contractor has to bear the additional charges.
This is what I feel is the prime reason for the failure of any construction project.

1- Decisions: If decisions are not taken fast, project will lead to failure.

2- Money (Fund) : If Fund is timly not provided, project will fail.

They normally fail due to bad management & planning, after over 30 years in this Industry it amazes me why when projects fall behind, material is late, sub-contractors do not get paid on time, design does not work, why we always moan about what if !. At the end of the day if you are project managing anything you should take ownership and get on with the task before you & tackle the problems and overcome, but this needs to be a team work process and that is normally not the case, surely we should get things right nowadays.

Poor planning by not taking into account risks involved in projects, sequential transmittal of drawings, expected arrival of materials, poor controlling of delayed activities and cost over run activities, poor project review and poor team development or no development.

Most of construction projects fail mainly due to bad or lack communication, resulting, we could not be able to maintain the schedule and cashflows, now these days too mach overheads occur during the construction and it increase time to time when we could not maintain our schedule resulting..

Lack of communication among various parties involved in a project leads to the failure of any project. From the beginning to the end. Communication has to do a lot with unsuccessful projects.

I have created an Idea Contest " Causes for poor communication in construction industry?" do participate and Share your views there...

1. Inadequate information at teh time of coceptualization of projects.

2. Improper planning.

3. Demand for speedy completion of project.

4. So, cost escalation due to wasteage of materials.

5. Frequent changes in design.

6. Trying to parallely complete the activities rather sequenceing them.

7. Delay in decision making due to many channels & heads for it..

Due to the lack of proper planning.

The planning of the projects with optimum utilization of resources(man power, Materials,Machinary,Movements including Money) are the prime factors for the success of the construction project. The Main Construction Program is the Key instrument for the achieving the objective. Even if the resources are there in abundendence, the project execution may collapse when timely release of the resources is not ensured.For this release of the resources four components that are man power, Materials,Machinary Money to be planned as follows by the Planning Engineer.

1.Work Flow Schedule(Gantt Chart for each item of the BOQ)

2.Manpower Deployment schedule

3.Equipment Deployment Schedule

4. Material Procurement schedule

5. Cash Flow Chart

These datas should be discussed anong the top management in Project team and be approved before the project start for implementation.The communication of the above data amongst the other members of the project staff Procurement -in-charge, Project Manager, Equipment in - charge,senior engineers is essential for the effective implementation.Periodical review of the these scedules will ensure correct deployment of all the resources and failure of the constuction projects can be avoided.

Time management and the right recruitment are the key factor which are never taken care of. To work in a discipline manner is very crucial for any management, which is highly lacking in construction industries. Proper chain of work has to be made, implemented and reported to seniors in time.

The Job Design of Indian as well as some of other countries are obsolete. The techniques are changing rapidly but the system especially govt. sectors are having condition of their experiences (10,15,20 years) . There is no any test of the compatibility of the candidate with the modern sophisticated softwares which are capable of doing the things faster from management as well as operation aspect of construction. There is no any place for the persons equiped with management degree and softwares rather the obsolete system of contracts which is just the result of cut, copy & paste during preparation of condition of contract from  long time is being used where it is mandatory to have experience of 5,10,15,20 years of experiences as if they are looking for skilled labours rather than intelligent innovative managers. The present system is just looking for quantity of experiences rather that quality of experience. "A person with three years experience with Management Degree and management softwares" has no advantage over "the person having 5-10 years experience without modern equiped skills", at all. Also there is no any system of test of candidates for the post and if it is ; It is based on old obsolete system which is just the test of memory and no more intelligence. Thats why the contractors are being guided and compelled by the persons who has worst kind of long experience because the system is merely looking for the length of experience rather than quality of experience. Corruption is second main reason for the failure of Project or Projects having bad quality.

A lot of things which need proper attention right from bidding to the completion of project.Now the construcion industries is facing neck to neck competition in which all the firms are bidding at least 20-30% lower cost than the est imateting cost shown in DPRs.Reason is the thought that we will recover the remaining money either byarbitration with the help of consultant or showing additional works in construction period .Oviously ,ihave seen failure of this ideology.When construction started,the bad starting stratgy whichcontains poor selection of right equipment,slow mobilisation and site establishment,slow posting of correct &experienced staff leading alot of extra  expenditure on the repitition .During the construction process,wrong budgeting create alot of inconvenience during project & cost extra cost which leads the falure.At last egos of bosses& lack fof comunication colapses the project ultimately.Lot of more points are also there in the line which needs more discussion.

many factors together will seriously  results in failure.... To b simple a project is nothing but EPC ie engineering, procurement and constructions proper implementation of these will avoid the failure

to eloborate while engineering ie design and development local influence like availability of materials, technology for execution n other related resources shoul b considerd(Climatic Condotions shouldnt b ignored) also freezing the scope of the project with stakegholder is very important to minimise changes(keep in mind changes r unavoidable in any project) people say it as value engineering but it is only 'engineering' giev sufficient time for design n devolopment

while procurement its important to bring in right service providers for procurement n construction a thorough evaluation and analysis is a must bfr finalizing them. go for specialised contractors for special works...assignment of contractors/subcontractors/suppliers at an advance stage is very important.... also applying very logical contractual classes will avoid runnaway or poor performances by contractors.

always keep escalation clause to release the burden on contractors and as an employer keep contingencies budget to cope up with variations

construction is phase where most of the projects come to a failure stage,,, lack of co-ordination b/n contractors, consultants , employer, PMC's,,, unskilled manpower outdated equipments,,, incompetent  n corrupt engineers n managers r other major reasons for failure. Safety Quality n staturty compliances r the areas if neglected will have serious consequences on projects....

in complex projects its important to manage changes and carryout risk analysys frequently.

If v compare construction industry of Gulf with India v need to mechanize our construction, upgrade the manpower skills, effective implementation of management fundas n all above corruption is a biggest threat to the industry

If the project manger is not of a go-getter attitude then probably he will not be able to get the best out of his team. If the finances are not taken proper care of as in the case of SATYAM the not only the project but the entire company can be doomed.So, getting the right people in the right place is important.

There should be an Audit department responsible for planning and progress..>>

• They should supervise the material and changes made frequently..
• They should be responsible for funding issues and hence the communication will be reduced..

Success criteria defined varies from one project to another. For example success criteria can be defined as follows :

1. Project Cost not to exceed : Rs 50 Cr in Rs 55 Cr project
2. Project to be completed wihthin scheduled target dates
3. Gross Margin  or Profit  to be a min. of 10%
4. Defined intermediate milestones to be completed on set target dates
5. Stated product quality standards to be maintained
6. Zero accident to be ensured
7. Minimum Staff Productivity of Rs 10 Lakh/ month
8. Avg Working Captical to be within target
9. Outstandings to be not more than a months o/s.
10. No legal implications or issues

Even if any of above set success criteria is unrealistic and not in consensus with the stakeholders, then projects perfromance may be misled to be a failure.

Not defining realistic success criteria itself is a major contributor to declare project as failure...!!!

In my view proper designing , planning and its effective implimentation is very very important in a construction project. Lack of these will leads to the failure.

Paper Perfect Planning,Implementation & Estimate.No importance given to Site Problems.These are the main reasons.In Detail generally Project Planning is done By Engineers & Decided by Non Engineers ,In implimentation Site persons are given neck to neck Target.But there are so many festivals when there is labour Shortage.The BOQ is not as per Rate Analysis.Vendor Payment will be indifinitely Delayed.If all these will combined then the project will Fail.

The criteria of the failure of the project and reasons as I experienced are,

A Functional Failure: A failed Project not serving the purpose it is intended for due to Substandard Materials and workmanship in water proofing materials of Residential building projects

Financial Failure Unduely escalated Final Caste of the project beyond the Standard deviation of 10% due to Unforseen foundation conditions due to insufficient site investigation data.

Executional Failure Failed project due to lop sided priorities in completion of  sub projects ,for instance completion of Sewerline package without even finalization of location for Sewage treatment Plant for town ship.

Operational FailureLocal resistance from political parties, delayed funds flow for the project

Miscellaneous Failures  Projects fail when do not take environmental factors into account.

Usually in any project estimated cash flow is disrupted due to mismanagement of men &  material required on site vis-a-vis the projected completion time of each activity, hence resulting in chaos and  failure of a project either in terms of cost, time or quality benchmarks. 

Broadly and in simplified way , the basic reason of failure and the success of any project depend on 5nos. M-factors, which are as follows:-

 1.        Money

2.        Material

3.        Manpower

4.        Machinery and lastly,

5.        Management

 All the above 5 factors are co related, lake of any single factor the project can not be success.

Planning, Scheduling, Budgeting, Coordination, mismanagement etc. comes mainly under the heading of Management. So, whenever anybody thinks about the Failure/success of any project, we will ultimately get these 5 heads not anything else.

Major reason for failure of project is lack of understanding of responsibilities by Consultant or the contractor.

Major Consultants just want to release themselves out of any liabilities during execution of the project and even contract supports them to full extent. But instead of enforcing themselves as supreme authority, they have to understand that every contractor is a partner to the project with financial interests as well. There exists blame game for every disputes existing in the project. And always it is the contractor who fails in this unless he decides to go to arbitration.

Due  to lack  of  Communication and Co-ordination  between the people working in the project is very necessary this are  the main two main reasons  for projects  to fail.

Poor planning by not taking into account risks involved in projects, sequential transmittal of drawings, expected arrival of materials, poor controlling of delayed activities and cost over run activities, poor project review and poor team development or no development.

Timely alert system for deviation from Planned objectives from good configured ERP system helps in identifying cause of failure from  construction projects. Depending identifieble risks cause vary form project to project.

many factors together will seriously  results in failure.... To b simple a project is nothing but EPC ie engineering, procurement and constructions proper implementation of these will avoid the failure

to eloborate while engineering ie design and development local influence like availability of materials, technology for execution n other related resources shoul b considerd(Climatic Condotions shouldnt b ignored) also freezing the scope of the project with stakegholder is very important to minimise changes(keep in mind changes r unavoidable in any project) people say it as value engineering but it is only 'engineering' giev sufficient time for design n devolopment

while procurement its important to bring in right service providers for procurement n construction a thorough evaluation and analysis is a must bfr finalizing them. go for specialised contractors for special works...assignment of contractors/subcontractors/suppliers at an advance stage is very important.... also applying very logical contractual classes will avoid runnaway or poor performances by contractors.

always keep escalation clause to release the burden on contractors and as an employer keep contingencies budget to cope up with variations

construction is phase where most of the projects come to a failure stage,,, lack of co-ordination b/n contractors, consultants , employer, PMC's,,, unskilled manpower outdated equipments,,, incompetent  n corrupt engineers n managers r other major reasons for failure. Safety Quality n staturty compliances r the areas if neglected will have serious consequences on projects....

in complex projects its important to manage changes and carryout risk analysys frequently.

If v compare construction industry of Gulf with India v need to mechanize our construction, upgrade the manpower skills, effective implementation of management fundas n all above corruption is a biggest threat to the industry

In  most of cases of construction will be fail because of unknowledge of right ideas for cons. management. Also use of letest technology & experienced person on upper management position is effectable fector.Pre fix planning is best fector for real management.

ITS  FAILS   REALLY  DUE  TO  MORE  PROBLES  LABOUR  PROBLEM, BAD MANAGEMENT, WORK CANCELLATION, TAKE  LEAVE  , ENGINEERS  ESCAPING, INTER GOVERNAMENTAL  AFFIARS, PENDING,MATERIALS PENDING AND  MOREPROBLEMS INCLUDES  BAD CONTRACTS AND  LOW  INVOICE SUPPLY LATE  OF  MATRIALS  POOR QUALITY  OF  VARIOUS  RAW MATERIALS........AND MORE

• First of all confirm if the project is viable
• If viable, prepare a comprehensive project plan including the complete scope, resources, documents, risks and change orders forecast.
• Review the periodically and revise accordingly
• Review the project status and implement all corrective actions required.
• Disseminate project status to project stake holders.
• Prepare punch list, complete, hand over and close the project.

The factors such as ill conceivement of project, lack of planning and foresightedness are major causes in failure of any project whatsoever it may be. Money, authority, resources bla..bla... all are encompassed in the above headings. If we conceive any project it has to be supported by all pros and cons including mony in fact this is first part. No project if conceived well can be a failure. It is my gurantee. While conceiving we have to forsee change of global/national policies, recession, boom and any such factors.

using cranes or manual operations in very high constructions such as towers instead of high power concreat pumps to take material even above 150 mtrs.and many more available now.

Well, as far i know, lack of communication is the main reason. Because the communication gap between the seniors and juniors, the working people like masons & labour, they dont know what they have to do? the staff who are at site will lead the work, they will plan the daily work advance. Then the seniors or the managers will came over there and say it is wrong? If the both people plan together then no mistake willbe done. I am not saying seniors are wrong. Sometimes seniors and some times juniors both will do mistakes. so it is neccessary that communication is compolsury. If communication is good there will be no problem. Not only communication, management, finance etc.. also be there. But mainly there should be no communication gap

Thank you 

A project can be to a large extent salvaged at any point of time on its course,by proper application of project managerial skills by the Project Manager.

Poor planning interms of project planning, execution & not considering the influence of local politics & factors into project cost & time may lead to delays, cost escalation & failure of projects

In the Initial Stage Every one like to keep Long Step to reach faster but fails to plan to success instead plans to fail. 

A) For example to maintain the secrecy of the company they fail to discuss and analyse the upcoming project in louder.

B) To Competate others trying to undercut the rates by expecting to adjust in future.  Negatively mrket becomes instable where they have to face huge fall in Labor Cost, Materials, Transportation & Hire Charges etc.

C) Failing to Budget the exact cost on priority basis. 

D) Excess Man Power.  To face the Clinets Pressure appointing a Group with out estimating their abilities.  Appointing on base of Certificates where field experience is required.

E)  Investing on Improper Machineries instead hire the machines where the setup for maintenance is not available.  After procuring Service and Spares are not available in time etc.

F) Major Functional Areas like Tendering, Planning, Q S, Finance, Procurement , Stores, Time Office are the Heart of company.  But this was treated partially.  For Example: Expecting that If Finance is Controlled all the other will be in control.  But in certain stage we may pay premium and extract the job there the company fails for that they suffer in future.

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In the Initial Stage Every one like to keep Long Step to reach faster but fails to plan to success instead plans to fail. 

A) For example to maintain the secrecy of the company they fail to discuss and analyse the upcoming project in louder.

B) To Competate others trying to undercut the rates by expecting to adjust in future.  Negatively mrket becomes instable where they have to face huge fall in Labor Cost, Materials, Transportation & Hire Charges etc.

C) Failing to Budget the exact cost on priority basis. 

D) Excess Man Power.  To face the Clinets Pressure appointing a Group with out estimating their abilities.  Appointing on base of Certificates where field experience is required.

E)  Investing on Improper Machineries instead hire the machines where the setup for maintenance is not available.  After procuring Service and Spares are not available in time etc.

F) Major Functional Areas like Tendering, Planning, Q S, Finance, Procurement , Stores, Time Office are the Heart of company.  But this was treated partially.  For Example: Expecting that If Finance is Controlled all the other will be in control.  But in certain stage we may pay premium and extract the job there the company fails for that they suffer in future.

G)       

In my view proper designing , planning and its effective implimentation is very very important in a construction project. Lack of these will leads to the failure.

Normally construction projects fail becuase of the potical influence , inluence of locals, bad working condition, funding support ,

Normaly no project will fail becuse of the bad planning / bad management / lack of communication / etc.

Every PM & team prepares a implementation schedules based on their past rich experinces in anticipating the new probable issues too. But every project is unique and new new problems will come during the implementation stage.  Hence construction will not fail due to lack of planning and project might  be delayed due to ignorance of the PM & team.

Most of the construction projects fail becuase politcal influence, eg tata motors mfg unit at bengal.

Many project will suffer due to locals influence too, 

Dealy in Release / support of fund from Lenders also have impact on the the proejcect.

with the above all the project cost will be much higher than the estimated, to get the approval for the revised project cost again further delay.

Hence project will be failed because the potical influence / locals only.    

The concept of failure itself needs to be defined. Suppose that a construction project is completed with meeting the key drivers cost, quality and time. Do you think that project is a success?. If the client feels that "wow..my project was a success but it didnt give me what i want....".  A construction project or any other project can be considered as a failure when it is not able to meet the objectives of stakeholders. That project failed to create any "value" to the client. A simple definition for the term value is " maximum satisfation with optimum cost". Construction project are usually consists of large number of non value adding activites. This can be considered as "wastes" . These wastefull activities consumes the resources and eventually leads the project to a failure.

In order to illustrate this concept an example is necessary. Majority of construction projects in India are done by a method called traditional procurement route by the British construction industry. In this method the construction projects composed of mainly sequential activitie. After finishing the design the designer pass it to the special consultans. They suggest changes and the designer alter his designs to cater those changes. This eventually form a vicious circle and it can be considerd as a non value adding activity consumes the resources like time.

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I don’t know if there any single reason that can make failure of a construction project. In fact there are several reasons. As we know each project has to go through four stages which are initiation, planning, execution and closure. Negligence or lapse in any of these stages may lead to severe consequences and the failure of the project. Parties, (Client/Sponsor, Consultant, Contractor and Authorities) who are involved in the projects need to have effective organizational set up and proffessional environment by formalizing all the processes required to start up, define, plan, launch, execute and closure. Unfortunately majority of organizations in India don’t have that attitude and approach, as a result it lead to confusion and failure

The criteria of the failure of the project and reasons as I experienced are,

A Functional Failure: A failed Project not serving the purpose it is intended for due to Substandard Materials and workmanship in water proofing materials of Residential building projects

Financial Failure Unduely escalated Final Caste of the project beyond the Standard deviation of 10% due to Unforseen foundation conditions due to insufficient site investigation data.

Executional Failure Failed project due to lop sided priorities in completion of  sub projects ,for instance completion of Sewerline package without even finalization of location for Sewage treatment Plant for town ship.

Operational FailureLocal resistance from political parties, delayed funds flow for the project

Miscellaneous Failures  Projects fail when do not take environmental factors into account.

The criteria of failure of projectrs as I experiencesd are

A functional Fail;ure Project not serving the purpose for which it is intended for.

A Financial failure of the project due to undue rise in price of materials like steel and cemnt or Delayed flow of funds resulting heavy claims from the contractors.

An Environmental failure Project failed when constructed in reclaimed lands notr taking the surface runoff  drainga into account.Lack of storm water drainage facility.

The success or failure of a project is directly proportional to sum total of will power of all those are part of the project team

The criteria of failure of projectrs as I experiencesd are

A functional Fail;ure Project not serving the purpose for which it is intended for.

A Financial failure of the project due to undue rise in price of materials like steel and cemnt or Delayed flow of funds resulting heavy claims from the contractors.

An Environmental failure Project failed when constructed in reclaimed lands notr taking the surface runoff  drainga into account.Lack of storm water drainage facility.

There must be proper and realistic planning & scheduling as per requirement of project. Each critical & important task must be precisely and clearly explained to the concerned persons so that they must realize the importance of each tasks/ activities.One must keep eye on project duration and asses the progress from time to time if it is necessary to reschedule the tasks ,it should be done accordingly without delaying the project. In execution care must be taken at critical points where the load is high or in other words more stressed zone must be handled with great care.Auditing during construction is must so tat one can rectify the things before delivery.

construction projects in India fails mainly because of improper planning. In majority of cases there are cost overruns and hence project does not become feasible.

Usually in any project estimated cash flow is disrupted due to mismanagement of men &  material required on site vis-a-vis the projected completion time of each activity, hence resulting in chaos and  failure of a project either in terms of cost, time or quality benchmarks. 

Beside all these factors one more Important reason I feel is Intentions of Starting and INvesting on some Projects...

Any system be it Mechanical, Electrical or Managerial needs energy. If that lacks failure is natural to occur.

BAD MANAGEMENT CERTAINLY INCLUDES ALL THE ATTRIBUTES MENTIONED EARLIER.  TIME ,COST ,QUALITY ARE THE MOST ESSENTIAL AND  OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE.MEETING  THE  REQUIREMENTS OF THE CLIENTS TO THEIR  ENTIRE SATISFACTION  IS THE KEYWORD. IN MY OPINION AND THRU MY EXPERIANCE,IF YOU ABLE TO ACHIEVE THESE  THE PROJECTS WOULD RARELY FAIL.

Any system be it Mechanical, Electrical or Managerial needs energy. If that lacks failure is natural to occur.

Usually everything is wrong with that tender document and agreement copy itself b/n client & contractor.

From the clients view, firstly they fix the deadline of the project without any manipulations of planned quantity or possible quantity per day.

Secondly, in majority the lowest bidder is awarded contract. Why not or who knows, the next highest bidder may be capable of doing work on time with plenty of resources.

Thirdly, the class of contractor. Today, contracts are being offered based on reference.

Lastly, the more the number of contractors in a particular project , more will be the issues and more will be the delays.

Clients have poor & slow decision making capacity. Getting clearances itself is taking years. Now the LATEST is LAND ISSUES.

The best Example is status of Incomplete thermal power plants in our country as on date.

Normally there is very lengthy procedure to take a minor decision in commercial and design terms, which should be taken immediately most of the times. The reason for the delay in the decisions is as so many agencies are involved from design development to the final execution of the activity.

 HELLO MEMBERS

CONSTRUCTS  PROJECTS  ARE  FRAILURE  WITH  MORE  REASONS  .THE  MAIN  PROBLEM  IS  BAD MANAGEMENT  AND INVOICE.

IT IS NOT THE EXTERNAL POLITICIANS ALONE,  HERE I MEANT THE " PROJECT GOVERNANCE"  the way the project is being handled by the top management and most of the projects for which the top management are non technical or in experienced but financial investors and their selfish or self centered clowns ( providing incorrect informations to investors for their own benefit) .  This distracts and misleads the top management and they wont to end up in actual management of the project, hence leave to their own reliable sources( clowns).  At the project the objective of the selfish clowns are achieved and not the projects.

Normally there is very lengthy procedure to take a minor decision in commercial and design terms, which should be taken immediately most of the times. The reason for the delay in the decisions is as so many agencies are involved from design development to the final execution of the activity.

There can be a lot of reasons behind a projects failure.It varies from one to another and the core issues are the Bad Management,poor coordination with internal and external dependencies and also poor decision makings.Lack of proactive thoughts also deepens the situation .

As far as I have seen or heard the construction Projject fail due to material defeciencies, but material is not the ecaat reason for a failure. Its the people who have failed. As most material problems are due to human errors involving lack of understanding of material. Which causes the build to collapse later on.

A lot of constuction projects fail to complete on time is due to change., Where in lot of dicessions are taken at adhoc which finaly results in poor planning, coordination, material managment.

Most significiant feature function in project failure are 1. Not properly invistagation of the infrastructural requirement about the project 2. geology invistagation report 3, planning of construction procedrual requirement as per technical adviser 4. Improper execuation progress and requirement of safty requirement.

According to me Construction Project Fails when the contractors bid lowest for the project. Bid lowest hear I mean bidding less than what is estimate (no profits) just to gain contract and make profit later on. Construction projects is to generate profit for the company with money. And failure is always linked to money.

Bad management & improper planing & delay in decisions causes to fail construction projects

Main reason is bad management, also depends on quality of workmanship and material used. the bad management  is clearly exposes the lack of coordination between depts. When the lack coordination between depts. the huge communication gap will develop and leads project failure.

I too agree with my fellow Engginers that the major cause of any construction site is the bad management,which includes poor planning or no planning at the top.Selecting right person for the right job does play a major role secondly.Support from the seniors & corporate office are another reasons which are responsible for the same.

The delay in so many clearances from Govt. and Semi Govt. agencies is a reson of delayed start of project which very difficult to over come the obstacles due to late start, like price raise with the time passed

Each & Every individual has got its own roles means has given Authority & Responsibilty in the same proportion. So, it is important to have a clear role & responsibilities of  each individual so that they can perform their role very well. 

labour lack basic education and therefore do not forsee the future consequences.

Many a time a project is whimiscally made with out carrying out proper study at conceptual stage. Hinderances could be well addressed if it could be foresighted during conceptual stage. Theory in most time followed while estimating cost, bottlenecks & road blocks which are gnerally far away from the real ground condition.

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As I think, poor management is only and only responsible for failure of project, here are the few example of poor management:

• Wrong selection of construction agency: Generally client is not adopting proper process in selection of construction agency. The main reason for this is old relation of contractor with high authorities.  In this case they never accessed contractor's capacity, condition of running project, financial position, technical soundness, strength of technical & supervisory staff, availability of labour, m/c, tools, shuttering  with contractor  etc. here, old relation is only criteria and cost & time factor is nil. Result; either project is failed or gone in loss due to hike of price.  Latest example:Poor condition of “commonwealth games related construction”.
• Project starts without getting permission from various government agencies.
• Project starts without capturing Architectural, Structural and service details.
• Improper prior planning, scheduling and monitoring.
• Insufficient fund flow.
• Frequent changes in drawings and in specifications.
• Communication gap between agencies involved in project.
• Decision not taken with in scheduled time

REMEMBER we all are part of management.

I agree what the above said is very true. In my view if there is proper coordination between the superiors, and peers as well as good communication then the chances of coming problem will be lowered and the unachievable target can be achieved.

i feel sometimes construction projects fail due to not having clarity in the scope of work, during the bidding stage. Hidden clauses like quality standards, site norms, safety standards, local regulations, are not analysed properly, which built up into a huge commercial value, during the course of project, and the builder has to bear the expenditures after entering into the contract. as a result, he tries to pull back, taking short cuts, saving on resources, manpower etc., finally delaying the project, and ultimately the project fails.

It is essential to have clear vision, its objective and deliverables while starting a project. Understanding the project by management and communicating down the line, step by step measurable execution plan with correct assessment of resources required,risks involved with systems to overcome the percieved risks. Assessment, understanding, evaluation and slecting the correct stake holders(Suppliers, contractors, Financer etc;), monitoring progress, quality, saftey and payment in time is important. My experience is that if there is a comttiment and active involvement by the management projects achieve the desired objectives. 

Its mostly due to wrong bidding and assess the the proper cost of execution in amarket situation when prices are varying almost everyday.Apart from that poor co ordination between Contractor Consultant and Client in all Indian projects causing failure.

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Besides Lack of experience in Study of drawing, Bad Management, Lack of Cash flow, Lackof proper planing the self interst in the Project may take place very important role.

Placement of improper officials / supervising authorities at senior level is like a misfit brick in wall which effects overall construction procedure. it is basically a side effect of todays huge demand in Civil Construction projects. Due to increasing need of various types of infrastructural structures to meet pace of economic development, various types of specialised Civil Engineers are required. Instead of understanding various types of specialised experieance requirement for the construction project, the mentality of 'ANY CIVIL ENGINEER CAN DO ANY TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION" is leading towards a peculier type of failure. This is mainly because the person deputed for the work is unaware of requirements at every stage and hence is not able to visualise actual requirement in all aspects of construction which includes planning (of manpower, machinary and material), construction phasing, quality deliverals, procurement scheduling, cash flow etc. etc. etc.. It is also observed that a inexperienced senior official always fear to take decision in a notion that it might be wrong and for all the wrong hapennings he crucifies subordinates. This increases a particular resentment in subordinate staff which ultimatly affects the progress and quality.

At the end, it can be said that placement of right candidate at senior level may reduce many of the execution problem and hence reducing major chances of project failure.