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Corresponding Author

Marwa Mohamed Ahmed

ORCID

author 4 :0000-0002-8134-2795 - author 3 :0000-0001-9842-3885

Subject Area

Architectural Engineering

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

Due to the unique nature of the construction industry and the various factors affecting its performance, construction projects are rarely end up without changes or modifications to the work of the original contract, especially during the implementation phase. Despite the positive effects of change orders in terms of responding to emerging client requirements. Meeting user needs, coping with regulatory changes. Exploiting business opportunities, adapting to technology improvement, adding more values, and managing associated risks, they have negative effects on increasing the project cost and delay the estimated duration. This problem could be attributed to the lack of a sound strategy to overcome the disputes arising from change orders in particular during the implementation phase, which may lead to project failure. Accordingly, this research aims to investigate the current status of managing change orders during the construction phase of government projects in Egypt. To achieve this aim, a research methodology is designed to achieve two objectives. Firstly, literature review is used to build a comprehensive background about change orders in construction. Secondly, a survey questionnaire is designed and implemented to determine the methods used in the real practice to manage change orders and their limitations. Data analysis revealed that the current determinants of managing change orders in Egypt are inadequate and cause a lot of conflicts and disputes up to 67% of the cases, and burden the contractor up to 83% of the risk of change orders, this highlighted the need to reconsider the current determinants to reduce the extent of disputes between the parties of the contract. The research concludes that the management of change orders in Egypt needs a sound strategy to minimize disputes, conflicts, and damage to any of the parties of the contract

Keywords

Construction Project Management, Change Orders, Contract Types, Change Orders Management

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