Comparative Analysis of FDS in Real Estate Projects

The construction sector is riddled with project delays due to a variety of reasons. Both researchers and industrialists are working towards finding solutions and approaches to reduce such delays. The Lean construction approach is being increasingly considered a promising approach to prevent materials, effort, and time waste in the construction sector. Action-based Foreman Delay Survey is a holistic approach to finding the root cause of delays in construction and proposing solutions to overcome them. This paper reports the results of an action-based Foreman Delay Survey that was conducted on four real estate projects in the state of Gujarat in India. The survey showed the causes of two types of delays—supportive and recoverable delays. In this paper, these causes are analysed and solutions are proposed to help eliminate or minimize such delays in large construction projects.