Analytical Study of Risk affecting time, cost and quality of road construction project in Iraq

Abstract

This paper aims to identify and assess the risk factors that affect the primary elements, time, cost and quality, in the roadway construction project in Iraq. The paper uses the quantitative approach, in the form of questionnaire, in order to achieve the objectives of the study. Detecting such risk factors that lead to delay, increase of cost and bad quality may help taking early actions in order to address these factors that ensure the mitigation of their effects and the success of the project as much as possible. The researcher examined a number of risk factors affecting the roadway construction projects in Iraq, some of them have significant impact on time, cost and quality of such projects, including the financial corruption, security situation and lack of engineering control in such projects.