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Abstract
¬A combination of questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews has been used toprovide useful information on issues surrounding project control in practice in theEgypt. Issues such as the degree of application of project controls, the most commonlyused cost control techniques, supporting software packages, frequency ofcost overrun, the leading inhibiting factors to effective cost control, the reasons for this and measures that can be used for their mitigation werebrought to light. The top six factors inhibiting cost control in construction practice in theEgypt was revealed as change orders , change in the design and error in the design ; current economic situation deterioration; delay projects and rising prices of materials . Design change is the single most important factor considered by practitioners ashindering the ability to control not only time of construction projects but also cost.
Following the identification of the inhibitingfactors, 15 mitigating measures are established to address potential problems causedby the top six inhibiting factors. The measures can be broadly classified aspreventive, predictive, corrective and organisational measures. These measures areby no means exhaustive as there will obviously be numerous practices out there thathave not made the list. It is also worth noting that the measures may seem obvious tothe experienced practitioner but will be useful to the less experienced and peoplenew to the project management profession. The study should be viewed as the firsteffort of developing solutions for mitigating leading cost and time control inhibiting factors. Clearly, further development is needed to cover more inhibiting factors beyond the top six. In addition, the effectiveness of these mitigating measures during the project control process needs to be investigated in future research.