Abstract

Cost mangement of highway projects just as important as the other elements. This research involves on investigation the cost management status of the highway construction projects in Iraq. Survey includes investigate and evaluation the reality of cost planning and control and determine the causes of construction cost deviation. Causes of cost deviation has been investigated and collected by conducting the personal interviews and questionnaire with the sites engineers and by reviewing the previous literature. Questionnaire form was designed by following a simple method, because the questionnaire as an important source of acquiring field information and data. Iraqi Road and Bridge Directorate was selected as a sample study. It is worth to mention, that the statistical analysis has been conducted by using the SPSS program (version 20). Cost deviation reasons had classified into three groups by the researchers, which they planning reasons, designing reasons, execution reasons. Planning reasons classification had take a relative importance equal to 2.7, designing reasons classification had take a relative importance equal to 3 and execution reasons classification had take a relative importance equal to 2.45 according to this study.

Keywords:

Cost control, cost estimation, cost overrun , cost planning,

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