Selection of Appropriate Schedule Delay Analysis Method: Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Delay is one of the most common problem in construction industry. Many projects experience extensive delays and thereby exceed initial time and cost estimates. When a project completion date is delayed, causing cost increases or other damages, one or more of the parties may seek compensation by submitting a "claim" for these occurrences. The equitable allocation of responsibility for project delays becomes essential to the resolution of many construction disputes and claims. Analysis of schedule delay is carried to find out what happened in the project, when and how did delay event impact schedule and who caused the event. The impact, timing and the contributing effect of each of those causes to the overall delay should assist in helping the parties settle the delay without litigation. For this, there are different methods available for schedule delay analysis and selecting the appropriate one is the concern of all parties. In this paper, five commonly used schedule delay analysis methods in the construction industry are taken and the appropriate one is being tried to select by using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). All the data are assumed one and the highest number in the ranking is appropriate method