A Review on Causes and Impact of Rework on Residential Construction Project

Time and cost are very important factor for successful and profitable construction project. Any construction project becomes success when it is finished within estimated cost and Time. Schedule and cost overrun are becoming a headache for owner as well as the other parties involved the project. The major contributor for schedule and cost overrun is rework. Rework has negative impact on the quality of work and on the parties involved in the construction project. Construction projects are divided into various stages and these stages includes various task due to this the project becomes complex in nature. Errors, omissions, defects etc. are clearly going to happen when complexity is involved. Rework is a result of these error, omission and changes. Project’s cost, time and productivity gets affected negatively when rework is involved in the project. Supervision plays vital role in reducing on field rework. Whenever rework occurs a proper documentation about the rework should be prepared and stored so that in future same rework can be avoided. Study on rework shows that the rework cost may increase to 10% of project cost. So rework cannot be ignored in a construction project. Performance of project gets adversely affected by the added cost and tight schedule due to rework.