RESEARCH ARTICLE
Assessment of Contractors’ Claims on Construction Projects in Vietnam
Dinh Tuan Hai1, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2019Volume: 13
First Page: 218
Last Page: 228
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-13-218
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501913010218
Article History:
Received Date: 28/06/2019Revision Received Date: 28/10/2019
Acceptance Date: 11/11/2019
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Claims have increasingly become inevitable in construction projects. A great amount of money, time, and merit of claims are the most critical factors that prudent companies should not overlook.
Objective:
The objective of the study is to survey claim practices in the Vietnamese construction industry by collecting data from both contractors and consultants.
Material and Methods:
This paper presents findings that the lack of awareness of the on-site people is the major problem of claims management. Moreover, the inadequacy of supporting evidence, originating from the unawareness of personnel as well as improper documentation system, is also a serious problem causing the loss of chances to recover incurred damages.
Conclusion:
To overcome these problems, it is recommended that the management should pay more attention to these aspects in order to have effective claim management, by which unnecessary losses could substantially be reduced and deserving compensation would be recovered.