The crisis in construction industry are deemed a
negative event in the security, economic, political, materials, or
natural affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or
no warning; and it has always caused damage, therefore crisis
management is necessary to order not turn crisis into a disaster.
The present study focuses on exploring the impact of the crisis in
construction projects by offering a review of the literature to
identify the various associated crisis and made a case study of
‟Khuzestan province (Iran). First, through a questionnaire survey
with construction experts as respondents, the initial list of 222
sub-factors were confined to a list of 174 essential crisis sub
factors and were grouped under 20 main crisis factors. Second,
the shortlisted 174 essential crisis sub factors conduct a
questionnaire-based survey with top experts from ‟Khuzestan
province (Iran) construction organization as respondents to
obtain the Importance of each sub factors based on the rating of
its impact the second list and using CRITIC method to weighting
crisis factors. Third, ranking the influential sub crisis factors
from the all sub factor list and provide a single list without
considering the initial list crisis through WASPAS model. Finally,
The result of the crisis effects rating, seen that the most crisis
effects rating in the Khuzestan construction industry is the
economic crisis, followed by the market and real estate, and then
insurance, maintenance, after that respectively, logistics, and
materials crises. Identify the crisis is the main part of crisis
management; the obtained results help construction crisis
managers and all stakeholders to achieve sustainable
development in construction projects. Identifying and prioritizing
construction-specific crises allow sustainable crisis managers to
concentrate to be successful projects.
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