Kebede Sintayehu D, Zhang Tiewei
Heilongjiang University, People's Republic of China.
Heliyon. 2020 Oct 14;6(10):e05126. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05126. eCollection 2020 Oct.
Construction time overrun is one of the common inefficiencies of public construction projects in Ethiopia. Laws and standard construction contracts stipulate different legal remedies against project time overrun. This paper is meant to unravel these legal remedies and their application to construction project time overrun in public construction projects in Ethiopia. To this end, the magnitude of time overrun, its common causes, and the practical implementation of legal remedies against it is exposed through literature review, primary data obtained from 18 roads and 10 public building projects, and interviews of 10 key informants. The result showed, although time is not the essence of construction contract in international standard conditions of contracts, it is a fundamental obligation the breach of which would give rise to termination of the contract under the laws and standard conditions of contracts applicable to public works in Ethiopia. However, the paper established that the practical implantation of these legal remedies against time overrun in public construction projects is very erratic although time overrun is a rampant challenge of the construction industry of the country in general and public construction projects in particular.
工期延误是埃塞俄比亚公共建设项目常见的低效问题之一。法律和标准建设合同规定了针对项目工期延误的不同法律补救措施。本文旨在揭示这些法律补救措施及其在埃塞俄比亚公共建设项目中对建设项目工期延误的适用情况。为此，通过文献综述、从18个道路项目和10个公共建筑项目获得的原始数据以及对10名关键信息提供者的访谈，揭示了工期延误的程度、其常见原因以及针对工期延误的法律补救措施的实际执行情况。结果表明，尽管在国际标准合同条件下时间并非建设合同的实质内容，但根据适用于埃塞俄比亚公共工程的法律和标准合同条件，时间是一项基本义务，违反该义务将导致合同终止。然而，本文确定，尽管工期延误总体上是该国建筑业尤其是公共建设项目面临的一个普遍挑战，但这些针对公共建设项目工期延误的法律补救措施的实际实施非常不稳定。
