Analysis of Time and Cost overruns in Educational Building projects in Egypt

Educational building projects are considered as one of the most important construction projects in Egypt. It is well known that most construction projects in Egypt exposed to time and cost overrun or both. This phenomenon may affect the progress of educational building projects in Egypt. The aim of this research is to find out the main causes of time and cost overruns in educational buildings in Egypt, ranking these causes according to their relative importance and level of severity and investigate the expected effects of these factors on both cost and time overruns of a selected sample of the educational building projects in Egypt. Finally a multiple regression model was developed for both time and cost overruns using SPSS version 16.