PPMP20015: Critical Review Report on Delayed Payments in Melbourne

This report presents a critical review of the impact of delayed payments on high-rise construction projects in Melbourne, Australia. The report begins with an executive summary highlighting the importance of timely payments to contractors and subcontractors for project success. It then proposes a research topic focusing on the effects of payment delays in this context. The core of the report analyzes a scholarly article, providing an annotation that covers the introduction, aims, research questions, methodology, scope, usefulness, limitations, and conclusions. The report also evaluates the credibility of the article and explains how it was located. Furthermore, it includes summaries and evaluations of two additional relevant articles cited within the primary article. The analysis identifies research gaps and reflects on the learning experience, emphasizing the significance of proactive project budget planning and unified payment policies to mitigate payment-related risks. A Turnitin similarity report is also attached.

Assessment 1A: Critical Review Report
Executive summary of the report:
A construction project can only be called a successful one if all the project constraints and targets are
achieved according to the schedule and followed by the baseline to the core. Meeting the targets also
include providing the employees or the team members of the project being paid on time along with all
the contractors and subcontractors. The delay in a construction project of high rise buildings
especially in Melbourne cannot be regarded as complete when these aspects are not met. The delay in
payment food also is regarded as the delay in the project closure.
Proposed research topic
Examining the impact of delayed payments in the context of high rise buildings in Melbourne
Summary of the main identified scholarly article relevant to the topic:
[1] Article citation
Okeyo, M.P., Rambo, C.M. and Odundo, P.A., 2015. Effects of delayed payment of contractors on
the completion of infrastructural projects: a case of Sondu-Miriu Hydropower project, Kisumu
County, Kenya. Chinese Business Review, 14(7), pp.325-336.
A. Provide the annotation
[2] Introduction
Even if the high rise buildings is an ambitious project, open in some cases it is found that the project
is delayed enough due to do various factors like delay in payment. These factors do not only to the
agitations of the people involved with the construction project, but also delete the project for a long
time. This report the signed out what is the reason for which construction projects are always facing
delays in payment systems.
[3] Aims, research questions & Research Methods
Aims: The aim of the research is to find out the reason and effect on the project behind the delayed
payments in high rise construction projects.
Research Questions: The Research Question that the project research paper has formulated is as
follows:
 How will the delay in project payment be resolved so that high rise buildings can be
completed within the planned time?
Methodology: The methodology that the paper adopts is a casual comparative design that permits the
application of the data collection process to be conducted in a quantitative way for processing and
analysis of the collected data.
[4] Scope
The scope of the project is to find out a solution to the problem that high rise buildings of face with
the delay in payments for the contractors, subcontractors and project team members. This should
make sure that the highest building projects would be completed within the estimated time.
[5] Usefulness [to a particular topic]
The usefulness of this particular topic is that a reader for an analyst going through this research paper

would be easily introduced to the project constraints that high rise building projects might face due to
delay in payments and they would have the proper solution to this problem through this research
paper.
[6] Limitations
The limitation of the study was that there was only focus on a particular zone of construction. The
entire research project paper only focused on the high rise buildings. It did not facilitate any other
construction projects. Therefore the people would only e provide advantages to the people who are
most likely to be focusing on the issues regarding delay in payment for construction projects like high
rise buildings.
[7] Conclusions
As per the conclusion it can be stated that the payment of the contractors in time is crucial and it
ensures that the continuity of the project and project work is moving smoothly towards completion
keeping in mind about the time of the project, the quality specifications and the specified budget.
Payment of the constructors are most likely to prevent the overruns of time and cost which would
have a significant ripples effect on the project.
[8] Reflection
While going through the entire research paper I faced lot of hidden information that was not available
to me at every point of time that I have been researching about the effect of payment delays in
construction projects. With the study of this particular research paper I understood how the payment
it delay affects workers who have been working for the projects like high rise buildings especially in
Melbourne. Melbourne is comparatively of costly than other cities.
B. Evaluate the credibility of the article
The journal is found to have genuine peer review.
The journal has index in scientific database and it is characterized by the business review in which
has been included in. The database can be found in Chinese Business Review, July 2015, Vol. 14,
No. 7, 325-336.
There is also an international ranking of the journal as given by the doi of the article which is
10.17265/1537-1506/2015.07.001
The journal does not require a payment from the authors and it is easily accessible from any internet
source.
The reputation of the editorial board of the journal is credible as it is produced by a David Publishing
House.
C. Explain how did you locate and download the article
I have located in download the article from internet resources using the keyword combination and use
the search engine provided by Google.
Summary of a relevant article cited by the main article
Article citation:
Al-Momani, A.H., 2000. Construction delay: a quantitative analysis. International journal of project
management, 18(1), pp.51-59.
A. Evaluate the credibility of the article
The article is credible enough since this is a published book that has been coated by the article that
was being reviewed.
B. Explain how did you locate the article

The locating of the article has been extremely easy as this was included in the reference list of the
article under review. Article reference has been taken and put under search via Internet.
C. Provide the brief annotation
This specific annotation aims to find out the effect of delays and find out the causes of this dealers
and their effect in the construction industry.
The methodology used in this particular annotation is by a quantitative survey research to collect,
analyse and find out the result from the collected data.
The limitation of this particular annotation was the problem in data collection methods where people
who volunteer to participate in the survey did not provide all the information that have been planned
to be procured from them.
In conclusion the annotation find out the effect by which construction industry faces problems with
delay in the entire world and how it affects the architects, engineers and contractors.
This is relevant to the actual topic that is being reviewed, which is the delay in payment for high rise
buildings as it also is related to the construction industry.
Summary of a relevant article citing the main article
Article citation
Kazaz, A., Ulubeyli, S. and Tuncbilekli, N.A., 2012. Causes of delays in construction projects in
Turkey. Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 18(3), pp.426-435.
A. Evaluate the credibility of the article
The article is credible enough since it is peer reviewed journal published Springer Link.
B. Explain how did you locate the article
The article is located via forward technique of locating in article from another journal source.
Through this the link that was found had been searched via Google. Therefore the article was located.
C. Provide the brief annotation
The aim of this particular article was to find out the common problems that the delay in construction
projects face commonly and what makes this a costly problem.
The Methodology was a primary data collection through preliminary interviews and questionnaire of
110 responses were taken from the combination of people including the clients, bankers, consultants
and contractors.
The results revealed that there was a poor class cash flow management in these construction projects
that was followed by lead payment and insufficient financial resources making the financial market
unstable for construction projects.
In conclusion it is said that the importance of having much more intensive research for finding out the
effect of delay in construction project by making them a costly problem in the construction industry
can only be made if there was a proper planning going through the entire project.
A preliminary research gap or statement of the research problem
They were only the problems identified and the problems were listed accordingly. There was no
solution to the problems provided.
A screenshot of Turnitin similarity report:

A critical reflection of your learning experience
The learning experience has been very effective to record my experiences, feelings and reactions
during the learning experiences that I have gone through in the past 4 weeks. I have been going
through several papers that have presented ideas about the effect of planning and establishing a plant
project to move further with. However there are very few papers presented on how delay in payment
can affect the construction projects as well. Moreover, this paper relates to ambitious projects like
high rise buildings. This kind of projects associate numerous people as project managers, project
directors, stakeholders and team members who worked for the project. This list also includes a
contractor and subcontractor who supply materials to the organisation for proceeding with the
seamless advancement of the project. The paper clearly describes and makes me realise that delay in
payment is one of the major risks that people do not foresee while planning a project. I believe that in
this contacts I should add this fact that I have learnt from the paper review, which is the pre planning
of the project budget and payment process. I believe that when a person is planning the project budget
they should also plan when and how they should be paying the people involved with the project, the
contractor and subcontractor. Other than that I also believe through this paper review that there
should be a unified policy stated for all the three aspects of payment and they should be we shared
with the employees working for the project, the contractor and subcontractor. If both the parties agree
only then I believe that the project should be preceded with so that all the parties are clear about how
the payment would be done and in which way. I believe that it is also the responsibility of the project
directors and the project managers that the documentation of the policy is maintained and every point
mentioned in the policy is effectively profound.