...Olaniyi Isaac Aje; Oluwole Alfred Olatunji; Olanrewaju Augustine Olalusi Purpose Evidence suggests project owners could use advance payments to prevent cost escalations. The purpose of this paper is to elicit the relationships between causations of overruns when advance payments are issued...

...Zayyana Shehu; Gary D. Holt; Intan R Endut; Akintola Akintoye Purpose – Construction projects within Malaysia are plagued by time overruns that can transform what should have been successful projects, into those incurring additional costs, disagreements, litigation and in some cases abandonment...

...Young‐Ill Park; Theopisti C. Papadopoulou Purpose One of the world's largest construction markets is in Asia where construction activity is boosted by investment on transport infrastructure. This paper aims to identify and analyse causes of cost overruns in transport infrastructure projects...