Abstract
The construction industry is notorious for project failure, which could be attributed to a multitude of reasons, which includes costs and time overrun. The generalized construction term for time overrun is referred to as delay. Delays in construction projects are caused by various aspects of project management and this research aims to determine the causes of de-lays in the South African construction industry, fo-cused around the constructions of Eskom capacity expansion projects. The motivation for conducting this study is to improve the knowledge of project man-agers and the project management society about the delays identified in the South African construction pro-jects. Top 20 common causes of delays were derived from the 38 delays found in the literature. The highest top 5 rated causes of delays were selected for discus-sion. The Project Management Body of knowledge ac-tivities were studied and selected with the aim of man-aging or resolving the identified delay causes.