Guidelines for effective Variation Order determination strategy

Variation order means all changes to the job, which are ordered or approved as a change. The existence of variation order problems in the field that impact on the achievement of project targets and the company's profit target in the project comes from aspects of construction, administrative aspects, aspects of resources. From some cases projects have occurred with regard to variation orders causing increased cost of contract value (cost overruns). Questionnaire survey method is used to achieve the purpose of this research that is to identify and anticipate the cause of variation order which affect the cost in the project. The results show that the cause of variation orders on the project leads to increased costs based on aspects of construction, administration and resources. From these results can be avoided from the negative impact of variation order is the increase of cost.