The wish and need of possess a fix dwelling are recurrent on Brazilian families. That require a planning with sacrifices for the family's, the same that should be seriously impacted by the recurring delays on delivery of housing units. The objective is measure monetarily the prejudice or damages adopting opportunity cost to value measure. Two parameters were considered, divided into 3 factors: The first
parameter consists of two factors: 1) a physical disease due to the sum of frustrations(psychological disease) named effectiveness cost, 2)The living cost on overtime of property delivery contract to the client wich in theory will have to support two residencies. The second parameter correspond to legal costs that covers the cost of court proceedings and attorney fee cost. Three scenarios were built. : 1 °)
there is no psychological harm, or will not be considered, there being no cost effectiveness, 2 °) damage restricted to one family member and 3 °) psychological damage throughout all the family. In a case study involving a single major construction company, conducted in another well-established research, found that the delay is on average 55.4 months. Being science fragmented in several areas of
knowledge, which often do not interact with each other, multidisciplinarity was essential to achieve the proposed objective. It can be concluded that the opportunity cost ranges from R $ 76,371.69 to R $ 383,661.37 in absolute values, ranging from 16.30% to 70.16% of the apartments market value, depending on the scenario.
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