In a real estate project, even if numerous considerations are made to achieve financial, operational, and consequently success, there are many factors that alter planning and that mainly impact the completion of the project, causing measurable losses, such as failure to comply with Budget, and others difficult to measure, such as the breakdown of the company's prestige in the market. The objective of this work is to measure the cost of the delay of the works to the one who undertakes, based on what economic
science characterizes and denominates the opportunity cost, which, applied in this work, will have as a metric the sum of five components/costs: 1) maintenance of the construction site; 2) maintenance of head office; 3) readjustment of the value of the supplys; 4) delayed receipt of funds related to the value of property financing amount; and 5) the detrimental of the company's image, some of which are not measured or even perceived by the entrepreneur, who could avoid them or minimize them if their works are delivered within the scheduled deadlines. Data were collected from thirty (30) works of a large construction company in the city of Belém-PA, which identified a modal delay of almost 22 months. The opportunity cost of the delay in the present study reached a total value of R$ 20,732,963.98, or a basic unit cost of opportunity of R$ 44.68/m² of real global area, that is, the delay, In this case study, corresponds to almost 5% of the cost of construction, proving to be an important and significant
component, and should be considered when feasibility studies of real estate projects and management/management of works.
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