Risk Management In Construction Case Study

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Chapter 3
3. METHODOLOGY
3.1 3.1 Introduction
Nowadays, some construction companies in Iran are starting to become aware of the RMP, but are still not using models and techniques for managing risks. Due to the fact that the construction industry is trying to be more cost and time efficient as well as have more control over other objectives of the projects, risk management should be associated to any project. In this research risk management process for steel structure buildings in Iranian construction projects was investigated due to its more popular and has so much advantages. Risk management would be studied in five stages including earth work, reinforcement, formwork, concrete work and steel structure to develop the accomplishment of risk management through the appropriate method.
3.2 3.2 Research Method
Risk identification often produces nothing more than a long list of risks, which can be hard to manage. The list can be prioritized to determine which risks should be addressed first, but this does not provide any insight into the structure of risks on the project (Hillson, 2002). The best way to deal with a large amount of data is to structure the information to aid understanding. It can be based on the Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) which groups identified risk events into different levels following a bottom-up approach.
A risk RBS can be defined as “A source-oriented grouping of risks that organizes and defines the total risk exposure of the project” (Hillson, 2003). The method adopts a full hierarchical structure, where each level increasingly shows more details about the risk source.
Many project teams mistakenly believe that risk management is only a high-level evaluation of the risks of the project. Instead, risk manag...

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...with a high risk exposure (high-risk) which will be located in dark gray area with the largest numbers in the probability and impact matrix should definitely move into the plan risk responses process. Moreover moderate risks which will be located in the light gray area with in-between numbers, require management control and to be paid attention and might decide to move into the plan risk responses process. Finally, low-risk will be displayed in the medium gray color with the smallest numbers are risks that can be accepted without further investigation or response and simply document.
This research will be considered risk responses only for risk with high exposure (high risk) on project objectives (time, cost, quality and health and safety).
Next chapter will present data collection and analysis and explains how the chosen methodology was adopted to this research.

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