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Risk Management for Design and Construction

ISBN: 978-0-470-63538-4
Hardcover
288 pages
June 2011
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PREFACE xi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix

CHAPTER 1: WHY AND WHAT IS RISK MANAGEMENT? 1

Introduction 1

What Is an Estimate? 3

What Is Uncertainty? 4

What Is Risk? 4

What Is Risk Management? 4

Why Risk Management? 5

The Limitations of Risk Management 6

Objective of This Book 8

CHAPTER 2: PROJECT COST AND SCHEDULE ESTIMATES 11

Introduction 11

Cost Estimating Methodology 14

Cost Estimating Process 14

Cost Estimating Data 18

Cost Estimating and Project Development Level 18

Estimate Documentation 24

Basis of Estimate 24

Conclusion 25

CHAPTER 3: THE RISK-BASED ESTIMATE 27

RBE—The Process 27

Risk-Based Estimate—How It Works 42

Base Cost and Schedule 43

Risks as Events 63

The Micro-Project 87

Eastside Corridor Program 90

RBE and Estimate Accuracy 100

Conclusions 105

CHAPTER 4: RISK ELICITATION 109

Importance of Elicitation for Project Risk Management 109

Elicitation and Biases 111

Risk and Base Variability 121

Risk Conditionality 124

Summary 146

CHAPTER 5: RISK MANAGEMENT 149

Introduction 149

Risk Response Planning 153

Value Engineering and Risk Management 157

Risk Monitoring and Control 164

Summary 168

CHAPTER 6: RISK-BASED ESTIMATE SELF-MODELING SPREADSHEET 169

Overview 169

Model Accuracy 172

RBES—Cost and Schedule Data Input and Output 174

Risk Conditionality and RBES 183

Model Outputs 198

Risk Management 200

Critical Issues 207

Tutorials/Case Studies 208

Summary 229

CHAPTER 7: RISK-BASED ESTIMATE WORKSHOP 231

Introduction 231

Preworkshop Activities 234

Conditioning Workshop Par ticipants 236

Workshop Objectives 237

Risk Identification Process 237

Postworkshop Activities 244

Everyone Has Duties 245

Helpful Hints 249

Sample Questions to Ask 249

INDEX 253