Essays about: "construction risk management practices"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words construction risk management practices.

  1. 1. Beyond the Terrorist Label : How Five Palestinian CSOs Experience and Resist Terrorist Allegations

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Alma Michold; [2024]
    Keywords : Palestine; Shrinking civic space; Terrorist designation; Resistance; Ontological counter-securitization;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the terrorist designation issued by Israel against six Palestinian civil society organizations in 2021. The organizations are based in the West Bank and remain designated as terrorist organizations according to Israeli law, despite rejections and condemnations by the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), and the United States (US). READ MORE

  3. 2. The Implementation of the New Engineering Contract in Australia : An Institutional Perspective

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Dannie O’Brien; [2022]
    Keywords : Institutional Theory; New Engineering Contract; Risk allocation; Collaboration; Standard Form Contracts; Instititutionell teori; New Engineering Contract; samarbete; riskfördelning; standardkontrakt;

    Abstract : Current traditional delivery models used in the Australian construction industry are seen as highly bespoke and adversarial where there is an inappropriate contractual risk allocation, lack of collaboration and poor project management. With the pipeline of investment compounded with the impact that global macroeconomic trends and events (e.g. READ MORE

  4. 3. Managing Novel Risks in Construction Projects : A Zimbabwean Construction Industry Case Study of Risk Management during the Covid-19 Pandemic

    University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

    Author : Linda Mupedza; [2022]
    Keywords : Covid-19; Coronavirus Pandemic; Construction Project Risks; Construction Project Risk Management; Novel Risks; Covid-19; Coronavirus Pandemi; Byggprojektriker; Riskhantering i byggprojekt; Unika Risker;

    Abstract : Risk management is quite a broad and essential part of project management in construction projects. Often, risk management focuses on perceived risks that can easily be predicted and managed. However, little attention is given to novel risks or risks that are not possible to predict and are unforeseen. READ MORE

  5. 4. Improving planning and design practices in (re)construction : - Avenues to enhance users’ work environment

    University essay from KTH/Ergonomi

    Author : Johanna Morin; [2022]
    Keywords : Physical ergonomics; Project process; Construction work;

    Abstract : Understanding a well-functioning work environment during project processes is complex and continuous due to the dynamic risk management and physical er-gonomics. This thesis presents a study on (re)construction projects within a Swedish context from a project managers perspective in projects. READ MORE

  6. 5. Leverage Points in O&G Deepwater Well Construction Improving the company man´s workplace by interventions at the systems level

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Victor Nazareth; [2022]
    Keywords : Deepwater; Expertise; Human Factors; Leverage Points; Oil Gas; Operational Excellence; System Effects; Well Construction; FLMU06; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The oil and gas industry is an activity that simultaneously resembles formula one and space missions. By the formula one´s side, it operates close to technological limits. And by the space missions’ side, several experimental or semi-experimental technologies are broadly used. O&G industry is indeed a high-risk socio-technical system. READ MORE