1st Edition

Risk Management in Engineering and Construction Tools and Techniques

Edited By Stephen Ogunlana, Prasanta Kumar Dey Copyright 2020
476 Pages
by Routledge

474 Pages
by Routledge

474 Pages
by Routledge

Today’s businesses are driven by customer ‘pull’ and technological ‘push’. To remain competitive in this dynamic business world, engineering and construction organizations are constantly innovating with new technology tools and techniques to improve process performance in their projects. Their management challenge is to save time, reduce cost and increase quality and operational efficiency. Risk... Read more

1. The Risk Management Process  2. Tools and Techniques for Risk Identification  3. Risk Analysis: Tools and Techniques  4. Financial Risk  5. Risk responses  6. Risk management practices in industry  7. Human aspects of risk management

Biography

Stephen O. Ogunlana is currently the Chair of Construction Project Management at the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. He has an international reputation for research in the application of system dynamics to construction projects and organizations. He is the author of over 200 scholarly publications in journals and conferences. His research has been funded by several governments. His works on leadership were awarded Emerald Literati Award for two consecutive years for the most outstanding paper in the Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management journal. He has a continuing interest in technology innovation for project management and in public-private partnerships for infrastructure delivery.



Prasanta Kumar Dey is a Professor of Operations Management at Aston Business School. He has been honoured as 50th Anniversary Chair of Aston University in 2017. Prior to joining Aston University in 2004, he worked for five years at the University of the West Indies in Barbados and for 14 years at Indian Oil Corporation Limited. He specializes in supply chain management and project management, and circular economy. He has published more than 150 research papers in leading international refereed journals. He has accomplished several impactful interdisciplinary research projects on a sustainable supply chain of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which were funded by leading bodies such as the Research Council UK, British Council, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, EU Horizon 2020 and ERDF. He is the founder editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Energy Sector Management.