Learning from risks: A tool for post-project risk assessment

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2008-12-01

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Dikmen Toker, İrem
Birgönül, Mustafa Talat
Aouad, G.

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Risk management (RM) comprises of risk identification, risk analysis, response planning, monitoring and action planning tasks that are carried out throughout the life cycle of a project in order to ensure that project objectives are met. Although the methodological aspects of RM are well-defined, the philosophical background is rather vague. In this paper, a learning-based approach is proposed. In order to implement this approach in practice, a tool has been developed to facilitate construction of a lessons learned database that contains risk-related information and risk assessment throughout the life cycle of a project. The tool is tested on a real construction project. The case study findings demonstrate that it can be used for storing as well as updating risk-related information and finally, carrying out a post-project appraisal. The major weaknesses of the tool are identified as, subjectivity of the risk rating process and unwillingness of people to enter information about reasons of failure.

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Lessons learned, Vulnerability, Risk management, Post-project appraisal

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43885

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AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2008.04.008

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Department of Civil Engineering, Article

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İ. Dikmen Toker, M. T. Birgönül, and G. Aouad, “Learning from risks: A tool for post-project risk assessment,” AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION, pp. 42–50, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43885.