ANALYSIS OF MAJOR RISKS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

1 VOL. 11, NO. 11, JUNE 2016 ISSN 1819-6608. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 2006-2016 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN). All rights reserved. ANALYSIS OF MAJOR RISKS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS . K. Jayasudha and B. Vidivelli Department of Civil and Structural Engineering Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India E-Mail: ABSTRACT. Risk management is thus in direct relation to the successful project completion. Project management literature describes a detailed and widely accepted risk management process, which is constructed basically from four iterative phases: risk identification, risk estimation, risk response planning and execution, often managing the risk management process is included. CONSTRUCTION project planning is an essential element in the management and execution of CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS which involves the definition of work tasks and their interactions, as well as the assessment of required resources and expected activity durations.

2 The study, therefore, examined the awareness of professionals in CONSTRUCTION industry of the various types of planning techniques and tools used on CONSTRUCTION sites, Questionnaires were administered on selected building professionals (Project Managers, Engineers, Architects), and Contractors and Sub-contractors directly involved in CONSTRUCTION work on sites in planning and the use of planning tools and techniques as MAJOR tools for successful project execution. The data obtained were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientist for Windows (SPSS), and the results were presented by the use of statistical tools such as frequency tables and pie charts. The study shows that there is low awareness on the functional use of CONSTRUCTION planning tools and techniques, and recommended that the use of the CONSTRUCTION planning tools and techniques should be applied in all building PROJECTS and there should be regular adequate training of professionals on the effectiveness and improvement in Information Technology in the CONSTRUCTION industry especially in project planning and execution.

3 Keywords: risk management, questionnaire, SPSS. 1. INTRODUCTION the performance of a project (wiguna and scott, 2005). CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS are initiated in complex and Risk is exposure to the consequences of uncertainty. As a dynamic environments resulting in circumstances of high result, subjective analytical methods that rely on historical uncertainty and risk, which are compounded by information and the experiences of individuals and demanding time constraints. CONSTRUCTION industry has companies have been used to assess the impact of changed significantly over the past several years. It is an CONSTRUCTION risk and uncertainty. Therefore, Risk industry driven primarily by private investors; the assessment is a technique that aims to identify and presence of securitized real estate has increased estimate RISKS impacted upon by a project.

4 Considerably. It is vulnerable to the numerous technical &. business RISKS that often represent greater exposures than 2. LITERATURE REVIEW. those that are traditional. Thus risk assessment need arises. Wenzhe Tang, David (December, Risk assessment is a tool to identify those RISKS in a project 2007) "Risk Management in the Chinese CONSTRUCTION and manage it accordingly with proper treatment. Risk Industry" studied the empirical Chinese industry survey on assessment is defined in this study as a technique that aims the importance of project RISKS , application of risk to identify and estimate RISKS to personnel and property management techniques, status of the risk management impacted upon by a project. The general methodology of system, and the barriers to risk management, which were this study relied largely on the survey questionnaire which perceived by the main project participants.

5 The study was collected from the local building contractors of reveals that: Most project RISKS are commonly of concern different sizes by mail or by personnel meeting. A to project participants; the industry has shifted from risk thorough literature review was initially conducted to transfer to risk reduction Riaan van Wyk, Akin tola identify the risk factors that affect the performance of Akintoye (March, 2007) Akin tola S Akintoye and CONSTRUCTION industry as a whole. The survey questionnaire MacLeod (March, 1997) "Risk ANALYSIS and Management is designed to probe the cross - sectional behavioural in CONSTRUCTION " studied the CONSTRUCTION industry pattern of CONSTRUCTION RISKS CONSTRUCTION industry. The perception of risk associated with its activities and the questionnaire prepared for the pilot survey was formulated extent to which the industry uses risk ANALYSIS and by seeing the relevant literatures in the area of management techniques with the help of a questionnaire CONSTRUCTION risk management survey of general contractors and project managers.

6 The In the context of CONSTRUCTION industry, it is the author concluded that risk management is essential to likelihood of the occurrence of a definite event or CONSTRUCTION activities in minimizing losses and enhancing combination of events which occur during the whole profitability. CONSTRUCTION risk is generally perceived as process of CONSTRUCTION . CONSTRUCTION involves many events that influence project objectives of cost, time and variables, and it is often difficult to determine cause and quality. effect, dependence and correlations. Hence, those RISKS Roozbeh Kangari (December, 1995) "Risk play a significant role in decision making and may affect Management Perceptions and trends of CONSTRUCTION ". 6943. VOL. 11, NO. 11, JUNE 2016 ISSN 1819-6608. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 2006-2016 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).

7 All rights reserved. discussed the attitude of large CONSTRUCTION firms toward and determined how the contractors conduct CONSTRUCTION risk management through a survey of the top 100 contractors. The study showed that in the recent years contractors are more willing to assume RISKS that accompany actual and legal problem in the form of risk sharing with the owner. Florence Yean Yug Ling and Linda Hoi (December, 2006) "Risk faced by Singapore firms when undertaking CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS in India" studied the risk that Singapore architecture, engineering and CONSTRUCTION (AEC) firms face when working in India and investigated the risk response techniques adopted by them. The risk response techniques include having adequate insurances Figure-1. Hierarchical RISKS involved in a project. and careful planning and management.

8 Robin K Mcguire(June, 1999) "Analyzing of Risk a) Project risk management Factors in CONSTRUCTION " This study helps to make the risk Risk management in a project encompasses factors involved in CONSTRUCTION during and after the identifying influencing factors that could potentially CONSTRUCTION about the resource allocation, procurement, negatively impact a project's cost schedule or quality inventory control. And to minimize the time, cost and baselines; quantifying the associated potential impact of increase in quality of CONSTRUCTION by analyzing the risk the identified risk; and implementing measures to manage during planning itself. and mitigate the potential impact. The riskier the activity Tah and (July, 2002) "Knowledge is, the costlier the consequences if the wrong decision is Based Approach to CONSTRUCTION Project Risk made.

9 Businesses would like to quantify risk for many Management" suggested that consistent methodology for reasons. Knowing how much risk is involved will help CONSTRUCTION project risk management. The CONSTRUCTION decide if costly measures to reduce the level of risk are industry consistently suffers from poor project justifiable. It can also help to decide if sharing the risk performance due to a lack of formalized risk management with an insurance company is justified. Some RISKS , such procedures which helps to facilitate more effective risk as natural disasters, are virtually unavoidable and affect management while allowing all project participants to many people. All choices in life involve risk. RISKS cannot develop and share a great understanding of project risk for be totally avoided, but the choice can be made so that risk improved performance.

10 Is minimized. Mulholl. B and J. Christian (February, 1999) Risk = Probability of an event Consequence of "Risk Assessment in CONSTRUCTION Schedules" suggested loss due to that event Per event Graphical representation of that a description of systematic way to consider and risk ratings can be made by plotting graph between quantify uncertainty in CONSTRUCTION schedules. probability and seriousness Figure-2 explains this CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS are initiated in complex and dynamic environments resulting in circumstances of high uncertainty and risk, which are demanding time constrains. 3. RISK CONCEPTS. Risk is a multi-facet concept. In the context of CONSTRUCTION industry, it could be the likelihood of the occurrence of a definite event/factor or combination of events/factors which occur during the whole process of CONSTRUCTION to the detriment of the project a lack of predictability about structure outcome or consequences in a decision or planning situation, the uncertainty associated with estimates of outcomes - there is a chance that results could be better than expected as well as worse than Figure-2.