Written by Charles O’Neil FCIArb
with Specialist Articles by 12 Industry Leaders
- Author’s Notes and Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Dr. Peter Hansford BSc MBA HonLLD FREng FICE FAPM
Chief Construction Adviser to the UK Government
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers 2010-2011
- Introduction
- ■ The Importance of Human Dynamics in Risk Management
- ■ The Need for a New Approach that recognises and limits the potential
impact of erroneous human behaviour in construction processes
- ■ The Target Audience
- My Journey Towards Understanding Risk Management
- Charles O’Neil
- ■ From the Australian bush to international construction,
asset management and dispute resolution
- Key Ingredients of Successful Projects
- ■ What happens on the good projects?
- ■ The key areas and actions that create success
- Examples of Successful Projects and How They Managed Risk
- MediacityUK (BBC North) as a Model Project
- Stephen Warburton
Former Senior Design Manager, Lend Lease Corporation, UK
- Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne – The Mechanics of PPP Success
- Graham Whitson
Managing Director, Bilfinger RE Asset Management (Australia)
- London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games – Securing Success
- Ian Williams
Former Head of Projects for the Government Olympic Executive, London 2012
Executive Manager for the Supreme Committee for the Qatar 2022 World Cup
- Risky Business: the Exceptional Sydney Opera House
- Dr Anne Watson BA (Hons), MA, PhD
Author of “Building a Masterpiece: the Sydney Opera House” (2006/2013)
- Common Causes of Project Failure
- ■ Structuring, bidding and pre-contract phase
- ■ Design, construction, commissioning and transition to operations
- ■ Project leadership – how bad can it get?
- ■ Lessons learnt from incompetent site management
- An Overview of Changes in the Construction Industry since the ‘Eighties
- John Messenger
Director Driver Trett Group
- Factors which have Influenced Change in the UK Construction Industry – A Client’s Perspective
- Ian Williams
Former Head of Projects for the Government Olympic Executive, London 2012
Executive Manager for the Supreme Committee for the Qatar 2022 World Cup
- Public Private Partnerships – full of potential risks
- ■ The pros and cons of the concept
- ■ The implications of having such a complex suite of contracts
- ■ Tips to keep out of trouble
- ■ Hypothetical Issues to Test PPP Contract Documents
- Structuring Projects – the different stages, activities and responsibilities
- From concept to completion and start of operations
- Understanding and Managing Contracts
- Effective Contract Writing to Minimise Construction Disputes
- Rob Horne, International Construction Lawyer
Chartered Arbitrator and Adjudicator
- Affinitext – Making Documents Intelligent to Capture Knowledge and Manage Risk & Compliance
- Graham Thomson
CEO, Affinitext Inc.
- Early Warning through Stakeholder Communications ‘The RADAR horizon scanning system’
- Edward Moore
Chief Executive, ResoLex (Holdings) Limited, UK
- Risk Management and the Relation to Success in the North American Context
- John McArthur
President, Kiewit Development Company, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Corporate Governance and Effective Operational Risk Management
- ■ Reporting requirements and procedures to contain and control potential risks
- ■ Circumventing detrimental human behaviours
- Planning and Programming
- ■ The foundations of success for all property developments, design and
construction contracts, and PPPs
- ■ S-Curves and their significance
- ■ Extensions of Time, concurrency and associated costs
- Dispute Resolution – the benefits and risks of alternative methods
- ■ Avoiding formal disputes through early communications and negotiations
- ■ Main considerations of the parties when they end up in a formal dispute
- ■ What do commercial clients want out of a formal dispute process?
- ■ Working with lawyers
- Dispute Boards in the context of the ITER Nuclear Fusion Project in France
- Dr Robert Gaitskell QC, Keating Chambers, London, UK
Barrister, Chartered Engineer, Arbitrator, Mediator, Adjudicator, Expert Determiner
- Understanding and Managing Difficult Client/Contractor Relationships
- David Somerset
Managing Director Somerset Consult UK
- Narrative: ‘A Typical Negotiation at a Claims Settlement Meetings’
- Techniques for Negotiating Settlements
- The Case for Independent Audits of Major Construction Projects
- ■ Prudent and cost effective risk management
- ■ Early warning of issues
- ■ Minimising the risk of cost and program over-runs and disputes
- The Value of Independent Oversight
- John Messenger
Director Driver Trett Group
- Practical Human Resources Considerations
- ■ Personnel recruitment and positioning – a different perspective
- ■ The human fallout from a failed project
- ■ Decision Making for Survival and the Inherent Risks
- Findings and Recommendations
- ■ Summary of Findings – the Bigger Picture
- ■ 12 Deadly Sins of Risk Management
- ■ Overall Conclusion
- Appendices
- ■ Appendix A – List of Contributing Authors
- ■ Appendix B – List of Photos and Charts
- ■ Appendix C – Other Academic Papers Relevant to the Theme of this Book