This paper explains what ‘risk efficiency' means, why it is a key part of best practice project management, and why it may not be delivered by common practice as defined by some guidelines. This paper also explains how risk efficiency can be addressed operationally using comparative cumulative...

An important aspect of stakeholder management in construction projects is the contractual approach to managing risk and uncertainty. Chapman and Ward (2002) develops a balanced incentive and risk sharing (BIARS) contract, drawing on earlier research on management contracts, which lead to...

An important aspect of stakeholder management in construction projects is the contractual approach to managing risk and uncertainty. Clients need to choose an appropriate form of contract from available common options, like fixed price, design and build (D&B), and design, build, finance and...

This paper reports on an exploratory study into the activities of corporate Risk Managers in thirty different organisations. The Study identifies a wide range of activities undertaken by these Risk Managers, although the scope of individual Risk Manager's work can vary significantly. This work...