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South Africa’s infrastructure pipeline – spanning transport, energy, water and urban development – is essential to economic growth and social resilience. But, as projects increase in scale and urgency ...

Effective risk management strategies allow you to identify your project's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. By planning for unexpected events, you can be ready to respond if they arise ...

The ultimate purpose of risk identification and analysis is to prepare for risk mitigation. Mitigation includes reduction of the likelihood that a risk event will occur and/or reduction of the effect ...

Because even the best planned projects deal with uncertainty, managing risk is a key component of successful project design. Starting with a brief review of project risk management concepts and ...

A new study co-authored by Columbia SPS faculty member Evangelia Ieronymaki synthesizes more than 1,500 excavation case ...

Because risk is a part of any project, an important role of the project manager is to identify and control it. Without any control, risks can become disasters, causing delay, unnecessary expenses and ...

Advances in solar panel design have reduced the impact of microcracking on overall performance, according to Mike Perron, ...

Contractors’ use of virtual design and construction technology can help expedite development and fabrication of building systems, but application of these tools still requires teamwide collaboration ...