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<p>The identification of risks in construction projects gives advance indications of the potential risks that may occur during project planning, construction or management. Therefore, identifying those risks and preparing the necessary plans to respond to them is a key detail for the success of the project from its failure. The projects implemented in the manner of a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) contract are accompanied by many risks due to the multiplicity of parties and the multiplicity of their responsibilities, as well as the size of those projects because they are usually associated with infrastructure projects. The aim of this research is to identify the most prominent risks in BOT contracts and the planned response against each risk. The adopted methodology is through conducting interviews and a closed questionnaire (included 77 out of 100 respondents), and the adoption of statistical analysis through the SPSS program and the scale of relative importance.The relative importance index technique was used to rank the risks according to their importance and discuss the reasons for their classification. The results showed a list of the most important risks that would be generated if the BOT contract was applied to transportation projects in Iraq, as well as the appropriate planned response to each risk based on historical information for previous BOT projects.</p>
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The identification of risks in construction projects gives advance indications of the potential risks that may occur during project planning, construction or management. Therefore, identifying those risks and preparing the necessary plans to respond to them is a key detail for the success of the project from its failure. The projects implemented in the manner of a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) contract are accompanied by many risks due to the multiplicity of parties and the multiplicity of their responsibilities, as well as the size of those projects because they are usually associated with infrastructure projects. The aim of this research is to identify the most prominent risks in BOT contracts and the planned response against each risk. The adopted methodology is through conducting interviews and a closed questionnaire (included 77 out of 100 respondents), and the adoption of statistical analysis through the SPSS program and the scale of relative importance.The relative importance index technique was used to rank the risks according to their importance and discuss the reasons for their classification. The results showed a list of the most important risks that would be generated if the BOT contract was applied to transportation projects in Iraq, as well as the appropriate planned response to each risk based on historical information for previous BOT projects.

Appropriate Risk Response Planning of Build Operate Transfer Contracts for the Transportation Projects in Iraq

College of Engineering, Baghdad University

Civil and Environmental Engineering

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The identification of risks in construction projects gives advance indications of the potential risks that may occur during project planning, construction or...

Appropriate Risk Response Planning of Build Operate Transfer Contracts for the Transportation Projects in Iraq

Publié en ligne: 14 déc. 2022

Pages: 430 - 437

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2022-0040

Mots clés
BOT, Transportation projects, Risks, Risk management, Risk response

© 2022 Suhail F. Radi Al-Aga et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Appropriate Risk Response Planning of Build Operate Transfer Contracts for the Transportation Projects in Iraq

Publié en ligne: 14 déc. 2022

Pages: 430 - 437

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cee-2022-0040

Mots clésBOT, Transportation projects, Risks, Risk management, Risk response

© 2022 Suhail F. Radi Al-Aga et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
BOT, Transportation projects, Risks, Risk management, Risk response