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Short Courses
Short Course 3:
Risk
Management & Site Characterization
by
Martin van Staveren
Instructor
Martin van Staveren is a Scientific Board Member on Risk Management
of GeoDelft, the Dutch National Institute for Geotechnical
Engineering, and Senior Lecturer Geo Risk Management at the Delft
University of Technology, both in the Netherlands. He is the author
of the book Uncertainty and Ground Conditions ¡V A Risk Management
Approach, published by Elsevier Publishers, Oxford. It is the
first book of its kind that integrates construction, ground
conditions, risk management, and an often overlooked success factor
¡V the people factor.
Background
All
civil engineering and construction projects inevitably touch the
ground. However, inherent ground uncertainty often results in high
cost and time overruns, because of failure to accurately predict
ground conditions and behaviour. Effective site characterisation
should be the very basis for dealing with ground uncertainty. While
risk management has demonstrated its value in many industries, is
often not related to site characterisation programmes. The book
Uncertainty and Ground Conditions ¡V A Risk Management Approach
aims to increase construction profitability, by the application of
an innovative and tested ground risk management approach. It
facilitates the just-in-time availability of all relevant ground
information, with regard to the type of data, its quality and
quantity.
Purpose
This one-day short course aims to further dissipate proven risk
management principles in ground engineering and construction. It
provides an introduction in the fascinating area of risk management
and site characterisation. The course presents the open and
flexible GeoQ framework, where Q stands for realising a quality
project, in terms of safety, fit-for-purpose, budget, and time. GeoQ
demonstrates explicitly the need for timely and adequate ground
attention, in any kind of project anywhere in the world, by
presenting the relationships between ground conditions and overall
project risks. The application of the GeoQ approach justifies
effective site characterisation programmes to the often
non-geotechnical decision makers of a project. By this innovative
approach, the added value of (specialist) in-situ site
characterisation tools and practices becomes directly related to
meeting the overall project objectives.
Who should attend?
Anyone interested in improving the benefits of site characterisation
programmes in his or her day-to-day practice, by applying easy to
use and state-of-the-art risk management principles and practices.
What you will get from the course?
The
registration fee includes a copy of the book on Uncertainty and
Ground Conditions ¡V A Risk Management Approach (list price of
the book is US$ 64.95). The one-day course gives you the ability to
apply a six-step model for effectively defining risk-driven site
characterisation programmes, within the open GeoQ framework for
ground risk management. You will gain awareness in the
interrelationship of construction, ground, its risk management and
the often dominating people factor, and use these insights for even
more effectively convincing any project stakeholder about the
advantages and benefits of adequate ground characterisation
programmes.
Summary of the course programme
The following topics are covered by lectures during this short
course:
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Ground, uncertainty, risk and its management
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The main success factor ¡V the people factor
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The GeoQ ground risk management process
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Towards risk-driven site characterisation ¡V theory and practices
More Information
Abundant information about the GeoQ ground risk management
process is presented in the book by Martin van Staveren:
Uncertainty and Ground Conditions ¡V A Risk Management Approach
(Elsevier Publishers, Oxford, July 2006). More information,
including a free sample chapter, can be found on:
www.books.elsevier.com/construction?isbn=0750669586
For further information, please contact Martin van Staveren by
e-mail:
m.th.vanstaveren@geodelft.nl
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