Cross-Cultural approach to Risk Management in Megaprojects

Cross-Cultural approach to Risk Management in Megaprojects: Research into the relationship and impact of cultural phenomena in the risks management process of Airport Terminal Projects

Garcia Lopez, I.A.

Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (mentor)
Hoseini, E. (mentor)
Sun, L. (mentor)
van Vrijaldenhoven, T. (mentor)

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Construction Management and Engineering

2016-09-22

Originally conceived only as transport infrastructure elements, today airports and its surroundings have evolved into economically strategic and social conflictive areas with a high influence on the pattern and speed of regional development and a component of the infrastructure and development of an entire nation. Airport terminals are part of the so called ‘Megaprojects’ which are commonly identify to be complex due to several factors such as: high investment, high level of uncertainty, technical and technological challenges, high impact on society and environment, high level of partnering; multiplicity of stakeholders with multivariate interests among them which creates an additional tension layer. The process required to cope all the aforementioned factors might suggest several critical factors and undoubtedly presume a varied and increasing level of risk for all parties involved in the planning and construction. In that sense, a purely technical approach to the design of Terminal Airports is now inadequate (Neufville, 1976)...

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) Itzel Adriana Garcia Lopez