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Risk Workshop
September 8, 2008
This workshop will present an overview of how risk management practices are being integrated into the institutional structures of state highway agencies. In 2004, a team of representatives from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), state highway agencies, industry, and academia visited Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland, and England. The purpose of this International Technology Scanning Program study was to identify practices that might be evaluated and applied in the United States to improve construction management. One significant scan finding was that the countries visited had an advanced awareness of risk assessment and allocation techniques that are just now evolving in U.S. highway agencies.
As part of the scan team's implementation plan to raise awareness of risk management techniques, the FHWA formed a Construction Management Expert Task Group (CM ETG) and developed a "Guide to Risk Assessment and Allocation for Highway Construction Management." A two-day workshop has been developed around the Guide and been delivered to the state highway agencies of Colorado, Florida, Texas and Virginia. This four-hour workshop will present a summarized version of this two-day workshop and discuss its impact on the agencies. More information on the scan, the Guide and the CM ETG is available at:
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