Risk management in the insurance industry: Insights for the engineering construction industry

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-39

  Ranasinghe, Malik ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Contingency; Engineering construction; Insurance; Risk management; Target cost

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST ENGINEERING; COSTS; INSURANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CONTINGENCY; ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES; ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTIONS; INSURANCE POLICIES; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; PROBABILITY OF SUCCESS; RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES; TARGET COST;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 12444252385     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461998372565     Document Type: Article

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