Subject Code & Title :- SRQ763 Project Risk Management Individual
Assessment Type :- Individual Assignment 1
Description :- Report
UNIT LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THE MAJOR ASSIGNMENT
Brief description of assessment task:
This assessment task requires students to submit an individual report on a given topic pertaining to construction risks and their management in the construction industry.
SRQ763 Project Risk Management Individual Assignment – Deakin University Australia.

This task assesses your achievement of the following Unit Learning Outcome(s):
ULO1: Identify and analyze the causes of risk on complex construction projects to make recommendations to minimize the identified risk.

ASSESSMENT TASK :-
Evidence indicates that the construction industry’s track-record of delivering projects is very poor – a significant number of construction projects particularly large major projects are delivered late and over-budget 1.

• In a well-referenced research report of no more than 3000 words critically review how construction contracting and contracts contribute to the problem of overruns and delays (in other words how does the current approach to construction contracting contribute to the problem of poor cost and time performance?.

Your essay should begin with a brief narrative overview of the current track-record of project delivery before critically detailing how contracting contributes to the problem of poor project delivery. In addition, your essay should conclude with reasoned recommendations of possible innovative contracting and project risk management strategies to help in the cost-effective and efficient delivery of major construction projects.

FORMAT OF ASSIGNMENT
The assignment should be presented in a report format and fully referenced in the Author-Date (Harvard – DU) style and submitted as a single A4 pdf document. Work submitted in other formats will not be marked.

SRQ763 Project Risk Management Individual Assignment – Deakin University Australia.

This report is to be no more than 3000 words excluding references.

FURTHER ADVICE FOR ONLINE STUDENTS
Students enrolled online should ensure they read all available materials and listen to recordings of the classes. Any materials used in seminars will be uploaded to the Cloud but there will be no recording provided. Students should attend Bb Collaborate sessions as scheduled to ensure they understand the content and requirements of the assignment.