The State of the Art of Risk Management Standards on Tunnels and Underground Works in China

Abstract

The increasing attention of engineering risk management is paid more and more in China now. More than ten years ago, risk assessment was only used for very large scale infrastructure projects and also focused on the project’s economic risk. After 2002, engineering risk management is warmly recommended in China large scale infrastructure construction. Some projects’ accidents were happened continuously which lead to a lot of economic lost and severe injury. All those big projects’ accident arouses us to take some measures for dealing with risks. Our government realized that project risk management (RM) could manage the engineering construction risks and published some new guidelines or standards for large scale projects. All the project RM guidelines or standards are used mainly in large infrastructure projects (tunnels, roads, railways, bridges, and harbor works) to manage the technical risks during the Projects’ feasibility study, design and construction phases. The present article addresses the state of art of risk management on tunnels and underground works in china. This feature and functionalities of the Project PM application are illustrated from national data of accidents and casualties from 2003 to 2011 which can reduce the hazards and control the economic loss significantly.