Incorporating Project Complexities in Risk Assessment: Case of an Airport Expansion Construction Project

In today’s construction projects, which are getting more complex as a consequence of especially technical, organizational, and external aspects, complexities considered major source risks. Moreover, risks may turn to complexity-creating elements propagate additional through bidirectional interaction. Complex typically large-scale dynamic endeavors, require the realization high number interdependent tasks consumption various resources such time, money, labor, materials. while usually assumed be given or embedded, due subjective characteristics complexities, tailored approach is required in order manage them holistically without ignoring their interactions with this context, aim study propose practical that could utilized incorporate project risk assessment projects. The proposed entails integrated usage registers, breakdown structures, complexity-incorporated risk-influence diagrams along utilization previously developed complexity framework. underlying basic assumption was directly indirectly trigger risks, affect objectives. implementation case an airport expansion showed linking objectives starting from based on possible. way, it shown multidimensional cause-effect relationships between among themselves, impact interaction detected diagrammatically evaluated. Furthermore, observed incorporating earlier stages would lead improvement Considering results study, has potential contribute improved management.