عنوان

Risk management in Independent Water and Power Plant (IWPP) projects in Saudi Arabia :

شماره

TLets691292

عنوان اصلي

Risk management in Independent Water and Power Plant (IWPP) projects in Saudi Arabia :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Alsulaiman, Yousef Saad

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a grounded theory study to improve effectiveness

نام ساير پديدآوران

Bowles, Graeme ; Ogunlana, Stephen

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Heriot-Watt University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

The global demands for water and power services are rapidly increasing. In this context, Saudi Arabia (SA) has one of the highest water consumption rates per capita worldwide, and its energy requirements continue to grow. In terms of producing drinking water, SA ranks first, representing 22.4% of world capacity. However, that production is not unproblematic, and typically, the Water and Power Plant (WPP) projects following the Independent Water and Power Plant (IWPP) approach have involved a plethora of risks, as they rely on long-term arrangements to transfer project risks traditionally borne by government, to the private sector. Additionally, some risk factors apply generally to all construction projects, others are specific to WPP projects, and yet others apply only to IWPP projects. Unfortunately, three of four IWPP projects in SA have failed to meet their specified objectives; hence, there is an urgent need to implement effective risk management (RM) within these projects, as this represents an important success factor in their on-time delivery. In this study, water and power practitioners in the Saudi public and private sectors, were interviewed as key informants, and related their experience. The Grounded Theory (GT) approach was adopted whereby three rounds of semi-structured interviews were performed to establish factors causing the poor implementation of RM in IWPP projects in SA. Whilst the research focused on IWPP projects, it also explored WPP projects (undertaken by government), due to the state's long experience of such activities. After analysis, the interview data was presented in propositional diagrams, fully grounded according to the practitioners' experiences. The findings indicate that all practitioners agree on the importance of RM in IWPP projects since these are complex undertakings that require effective RM for their success, but that currently, RM knowledge within this industry is lacking, and where RM is implemented, it is done so informally. Practitioners identified three clear factors that affect the behaviour of every single IWPP stakeholder in respect of risk, these being: the uniqueness of the Saudi Arabian culture, the high subsidies paid by the government to consumers and organisations, and the low attention paid to RM by top managements. An emergent model is proposed expressing the complex reality of IWPP projects in SA, and illustrating three major phenomena, nine categories, and 26 sub-categories affecting RM implementation in these projects. This provides a strong foundation for further research aimed at securing the effective RM implementation in IWPP projects, and developing greater insight into the risk factors involved.

موضوع مستند نشده

IWPP project ; risk management ; Saudi industry ; water and power plant

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Alsulaiman, Yousef Saad

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bowles, Graeme ; Ogunlana, Stephen

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Heriot-Watt University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y