Communication is key

摘要

To most, the expression "risk assessment" is associated with the likes of TBM selection or ground conditions, etc. It is therefore interesting to see that a recent audit into last year's collapse of a short section of the Hanekleiv Tunnel, in Norway, has attached a significant degree of the blame on managerial aspects of the project's set-up during its construction in the mid-90s (p8).rnAt the time, the client, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA), whom it must be said has an exemplary record, had just undergone a re-structuring that separated its construction department into two units and had them working together on the Hanekleiv Tunnel.