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2017 Publications

International Journal of Emerging
Technology and Advanced Engineering

Volume7, Issue 8, August 2017

Risk Management of Executing Deep Excavations of Large Scale Projects in
Jordan

Orabi Al Rawi, Nawzad A. Al-Kharabsheh
Numerous risks are associated with carrying out deep excavations especially those for areas with
proximity, including affecting the overall stability for the project site, adjacent existing structures,
utilities, and other infrastructure. The hypothesis for this research is the existence of wrong practices
through executing deep excavations leading to different engineering problems concerning the
performance for large scale projects in Jordan. The practical part of this research included conducting
different activities. The first of these is reviewing for previous reports concerning site investigations
for residential buildings in Jordan, and conducting site visits to several construction projects. The
second activity was the design of the survey questionnaire that was distributed afterwards to group of
expert engineers, designers, and consultant companies. The third activity was related to analyzing the
collected data using a statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) for quality evaluations. And
finally, the fourth activity was submitting of guidelines and recommendations for improving the
management to deal with such excavations. Based on the results of the research survey, and
questionnaire analysis, it was concluded that a lot of risks may be caused by performing deep
excavations represented by the response of adjacent structures to ground movements due to inducing
large stresses and strains beneath these structures, ground settlements, and their effects on the labors
who work inside those sites, etc. Accordingly, the need of risk management for such large
infrastructural works is now largely recognized through the evaluation of risk resources and setting up
for precautionary and contingency measures to reduce and eliminate these risks.
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