Most construction and civil projects do not fail on site — they fail on paper, weeks earlier, when a risk nobody planned for finally shows up. This Risk Management in Civil Projects Training Course is built around that reality: giving project teams a structured way to spot, classify, and manage risk for the life of a project, so the probability of trouble goes down and its impact stays controlled.

Participants leave able to build a full project risk management plan, map risks against the classic triple constraint of scope, schedule, and resources, and both qualify and quantify those risks before deciding how to respond. The course also covers the key performance indicators used to monitor and control risk once the project is under way, combining international practice with hands-on application to civil and construction work.

Who is this course for?

• Project risk managers, risk owners, and project managers.
• Members of project management offices and project sponsors.
• Functional and senior managers, and anyone responsible for project risk decisions.

What participants will be able to do afterwards:

• Apply a recognised risk management framework suited to both private and public-sector projects, including the human side of managing risk.
• Initiate project risk management by scaling planning and impact to the specific project.
• Use effective risk tools and techniques even when the organisation is under pressure, and build a stakeholder management plan geared toward risk.
• Recognise, appraise, and estimate the probability of loss from a given risk, and spot what would improve the organisation's crisis-management capability.
• Select and implement the right response to a threat or an opportunity, including secondary risks and post-response review.

Module 1: Risk Management Framework and Planning

• Key definitions and the purpose and benefits of managing risk.
• The six-step risk management process from the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), and how it integrates into the wider project management process.
• Responsibilities in risk management and planning the overall approach, including its inputs, tools, and outputs.

Module 2: Identifying Project Risk

• Understanding project context and stakeholders as a starting point for identifying risk.
• Defining scope through the work breakdown structure (WBS) and project estimating techniques.
• Risk identification inputs, tools, techniques, categories, and outputs.

Module 3: Assessing and Quantifying Risk

• Schedule diagramming and the critical path method (CPM), alongside resource management.
• Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis approaches, including bow-tie semi-quantitative analysis.
• The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and decision trees for prioritising risk.

Module 4: Developing the Risk Response Plan

• Response strategy guidelines for both threats and opportunities, and how to prioritise them.
• Response planning and analysis, expected monetary value, and alternative responses.
• Response validation, and setting contingency and management reserves.

Module 5: Controlling and Documenting the Risk Response

• Risk response control tools and guidelines, and executing the chosen risk strategy.
• Evaluating risk response results and assessing the availability of resources.
• Risk documentation and delivering the final presentation of findings.