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	A Conference on Architectural SuretyÒ
	Assuring the Performance of Buildings and Infrastructures
	PROCEEDINGS

Risk Factors and the Performance of Constructed Facilities

Richard G. Little

National Academy of Science

ABSTRACT  

There are a number of technical risk factors that potentially affect the performance of constructed facilities. They include design issues such as form, function, location, and access, natural and anthropogenic loadings, analytical techniques for modeling and computation and determining prudent margins of safety, and construction and durability issues that encompass materials, fabrication processes, and overall quality. This paper briefly highlights these issues and suggests an integrated facility delivery process to ensure that all technical risk factors are included in an overall risk management strategy.

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