Coping with Uncertainty in Environmental Construction: Decision-Analysis Approach

摘要: The environmental-cleanup market offers new and emerging business opportunities for the construction industry. However, these present substantial risks to contractors that decide engage in cleaning up hazardous toxic waste (HTW) sites. These can be attributed uncertainties of technological legal environment. Of all this type work, liability may most daunting. intent paper is provide a structured methodology estimate associated with Superfund cleanup during quantitatively relate them potential contractor liability. A decision-analysis technique incorporates features from influence diagrams decision trees was used develop model estimates contractor's This developed through eliciting information five industry experts. experts are knowledgeable regarding variables influencing events effect devel...