Risk Management In Telecom Projects

Scope of the project

For the successful implementation of a project it is essential that the people involved in its implementation be sensitive to the risks involved in the project and formulate the most suitable structure for the management of such risks. There are certain variables and uncertainties in common to most of the infrastructure projects. Many risk mitigation techniques are applied to infrastructure projects. Discuss in details the risk management to construction with special reference to a project that I had undertaken with my company.

Type of Project

My company IMI SOFTWARE LTD is a design consultancy providing tower design solutions to the telecom and power sectors.

The scope of our work includes the following:

1. Tower design
2. Design checking
3. Preparation of Structural Fabrication Drawings
4. Building analysis for installing a roof top tower.
5. Preparation of structural drawings of existing buildings (if building structural drawings are not available)
6. Supporting beam design for installing roof top tower.
7. Foundation design of ground based tower
8. Estimations during tender stages
9. Dynamic analysis and Non Linear Analysis.
10. Design Checking and strengthening of towers
11. Preparation of as built drawings

One of the cellular service providers by the name of TATA TELE SERVICES MAHARASHTRA LTD presented us with a project to design a ground based tower.

It was a 60 metre tower based on a piece of land that the client had acquired from the landowner by entering into a contract with him. The agreement was for a valid consideration and for a definite period of time. After the lapse of the period the client would either have to dismantle the tower or renew the agreement with the landowner for a further period.

The parties involved in the project were the client, the consultant, the contractor and the outsourcing companies who accomplished the work of acquiring the land for the client. The modus operand was thus:

The outsourcing agent would acquire the land shortlisted by the client from the landowner by doing the necessary groundwork and entering into necessary legal agreements for a valid consideration. The client would then summon the consultant and give his requirements of tower height and load of antennae coming on the tower, etc. Based on this the consultant would prepare layout drawings after conducting a preliminary survey whether the piece of land would be enough for a tower of that height. He would then furnish the layout drawings and then conduct the soil investigation of the proposed site to ascertain the safe bearing capacity of the soil. Depending upon the recommendation of the client, and the data gathered from the soil investigation and from the client the consultant would then design the tower for the required load coming on the tower along with its foundation system. He would also design the supporting beams for the shelter and the diesel generator.

On receiving the design drawings the client would then pass them on to the contractor earmarked for the project and he would then order the material required for the erection depending upon the bill of materials furnished by the consultant's drawings. The consultant would also give the fabrication drawings based on which the steel sections would be fabricated in situ. Based on the erection drawings of the consultant the contractor would then start erection of the tower and its accessories namely the shelter and diesel generator. Once the erection has been done then commissioning would commence in which the client's engineers would cross check the contractor's work by simulating conditions similar to those that would prevail under normal working of the tower. Once the commissioning is over then the site would be handed over to the client by the contractor. The client would then ask the consultant to prepare as built drawings of the site showing the views of the tower as it is standing. In all these works there are a lot of risks that each of the parties have to bear and find out ways to mitigate. Following are the list of risks that each of the parties have to bear.

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