Construction Site Risk Analysis Based on Shannon Entropy: a Case Study Application

This paper provides a method based on information theory for risk analysis and evaluation. A basic method to construction site risk evaluation by the Shannon entropy is used in this paper. Safety and technical risk of the building construction process has been calculated by Shannon’s entropy, which provides information of the system, of various kinds under uncertainties. The method has been applied to a case study in Florence, Italy and the results have been compared to those obtained by the application of the commonly used management and assessments (FMEA/FMECA). The information theory application using risk entropy, to macro and micro-phases of the studied process, that concern the actions and factors, the corresponding risk elements defined by FMEA/FMECA, is used to identify and quantify the potential risks and critical levels of each working process condition for each different project phase. The validity of the proposed method is justified by the correspondence between results for two alternative project solutions. This proposed method is useful in evaluating different alternative measures for finding less damage and hazards at designing stages for reducing and controlling each kind of risk. It also provides a homogeneous scale for the parameter evaluation and a rational criterion for linking and integrating the risk evaluation factors.

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  WIT Press

  Ashurst Lodge
  Ashurst, Southampton  United Kingdom  SO40 7AA
• Authors:
  • Balocco, A
  • Capone, P
• Conference:
  • The First International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering (SAFE/05)
  • Location: Rome , Italy
  • Date: 2005-6-13 to 2005-6-15
• Publication Date: 2005-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 171-181
• Monograph Title: Safety and Security Engineering

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Construction safety; Entropy (Communications); Evaluation and assessment; Information systems; Information theory; Management; Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Safety
• Geographic Terms: Italy
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01007111
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1845640195
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 3 2005 1:17PM