Geocomp Consulting: Active Risk Management Demonstrated

Some examples of the application of Active Risk Management by Geocomp personnel include the following:

• TONEN Kawasaki Refineries, Japan - saved client approximately $100,000,000 (current $) in avoided construction costs by using risk based concepts to design and construct alternate earthquake proofing measures.
• Oil Storage Reservoirs, Venezuela - used risk monitoring and risk management techniques to help ensure safety of three major reservoirs that store 30,000,000 barrels of heating oil destined for New England.
• Central Artery/Tunnel, Boston, MA - saved Owner an estimated $500,000,000 in avoided risk costs by managing and executing a highly effective monitoring system to identify poor performance early enough to implement contingency measures.
• Ellis Square Parking Garage, Savannah, GA - helped avoid a catastrophic collapse of deep excavation support system when unexpected soft soils were encountered. Developed contingency measures to complete the job and monitoring systems to minimize additional damage to surrounding buildings.
• Eastside Access Project, New York - implemented extensive monitoring systems to detect unexpected performance early enough to implement contingency measures and avoid undesirable consequences on $4B project that included a new underground cavern beneath the Grand Central Terminal.
• World Trade Center, New York - implemented extensive monitoring systems to detect movements, cracks and other undesirable performance of No. 1-9 subway tunnel box crossing the site while the structure was underpinned and undermined. Geocomp used more than 1,000 sensors to help ensure that the tunnel box remained safe during the construction work while subway trains continued to run every 90 seconds.
• Confidential Project in US - participate as part of independent review team to identify potential risks and assess means to manage those risks for a $1B design-build infrastructure project being built reduce risk of hurricane related floods.
• Bomba Dam, Italy - performed risk assessment to determine the potential effects of withdrawal of natural gas from beneath a major earthen dam 57 m high and implemented a remote, real-time risk monitoring system to monitor ground surface subsidence over the 20 year life of the project.
• Sunnyside Yards Tunnel Preparations - providing contractor with design and risk management services for construction of bridge foundations, utility upgrades with microtunnelling, MSE retaining walls, and excavation support systems in a very congested rail yard with many constituents.
• Tobin Bridge, Boston - designing and installing monitoring system to make Tobin bridge a SMART bridge, i.e. monitoring performance of bridge in real time to detect unexpected performance and help avoid risky outcomes.
• Storrow Drive Tunnels - monitoring girders in roof of east bound tunnel over time to help understand why they perform the way they do. Monitoring system has capability to detect unexpected truck loads on the west bound lanes.
• Grafton Bridge, MA - using Active Risk Management to help Contractor manage risks for construction of a bridge after original contractor experienced a devastating failure during construction.