Assessment 1A: Critical Review Report on Construction Risks Mitigation

This critical review report examines risk mitigation strategies and challenges in construction projects. It begins with an executive summary, followed by a proposed research topic focusing on risks and challenges in construction. The report then analyzes a scholarly article by Aminbakhsh, Gunduz, and Sonmez (2013), exploring their use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for safety risk assessment during project planning and budgeting. The report provides annotations covering the article's introduction, aims, research methods, scope, usefulness, limitations, and conclusions. It also evaluates the credibility of the article and explains how it was located. Furthermore, the report summarizes relevant articles cited by the main article, including works by Badri, Nadeau, and Gbodossou (2012), and Mitropoulos and Namboodiri (2010), evaluating their credibility and relevancy. The report concludes with a discussion of a preliminary research gap and a critical reflection on the learning experience, emphasizing the importance of risk mitigation strategies and safety measures in the construction industry, highlighting the use of secondary data and the challenges of accessing primary data, and the role of tools like Turnitin in maintaining originality.