The Role of Engineering Insurance in Risk Controlling of Dams

Dam safety is very important, especially from financial points of view. Therefore, scholar has studied the role of engineering insurance covers in the process of assessment and control of project’s risk in the country. In this paper, at first, data was gathered by the studying of related books and papers in engineering insurance, respectively. Then, the influential variables were extracted and approved by the experts in Mazandaran province of Iran. Finally, SPSS and LISREL were used for necessary analysis. The results of the study suggest a significant positive impact of the independent variables (insurance, legal, structural, safety and training factors) on the dependent variable (risk control). According to the results, it can be maintained that safety factors have the strongest impact, and then insurance factors, structural factors, educational factors and legal factors exist, respectively.

Keywords:

Engineering Insurance , Risk Control , Dam Construction , Project