Risk Assessment for Sultan Qaboos Mosque Construction - Report Example

The main square-shaped prayer room hosts more than 5,000 worshipers and has a central dome, which is 50 meters above the ground while the main minaret reaches more than 92 meters. The distinctive features of the Sultan Qaboos Mosque inSoharare the minaret and its unique design. The internal courtyard and mosque’s walls are connected with a bar that has been inscribed with Islamic geometric frameworks and verses from the Koran in Thuluth script. The southern part of the walls contains a library that has more than 10,000 reference volumes on humanity, culture, Islamic, and science.2.0 Duty Holder’s Risk Assessments2.

1 The Appropriateness of the Methodology UsedNumerous methodologies and tools exist that can be used to understand the nature of the risk and the complexity of the risk (Pinto, Nunes and Ribeiro, 2011; Zhou, Whyte, and Sacks, 2012). Some of the common tools or approaches include qualitative analysis, semi-quantitative analyzing, and quantitative analysis. Utilizing these methods focuses on HAZOP-FMEA, quantified FMEA, LOPA Bow-tie, and event tree/fault tree (Baybutt, 2015). Sultan Qaboos Mosque construction processes utilized these different tools at different phases and sometimes, the different tools were used to address the requirements of a specific phase during the construction (Dikmen, Birgonul, and Han, 2007).

For example, when problems such as injuries occurred on the site, a fault tree was used to determine the causative agent. FMEA was also used before carrying out some projects to understand the relationship between the numerous processes, and how one process can affect the integrity of the entire project. The focus was on the design of the Mosque in that any problem in the design would affect the entire deliverables. International Electrotechnical Commission(2010) advises that ETA and FTA have tobe combined in doing analysis since it overcomes the shortcomings of each of the techniques.

A combination of both processes results in a new technique referred to as Cause-Consequence Analysis, which easily informs the users on potential threats and mechanisms in which these threats can be avoided and addressed(Dikmen, Birgonul, and Han, 2007; Zhou, Whyte and Sacks, 2012). Even though the Sultan Qaboos Mosque did not employ the framework, different issues and problems were identified, and corrective frameworks incorporated.