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In the construction process, from the contractor's point of view, it has the characteristics of long construction period, large investment, and many types of work and processes. Therefore, in the construction, these factors restrict the contractor's future income. If the cycle is long, the unforeseen factors in each cycle will increase accordingly, and the changes of external and internal factors related to time will affect the timely completion of the construction period; The investment is huge, and if the financing, payment method, interest rate or relevant contract terms change, the cost will increase, thus reducing the contractor's profit; More work, more procedures. Once the construction organization is unreasonable or reworked, and claims occur at the same time, it will greatly affect the progress, cost and quality of the project and damage the interests of the contractor. Therefore, it is of great significance to analyze and control the risk problems in the process of engineering project construction.

1. The project contracting risk faced by the contractor is not only a commercial activity, but also a construction activity. It is bound to be influenced by the natural environment, social environment and related human factors where the project is located. Among them, the responsibilities, rights and obligations established in the relevant contract conditions have great influence on the contractor, which requires the contractor to have comprehensive professional technical knowledge and strong management ability. At present, the competition in the construction market is becoming increasingly fierce, the technical content is constantly improving, the projects tend to be large and complicated, the enterprises tend to be United, and the funds are relatively concentrated, which is particularly unfavorable to small and medium-sized enterprises, making them face more risks and reducing the average profit rate of enterprises. From this perspective, project contracting is a high-risk project construction activity.

Project contracting risk refers to the change degree of project implementation results relative to expected results, that is, the change degree of contractor's expected income. The causes of project contracting risks are caused by many uncertain factors. If the risk factors are not considered in the process of bidding and project implementation, it will increase the actual cost, reduce the profit and even lose money. However, transferring the possible cost of potential risk factors to the cost of bid price will greatly increase the probability of winning the bid. Therefore, in order to obtain the target expected profit, we must correctly consider the project contracting risk.

According to relevant statistics, the contractor's risk expenses account for a relatively low proportion in the bid price, because the contractor has taken active management measures for many risk factors, such as the transfer and sharing of risk responsibilities, insurance and other measures to control the occurrence of risk accidents or reduce risk losses. According to JCEM's questionnaire on the risk distribution and importance of American contractors' projects, compared with the boom period, the actual contracting cost increased by 4%, the profit decreased by 25% and the risk increased by 3 times. If we consider the difference of the actual bid price, the absolute value will increase even more. That is to say, under the condition that the bidding price ratio is basically the same, the risk market period needs to pay more risk expenses than the prosperous market period. Therefore, it is extremely important for contractors to correctly analyze, control and manage the project contracting risks if they want to achieve the goal of smooth project implementation and profit. For contractors, the main risk factors are: the acquisition of labor, equipment and materials; Productivity of labor and equipment; Unqualified materials; Labor disputes; Security; The contractor's working ability; Engineering quality and so on. The characteristics involved in these risk factors are: 1) unbalanced or huge cash flow; 2) Special quality or technical requirements; 3) Important legal or contractual requirements; 4) Important or sensitive external environment. Once the project involves the above characteristics, it needs to carry out risk analysis and related management.

2. Risk Control System and Risk Liquidity When conducting traditional risk control, the contractor will generally divide the control process into several stages according to the continuation of the construction process, analyze the potential risk factors in each stage, and formulate corresponding countermeasures. On the surface, the previous methods also used stage control theory, but they always viewed and analyzed risks from a static perspective. Risk management in different stages lacks the necessary organic connection, and the work, process and risk factors in each stage are not unified for comprehensive consideration. This is a simple solution with strong pertinence, but it lacks flexibility. This method has a certain control effect on common change factors, but the strain effect is not so rapid and effective for abnormal changes in construction. The consequence of non-dynamic management is actually a problem of organization and management procedures, involving risk management system and risk control strategy.

Most of the risks in reality are abnormal and unpredictable risk factors, so many risks can't be effectively controlled by traditional methods. This is mainly due to the contractor's lack of effective risk management system. An effective contractor risk management system requires enterprises to establish a risk management department to supervise, control and make decisions at all stages of construction by using stage management and system planning. Control system is extremely important in project management. Only by solving the system problems can we fundamentally minimize the probability of occurrence of risks or minimize the losses caused by risks. This should mainly start from the following aspects:

(1) Enterprise System Innovation and Establishment of Risk Control Order

The rationality of enterprise management system and organizational form is the basis of risk control, and engineering contracting enterprises must establish flexible and pragmatic institutional forms. Generally speaking, in addition to force majeure, the main reasons for contracting risks are the imperfect system and chaotic work order of contracting enterprises. Therefore, engineering contracting enterprises must establish flexible and pragmatic institutional forms. Generally speaking, in addition to force majeure, the main reasons for contracting risks are the imperfect system and chaotic work order of contracting enterprises. There are blind spots in management, decisions are not implemented, powers are crossed, work is shirked, responsibilities are unclear, and order is chaotic. Therefore, it is necessary to innovate in the company's organizational form and management system to improve the company's vitality; At the same time, establish a clear and orderly work order, so that decisions can be implemented smoothly and effectively. The applicable organizational form should be based on the matrix project manager system, and the corresponding risk management department should be established, but the management span and management level should not be too much, which should be suitable for the company's development scale. In addition, the internal risk guarantee fund is established to reduce the contractor's operating risk and improve the overall income.

(2) Establish an organizational supervision mechanism with risk departments and risk managers as the main body.

Referring to foreign mature risk control experience, a risk department and a risk manager should be established in the contractor's construction process. Its function is to analyze, control and supervise the potential risks of the project, and formulate corresponding countermeasures to provide decision-making basis for decision makers. The risk manager is directly responsible to the contractor. In addition, the work of the risk manager can be extended to the whole process of the company's operation, not only to the preparation, control and implementation of the bidding quotation of a single project, but also to the phased management around the whole company to grasp the pulse of the construction market. Phased risk management is effective control and dynamic forward-looking management based on corresponding risk decision-making for the three stages of project operation bidding, mid-term implementation, late summary and treatment. It mainly uses the "whip effect" of risk and controls the "liquidity" of risk through feedback dynamic programming. For example, PDS (i.e. Project. Delivery. Syetem, developed by the Canadian Engineering Department, is essentially a management model for organizing and managing complex projects. In this model, a large number of risk management tools are used to ensure that key details are not ignored, including regularly checking and controlling a large number of activities and details to control and manage risks. As shown in figure 4.

(3) Clear the subject of risk responsibility and strengthen management by objectives.

The key of contract risk management lies in establishing the subject of risk responsibility and related responsibilities, rights and obligations. With clear responsibilities, rights and obligations, the breadth, width and depth of work will be clear at a glance, which is convenient for supervision and management. Firstly, the positions and responsibilities are defined, that is, the number of positions and corresponding tasks and responsibilities are determined, but the determination of positions and responsibilities is flexible and changes accordingly according to the progress or needs of the project.

(4) Determine the optimal capital structure

The contractor's capital structure refers to the proportional relationship between liabilities, rights and interests and assets, that is, the capital existence form of corresponding people, funds, materials, equipment and machinery and construction technology. Determining the optimal capital structure and using financial leverage and operating leverage are of decisive significance for contractors to obtain the most satisfactory profits. By reducing the labor cost and material cost which account for a large proportion of the project cost, appropriately adjusting the proportion of loan funds, comparing different capital structure schemes and choosing the best one, the organic combination of scale, capital, management level and technical ability can be realized, and the optimal capital efficiency can be achieved. Of course, the capital structure is not static, and it will change with the actual situation in the project implementation, so as to maximize the capital output.

4. Concluding remarks

The contractor's control of engineering risks should be based on enterprise system innovation, and a dynamic and forward-looking decision-making mechanism should be established at the corresponding stage by setting up risk management departments, risk managers and risk guarantee funds. With objective management as the main form and reasonable capital structure, various construction processes, potential risk factors and related details are scientifically managed and controlled to reduce losses caused by risks and improve profitability and capital efficiency. In this way, the contractor can be in an invincible position in the increasingly competitive construction market in the future, and always maintain the vitality of the enterprise in the case of prosperity or decline of the construction industry.

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