| Latent variable | Index |
| Owner fiscal ability risk | Owners’ financial difficulties. |
| Unreasonable use and allocation of funds. | |
| Slow payment settlement of completed work. | |
| Management ability risk of project management | Failure of land expropriation. |
| Poor management and control ability of project management team. | |
| Projects design changes. | |
| accidents in construction stage is not handled in time. | |
| The conflict between owners, contractors, supervisors, and local government organization. | |
| Improper bidding method and evaluation index. | |
| Improper management contracts, which are easy to cause the contract dispute. | |
| Contractor fiscal capacity and fiscal management risk | Contractors’ financial difficulties. |
| Unreasonable use and allocation of funds. | |
| Inaccurate tender offer. | |
| Management risk of machinery and materials of contractor | The lack of manpower and poor construction ability. |
| Improper work plan of preparation machinery. | |
| Supply work of prepare material is not up to par. | |
| Contractor’s organization management and technical ability risk | Poor ability of construction and management of contractor. |
| Technology difficulties of construction technology and application of new construction. | |
| Construction schedule of design project is not reasonable. | |
| Construction need rework when its quality does not meet requirements need. | |
| Work amount of construction increase. | |
| Unreasonable construction layout. | |
| Traffic system of construction site is not smooth. | |
| Management and subcontractor contract is not reasonable, which is easy to cause the contract dispute. | |
| The poor of monitoring subcontractor in construction process. | |
| Industrial accidents. | |
| Selection and management of subcontractor risk | Selection of subcontractor is not reasonable. |
| The subcontractor payment settlement is slow. | |
| Poor construction ability of sub-contractor. | |
| Supervision unit ability risk | Monitoring work ability of supervision unit is poor. |
| The ability of guide contractor to deal with sudden accidents is poor. | |
| The ability of guide contractor to deal with sudden accidents is poor. | |
| Acceptance of work completed is slow. | |
| Supervising personnel lack sense of responsibility. | |
| Survey and design unit ability risk | Survey and design work ability of survey and design units is poor. |
| Geological conditions of actual construction is inconsistent with geological conditions of survey and design. | |
| Overall plan of design construction is unreasonable which leads crashing. | |
| Difficulties and feasibility that design does not consider construction. | |
| Discrepancies between design and technical standards. | |
| Drawing fails to deliver on time. | |
| Policy risk | Policy changes of infrastructure construction investment. |
| Policy changes of land requisition compensation. | |
| Complex investment process and administrative procedures. | |
| Bidding management policy is not perfect. | |
| Tax policy is not stable. | |
| Wage policy changes. | |
| Social environment change risk | Price fluctuation of construction material. |
| Appreciation of exchange rate. | |
| Increasing of loan interest rate. | |
| Changes of imported special machinery, equipment and materials. | |
| Local social customs and habits. | |
| Difficult relationship with local government. | |
| Natural environment change risk | Complex local geological conditions. |
| Unfavorable climatic conditions. |