Construction Risk Management Organiser

An overview dashboard for board members and risk departments — surfacing milestone delays, upcoming quality gates and key project risks without forcing them into the detail.

role: Hackathon team — placeholder role
location: TUM Venture Labs, Munich
org: TUM Venture Labs — Wolff & Müller challenge
tools: TBD

Live prototype — construction risk management dashboard

Overview

In October 2025 at TUM Venture Labs we were faced with one of the issues that Wolff & Müller faced. The board members and risk department could not monitor and cooperate with their team leaders without going into detail every time — every status update pulled them down into the weeds of individual projects.

They wanted a tool that helps them get an overview of the projects, with only the most important information: delays on certain milestones, upcoming quality gates, and the risks involved with some of the key areas of each project. Detail stays with the team leaders; the board sees the signal.

Our response was a risk-management organiser built around the construction project lifecycle — from Akquisition through Projekt Abschluss — with a focused area of expertise on the Angebotsphase, where decisions made early cascade the hardest into delivery risk.

Integrated organisational structure vs. focused risk oversight — on the left the comprehensive view (board members, risk department, team leaders, project managers); on the right the split between oversight (board + risk) and operational focus (team leaders + project managers) — The problem — oversight without the detail
Traditional construction organisations run as one integrated pyramid: board, risk department, team leaders and project managers all on the same pipe. That forces the top two layers to dive into operational detail just to know what's happening. The focused model on the right is what our tool enables — board members and the risk department watch the signal, while team leaders and project managers stay in charge of operational detail.

Full construction project lifecycle — Akquisition, Angebotsbearbeitung, Vertragsverhandlung & Vergabe, Ausführungsvorbereitung, Projektphase, Ausführung, Abschluss, Kundenservice, Projekt Abschluss

Area of expertise — zoom into the Angebotsphase (Akquisition → Angebotsbearbeitung → Vertragsverhandlung & Vergabe) showing the organisational, management and controlling tasks covered by the tool

Risk Assessment Matrix — 5×5 grid of likelihood (Very Likely → Very Unlikely) against impact (Negligible → Severe), with the Possible × Significant cell selected; the panel below surfaces the two risks sitting in that cell: Labor Shortage and Subcontractor Performance Issues — Risk Assessment Matrix — click a cell, see the risks
A 5×5 likelihood × impact grid plots every construction risk on one screen. Clicking a cell filters the list below to just the risks sitting there — here, Possible × Significant surfaces Labor Shortage and Subcontractor Performance Issues. The board starts with the red cells and only dives deeper when the signal warrants it.

Live demo

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The problem — oversight without the detail

Risk Assessment Matrix — click a cell, see the risks