This article provides an introduction to the three main types of risk that engineering practices face and considers the steps they can take to minimise or mitigate these.
Category: Engineering Ethics
This article defines what a contract entails within the context of professional engineering services, the components of a contract, and how a contract may be formed in engineering.
This article looks at communication as a professional engineer, causes of poor communication in engineering and also offering advice on how engineers might communicate more…
![[Viewpoint] What Makes a Good Structural Engineer?](https://structurescentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/article-3-featured-image-330x288.jpeg)
When you think about what makes a good engineer, what comes to mind? Creative problem solving? Technical skills? Apt application of scientific principles?
This article takes a look at what a constitute a claim within the purview of a structural engineer, how they may arise and the steps the structural engineer can take to mitigate them.
The Comet air crashes should teach and remind all engineers that, while all the analysis and design tools might be at your disposal, an engineer can only analyze and truly design for the situations they can actually imagine.
![[Viewpoint] Why Do Buildings Fail in Nigeria?](https://structurescentre.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ikoyi-collapse-330x288.jpg)
In 2022, Nigeria recorded over 61 incidents of building collapse in 2022. As I write this article, I don’t know of any forensic report that has been made public on any of these incidents, or do you?
Items relating to “boundaries of duties” constitutes a vast proportion of the frustrations and misunderstanding, and claims made against engineers. This article identifies and expatiate on the six boundaries of duties which an engineer must define in a fee proposal.
A fee proposal is an engineer’s ‘offer’ to undertake a predefined work for a defined fee and it is usually for the client to either accept or reject this offer. To give legal certainty to the offer, the following six items need to be defined in the proposal or an attached document.
Inspection of activities on a site during construction is a very high-risk operation requiring expertise and experience. Site inspections are of paramount significance as they aim to minimize the risk of accidents arising within the construction site…