This latest article discusses the steps that engineers can take to mitigate against technical risks often in the form of design errors appearing in their work.
Tag: Engineering Ethics
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.
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…
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.
This second article in the series on temporary works discusses temporary works failures and how structural engineers can learn from them
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…
” An implicit assumption is an assumption that underlies a logical argument, course of action, decision or judgement that is not explicitly voiced nor necessarily understood by the decision maker1. In other words, implicit assumptions are those assumptions we make without even realizing it, hence they may go undetected.