How Important is Life Cycle Costing Assessment in Project Management?
04 July 2019
Life Cycle Costing Assessment is a tool used by engineering consultants to extrapolate the incurred costs of a chosen infrastructural system over all the phases of its working existence. Using LCCA estimates, an asset controlling officer makes acquisition choices, creates capital expenditure outlay tables, and analyses system operating expenses. In effect, this finance-savvy expert uses existing process behaviour patterns to project system life cycles. More Than a Spreadsheet Issue A project management strategy can be fuelled for quite some time by financial numbers. The costs of equipment, the interest rates incurred during the operational lifespan of an infrastructure branch, the […]
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Important Guidelines in Designing Water Reticulation Systems
19 June 2019
As noted in a previous post, water reticulation systems transport life-sustaining fluids to their destination. From a surface or underground reservoir to homes, water delivery networks are designed, constructed and maintained. Larger structures occupy the fluid distribution map, too. Then there are outlying network convergences, which include mines and quarries. What a complex system, with all of those branches thirsty for water. Clearly, this is not a design project for the uninitiated. Establishing the Fundamental Design Goals Where is this water distribution system located? What kind of nodes are mapped onto this infrastructural layer? If it’s a housing complex, at […]
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The Importance of Forensic Engineering in Cases of Building Failure Disputes
06 June 2019
As noted in a previous post, water reticulation systems transport life-sustaining fluids to their destination. From a surface or underground reservoir to homes, water delivery networks are designed, constructed and maintained. Larger structures occupy the fluid distribution map, too. Then there are outlying network convergences, which include mines and quarries. What a complex system, with all of those branches thirsty for water. Clearly, this is not a design project for the uninitiated. Establishing the Fundamental Design Goals Where is this water distribution system located? What kind of nodes are mapped onto this infrastructural layer? If it’s a housing complex, at […]
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Construction Design Brief and Cost Estimates: Why Should Clients Be Guided Accordingly?
17 May 2019
As relevant as any engineering skill, the communications stage of a construction project has to be conducted with great discretion. A construction design brief is composed and documented by a lead consultant. The clients’ project demands are slowly being translated into detailed drawings and design plans, complete with several cost estimates and material options. The problem is, what if the client can’t easily follow those technically oriented schematics? Composing the Construction Design Brief At day’s end, a technical consultancy service has to communicate their intents. If that means designing a single engineered solution to some customer-introduced structural problem, then that’s […]
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Civil Engineering Services: The Need for Farm Dams and Detention Storage in Australia
06 May 2019
Farm dams help water-starved, food-growing regions to flourish. That’s a particularly attractive promise, especially in areas that don’t get much rain. Parts of Australia feature conspicuously as arid regions, which is worrying since this great continent is heavily populated. Granted, the population occupies great swathes of coastal land, but Australians are moving inwards, and they’re bringing their farms with them. One more time, then, what about farm dam engineering? End-Line Agricultural Hydrology Let’s talk about farmland hydrology. There are crops growing and livestock subsiding on arid land. They need nutrition. More important than food, they need life-sustaining water. Irrigation systems […]
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