Compare the following risks: Preventable risks, Strategy risks, and External risks.

subject : risk management is construction

Based on the Engineering Case Study on Highland Towers Collapsed, answer the following questions;

a) Explain the factors contributing to the collapse of the building.

b) Explain Highland Properties engineer’s misconduct and relate it to the BEM Code of professional conduct.

1. Explain what life cycle analysis means. What is the importance of this analysis with respect to material selection? Explain in detail.

1. Why it is important for engineers to have a basic understanding of contract law?
2. Why is it important for constructors to have a basic understanding of contract law?
3. Why is breach of contract the central focus of all of the parties to a contract?

You have been asked to review the performance of a combination
solution gas, gas-cap drive reservoir. Well test and log information show
that the reservoir initially had a gas cap half the size of the initial oil
volume. Initial reservoir pressure and solution gas-oil ratio were 2500 psia
and 721 SCF/STB, respectively. Using the volumetric approach,
initial oil in place was found to be 56 MM STB. As you proceed with the
analysis, you discover that your boss has not given you all the data you
need to make the analysis. The missing information is that at some point
in the life of the project a pressure maintenance program was initiated
using gas injection. The time of the gas injection and the total amount of
gas injected are not known. There was no active water drive or water
production. PVT and production data are in the following table:

a) At what point (i.e., pressure) did the pressure maintenance program
begin?

b) How much gas in SCF had been injected when the reservoir pressure is
500 psia? Assume that the reservoir gas and the injected gas have the
same compressibility factor.

Explain Revenue Bonds & commissioning stage in construction

A ) Briefly explain the main characteristic of shear wall structures in tall building.
Sketch as necessary. Provide examples as well.
Describe the difference of proportionate and non-proportionate twisting structure.
B) Briefly explain the main characteristic of wall-frame structures in tall building.
Sketch as necessary. Provide examples as well.
C) Describe the factors affecting the stability of tall building. State the modes
involved in buckling of tall building

a) Sketch the specific energy curves for the following open channel flows:

· A hydraulic jump formed in a rectangular open channel

· Flow through a channel width constriction, where the depths remain subcritical

throughout

· Flow through a sluice gate, where the gate opening is less than the flow’s critical

depth.

· Flow through a combined channel width constriction together with an upward

step, where the depth remains subcritical throughout.

b) Define and explain the following terms

· Critical depth

· The origin or description of the two components of the specific energy for

rectangular channels

· Alternate depths· The origin or description of the two components of the momentum function for rectangular channels

Kanchana has been working as an environmental engineer at a consulting firm for over twenty-five years. Well-known for settling disputes between his corporate clients before litigation must be pursued, Kanchana often analyses technical data, particularly distributions of solid particle pollution, presented by disputing parties to help them reach a compromise on the cost of environmental clean-up. For example, two parties may be separated from one another by a strip of land; however, each party must fiscally contribute in keeping the land free from pollutants.
One day, Kanchana was contacted by a journalist to talk about his experiences at the firm. Kanchana spoke about how he often encountered cases where companies did not accurately depict levels of solid particle pollution occupying the companies’ respective surroundings. Instead, technical experts, who are mostly engineers, would misrepresent data in order to make it seem that minority parties were responsible for a greater part of the contamination. At the end of the interview, Kanchana emphasized the necessity of engineers taking ownership and being honest about the presentation of data.

1. What are the additional factors that might affect capacity and speed on freeways (hint: they don’t always exist, and the adjustment is not carried out if they are irrelevant in a given problem)? How do you make these adjustments?

1. What are the critical geometric parameters for a weaving section analysis?

3. What are the three macroscopic parameters in traffic flow? Which parameters was considered as the independent variable in class (as the switching point between travelers intending to make a trip, and them starting a trip)?

List 3 factors that would affect dozer production. Give an example of a change to one of those factors that would affect production and explain how that change would increase or decrease production.

The shallow sandy aquifer (4 feet thickness) is contaminated with 1,2-XYZ (K oc = 20 L/kg) at an average soil concentration of 800 mg/kg. A batch soil washing device is designed to treat 1,100 kg of contaminated soil (f oc = 0.004) with 900 gallons of clean water. Find the concentration of 1,2-XYZ in water and in soil and water after (a) one wash, and, (b) two wash.