The Engineer, Tort Law and Contracts

The Engineer, Tort Law and Contracts

contains three assignments

1:Complex Systems

Order Description

Contribute blog entries to it in which you combine your own practical experience in a variety of situations relevant to concepts that were treated in the course content, describe how it is relevant to your situation and that of others, using and making reference to recent scientific literature.

Purpose: To show an understanding of the psychology principles as they relate to high performance sports environments, to critically reflect on the practical application of sport and performance psychology in the high performance sport context, and to communicate this knowledge effectively to the high performance sport community.

2:Environmental logbook

Order Description

Compile a portfolio of articles covering current environmental issues that relate either directly or indirectly to tourism and hospitality. A critical analysis of how the issues contained in the article affect environmental management in hotels/attractions should accompany each article.
• water management
• waste management
• energy management
• the indoor environment
• building and construction management
• sustainable food systems
• sustainability of operations
• environmental management systems
• environmental legislation
• national park management.

Note: At least one article in each of the three topic areas should be an academic article. The portfolio should be presented in the following manner:
• an assignment cover page
• heading page for each of the three topics chosen
• actual copies of the articles pasted into the portfolio, sorted into the three different topics (if the article is more than one page in length, only the front page is required in order to save paper)
• The portfolio can be submitted entirely electronically, it doesn’t have to be a paper-based assignment
• a typed/word-processed analysis pasted onto the adjoining page to the article. This analysis/discussion should include references to the academic literature.

Assessment criteria
Content
• adherence to guidelines above
• clear understanding of the topic and concepts
• relevance of material
• application of material.
Research
• evidence of adequate depth and breadth of research, including references to academic literature.
Reasoning
• logical argument and discussion.
Presentation
• professionally presented; proper referencing.
Tips
1. Too many similar articles make good discussion more difficult as it is difficult not to repeat yourself.
2. Choose your articles carefully so that you write a perceptive analysis.
3. Academic articles are usually easier to write good commentary on as they are usually more specific. General industry articles are often rather like ‘motherhood’ statements and therefore more difficult to comment on.
4. A portfolio which contains articles that look like they have been obtained easily from one or two sources will not score well.
5. Back up your arguments with literature references whenever possible.

3:The Engineer, Tort Law and Contracts

Background to the Legal Case:

Engineers as well as corporations must comply with various legislations and statutes and regulations in the performance of their responsibilities. They also have duty of care in Tort Law and other applicable laws.

A municipality, as owner, retained an architect to design a new police station. The architect entered into a contract with an engineering firm to perform structural design services in connection with the project.

In performing soils investigations, the engineering firm’s employee engineer assigned to the project examined two shallow test pits and recommended to the architect that proper deep soils tests be taken. However, the architect rejected the engineer’s recommendation, informing the engineer that expensive soils tests were not part of the owner’s budget for the project.

The engineer submitted a “soils report” to the owner on the basis of the superficial examination of the shallow test pits.
Neither the architect nor the engineer indicated to the owner that the engineer had recommended to the architect that a more thorough subsurface investigation be undertaken.

The design of the police station was completed and the building was constructed in accordance with the project drawings and specifications.

Within twelve months of completion of the engineering design service the new police station “settled” very badly on one code and extensive remedial foundation work was necessary to correct the settlement problems.

Upon investigation the reason for the settlement problems, another consulting engineering firm concluded that the design should never have proceeded without the more detailed and thorough subsurface investigation, which the original project engineer had recommended to the architect.

Requirements:
Read the case and review the relevant lecture material.
Write a report that answers the following specific questions:
1) What potential liabilities arise from the preceding set of facts? In identifying the potential liabilities in tort law, explain the application of tort law principles to the facts as given.
2) Indicate the likely outcome to the matter.
3) Are there any precedents in common law that you relied on?
4) Draft an appropriate contract between the Municipality and the Architect to avoid such problems and risks in the future (you may use the suggested
PEO contract template attached).
5) Include References and other sources for your answer

enviromental management