Phase risk management

post carries three assignments

1: Construction phase risk management

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1,500 word report covering two aspects of
construction risk management related either to
procurement strategies, standard forms of contracts,
resolving contractual disputes or health & safety.

For civil engineers often the focus is on construction phase risk. However, many
of the opportunities to significantly impact these risks come earlier in the project
lifecycle. One of the indicators of a well-run project is the use of a risk
management approach where such considerations are a key part of the process.
In 1,500 words or less answer 2 of the following 4 questions in reference to a
case study you have chosen. The case study should relate to a mega project such
as the Thames Tideway tunnel, Crossrail or London Olympic Games.
1. Explain how a procurement and contract strategy can be used to allocate
risk between stakeholders. Do you think the strategy used by in your case
study was successful and what alternative approaches how could it have
been used?
2. Set out the forms of contracts in use across the construction industry and
explain, with case studies, where each form could be most suitably used.
3. Describe the dispute resolution methods used by construction industry. In
your opinion, and supported by case studies, when should each method be
applied to greatest effect?
4. What are the key components of a system of H&S management? With
reference to a case study, how can the success of such programmes be
measured?

See further description of coursework in the uploaded file ‘BPM- Coursework ToR Final v2.pdf’. The other uploaded files are the lecture notes necessary for the report and other references.

2: Gender politics

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Select an issue, theory, or question that has political dimensions (broadly defined) and that also has significant gendered dimensions. Choose two or three authors (at least two authors from within the course readings), and suggest how they might be in dialogue with each other about this issue, theory, or question. What might they have in common? Points of divergence? You’ll want to refer to the authors’ texts to support your discussion.

Aronson, A., & Kimmel, M. (2013). The gendered society reader (5th ed.). New York, NY:
Oxford University Press. [Text cost (list price): $41.93]
Griffin, S. (1992). A chorus of stones: The private life of war. New York, NY: Doubleday. [Text
cost (list price): 18.95]
Kimmel, M. (2012a). The gendered society (5th ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
[Text cost (list price): $68.13]
Pharr, S. (1988). Homophobia: A weapon of sexism. Inverness, CA: Chardon. Retrieved from https://www.faculty.umb.edu/heike.schotten/readings/Pharr,%20Homophobia%20as%20a
%20Weapon%20of%20Sexism.pdf

3: Afterlives of the Capital of the 19th Century in Paris

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talk as a person that went to the trip with the group to focus on arcades and street made by each walter benjamen and haussman and please use souces that are easy to approach and easy to get
the brief below says what should we be targeting in the visit i will give you a web please have a look and methodology and primary research is all in thier (final project plan has a guide to what did we do everyday) try to connect to it as its the group work website:

https://380mcarrow.wordpress.com

Project: Afterlives of the Capital of the 19th Century
Location: Paris, France

The phantasmagoria of capitalist culture attains its most radiant unfolding in the world exhibition of 1867 [in Paris]. –Walter Benjamin

It is in the character of capitalism as well as media cultures to remake societies, not only in terms of ideas and practices, but also in series of nonstop, successive waves that remake the material fabric of everyday life. In the agitation to produce and sell new ways of life, capitalism fixes itself on a style of “commodity fetishism” wherein physical objects bought and sold become talismans that exemplify (and enable) a way of life for their users and beholders.

In The Arcades Project, German philosopher Walter Benjamin’s turned his attention towards the everyday objects, gadgets, fashions, and frivolities of Nineteenth-Century Paris in order to decipher how capitalism and other modern forces were remaking the modern world and its human subjects. Rather than reading the history of civilization in terms of the changes of its dominant political forms, scientific practices, or religious ideals, Benjamin proposed that in nineteenth-century Paris we detect the making of modern (capitalist) society in the transformation of everyday artifacts. The construction of fabulous shopping arcades, the devising of automata and World’s Fairs to distract the masses, and the appearance of “the panorama” and other spectacles, the rise of department stores, and other elements of everyday urban culture provided Benjamin with material residue by which the broader ideals, techniques of production, and ways of life characteristic of a society at a particular place and time become concrete and effective.

Using Benjamin’s Arcades Project as your guide, inventory select material traces of nineteenth-century Paris. You can take examples from Benjamin’s work or you can find your own original examples of nineteenth-century monuments, artifacts, architectures, works of art, etc. Compare and contrast these artifacts with artifacts of twenty-first century Paris, discussing how new modes of capitalism and labor are realized in the material artifacts of twenty-first century architecture, fashion, materials, practices of leisure, etc. Use this comparison to help us understand the values, fantasies, and ideologies inherent in twenty-first century commodity cultures of Paris and beyond.

Specifically, this brief invites you to undertake a research project that considers some of the following issues:

• How do the the materials of a society come to mediate its cultural, political, and economic transformation?
• How do your chosen artifacts—as elements of commercial, commercial, and media cultures of their time—provide insight into the nature (or changing nature) of nineteenth-century material culture in Paris?
• Consider how (or if) these artifacts cast light on the change status of class structure, industrial development, new modes of leisure, and other aspects of nineteenth-century material culture in Paris.
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Your individual essay should be a word critical reflection of your project and, in particular, your individual contribution to the project. You will need to include the following:

1. Brief outline of the project and your aims and objectives
2. Your primary research and research methodologies
3. Theoretical input you employed and why this was useful
4. Your particular individual inputs (eg archive management, field research, photography/visual/audio documentation, etc)
5. Appropriate references to sources used

Capital of the 19th Century in Paris