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Surveyor operating a total station beside a rural highway with a rod person downstream.

Project Planner

Field survey: the horizontal and vertical control every alignment and grade later depends on.

Week 9 of 12

Validation, Risk, Safety, Sustainability, and Constructability

Demonstrating that the proposed solution can be evaluated and implemented responsibly.

Oct 21 – Oct 25 · deliverables due Oct 25 · est. 8 hrs

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Instructor note: Name the three risks most likely to sink your project — and how you would detect each one early.

Learning objectives

  • Develop validation methods
  • Identify technical risks
  • Evaluate safety
  • Consider sustainability
  • Assess constructability
  • Identify uncertainty

Lecture topics

  • Verification versus validation
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • Engineering safety
  • Resilience
  • Sustainability and life-cycle thinking
  • Constructability
  • Quality assurance and uncertainty
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