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Professional Decisions: Responsibilities

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Elms, David G. and Brown, Colin B.

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The responsibilities which civil engineers, and particularly the engineer of record, accept are considered. The interaction with other decision makers such as the owner, stakeholders, the law and contractors results in complexity that can be partially resolved by the introduction of protocols in the form of regulations and codes of...

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. Examples of decision-making are included in judicial verdicts, medical prescriptions and in military
A Systems Approach to Civil Engineering Decisions

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Rodriguez-Nikl, Tonatiuh and Brown, Colin B.

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While contemporary civil engineering projects are increasingly complex, the cognitive abilities of the decision maker remain limited. There is a conflict between the complexity that is required to describe a scenario with all its relevant properties and the limited number of ideas that can be included in rational considerations and...

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. A political rationality takes account of subjective uncertainty and involves decision making in a
Professional Decisions: The Central Role of Models

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Elms, David G. and Brown, Colin B.

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Engineering is largely concerned with models and modelling. Models provide a context in which decisions are made. Here the modelling process is considered in a general sense and then the relationship with engineering models is developed. For understanding, a first step is to differentiate and categorize. Thus ten types of...

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their purposes with respect to professional decision making are discussed. The role of models in