EMS5RCE – Risk Engineering (2022)
Assignment 2
You have been tasked to evaluate the risks associated with moving from a traditional construction method for constructing concrete formwork (such as precast), to an advanced method that will be designed to take advantage of additive and/or automated and digital techniques.
Firstly, draw on your engineering background to gain an overview of the current
construction methods and their respective times. Obviously, this information may not be
readily available, therefore, you may be required to make some assumptions – but use your
engineering judgements to make sure these are justified.
Then, select an appropriate advanced / alternative method for your project. It could also
be a future construction method that is yet to be commercialised. Remember, this subject is
about risk engineering, and this report does not require a full technical evaluation.
The next stage will be to implement a risk management process based on the ISO31000
and the content of this course. Some things to think about would include:
● Risks and opportunities
● Hazards
● Safe design principles
● The risk management process
o Risk identification
o Risk analysis
o Risk evaluation
o Risk treatment
o Risk monitoring and review
● Techniques and tools used for planning and probabilistic analysis
o CPM
o PERT
o Monte Carlo
● Summary
o Conclusions and lessons learnt
o Recommendations
o Future research
Go through the step-by-step process with your team, brainstorm what the different risks
for you company and project are, where they are coming from, are they internal or external,
what category, etc. Set-up a risk matrix and score the various risks.
With regard to the techniques and tools you will use for planning and probabilistic
analysis you may wish to compare different methods. For instance, one could compare the
use of PERT calculations to a Monte Carlo simulation?
You will need to include at least one network diagram – preferably two. One could be
either specific to an assembly process (such as print part 🡪 machine part 🡪 assemble part etc.).
The other could be related to your company as a whole, i.e., buy raw materials 🡪 manufacture
part 🡪 package and store 🡪 ship part/component to customer etc. In each case there are risks
involved and they can be assigned times, or costs or both.
How can digital design/construction be of use when implementing and monitoring risks?
Could you think of a feedback loop for data along the path?
These are some of the questions you should cover in your report.
2 Instructions
The Assignment can be laid out as follows:
● Use the font sizes specified in the individual assignment.
● Font can be Timed New Roman, Calibri or similar.
● Use spell check and read your assignment before submitting.
● Reference figures and other sources of information. Use a referencing tool such as
Zotero https://www.zotero.org/
● Use the numeric IEEE style type.
● 2,000 words per person! Be concise!
To ensure your submission fits the page/word count ranges, make certain to count words
in the body using your word processor and then add in the equivalent word counts for your
tables and images. References do not count towards the wordcount. Figures and tables are
counted by the amount of words they replace. Make sure you include only highly relevant
images and remove non-essential images to help your manuscript be more reader-friendly
while fitting within the page/word limits.
Use the same layout (font sizes, section headings etc.) that was provided for the first
assignment. The body of the paper usually contain the following sections:
● La Trobe Cover Sheet
● Title
● Authors first and last (given and family) names and student numbers and e-mail
address
● Summary (400 words maximum, no graphics)
● Introduction
● Body
● Conclusions/Summary
● Acknowledgements (if any)
● References
Systéme International (SI) units are to be used. Non-SI measurements can be included,
but they should follow the SI measurement in parentheses. An example is 2.54 cm (1.00 inch).
