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Mental Wealth - Professional Life (Engineering Management)

Learning outcome 1: Analyse the structure of the UK project management system and possess a critical awareness of the managerial role played by the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry

Learning outcome 2: Evaluate the AEC professional's role in society and the community

Learning outcome 3: Explain and critically assess procedures involved in engineering management

Learning outcome 4: Evaluate the importance and application of quality assurance and quality control procedures within the construction industry

Learning outcome 5: Analyse the main forms of civil engineering contracts and procedures and apply them to a given task.

Learning outcome 6: Critically assess the environmental impact of construction projects and the use of sustainable methods of construction

Learning outcome 7: Use various analytical methods to evaluate project programming & controls and critically evaluate how the findings may be used in the decision-making process.

Learning outcome 8: Communicate ideas, principles and facts to a wider audience in the form of a presentation.

The Mental Wealth Competencies, listed below, are a way to reflect on how you act and react to situations, and what ‘softer' skills you are developing throughout your working life in general and this assignment in particular:

• Digital Proficiency (DP)
• Emotional Intelligence Development (EID)
• Social Intelligence Development (SID)
• Physical Intelligence Development (PID)
• Cultural Intelligence Development (CID)
• Cognitive Intelligence (CI)
• Industry Connections (IC)
• Community Connections (CC)

Task

As in the real world, you will be dealing with ambiguous and uncertain situations and information. You will need to manage, mitigate and justify any assumptions according to your best professional understanding. You must deliver to your client a professional report that addresses their concerns and puts forward your suggested outline design / action plan with ways to implement that plan. It is important to remember that you are acting as a professional consultant and must put forward what you believe to be the most appropriate solution remembering you have a professional duty to society which may be contrary to your client's needs.

There are two parts to the assessment of this module and they are included in this one assignment as follows: (Please submit two separate documents)

1. Case Study, Technical Report -
2. Individual Mental Wealth Reflective Log

The technical issues will be covered in part (A) and your professional ability to manage yourself will be demonstrated in the Reflective Log (B).

Assignment brief
Keep a log of all the challenges that you face and reflect upon this in your Reflective Log.

The structure of the report and reflective log
The main features of a report are described below to provide a general guide. These should be used in conjunction with the instructions or guidelines provided.

Title Page
This should briefly but explicitly describe the purpose of the report (if this is not obvious from the title of the work); remember to add your name and student number/assessment number, and which assessment it pertains to.

Summary (Abstract)
The abstract is a brief summary of your Research Proposal, and should be no longer than 200 words. It starts by describing in a few words the knowledge domain where your research takes place and the key issues of that domain that offer opportunities for the scientific innovations you intend to explore. Taking those key issues as a background, you then present briefly your research statement, your proposed research approach, the results you expect to achieve, and the anticipated implications of such results on the advancement of the knowledge domain.

Contents (Table of Contents)

The contents page should list the different chapters and/or headings together with the page numbers. Your contents page should be presented in such a way that the reader can quickly scan the list of headings and locate a particular part of the report. You may want to number chapter headings and subheadings in addition to providing page references. Whatever numbering system you use, be sure that it is clear and consistent throughout.

Introduction
The introduction gives an overview of the research project you propose to carry out. It explains the background of the project, focusing briefly on the major issues of its knowledge domain and clarifying why these issues are worthy of attention. It then proceeds with the concise presentation of the research statement, which can take the form of a hypothesis, a research question, a project statement, or a goal statement. The research statement should capture both the essence of the project and its delimiting boundaries, and should be followed by a clarification of the extent to which you expect its outcomes to represent an advance in the knowledge domain you have described. The introduction should endeavour, from the very beginning, to catch the reader's interest and should be written in a style that can be understood easily by any reader with a general science background. It should cite all relevant references pertaining to the major issues described, and it should close with a brief description of each one of the chapters that follow. Many authors prefer to postpone writing the Introduction until the rest of the document is finished. This makes a lot of sense, since the act of writing tends to introduces many changes in the plans initially sketched by the writer, so that it is only by the time the whole document is finished that the writer gets a clear view of how to construct an introduction that is, indeed, compelling.

Project Brief - The Millennium Mills Redevelopment

Project requirements
Lendlease are looking to you for answers as to how to achieve from the project the most appropriate:
• Sustainable approach to design that will provide long term benefit to the local and wider area of East London.
• An integrated infrastructure strategy and improved access and transport links for the local people and businesses.

• A strong commercial strategy & evidence that the development with be financially viable and meet its legal requirements.
• Demonstrate that they meet the needs of local and regional stakeholders and environmental planning obligations
• A clear procurement strategy and safe construction programme
• A high-quality development that showcases innovation and also provides value for money for the client and stakeholders alike.

Part A Technical Report

Technical written report, written in individual named sections

You need to provide a brief detailed report as outlined below: It is expected that each section, will be supported with charts, data, and sketches where required.

Section I - Design Issues

1. Devise a programme in the form of a Gantt chart following the RIBA plan of works for the consultation and design of the project only showing clearly all-time constraints prior to construction.
2. Analyse and provide financial data supporting and justifying cost implications at design stage only for the project.
3. Specify & discuss how Building Information Modelling (BIM) can be applied to this project.

Section II - Environmental & Stakeholder Management

1. An overview of the environmental issues affecting the construction & operation of the project.
2. A detailed report supporting the process in which public concerns will be addressed.
3. Evaluate how Low Carbon Planning helps to integrate energy efficiency and renewable energy sources cost effectively into the new development. (e.g. identify the measures used to minimising construction waste, embodied energy and carbon emissions, in low carbon energy design and planning)

Section III - Construction Planning

1. The choice of construction methods and logistics for the redevelopment to reduce carbon emission and reduce pollution.
2. Discuss Health and Safety obligations and provide detailed method statements supported with pictorials for the construction of the major elements of the works, these must be project specific.
3. An outline programme (Gantt chart user friendly) for the works for the key elements (manually or software based) identifying critical activities & resource smoothing opportunities.

Section IV - Economic & legal Issues

1. Present an economic evaluation of the financing of the Infrastructure and the likely costs.
2. Discuss the geotechnical issues that need to be addressed within this scheme which will affect the design and cost.
3. Advise the client on the following: -
a. The different methods for "Dispute Resolution" if disputes arise?
b. The role of a professional in the built environment (e.g. engineer, architect, project manager etc.) as an expert witness?

Section V - Procurement Methods & Supply Chain Matters

1. Select & justify the most appropriate procurement method for this project in terms of the contractual obligations. Explore the implementation of the innovative collaborative procurement approach to de-risk the construction.
2. Analyse the structure of the UK economic in terms of procurement methods & supply chain matters and demonstrate a critical awareness of the economic role played by the civil engineering construction industry.
3. Describe how Quality Assurance System ensures the best practice in managing the construction of the development. Propose practical measures that can be utilised by contractors to ensure that the client achieves a project that is ‘fit for purpose' and best value for money'.

Part B - Reflective Log and Summary Report

The Mental Wealth Competencies

This assignment forms part of the Mental Wealth curriculum that will not only demonstrate your technical and managerial knowledge and application, but also the ‘softer engineering and management ‘skill that are prized by post-graduate recruiters and employers in Industry.

Throughout this assignment you are required to record and reflect on your own learning, skills and development needs linked to the Mental Wealth Curriculum. This is a common requirement of professional bodies such as the ICE, as part of its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes; being able to reflect on your own learning, skills and competencies is very important. This activity is all about reflection and reflective writing, where reflective writing is:
• your response to experiences, opinions, events or new information.
• your response to thoughts and feelings.
• a way of exploring your learning.
• an opportunity to gain self-knowledge.
• a way to achieve clarity and better understanding of what you are learning.

Attachment:- Mental Wealth.rar