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Hi Justin, Personally speaking, numerical mistakes usually occur either when I'm not fully focused on what I do or I'm too "confident" to re-check what I've first done. To avoid numerical mistakes, I will make sure when I deal with numbers, I'm 100 percent focused and minimalize distractions during ...

Hi Tirza, Thanks for this fantastic thread! First I'd like to refer to the CEBOK, which specifies seven technical outcomes for CEs, among others Management, Economics, Design, etc. Yet I want to emphasize on another outcome, the Breadth of CE(ing), which requires CEs to possess the knowledge of ...

Hi Danielle, I find this thread highly resonates with my trying to look for the causations that I had decided to study in civil engineering. On the summer break in my third year at high school, I got a temporary job in a security service company which was providing a service to Toyota (China), ...

Hi Jameelah, My point is with this line, " To seek a goal that is worthy..." In many senses, my big dreams would still be SMART. Since I graduated with a degree in Management (majored in Construction Project Costing), I have worked near 9 years at contractor's side and at consultancy, and I've ...

Hi Luis, Great topic! During my previous years I used to say yes even though it exceeds my capacity. When I was in charge of building construction at the time of working in Manila, I would make commitments, which were often made under pressure to some extent but were unrealistic to achieve. Before long, ...