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The article is a great pick from the ASCE-Source Claim Reduction monthly series. Most industrial policy and management documents – have some sort of guidelines on many such issues. One thing that occurs to me – is that most often we do not give enough importance to mentioning, discussing or making ...

The art of effective communication? Let us brood over this question for a while in simple terms – with the hope that it would help us to realize different kind of clarity. I am posting this as a rejoinder to my earlier post. Communication is to relate ourselves with others – in actions and reactions. ...

Bill – this is an interesting topic – and I guess we have discussed aspects of it in some other threads before. The shared paper greatly enhances some of the communication issues – in particular within engineering industries. In this post, I like to limit myself to highlighting some interesting and ...

There have been reports and papers on the failures of two cascading earthen dams that were breached and eventually washed away in 2020. There is a 2022 FEMA Report on the 2020 Michigan two-Dams Failures. The series of six dams in the region were built in the period between 1912 and 1925 – long before ...

Thanks Bill – for posting the link to this useful "aspirational" Guide Book. Perhaps like many others – I was not aware of it. Had the opportunity to download it. I see that you were one of contributors – no wonder you have interest in promoting it. It's a neat handy book that one can always refer to ...