How do you resolve earthwork quantity disputes?

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Frequently we receive such inquiries from our users. Often when our users– who are consultants– present their earthwork quantity results,  their clients would come up with an alternative figure. Often, the clients will just present a single number, with no..

How do you differentiate yourself as a consulting engineer?

With more and more civil engineers entering the workforce–one estimate is that around 16K new graduates are produced yearly (about 50% of them are civil engineers), and with more and more engineering firms set.. 

Imagine in a meeting, you just happily present the output of MiTS software for the infrastructure design. You show the earthwork levels you design, the keyplans, the drainage longitudinal cross section, the predevelopment watershed analysis and the 3D view to your client, architects, other fellow engineers and quantity surveyors. It seems that everyone is extremely engaged and towards the end, it looks like you are making the greatest…

Watershed is the area where the flows from higher point drains all the water running to a common outlet. It combines with other watersheds forming network of stream that all drain into larger body of water, such as lakes and oceans. Topography..