Task 3 Following is a gist extract from The New Zealand Herald/Australian Associated Press news - 10:45 AM Monday Oct 10, 2011 (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10758005) Big Ben is leaning like Pisa "... Whether the British parliament is leaning to the left or right depends on your point of view but Big Ben is officially tilting. And surveyors say it is getting worse. A new report has found the top of the famous clock tower, which stands above the parliament in central London, is now just under half a metre off the perpendicular. That is so far off that experts believe the tilt is visible to the naked eye.. ... Civil engineers believe the tower is sinking more quickly on the north side than the south side of the Palace of Westminster. Monitoring instruments have suggested the tilt has increased by about a centimetre a year since 2003, about 40 per cent faster than the long-term average. The tower is now leaning towards the northwest at an angle of 0.26 degrees, meaning the top of the tower is 43.5cm from vertical.... It would take another 4000 years or so for it to match the angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which leans by about four degrees. The problem has been blamed on decades of building work around the foot of the 96-metre, 11-storey structure since completion in 1858. These have ranged from a sewer built for a tube line and an underground car park for MPs in the 1970s. " Assuming the role of an Independent Risk Management Consultant, you are required to prepare a Risk Assessment, including: (i) a SWIFT (i.e. Structured "What-IF" Technique) memorandum; and (ii) a Bow-Tie analysis report. SWIN BUR *NE SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY