Your organisation (a design-&-build consortium) has been engaged by a new retail-company client to design, construct and maintain an office building in the central-business-district of the city-centre (as question one above). (2a) In early (pre-contract) discussions, your design-&-build organisation sought informal prices from various sub-contractors for job packages (eg steelwork, foundations, electrical services), and used the lowest examples to quote for and win the job to design-&-build the retail- company's office project. After winning the project, your company then sent revised, detailed design packages with changed scopes to all local specialist sub-contractors, asking that they lower the early informal prices gathered. With reference to the code of ethics and case-study known to you, discuss how to address an ethical dilemma in requesting subcontractors to re- price more cheaply a modified changed scope, given that many have already spent time pricing previous packages for you, and assess acceptability to give alternate subcontractors another subcontractor's cost to ask if they can beat that price to win the re-designed package? * (10 marks) (2b) Your retail-company client is dissatisfied with your initial approximate and preliminary estimates for the city centre office, and now seeks you to initiate cost-reduction measures. Explain your financial approach in terms of elemental/sub-elemental analyses; and, discuss (with reference to appropriate codes of ethics, relevant historical &/or contemporary examples and ethical dilemma problem-solving) the need to balance on the one hand, the demands of cost-reduction programs, with on the other hand ensuring and enhancing the standard of health, safety and environment (HSE) related to this office-project, towards explaining the extent to which cost-effective solutions must meet today's ever-increasing HSE requirements. (10 marks) (20) After commencement on-site, a junior graduate-engineer with your company observed a slight difference in the levels of the column-kickers and, as they perceived the potential for future differential shortening, expressed these concerns to your company's nominated specialist oundation subcontractor. The foundations subcontractor who is also the nominated supplier of the subbase concrete, and is a relative of your organisation's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). pok no action. With reference to the code of ethics and any industry lessons learnt known to ou, discuss any issues related to engineering conduct and best practice by the parties, and ny potential stakeholder negligence in this case? (10 marks) Your organisation (a design-&-build consortium) has been engaged by a new retail-company client to design, construct and maintain an office building in the central-business-district of the city-centre (as question one above). (2a) In early (pre-contract) discussions, your design-&-build organisation sought informal prices from various sub-contractors for job packages (eg steelwork, foundations, electrical services), and used the lowest examples to quote for and win the job to design-&-build the retail- company's office project. After winning the project, your company then sent revised, detailed design packages with changed scopes to all local specialist sub-contractors, asking that they lower the early informal prices gathered. With reference to the code of ethics and case-study known to you, discuss how to address an ethical dilemma in requesting subcontractors to re- price more cheaply a modified changed scope, given that many have already spent time pricing previous packages for you, and assess acceptability to give alternate subcontractors another subcontractor's cost to ask if they can beat that price to win the re-designed package? * (10 marks) (2b) Your retail-company client is dissatisfied with your initial approximate and preliminary estimates for the city centre office, and now seeks you to initiate cost-reduction measures. Explain your financial approach in terms of elemental/sub-elemental analyses; and, discuss (with reference to appropriate codes of ethics, relevant historical &/or contemporary examples and ethical dilemma problem-solving) the need to balance on the one hand, the demands of cost-reduction programs, with on the other hand ensuring and enhancing the standard of health, safety and environment (HSE) related to this office-project, towards explaining the extent to which cost-effective solutions must meet today's ever-increasing HSE requirements. (10 marks) (20) After commencement on-site, a junior graduate-engineer with your company observed a slight difference in the levels of the column-kickers and, as they perceived the potential for future differential shortening, expressed these concerns to your company's nominated specialist oundation subcontractor. The foundations subcontractor who is also the nominated supplier of the subbase concrete, and is a relative of your organisation's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). pok no action. With reference to the code of ethics and any industry lessons learnt known to ou, discuss any issues related to engineering conduct and best practice by the parties, and ny potential stakeholder negligence in this case? (10 marks)