Discuss the Dilemma Engineers Face in Balancing Capital Expenditure Versus Optimum Design for Efficient Operations and Maintenance, Bearing in Mind the Impact of Capital Expenditure on the Engineer’s Fees.

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Today’s working world is full of sophistication and obstacles. All of us are encountering with countless number of problems and obstacles in carrying out our daily working life. Accountants are always facing with customer complaints, conflicts with colleagues, superiors, complication of various new accounting standards etc. The same goes to engineering and other professions. Engineers are constantly encounter with problems such as modifications due to frequent design changes, incompliance of contractors, poor construction workmanship, abnormal demands from clients and various problems as a result of miscommunication and contradicting interests as well as opinions in clients, contractors and other consultants. As a result, being able to resolve problems in an efficient and effective manner is critical in ensuring continuous success. This essay would concentrate in the discussion of one of the critical obstacles that engineers are constantly facing in their working life namely the dilemma that engineers face in balancing capital expenditure versus optimum design for efficient operations and maintenance. The roles of engineers are respectively wide. Amongst the major responsibilities for engineers are design, construction supervision, consultation, project procurement, commissioning and management etc. Engineers are responsible to incorporate good design in accordance to relevant codes of practice and international best practices. A good design solution would have to include two important aspects namely design adequacy and viability, and cost effectiveness. In addition, engineers have obligation to generate design solutions that are environmental friendly at the same time meeting the demanding requirements of client. Engineers have a duty of care to the environment, society and to their valuable customers or clients. They would have to generate design that fulfil

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