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Responsibilities of Setting Out Engineers

An engineer is responsible for thoroughly understanding construction plans, site conditions, available surveying equipment, and maintaining proper documentation when performing setting out work. The engineer must check survey controls, calibrate equipment, and ensure an adequate supply of materials. Independent checks of computations and field layout help ensure accuracy. Communication between all parties is also important.

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Responsibilities of Setting Out Engineers

An engineer is responsible for thoroughly understanding construction plans, site conditions, available surveying equipment, and maintaining proper documentation when performing setting out work. The engineer must check survey controls, calibrate equipment, and ensure an adequate supply of materials. Independent checks of computations and field layout help ensure accuracy. Communication between all parties is also important.

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Engineers responsibility of setting out.

A complete and thorough understanding of the plans, working drawings, setting-out


data, tolerances involved and the lime scale of operations. Checks on the setting-out
data supplied should be immediately implemented.

A complete and thorough knowledge of the site. plant and relevant personnel.
Communications between all individuals is vitally important. Field checks on the
survey control already established on site, possibly by contract surveyors, should be
carried out at the first opportunity.

A complete and thorough knowledge of the survey instrumentation available on site,


including the effect of instrumental errors on setting-out observations. At the first
opportunity, a base should be established for the calibration of tapes. EDM equipment,
levels and theodolites.

A complete and thorough knowledge of the stores available, to ensure an adequate and
continuing supply of pegs, pins, chalk, string, paint, timber, etc.

Office procedure should be so organized as to ensure easy access to all necessary


information. Plans should be stored flat in plan drawers, and those amended or
superseded should be withdrawn from use and stored elsewhere. Field and level books
should be carefully referenced and properly filed. All setting-out computations and
procedures used should be clearly presented, referenced and filed.

Wherever possible, independent checks of the computation, abstraction, and


extrapolation of setting-out data and of the actual setting-out procedures should be
made.

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