Mega Projects
Planning
CHEP
Selected Topics in Contemporary Issues
ASU x12
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Ragheb
aragheb@[Link]
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Planning Project Planning
❑ Any Project planning must be passed through well
defined steps, such as:
❖ Define goals and objectives
❖ Set success metrics
❖ Clarify stakeholders and roles
❖ Set budget
❖ Align on milestones, deliverables, and project dependencies
❖ Outline timeline and schedule
❖ Determine and plan resources
❖ Estimate costs
❖ Determine risks and constraints
❖ Plan out communication
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Planning Project Planning
❑ Engineering planning of any
project can be divided
through several stages Collection
depending on data:
❑ These stages can be
considered as a repetitive
cycle until the best actionable
planning is reached:
Data
Visualization Analysis
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Planning Data Collection
Data collection is the first and vital stage in project
planning. Any error in the data collection will inevitably
lead to disappointing results that are not expected from the
project.
Data changes depending on the type of project and the
purpose of collecting the data, e.g. population growth or
population distribution (in case of housing projects), water
consumption rate or evaporation rate (in case of water
projects).
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Planning Data Analysis
Vital key to determine the success of the proposed planning and reach
practical results beneficial to the environment and society.
Considered a pivotal role in today's data-driven world. It helps
organizations harness the power of data, enabling them to make decisions,
optimize processes, and gain a competitive edge.
Helpful in many ways for informed decision-making, improved
understanding, competitive advantage, Risk Mitigation, efficient resource
allocation and continuous Improvement.
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Planning Data Visualization
The main idea is to represent data in a way to easily
illustrate the behavior of the data. One way to do so,
to use the idea of grid formation, where data is
divided by grid lines while determining the values of
points of intersection of grid lines (nodes) in order to
draw contour lines and produce contour maps for the
values of the represented data
The spacing between
grid lines depends on
the intensity of the data
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Planning Contour Lines
They are imaginary lines joining points of same
values of represented data (e.g. elevations). In
such a case, the spacing between contour lines
indicates the slope of the ground (e.g. If parallel,
indicating uniform slope).
20
15
10
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Planning Contour Interval
It is the vertical spacing between successive
contour lines depending on the topography,
required accuracy and map scale (usually
multiples of 0.25m, 0.5m or 1m and constant
all over the map).
Choice of Contour interval depends on:
- The purpose and extend of the survey
- The Scale of the map
- The nature of the terrain (topography)
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Planning Contour Characteristics
-Continuous 20.00
22.00
24.00
-Do not intersect
(only in special cases)
Uniform slope Hill
-Close on each other
20.00
or close on area edges 24.00 22.00
22.00 24.00
20.00
Valley
Vertical cut
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Planning Formation of Grid
30 m 30 m
11.40 12.60 11.30
20 m
11.80 11.60 12.30
Node
20 m
12.10 12.80 11.40
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Planning Contour Interpolation
12.60
h1
12.0
Mathematically
X h2
L= 20.0 m
11.60
h1= 12.6-12=0.6m L
h2= 12-11.6=0.4m
h1 x
= Get X
h2 L − x
But for simplicity, this is done graphically
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Planning Contour Drawing
with any scale
30 m 30 m
Say contour interval 0.5m
11.40 12.60 0.6 11.30
Min. height 11.30m
Max. height 12.80m
20 m
Elevation=12m
Then draw contour:
11.80 11.60 12.30 11.5m, 12m, 12.5m
0.4
with same scale
20 m
12.10 12.80 11.40
This is drawn on a map
with a certain scale
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Planning Cut & Fill Areas
30 m 30 m
11.40 12.60 11.30
If it is required
to level the
20 m
ground at 12m
11.80 11.60 12.30
20 m
12.10 12.80 11.40
CUT
FILL
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Planning Software
Several Software area available for extraction of Longitudinal profiles,
cross sections, contour mapping and determination of volume of
Earthworks
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