Milburn Scott Elliott’s Deposition Summary On April 2, 2014, Milburn Scott Elliott took a deposition for a previous lawsuit. Elliott construction was organized in 2009. Milburn Scott Elliott is the managing member of Elliott Construction, LLC and has a high school education. The company was hired by the City of Brian to build a lift station and to do sewer line work. Mr. Elliott is a member of the Association of General Contractors for 10 years. Mr. Elliott used to work for Tiller Corporation as a supervisor over utilities. He worked there for about 2 years and that was about 30 years ago. There were 22 workers at Elliott Construction at the time of the deposition: laborers, supervisors, machine operators, admin assistant, and bookkeeper. Elliott Construction provides training and all the employees took the training. He cannot recall when or what company gave the training, but all of the employees received certificates. The classes were trenching and shoring classes. Mr. Elliott has also taken safety classes, a six or seven hour TEEX shoring class. He does not remember when and where he took the class. …show more content…
He did not have an engineer review his the plans. An engineer who designed the lift station took a soil sample at the job site. Elliott assumed that the soil was Type A, because it was stiff. However, he does not know what ultimately was the soil type. The contract with the City of Brian required that all soils be treated as Class C soil (a looser soil). Class C soil requires special precautions to protect workers that Type A soil may not require; however, Elliott proceeded with the project assuming the soil was Type A instead of Type C. Additionally, Elliott was not aware that OSHA required that a trench of that depth with Type C soil requires a registered professional engineer to approve the method and manner of protecting the workers with a shoring system and trench safety
FACTS: Dr. Robert Lee Berry (Defendant) was a practicing anesthesiologist, who practiced with Dr William Preau and Dr. Mark Dennis. He was also shareholder in Lakeview Anesthesia Associates, LAA (defendant). Berry also had staff privileges at Lakeview Medical Center (LMC) (Defendant). In Nov 2000, Lakeview (Defendant) investigated Dr. Robert Berry after nurses concern. In March 2001, Berry was found groggy, unfit to work and sleeping in a chair, Based on this incident and suspicions that Barry was stealing Demerol from the hospital, he was terminated from LAA and Lakeview and his LMC staff privileges were withdrawn. Afterward, Berry applied for job as anaestheologist in Kadlec Medical Center (plaintiff). Before employing Kadlec, the facility sent a letter to Lakeview requesting recommendations and included a questionnaire with specific questions to be answered.
What uncompensated work did the plaintiff claim she performed? What should the district court have done with the statement of another employee that the plaintiff did not engage in work prior to her official start time?
40. Plaintiff, STEVEN HOOPER, repeats, realleges and reiterates each and every allegation contained in Paragraphs “1” though “39” of the Complaint.
Purpose - To prove negligence of both General Palmer Railroad and engineer Lee Thompson in regards to the accident that killed John Goodson. To prove that current railroad regulations and procedures are not adequate to prevent grade crossing accidents.
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Even though his firm was only required to do civil engineering work, Giffels concluded that there was an unacceptable risk to the firefighters who would use the facility with the unresolved issues, so he began contacting other firms with experience handling similar contract projects, part of exercising due care to ensure they could enhance safety. The training facility met the minimum requirements of the law, but Giffels felt that it would be shirking the responsibility his firm has to the public by not callin...
Fletcher’s history began in 1909 with the construction of a timber weatherboard house in Dunedin, New Zealand. In 2001, it was listed as Fletcher building limited on the New Zealand stock exchange. The headquarter of Fletcher building is located in Penrose Auckland, New Zealand. They are mainly based on construction work. For example, Fletcher building is one of the biggest New Zealand construction company. They have 18,800 employees working for their different sites. They have some future plans such as to expand their business worldwide with innovation. Their future plan is to make 191 new houses in Christchurch. They are also doing reconstruction work in Canterbury and other regions of New Zealand.
Roof tiles are designed to block out rain, this is because the tiles will have a ‘waterproof glaze’ ensuring that rain will not enter the home and that inside will stay dry.
In building construction and in fire prevention there are organizations that have created a useful system on how to determine what type of building falls under which category. The ICC (International Code Council) and the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) create these building codes for the safety of firefighters. The two most commonly known standards for building classifications are the NFPA 5000 and also the International Building Code (IBC). The two are very similar, however, they different on sub-categorizing. The International Building Code uses Roman numerals behind the type of construction. In addition to subcategories with letters for each five classes and the amount of fire resistance provided for each building. NFPA uses Roman numerals behind the type of construction. Unlike the IBC, NFPA uses a 3-digit number system behind that to sub categorize the fire hourly rating for the load-bearing walls, for the beams and columns, and for the floor construction. The IBC and NFPA breaks down construction in to five classes, Type I, Type II, Type III, Type IV, and Type V.
BOT basically is a type of contract which involves two sectors that are private and government. The government requested the private sector to provide some infrastructure for the living, so that it can helps in the development of the country. The non-government sector will design, provide finances, construct and also operates the facility (building, school, road, etc.). After some period of time, the ownership will be transferred back to government. It is possible because of the process of concession where the private sector will take the benefits from the operation of the building and then after the concession finished, the ownership can be given to government.
Footing system is typically the launching pad for the building construction process which commences after site establishment activities are completed. It is the fundamental basis for the structure that establishes a safe and strong deck to support all other building works on top of it. The structural and geotechnical engineers must make analysis on the ground soils, settlement and building load before they decide whichever footing is required. The importance of this process is very often understated. If footings are not installed properly, then a crooked stick will end up with a crooked shadow.
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Construction is a great hard working hands on job. Construction workers make everyday life better and easier for people around the world they make roads for traveling buildings for people to live in and much more. The work of a construction worker is always exciting there is always different jobs to take so different bosses and different people to meet.
As a little kid, he has always wanted to be able to do the same job that his grandfather does because it is where he sees himself as a future construction engineer. He has been doing great in math and science. So he says why he cannot study something that includes mathematics, sciences and his dream as a little boy. Math has been easy to him since he was in middle school and he likes it so much. As it is now known construction engineer and project management are the ones of integral part of the contemporary management system due to its ability to make sure that the goal set in the beginning of a project correspond exactly to the goals that were achieved later on. He enjoy being outside and working with my hands. The things that make a great
...ety is one of the many tasks that civil engineers tackle. Throughout an engineer’s life, they will face many situations where they will have to problem solve. Engineers travel frequently and “meeting new people is a given in civil engineering” (Chu). Collaborating people and fellow engineers allow expansion in the thought process of creating the next modern configuration. Technology is improving rapidly in the 21st century. Civil engineering has to accommodate. Key concepts such as efficiency interrelate with contemporary technology. With growing populations, having a large amount of space within a small complex is possible through technology. Folding walls, foot storage, and the alteration of wood flooring into a kitchen table all incorporate the modern movement of civil engineering. In the profession of civil engineering, “keeping up with the Jones” is inevitable.