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Technical governance and technical capability: a road authority perspective
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The Queensland Department of Main Roads (QDMR) has maintained a core, in-house, specialist engineering capability to provide specialist technical services and advice while also fulfilling the 'informed buyer' capability for the organisation.Abstract:
Sustaining the safety and reliability of the road network is at the core of a road authority's reputation. Queensland Department of Main Roads (QDMR) over many years has maintained a core, in-house, specialist engineering capability to provide specialist technical services and advice while also fulfilling the 'informed buyer' capability for the organisation. A greater emphasis on technical governance in QDMR came about in late 2005 to better manage technical risks in an emerging environment of significantly increased road program budgets at a time of serious competition for technical skills from the mining and resources sector and from the global growth in infrastructure investment. The dominant risk was that many of its experienced technical staff would be lost to the private sector and that many new and inexperienced people would be brought to the increasing infrastructure delivery task. This timing coincided with the an organisational restructure and introduction of QDMR's Road System Manager Framework to enable more effective and consistent planning, programming, delivery and review of priority investment responses across the road system, according to need. This paper describes the technical governance framework that focuses QDMR's core technical resources on organisational outcomes. Technical Governance and Technical Capability are two of the six strategic technical program areas that will be addressed in detail.read more
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Professional Engineers Act
TL;DR: A professional engineer is a person engaged in the professional practice of rendering service or creative work requiring education, training and experience in engineering sciences and the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical and engineering sciences in such professional or creative works as consultation, investigation, evaluation, planning or design of public or private utilities, structures, machines, processes, circuits, buildings, equipment or projects as mentioned in this paper.
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