Highway Slope Manual

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Notes: (-) An example of a programme for the GA of a highway project is given in
Figure C-. The actual programme and milestones should dovetail those of
the highway project.
(2) More than one team of geotechnical engineers and technical personnel may
be needed and the programme may have to be adjusted, depending on the size
of the study area and the number of alternatives to be considered.
C.5 Geotechnical Personnel for the GA
The Consultants shall engage professionally qualified persons with an adequate level of
experience in geotechnical engineering and/or engineering geology to carry out the work under
this Assignment. A professionally qualified person with suitable local experience in
geotechnical engineering shall be in charge of the Assignment. A suitable qualification is
Registered Professional Engineer (Geotechnical). This person shall scrutinize the relevance,
adequacy and quality of all information collected, carry out the site walkover survey and prepare
the GA Report personally.
C.6 Information to be Provided by the Employer
The Consultants shall search for and obtain all relevant published and publicly available
information additional to those identified in the Geotechnical Report. All other information held
by the Employer and relevant to the GA will be provided to the Consultants free of charge.
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Notes: (-) The items given in Section C.2 of this Model Brief for GA are for guidance only.
The project engineer should modify the items of the Brief as appropriate, taking
into account the need, scale and complexity of the project.
(2) For Government highway projects, the guidelines given in the Project
Administration Handbook Volume 11 Chapter 4 (Government of Hong Kong,
-992) should be followed in the preparation of the preliminary design of the
geotechnical works and hazard mitigation measures as stated in C.2(j)(i) above.
The preliminary design may be based on assumed parameters and information
collected in the desk study and site reconnaissance, with appropriate sensitivity
analyses carried out.