Patent ID: 8370167

Claim:
A method for generating a risks assessment for a geotechnical construction project, the method comprising the steps of: providing a set of geotechnical overlays; providing a set of civil discipline questions on the set of geotechnical overlays; providing a set of response boxes associated with the set of civil discipline questions on the set of geotechnical overlays, such that when the set of geotechnical overlays are indexed, each response box of the set of response boxes appears in a different lateral position, with respect to the other response boxes in the set of response boxes; providing a set of contact boxes on the set of geotechnical overlays, such that when the set of geotechnical overlays are indexed, each contact box in the set of contact boxes appears in a different lateral position; associating the set of civil discipline questions with a set of project risks and the set of response boxes; associating a response list, including a set of risk codes, with each risk in the set of project risks; providing a set of completion status indicators for the set of project risks; choosing at least one contact code from a set of contact codes associated with a set of contacts; recording the at least one contact code in at least one contact box; choosing an answer from the response list for a selected civil discipline question in the set of civil discipline questions; recording the answer in a selected response box in the set of response boxes associated with the selected civil discipline question as a recorded response in a set of recorded responses; recording a completion status indicator in the set of completion status indicators in the selected response box as one recorded status indicator in a set of recorded status indicators; repeating the steps of choosing an answer and recording the answer for the set of civil discipline questions on the set of geotechnical overlays; generating a combined view of the set of response boxes, the set of contact boxes, the set of recorded responses, and the set of recorded status indicators by aligning and fixing together each overlay of the set of geotechnical overlays and indexing the set of geotechnical overlays; assessing a total risk to the geotechnical construction project based on the combined view of the set of response boxes, the set of contact boxes, the set of recorded responses, and the set of recorded status indicators by examining a set of completion status indicators present in the combined view created by the indexed geotechnical overlays.