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Are civil engineering "best practices" just legal preferences?
by Hamuko 5y ago
Are civil engineering "best practices" just legal preferences?
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoThey are built on top of a ocean of blood
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoIt’s called “building code”.
- shagie 5y agoOne of the books I picked up to settle an argument about best practices once... A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis by Eugene Bardach. ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/a-practical-guide-for-policy-analysis/book255357 https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/a-practical-guide-for-polic... ) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_path_(policy_analysis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_path_(policy_analysi... Legal practices often follow from established best practices rather than the other way around. There are many practices that solve a problem. Some of them have an intrinsic "better" to them. Of those, when trying to solve a problem you look at all of them. The one that fits your needs best is then the best practice. > Don't be mislead by the word best in so-called best practices research. Rarely will you have any confidence that some helpful-looking practice is actually the best among all those that address the same problem or opportunity. The extensive and careful research needed to document a claim of best will almost never have been done. Usually, you will be looking for what, more modestly, might be called "good practices."