1. Assuming that you are a Victoria based Specialist Contractor, who obtained a Design and Build contract award in a large rail infrastructure project in Western Australia. Bolstering a project with additional resources may not resolve fundamental problems in some cases. a. Assume a typical project based scenario and discuss specific safety, quality and environment aspects influencing/ impacting your resource decisions; b. Briefly compare your suggestions/ strategies with respect to 2 or 3 different thinking hats of your preference. 2. You are responsible to design the facility layout for a precast panel manufacturing unit in a suburb area (near a large metropolitan city). From the resource management perspectives for (a) one-off or less routine operations; and (b) routine or frequent operations, outline your layout design with supporting discussions and suggestions. 3. Based on your literature review on obsolescence mitigation strategies for resource planning and management, prepare a set of recommendations to your top management – i.e. with respect to (a) stock of volatile materials, (b) equipment spare parts and (c) costly equipment. 4. Assume that you are working in an international organization which undertakes major metro rail projects in Australia, Asia and Europe. As a part of your Australia division's improvement initiative, you are assigned to prepare detailed report on any two of the following: a. Reliability centered maintenance management of key equipment resources; b. RFID (i.e. radio frequency identification) based equipment asset management c. Dependability management and life cycle costing of a specific equipment resource (you may assume any one key resource