The ability to monitor a project's scope and costs during the design process is of paramount importance as the owner's expect their design team to manage costs in an accurate and responsive manner.

The vibrating-wire monitor sensor is led through conversion into the auto acquisition system, for the first time, to expand the monitoring scope of the auto observation system.

It proceeds to consider approaches by States to ratification and to the scope of application, as well as the system established to monitor compliance with the obligations therein.