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Programme
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| Where the roads meet |
Exploring the crossroads where consulting engineering stand today in terms
of both its long-term strategic planning and daily operations in an era of
accelerated change and major new challenges.
No other forum provides for such an extensive opportunity to develop business
opportunities amongst the world’s leading consulting engineers. |
MONDAY - The trusted advisor: status
and issues
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Opening Plenary Session
The trusted advisor: local, regional
and global status
10.30 - 12.30: National Theatre
The trusted advisor, an essential for prudent investment in
infrastructure
Moderator: Anna Olin
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Prof. Endre Dudich and Prof.
László Somlyódy, Hungary: The European context |
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Hungary at the cross-roads: past, present and
future |
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Dominic Louis, Assystem, France: Knowledge management |
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Consulting engineers as managers of change |
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Prof. Roger Flanagan; UK: The future in the global context |
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What will the consulting engineering industry look like in 2020,
locally, regionally and globally |
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Key questions for Speakers as we explore the Who, What and How of the consulting engineering business today, and tomorrow.
Afternoon Forums
The trusted advisor: defining the issues
14.30 - 17.45: Hotel Intercontinental
Speakers who will introduce and outline in more detail specific issues
that will be discussed during the Tuesday workshops.
Forum 1: Emerging issues
Who are we and where are we going?
- At the crossroads between trusted advisor and commodity supplier
- What clients seek
- The role of the traditional engineer
- New ownership and management models
- A more inclusive industry
Consulting engineers are at the crossroads between commodity providers and trusted advisors. This provides an opportunity to redefine who we are and what role we play - as advisors to clients,
communities, to financiers, executing agencies, etc. What do these key players seek? How
do they differ? Is there still a role for the traditional consulting engineer? What do the new ownership and management models look like? How can our associations be more inclusive of all professional disciplines? Participants will find out from a range of clients how
clients view these emerging issues.
The common thread is the trusted advisor, connecting to all the other
players. The consultant is the broker, the facilitator, the enabler, the project relationship manager, the innovator, the visionary.
Forum 2: Project implementation
- Partnering and Alliancing
- Opportunities in DBO and PPP
- Changing client relationships provide better solutions
How can partnering and
alliancing offer greater value? What
are the opportunities from DBO, or PPPs?.
How are the changing relationships between client, contractor
and consultant evolving to provide better solutions?
Consulting engineers play a central role as trusted
advisors to bring about the best outcome - a high quality, sustainable
project.
Forum 3: Procurement best-practice
- How a client obtains the best advice
- What firms need to do to define capabilities and to attract staff
- Are firms adapting quickly enough?
- Scoping consulting services
- Quality in procurement
How does a client
obtain the best advice? What
do firms need in order to be able to define their capabilities, and to
attract and retain talent. Are
firms adapting quickly enough? How
are they adapting? What
are the critical success factors?
Discussion will include: the results of the "Scoping
Project" (a new, common approach to evaluating consultants):
the impact of European Union policies for local as opposed to
international providers (including use of FIDIC contracts); a
comparison of multilateral development bank procurement policies,
including harmonisation and capacity building for both consultants and
clients. Quality
Procurement will be defined, nor only for consulting engineers but
also for clients, consultants, contractors and communities.
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TUESDAY - The trusted advisor: exploring the issues
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Workshops
The trusted advisor: exploring the issues
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09.00 - 1600: Hotel Intercontinental
Coffee: 10.30 - 11.00
Lunch: 12.30 14.00
Coffee: 15.30 - 16.00
Workshop sessions in three parallel themes, with introductions followed by
facilitated round-table discussions.
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Theme 1: Emerging issues |
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1. Business opportunities/new markets |
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Examples of new opportunities in emerging markets in Europe, Asia and
Africa. The power of effective networking demonstrated. |
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2. The consulting firm of tomorrow |
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Ownership, size, range of skills, professional development, involvement of
young professionals, succession planning. What exactly might the average
consulting firm look like in 2020? Will mega firms continue to grow or
specialise into smaller units. Will there continue to be role of smaller
“routine” consulting services? |
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Changing role of consultants
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Will their role fundamentally change? Are independent advisors worth their
salt? What will engineers to a contract do tomorrow? Is Project Management
an inherent or independent service from consulting engineering firms? |
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Theme 2: Project implementation |
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4. Project mechanisms |
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New financing options and the opportunities to be gained from them. An
outline of PPPs and the task group findings of FIDIC and EFCA - examples on
the pros and cons - experiences from around the world, and views on the role
of the consulting engineer. |
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5. FIDIC’s DBO Contract |
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The latest tool from FIDIC’s Contracts Committee offers a new approach to
projects. A FIDIC seminar on the new DBO contract and how it will work in
practice. |
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Infrastructure development |
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In an increasingly complex array of implementation options, risks are often
unclear or misdirected. In the end, who actually carries the can? The
workshop will learn of some experiences and understand the pitfalls and
advantages. |
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Forum 3:
Procurement best-practice |
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Capacity building |
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The world demands innovative solutions for increased demands on
infrastructure. This requires highly skilled consultants, as well as design
experts. The continuous upskilling of consulting engineers and their
professional colleagues is essential. Examples of new models being
developed will be presented. Learn more about the options and
opportunities, both external and internal. Do clients really appreciate and
value such commitment? |
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Liability and insurance |
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The ability of consultants to offer high quality and innovation is
threatened, especially by unrealistic liabilities and limited insurance.
Case studies on the implementation of best practice risk management, as well
as success stories in tackling excessive demands on liability, will be
presented. Learn also about the findings to date of the Joint FIDIC/EFCA
Task Group. What does the reinsurance market really expect? |
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Quality procurement |
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What are the tools needed to ensure consistent, high quality consultants? How can these tools help? Such tools include
Business Integrity Management; Best Practice Selection
Guidelines (QBS); Tendering Guides; Common Scope of Works Definitions; Project
Sustainability Management
Guidelines. FIDIC and EFCA are collaborating on these critical tools. |
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Special sessions -
Business practice |
16.00 - 17.00: Hotel Intercontinental
EFCA Committee Reports
BST Global Project Management Seminar: Next generation information
management - driving your organization with business performance management |
WEDNESDAY - The trusted advisor: reviewing the status
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Plenary workshop reports -
Reviewing the status |
09.00 - 11.00: Hotel Intercontinental
Reports of the workshops, followed by conclusions and recommended actions.
Moderator: Agnes Hitesy
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EFCA General Assembly Meeting
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11.30 - 13.00: Hotel Intercontinental |
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Regional Forums |
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11.30 - 13.00: Hotel Intercontinental |
- Africa: GAMA meeting and networking event
- Asia-Pacific: ASPAC meeting and networking event
- Americas: Networking event |
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Young Professionals |
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14.00 - 16.45: Hotel Intercontinental |
- Young Professionals Future Leaders Workshop
- Young Professionals Forum meeting |
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FIDIC General Assembly Meeting |
| 15.30 - 17.00: Hotel Intercontinental |
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Young Professionals events
- Workshop
- Open Forum
- Networking lunch
- Workshop reports
- Steering committee
Defining the issues
Budapest offers a unique setting to explore the crossroads where
consulting engineering stands today in terms of both its long-term
strategic planning and daily operations in an era of accelerated change
and major new challenges:
Are consulting engineers at the crossroads of technical and professional
demands in the services they provide?
Given the developments in project delivery systems, are consulting
engineering firms and clients coping with the change from purely
intellectual services to the commercial, operational and management
services involved in the procurement of infrastructure?
What is the outlook for new activities arising from the change from
traditional in-house services to outsourcing?
What challenges and opportunities do firms face in managing knowledge in
an increasingly information technology-based era?
How should firms react when faced with the dichotomy between the
commodities market and the demand for high quality, creative solutions?
Are firms able to define and communicate to the marketplace what it is
that they supply?
Exploring the issues
To explore the issues, the 2006 International Consulting Engineering
Conference is designed around three complementary streams: |
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Emerging issues; |
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Project implementation |
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Procurement best-practice. |
The stage is set during Monday morning plenary sessions where
four keynote speakers will present the local, regional and global views of
the crosscutting issues that address a common theme - the trusted
advisor, an essential player for prudent infrastructure investment.
They are joined on Monday afternoon in
three forums by international speakers who will introduce and outline in more detail
specific issues that will be discussed during the Tuesday workshops.
They will highlight the need for investment and capacity building in
firms to keep up with challenges arising from climate change, energy and
water scarcity, urbanisation, antiterrorism.
In addressing the
cross-cutting themes, the Tuesday workshops will explore local, regional
and global views in a balanced way,
while maximising participation through
round-table discussion.
This balance will be the key to the Wednesday morning reports, and
indeed for the conference itself.
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