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FIDIC®-Jordan
PSM Training Seminar A two-day Project Sustainability Management Training Seminar Sustainable Buildings and Sustainable Urban Transport |
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| Organized by FIDIC and the Engineers Training Centre (ETC) under the auspices of the A/E Business Council (www.aeb-council.org) and the Jordan Engineers Association (www.jea.org.jo). |
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| Radisson SAS Hotel, Amman, Jordan; 15-16 April 2008 |
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| - Mohamad Abu Afifeh,
Director, ETC: mohd_f@jea.org.jo - Samar Kilani, Executive Director, A/E Business Council: A/E Business Council - FIDIC |
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Off-line registration - contact: - mohd_f@jea.org.jo |
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| FIDIC-Jordan Training Programme |
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In today’s marketplace, quality, innovation, and service to clients are increasing in importance.
This is particularly true in the growing global market where there is a strong trend towards globalised
business practices, and increasing awareness of sustainable development as the driver for economic growth. Increasingly the consulting engineer is called upon to play a larger and more inclusive role as the projects become more comprehensive and the clients look for innovative ways to deliver the projects within time and budget constraints. consulting engineers are also expected to play an important role in new project delivery systems, to be accountable for total project delivery, to seek ways to protect and enhance the natural and social environment, and to protect the client’s interests. They take on the role of programme managers and facilitators responsible for a broad scope of services. Professionals from many disciplines are now working in consulting engineering firms. This is not to deny that there still is a role for strong, viable, focused single discipline professional firms in local or niche markets. A niche market may be local, but can be national or international, depending upon the nature of the specific skills. However, consulting engineers today are being asked to do more than just design infrastructure: they are being asked to conceive, plan, programme, design, supervise, operate, arrange financing, maintain and operate facilities, etc. This more comprehensive role requires that today’s consultants, in addition to being a professional engineer, must be an excellent business person, knowledgeable on a wide range of issues. There is also an essential need is to standardize the knowledge of consulting engineering business practices across national boundaries, and to have those who understand and use these standard practices recognized. The FIDIC Jordan Training Programme responds to this need to upgrade the management capabilities of consulting engineer firms by organizing a series of training courses based on the FIDIC Guide to Practice. |
| FIDIC-Jordan Project Sustainability Management Training Seminar |
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FIDIC’s Project Sustainability Management (PSM) system is unique in providing a practical approach to project sustainability that maintains a traceable link to Agenda 21, the agreed world-wide basis for sustainability adapted by some 6000 local authorities in over 100 countries. PSM provides a series of guidelines that offer a framework and a process for setting sustainability goals and objectives that enable designers to design and implement projects that are verifiably sustainable. PSM provides an “umbrella” under which other protocols developed specifically for certain aspects of engineering can implemented. For instance, PSM helps identify issues that are missed by other protocols. |
| What is covered |
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The FIDIC – Jordan PSM Training Seminar will analyse the sustainability issues in infrastructure involving buildings and public transport, giving examples of things that are being done in many parts of the world in providing more sustainable infrastructure. The aim will be engage the attendees in discussion of the applicability of PSM concepts. In particular, the seminar will give the participants a picture of how the nature of the built environment (and associated rules, regulations, etc.) is changing to produce more sustainable solutions, and how concepts such as PSM provide practical approaches to tackling the complex issue of sustainability. Sustainable construction and sustainable urban transport are two key components that concern all the actors involved in the built environment, whether they be users, regulators, suppliers or financiers. The seminar starts with a raising of the general awareness of sustainability as a global issue, followed by a presentation of how PSM can be used to implement profitable sustainability services in firms and in projects. Turning to the two specific topics, there will be an overview on what awaits the building and construction sector during the next 50 years given climate change and resource depletion, and how the assessment of building performance and an integrated design process will help tackle the many challenges. The next sessions consider sustainable urban transport by introducing the key topics and the effect of climate change and resource issues in the transport sector. There follow examples of cities that are taking action and the need for robust transport networks, including the role of new technologies, consumer behaviour, communication, and location efficient development. |
| Who should attend |
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Engineering consultants Engineering firms Project managers Environmental managers Clients of engineering consultants Building developers Architects Contractors Government departments Government regulators Financiers |
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A broad appreciation of sustainable engineering and why it is important for all actors in the build environment. An understanding of why real performance measures will make a difference to a firm’s and a client’s performance. An understanding of a practical sustainability tool that can be adapted for real projects. An appreciation of the commercial benefits to be gained by implementing sustainable engineering concepts in everyday business practice. An insight into two key areas of sustainable infrastructure – namely sustainable buildings and sustainable urban transport – by world-recognized industry specialists, and how practical tools can help address the main challenges. A review of voluntary codes such as the UITP Sustainable Development Charter for sustainable transport and green building regulation, standard and codes for sustainable construction. |
| Programme | Day 1: 09.00 - 17.00 - Sustainable Buildings |
09.00 – 09.15_ Opening |
| Day 2: 09.00 - 17.00 - Sustainable Urban Transport |
09.00 – 9.15 Opening |
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| Seminar Trainers |
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Dr Iksan van der Putte is director of external relations and international environmental affairs with RPS
in the Netherlands – the RPS Group is an international consultancy providing advice on the responsible
development of natural resources, land and property, the management of the environment and the health and
safety of people. Dr van der Putte is member of the Sustainable Development Task Force of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) and former chairman of the environment committees of FIDIC and the European Federation of Consulting Engineers (EFCA). He is the main author of the FIDIC business guideline for environment and co-author of the FIDIC guidelines on sustainable development and project sustainability management. He is currently member of the board of the UNEP Sustainable Buildings and Construction Initiative (UNEP/SBCI) and its Climate Change Think Tank. Nils Larsson (NL) is Executive Director of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), an international non-profit organization whose aim is to advance the cause of sustainable building and construction around the world. NL is an architect with long experience in research and development related to both residential and commercial building sectors. While working with the Canadian government, he developed the C-2000 Program for Advanced Commercial Buildings, which resulted in the design and construction of a small number of commercial buildings across Canada with energy consumption approximately 50% of current standards. As part of this work, he developed a formal implementation of the Integrated Design Process (IDP), which has been widely emulated around the world. NL was also the main organizer of Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC), an international project launched by the Canadian government as Green Building Challenge, but now led by iiSBE. The process has involved over 20 countries over its ten-year history. The aim of SBC has been to develop and test new methods of assessing the environmental performance of buildings, and the process led to an on-going series of international SB conferences. NL’s main activities include management of iiSBE, a global network of some 400 researchers and academics. He also takes a lead role in the development of the SBTool software system for the SBC process. On behalf of iiSBE he also leads the development and management of a web-based multi-lingual information system called Sustainable Building Information System (SBIS), and also publishes occasional PDF newsletters. NL was Chair of the Regional Committee for the global SB05 conference held in Tokyo in 2005, was principal coordinator of 11 regional SB conferences held around the world in 2007, and is coordinating regional input from these events into the next global SB conference, to be held in Melbourne, Australia in September, 2008. Since the mid-1990’s, he has been invited to speak on green building issues at numerous seminars and conferences on all continents. During the last year he has made keynote presentations at sustainable building conferences in Toronto, Seoul, Lisbon, Malmö, Prague, Santiago, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Auckland, Hong Kong and Athens. NL has published many peer-reviewed papers and has also served as a juror on three architectural competitions in Europe and Montreal. He represents iiSBE on the Sustainable Building and Construction Initiative (SBCI), a global working group of multi-national construction firms and organizations recently launched by UNEP. He is a Director of the Canadian Construction Innovation Council (CCIC) and of the EcoSmart Foundation, and is also a member of the Canadian Green Building Council. Heather Allen is responsible for the UITP Sustainable Development Charter and UITP’s international advocacy and outreach in sustainable development. The charter is a voluntary commitment for UITP members, launched in 2003, now has 130 signatories including public bodies and the private sector in 25 countries. The charter programme has been cited as a key milestone to motivate the sector and increase the awareness of the contribution of public transport to achieving international goals. She is the main UITP contact for UITP’s work with international agencies such as the United Nations Commission of Sustainable Development (CSD), UNEP, UNDESA, UNFCCC (United Nations Framework for Climate Change) and the World Health Organisation PEP partnership. She attended the WSSD (The World Summit on Sustainable Development) as a key member of the UITP, UIC & UNIFE transport delegation and represents UITP at international events as their key spokesperson on sustainable development. She is also coordinator for the International Diversity Initiative and the Design and Culture Platform in public transport for UITP. |
| Course materials |
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Participants will be provided the following materials, in English:
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Attendance Fees: Delegate fee - Euro 220.- for each course (includes lunch and
refreshments and course materials). Members of JEA and the A/E Business
Council should contact the associations for special rates. Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel, Amman, Jordan, 15-16 April 2008 Registration: Offline: please contact Mohamad Abu Afifeh, Director, ETC at mohd_f@jea.org.jo |
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