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 as well as providing an “umbrella” under which other protocols developed specifically for certain aspects of engineering can be implemented.

Presentations will be made by Dr John Boyd, an internationally-recognised industry leader.

• Stakeholder relations and partnerships
• Credibility, transparency and accountabilit
• Sustainable business environment
• Sustainable business practice.

The seminar address each of these themes on two levels:

• Background information
• Guiding principles.

Case histories that the participants work through to facilitate a deeper appreciation for the Project Sustainability Management will also be extensively used as demonstration material. Exercises will be executed during the entire seminar.

1. Objectives

Agenda

Introduction
Background
Application of PSM
Case histories
Implications

Modus operandi

Exercise: calibration – sustainable development
- What does sustainable development mean?
- Issues important for a sustainable project?

2. Sustainable development: the situation

The issues

The evidence

A few issues
Salient events
Population growth
Ecological footprint

The demand for global action

Global agenda
Local Agenda 21
UNCSD
Current global initiatives

WSSD 10 year review

Financial initiatives
Industry sector initiatives
GRI global and sector reporting
Government response

Consulting engineers' response

The reasons for limited progress
What customers want

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Results
Impact on the built environment
Where to go from here
Industry perspective

3. Project Sustainability Management

Challenge

Basis: core indicators and goals

Principles

Approach

Indicators

Features
UNCSD core indicators
FIDIC project indicators

Exercise: core indicators

• What are the relevant project goals?
• Implications for the consultant?
• Implications for the contract?
• Implications for the client?

4. PSM application

Conceptual model

Goals and indicators

Process

Project realities

Client objectives
Commitments
Integration
Stakeholders

Exercise: defining project goals

• Who should be involved
• Sequence of discussions
• Additional information required
• Sources of information

5. PSM process

Step 1

Stakeholders
Public participation

Step 2

Equator Principles
Safeguard policies
Local Agenda 21

Step 3

DAY 2

6. PSM perspectives

Boundary issues

Project scope and time frame

Impact and control

Suppliers’ knock-on

Exercise: targeting perfection

Are PSM indicators design performance parameters?

• Must you hit all of the project goals?
• What will limit the stretch goals of a project?
• Should indicators be cast-iron promises to deliver the target performance?

7. PSM project example

Situation

Establishing a vision

Priorities – Maslow’s priority of needs

Rules for indicator assessment

Discussion: mining town rehabilitation

8. Implications for the consulting engineering industry

Working with clients

Integrating PSM into proposals

Exercise: how PSM concepts affect a project

• Pick a typical project?
• Identify the subcomponents?
• Discuss how PSM concepts affect a chosen subcomponent?

9. Environment for innovation in a firm

Features

Creating

Issues arising with partners

Design considerations

Group discussion: Rocky Mountain Institute

• Description of the facility
• How to improve lighting
• How to improve cooling

10. Industry and society

NGOs

NGO perspectives

Dealing successfully with NGOs

Example of Green peace: PSM for the Greenpeace agenda

Exercise: using PSM for GRI reporting

11. Role of government

Ecoefficiency

Appropriate technology

Green building codes

Exercise: using LEED with PSM

• Can PSM indicators be used for LEED compliance?
• Do any LEED indicators fall outside PSM?

12. Summary and conclusions

John M Boyd, P.Eng., PhD, is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A.Sc., Geological Engineering, 1966 and M.A.Sc., Structural Geology, 1967), the University of London (D.I.C., Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics, 1970) and the Imperial College (Ph.D., Engineering and Rock Mechanics, 1976). John has been in the consulting engineering business for 33 years with Golder Associates. Fifteen of those years were in senior management roles including operating company President and most recently, Vice-President, Operations, at the corporate level. 
 
John has participated as a Director in several of the Boards of companies in the Golder group, was a Director and later Chairman of the Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research, Member of the Faculty Advisory Board of McGill University Engineering Faculty, Director and Chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers Canada, and a Director and subsequently President of Peel Red Cross. He was recently Chair of the Steering Committee of an HRDC program to encourage young people to study engineering at university.

John has been focussing in recent years on business and management training of engineers both within Golder and externally - and in particular on the issue of sustainable development. He was responsible for the FIDIC Sustainable Development Task Force that developed a system of sustainability indicators for engineering project use on behalf of FIDIC's 79 member countries, and included participation from Canada, the United States and United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Denmark, South Africa, and Japan. The guidelines for the use of the system (Project Sustainability Management) were published in September 2004 and John has been busy training diverse groups of engineers around the world in their application.

• Engineering consultants
• Project managers
• Environmental managers
• Building developers
• Client representatives (contractors, architects, etc) 
• Representatives from government departments

• A broad appreciation of sustainable engineering and its importance 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 key areas of sustainable infrastructure – including sustainable buildings and sustainable transport – by a world-recognized industry specialists,and how practical tools can help address the main challenges.
• A review of voluntary codes for sustainable infrastructure.
• An update to green building codes and regulations.