FIDIC 2004 Copenhagen Conference

Presentations

Monday 13 September 2004

Opening ceremony (09.00 - 10.15)

  • Introduction by Eigil Steen Pedersen, Chair, Past President, FIDIC
  • Welcome by Richard A. Kell, President, FIDIC
  • Danish Association of Consulting Engineers 100th anniversary (PPT, 4 MB) Carsten Toft Boesen, President, FRI

 

FIDIC Forum (10.45 - 16.30)

  • Consulting engineers and the renewed impetus for infrastructure investment (PDF, 6 MB) Cesar Queiroz, The World Bank
  • Consultants as professional and business partners Joseph "Bud" Ahearn, Vice-President, C2HMHILL (PDF, 0.2 MB)
  • Jens Klarskov, MD, Danish Construction Association
  • Keeping the balance: how to manage growth and profitability at the same time (PPT, 20 MB) Tony Franchescini, President and CEO, Stantec, Canada
  • Economies of scale in a global organisation (PPT, 80 MB) Gert-Jan Kramer, President and CEO, Fugro, The Netherlands
  • Ownership structures - will they continue to invest in people? Bob Emmerson, Chairman, Arup Group, UK

Tuesday/Wednesday 14/15 September 2004

Pre-GAM Meeting (Tuesday, 09.00 - 10.15)
BST Workshop (Tuesday, 09.00 - 10.15)

  • Enabling the Connected Enterprise...through People, Process & Technology

Workshops (Tuesday 12.15 - 17.15; Wednesday 08.45 - 13.00)

From national to global player

  • Jan Zijlstra, past Executive Director, Arcadis, The Netherlands (PDF 0.2 MB)

Developing skills and profitability at the same time

  • Flemming Bligaard Pedersen, Group CEO, Rambøll, Denmark (PDF 0.8 MB)

The challenge for consultants in developing economies

  • Trueman Goba, Executive Chairman, GMKS, South Africa (PDF 0.4 MB)
  • Report: Graham Pirie (PDF >>)

Is big better?

  • Klaus Ostenfeld, CEO, Cowi, Denmark (PDF 0.9 MB)

International networking

  • Today's business - tomorrow's world: Peter Young, Strategy Director, Enviros, UK (PDF 2.2 MB)
  • Luis Moreno, International Managing Director, TYPSA, Spain (PDF 0.3 MB)

Profit by partnering in practice

  • Allan Chappel, Consultant, Connell Wagner, Australia (PDF 2.9 MB)
  • Francisco Cal Padro, Techniberia/ASINCE (PDF 1.7 MB)
  • Bill Howard, CDM (PDF)
  • Za-Cheih Moh, CAEC (PDF)

Project indicators - a new management system for ensuring project sustainability

  • John Boyd, Principal, Golder Associates Corp., Canada (PDF 1.4 MB)
  • Bill Wallace, President, Wallace Futures Group, USA

Benchmarking - how does your firm match up with the competition?

  • John Ritchie, Vice President, Acres International, Canada (PDF 0.8 MB)
  • Peter Boswell, General Manager, FIDIC (PDF 0.7 MB)
  • Therese Charles, Chief Executive, ACEA, Australia (PDF 2.6 MB)

Selection of consultants - new trends and issues

  • Gian Casartelli, Consulting Services Advisor, WB, Consulting Services Division (PPT 0.1 MB)
  • Robert Robertson, Asian Development Bank (PDF 2 MB)
  • Fatma Colasan (PDF 0.6 MB)

Highly qualified consulting engineer - new concepts for raising the quality and the image of consultants

  • Goro Fujie, Secretary General, AJCE-Japan and members of the Capacity Building Task Force
  • Xie Shaozhang (Presentation: PDF, Text: PDF)

Risk Management Forum

  • Report from Japan (DOC)

Wednesday 15 September 2004

Young Professionals Forum (10.45 - 12.15)

FIDIC General Assembly Meeting (14.00 - 16.00)

Thursday 16 September 2004

Business Integrity Management Seminar (09.00 - 12.00)

  • Business integrity and anticorruption initiatives in the World Bank (PDF, 0.2 MB) Duncan Smith, The World Bank
  • Peter Egens Pedersen, Auditor General, ADB
  • FIDIC initiatives on Integrity Management (PDF, 1.7 MB) Jorge Diaz Padilla, FIDIC
  • Cases and dilemmas (PDF, 1.2 MB) Tonny Jensen and Eigil Steen Pedersen, COWI/FRI


New FIDIC Contracts (13.30 - 17.00)

  • Update of FIDIC Contract activities, C. Wade, in FIDIC.org Resources
  • The FIDIC Design-Build-Operate form of contract, M. Mortimer-Hawkins, in FIDIC.org Resources
  • New FIDIC Subcontract forms, C. Wade, in FIDIC.org Resources

 

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