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FIDIC NewsMay 2006
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Programme finalised for 2006 conference
The 2006 International Consulting Engineering Conference (Budapest; 24-26September) programme that covers the key issues facing the industry has been
widely circulated.
Asia's consulting engineers help alleviate poverty
FIDIC's 2006 regional ASPAC Asia-Pacific conference in Dhaka systematicallyconfirmed the vital role played by consulting engineers in alleviating poverty.
Jordan's consulting engineering industry seeks prominence
Jordan's newly formed Architecture and Engineering Forum sees FIDIC
membership as a major step towards greater recognition for the kingdom's
consulting engineering industry.
Africa's engineers review regional cooperation
FIDIC's GAMA Group of Africa Member Associations 2006 conference in Tanzania
focussed on local capacity so that regional integration can work.

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EventsProfessional services exhibition to raise industry profile in north Africa
FIDIC is collaborating with its Tunisian Member Association ANBEIC in theorganisation of workshops and a contracts seminar at a major professional
services salon in Tunis on 7-9 June 2006.
Forthcoming visits and meetings
Regional events in Asia, Europe, South America and North Africa feature.

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Interest in MDB Harmonised Construction Contract grows
FIDIC is responding to a growing demand for translations and training owing toincreased bank-financed infrastructure development using the Harmonised
Construction Contract.

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Consulting engineering's economic contributions reviewed
Turkey's Engineering Consultancy Congress combined with the second BalkanForum reviewed business issues, with a special focus on the Balkans.
Business practiceWorld Bank appraisal to lead to capacity building proposals
In refocusing on infrastructure investment the World Bank has identified capacity
needs under six themes that will be the basis for FIDIC proposals.

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Task force finalising strategic plan for Africa
The FIDIC Executive, meeting in May 2006 in Mexico City, will give its final
comments to a FIDIC task force's proposals for a strategic plan for Africa.

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Ethics and integrityUN anticorruption publication showcases FIDIC
FIDIC's Business Integrity Management System is presented as a prime casestudy in an April 2006 UN Global Compact antibribery publication.

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World Water Forum highlighted industry's role
A FIDIC-co-hosted 2006 World Water Forum session demonstrated the consulting
engineering industry's vital role at the local level.

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Notices to Member Associations
MA Notices: May 2006

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Programme finalised for 2006 conference [full item: 81Ac]
The action packed programme for the International Consulting
Engineering Conference (Budapest; 24-27 September) has been
finalised. Registration forms and information are available atwww.consulting2006.org, and hard copies have been widelydistributed. Members are urged to register promptly to takeadvantage of the early bird rates. Member Association
Presidents, Directors, Secretaries and honorary executives areencouraged to note the conference dates to ensure that they areable to participate in critical meetings discussing the key issues
facing the consulting industry, associations and consulting firms.
All consulting engineering firms, irrespective of their fields of specialisation, arealso encouraged to make advance plans to profit from this unique opportunity toshare experience, identify new tools and potential partners, and learn about thelatest business developments. Those requiring visas are urged to contact theHungarian host association AHCEA as soon as possible.

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Asia's consulting engineers help alleviate poverty [full item: 79Ac]
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Basic infrastructure is vital in the fight against poverty. This was
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the key message presented by FIDIC President Jorge Diaz
Padilla and Managing Director Enrico Vink at FIDIC's 2006
ASPAC Asia-Pacific regional conference in Dhaka in March.
Hosted by Bangladesh Association of Consulting Engineers,
FIDIC's national Member Association, guests included
government officials, Bangladesh's Asian Development Bank Country Director Hua
Du and FIDIC ASPAC association representatives from Pakistan, Korea, China,
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Following a well-thought out structure that is model for similar events, theconference theme was set by presentations on the role of engineering and how its
impact is modelled. Overviews of experience at the national level (Bangladesh;India) and sector level (housing; transport) then demonstrated that the provision Courseof road links into rural towns had improved economic and health conditions forsponsorthousands of communities along with access for health workers, government
support teams and suppliers of energy and water services. Finally, for the projectlevel, Mahbub Haque, President of the host association BACE and of TCDPAP, aregional development programme that cohosted the conference, described aspecific project that had made a major impact on poverty reduction.
The important role played by consulting engineers was confirmed in separate
discussions with Bangladesh officials. Procurement rules are being rewritten, andnew procedures will deal with corrupt practices so that consulting engineers will
be able to participate on an even larger scale. The ASPAC 2006 conference
presentations are available from the FIDIC Secretariat in hard copy and will bemade available on the ASPAC website, FIDIC.org/ASPAC.
Jordan's consulting engineering industry seeks prominence [full item: 82Ac]
Jordan's consulting engineers have an excellent reputation, nationally andinternationally. They are among the Mid-East's main suppliers of consulting
engineering services and many are benefiting from a boom in construction. Firms,offices and individual engineers register with the Jordan Engineering Association(JEA; 6500 consulting engineers; 1300 firms). The larger firms and those working
internationally saw the need for an industry organization for governance,
managing information, representation and service provision. They established theArchitecture and Engineering Forum (AE Forum for short) which started operatingin mid-2005 from a secretariat in a JEA-owned building in central Amman. As partof a European Union funded development programme that includes assistance tobusiness support organisations, FIDIC and one of FIDIC's larger Member
Associations were invited to meet the AE Forum board to discuss ways to develop
the Forum and to integrate it internationally. Following presentations by Klaus
Rollenhagen, VBI-Germany's Managing Director, and Peter Boswell, FIDIC General
Manager, it was concluded that once the status of the new association is agreed
with the authorities, it would most likely apply for FIDIC membership.

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Africa's engineers review regional cooperation [full item: 80Ac]
Africa's consulting engineers met at the FIDIC Group of Africa
Member Association (GAMA) conference in Bagamoyo, Tanzania,
in early April 2006 for the 13th GAMA Annual Conference toreview networking and cooperation in engineering consultancy.
Abisai Temba, Director of Tanzania's Ministry of Infrastructure
Development, emphasised that NEPAD's main focus is topromote regional integration to overcome economies of scale.
Progress has been slow owing to poor integration of the private
sector and weak institutions.
One way forward was to mobilize local resources, and several presentations gave
examples of the excellent local capacity that is available. Another path was tostrengthen institutional frameworks. Here again, participants heard of an
excellent example from Tanzania presented by B.L.M. Mwamila of Tanzania'sEngineers Registration Board and Exaud Mushi, Chairman of the conference host,the Association of Consulting Engineers Tanzania.

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Participants were also able to keep abreast of the latest developments in businesspractice with presentations on virtual engineering and risk management. Theroom was also full on the last day's FIDIC Workshop, when participants indicated MDB Contract
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FIDIC Past-President Eigil Pedersen, Jorge Diaz Padilla, FIDIC President, outlined
FIDIC's policy on zero tolerance, as well as the tools developed by FIDIC to tackle
corrupt practices head on, notably Business Integrity Management. Finally, toround out a busy three days, Bayo Adeola, a FIDIC Executive Committee member
who leads the FIDIC GAMA Task Force summarized the task force's draft report.
Conference presentations are available from the FIDIC Secretariat in hard copy
and will be available on the GAMA website, FIDIC.org/GAMA.
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EventsProfessional services exhibition to raise industry profile in north Africa[full item: 49Ev]

Plans to organize "FIDIC days" in conjunction with the major governmentsponsored Salon International des Services (SISE) in Tunis on 8 - 9 June 2006
are developing rapidly. There will be a FIDIC Contracts seminar on 7 June, thefirst organized by FIDIC in French as a lead up to future contracts training
courses. FIDIC workshops then take place during the professional services
exhibition and forum on the 8 - 9 June.
The events, that are being organized by FIDIC's Tunisian Member Assocation
ANBEIC, will provide a major opportunity for firms to learn about business
opportunities in North Africa, and to meet procurement officials from the main
countries. Participants can link to the SISE website and register for the contracts
seminar at FIDIC.org. The availability of French translations of the 1999 FIDIC
works contracts is key. These are being finalized ready for a review by FIDIC's
francophone associations, and the Multilateral Development Banks that havelicensed the Construction Contract for their MDB Harmonised Edition (see newsitem) are deciding upon which bank should take responsibility for the Frenchtranslation.
Forthcoming visits and meetings [full item: 32Ev]

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FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course, Zagreb, 25-26 May 2006
Cornerstone Disputes Resolution Workshop, Bucharest, 1-2 June 2006
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Les journees internationales de l'Ingenierie, Tunis- Contracts Seminar, 7 June 2006
- SISE Salon Workshops, 8-9 June 2006
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course, Brussels, 8-9 June 2006
EFCA GAM and Directors Meeting, Bucharest, 9 June 2006
FIDIC-ICC Contracts Conference, Hong Kong, 3-4 July 2006
International Consulting Engineering Conference, Budapest, 24-27 Sep. 2006
FIDIC-ECV Dispute Resolution Course, St. Petersburg, 17-17 Oct. 2006

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item and FIDIC.org/MDB), the upsurge in MDB interest in bank-financed
infrastructure development has led to the Council of Europe Development Bank
becoming a licensed Participating Bank. The upsurge has also brought a growing
demand for translations and training. Translations into French, Spanish andPortuguese are progressing, and FIDIC is arranging for publishers, mainly Member Contracts
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languages. Every effort being made to ensure that a translated Harmonised
Construction Contract is harmonized with a published translation of the original
1st Edition. A major part of the demand for training arises because some regions,notably South America, will now have harmonized Standard Bidding Documentsthat include the MDB contract. Elsewhere, suppliers of contracts training courses
and seminars based on the FIDIC Contracts Manual modules, that outline scopeand content, have incorporated the MDB contract into programmes (seeFIDIC.org/events for listings).
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Consulting engineering's economic contributions reviewed [full item: 44Re]
The 4th Engineering Consultancy Congress on trade in
consulting engineering services, organized in Ankara in April byATCEA, FIDIC's Turkish Member Association, had as its second
day the 2nd Balkan Forum on overcoming barriers tocollaboration in the Balkans. Attended by the FIDIC President,
on the left of the photo with Rasit Unuvar, ATCEA President, andthe FIDIC Managing Director, information and experience on market conditions
were shared, along with ideas for joint initiatives. Participants included FIDIC
representatives of Member Associations from Turkey, Albania, Greece, Romania
and Bulgaria. Discussions on understanding the role of consulting engineers,procurement procedures, fee scales and standardized documentation - issues thatwere being addressed by all the associations represented - were boosted by thepresence of the FIDIC participants, who were able to share FIDIC best practice.
Congress presentations available online at www.atcea.org.tr include those on
European Union opportunities and WTO suggestions as well as inputs by theEuropean Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations and national
Member Association representatives to a panel discussion on the input ofconsulting engineering to the economy. Country specific problems in the Balkans
were also presented.

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Business practiceWorld Bank appraisal to lead to capacity building proposals [full item: 68Pr]

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economic growth and poverty reduction, and the measures needed to rebuild
shortfalls (see Infrastructure: lessons from the last two decades of World Bank
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engagement, February 2006, PDF, 67 pages, from www.worldbank.org). FIDIC
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lessons learnt with a view to submitting proposals for support in specific areas.
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The Bank's conclusions of its needs will be summarised, under six themes, in a
FIDIC news item. As an example, under "the bank now needs to support projects
that produce results", measures proposed are: more appropriate, innovative
project design; simpler procurement procedures; more realistic cost-benefit
analysis and revenue stream appraisals; fewer sector wide preconditions; moreaccurate measures of project implementation progress, impact and outcomes; alonger-term engagement in sustained institutional development. FIDIC'sproposals will build upon its capacity building policies for action by government,international agencies and the consulting engineering industry.

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Task force finalising strategic plan for Africa [full item: 47De]
FIDIC's Group of Africa Member Associations (GAMA) Task Force announced key
elements of its draft strategic plan for Africa at the recent GAMA regionalconference. The report (see news item for the GAMA 2006 presentation by Bayo
Adeolo, the task force chair), which focuses on improved networking, skills
development and greater use of local resources, will be finalized and presented tothe FIDIC Executive Committee at its next meeting in Mexico in May 2006. Theambitious plan offers a constructive approach to collaboration within Africa, aswell as a real opportunity for identifying and promoting local resources. Training
and development is also high on the agenda, with a number of options being
explored, involving local and international trainers. Support is being sought fromthe African Development Bank, which plays a significant role in the funding ofinfrastructure in Africa.

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Ethics and integrityUN anticorruption publication showcases FIDIC [full item: 21Et]

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principle called Business against corruption has among its 25 examples frombusiness and civil society, a case study on FIDIC's Business Integrity Management
System (BIMS). BIMS represents "a prime example of how to deal with difficult
dilemma when implementing the anticorruption principle". The publication alsocollates an enormous amount of information on corruption and bribery. It can be
downloaded in PDF (3 MB) from www.globalcompact.org. In other major
anticorruption initiatives, FIDIC continues to promote the deployment of BIMS
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Committee which will report on pilot testing of a web-based self-evaluation tool.
BIMS has already been integrated into DSTAIR, a web-based tool to help
procurement agencies select appropriate anticorruption strategies.
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World Water Forum highlighted industry's role [full item: 30Im]
The 4th World Water Forum, with the theme Localactions for global challenge, came to an end on theWorld Water Day (22 March 2006) in Mexico City after
seven days of debates. Close to 20000 delegates,including officials and delegates from 140 countries,
experts, journalists and representatives of NGOs, firms,
civil society and young people, participated in two hundred working sessions
where 1500 local actions were presented. Opening the forum, Japan's Crown
Prince Naruhito, Netherland's Prince Willem-Alexander and Morocco's Prime
Minister, Driss Jettou, stressed that global water challenges must be met withaction at the local level. FIDIC co-hosted the same day the session Sustainable
and secure delivery of water: unique solutions proposed by the consulting
industry with its Japanese and Mexican Member Associations, AJCE and CNEC.
From the left in the photo, Prof. Enrique Santoyo, CNEC, John Boyd, FIDIC VicePresident, Jorge Diaz Padilla, convener and FIDIC President, and Yoshihiko
Yamashita, AJCE, made presentations (see www.worldwaterfourm4.org.mx)
highlighting the consulting engineering industry's contribution to solving local
problems related to the supply, quality and management of water.

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Notices to Member Associations
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