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February 2010
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Activities
GAMA-Africa conference focuses on the role of consulting engineers
The engineer as a strategic partner is the theme for the 2010 FIDIC Group of
Africa Member Associations (GAMA) conference in Mombasa.
Managing innovation: the way forward
FIDIC 2010 New Delhi will bring together clients, industry leaders, governmentorganisations, and funding agencies to debate the key aspects of innovation.
Business
Development
Insight into the development of consulting engineering in Africa
Engineering is Development by Bayo Adeola, a former FIDIC Executive
Committee member, tells a story of resilience in difficult circumstances.
Practice
Sustainability infrastructure rating system to be developed
The chair of FIDIC's Sustainability Development Committee is to help prepare a
draft of a sustainability rating system for infrastructure projects in the USA.
Contracts
A steady stream of new books on FIDIC contracts
Leading international authorities continue to provide detailed and up-to-dateguidance on FIDIC's suite of works contracts.

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FIDIC Executive Committee members plan a coordinated programme ofregional visits to Member Associations.

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Innovation report planned for New Delhi conference
A SYNTEC-Ingénierie white paper will be recast in an international light for
discussion at the FIDIC 2010 annual conference.
Principles
Quality
Qualifications-Based Selection study reported reduced construction costs
A USA study has reported that lower construction costs were achieved inconstruction projects procured under Qualifications-Based Selection.
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Guidance for the governance of lobbying released
If applied, the new OECD Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying
will help protect consulting engineers.
CoursesponsorA new OECD toolbox aims to enhance integrity in public procurement
FIDIC comments on an OECD toolbox for enhancing integrity in public
procurement stressed the special nature of intellectual services.
Bank Doing Business Report has noted progress in building regulation to reduce
corruption
An International Finance Coorporation report notes that several countries havebeen able to reduce corruption by improving permitting regulations.
Sustainability
French association signs sustainability agreement with ecology minister
SYNTEC-Ingénierie has signed an agreement with France's ecology ministry todevelop new tools including a project sustainability log book.

Announcements
Record participation for the 2010 management training programme
FIDIC Conferences and International Training Programme

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Executive Committee reviews committee outputs
Executive decisions focus on regional and organisational issues
Members announcements
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GAMA-Africa conference focuses on the role of consulting engineers[full item: 111Ac]

The FIDIC 2010 GAMA-Africa Regional Conference(Whitesands Hotel, Mombasa; 14-17 March 2010; seewww.fidic.org/gama) will focus on the consulting
engineer as a trusted and strategic partner and advisor
to both public and private sector clients at all stages ofdevelopment. This partnership has not always been
exploited sufficiently in Africa despite the engineer's
important role in the supply of physical infrastructure and in formulating
sustainable solutions. A feature will be a business opportunities seminar withseveral African Development Bank contributions. The South African Development
Bank, speaking on behalf of the Industrial Development Bank in South Africa, theAfrica Finance Corporation, and the Rand Merchant Bank, will report on private
sector investment.

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22-23 Mar10ORDER NOWManaging innovation: the way forward [full item: 112Ac]
Innovation is absolutely necessary, but is not without
risk. It must be delivered in a rapidly changing world
where projects are becoming more complex. It must be
nurtured by appropriate government action andregulation. It must be sustained and managed in an
increasingly global and competitive businessenvironment. The many facets of innovation that arise
in providing the quality services needed to meet today's urgent and growing
demands will be addressed over three days by the FIDIC 2010 New Delhi
Conference (18-22 September), the consulting engineering industry's premier
event. Plenary sessions, seminars and interactive workshops organised under
three main themes will focus on innovation in project delivery, projectsustainability, and the consequences of innovation from a business perspective.
The host association, CEAI-India will stress the need for research anddevelopment in innovative solutions to help specific projects facing genericchallenges such as construction in congested urban areas, in remote areas withminimal access, and in areas suffering extreme environmental stress. India faced
many of these challenges building the Golden Quadrilateral's 5846 km of
highways (see photo) that is now 75% complete.

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The FIDIC 2009 conference in London confirmed that consulting engineers have
Coursean increasingly important role to play in the global economy and in offeringsolutions to global challenges. Participants in New Delhi will benefit from a mix of sponsor
best practice guidance and an understanding of the latest industry thinking which
will carry the industry forward in meeting the challenges. A variety of hotels of all
categories and located close to the conference venue, the exceptional Vigyan
Bhawan, will offer special conference rates. There is a full programme of social
events and an extensive and varied programme for accompanying persons, eachsupported by government-backed security arrangements. Delhi itself is acosmopolitan and modern city that has become India's most vibrant centre for thearts and a gateway to a region that is home to many majestic sites, including theuniversally admired Taj Mahal. Full details of hotel accommodation, postconference tours, the accompanying persons programme and the businessprogramme, and including facilities for online and offline registration, will beavailable in March 2010 at www.fidic2010.org.

Business - Development
Insight into the development of consulting engineering in Africa[full item: 66De]

Bayo Adeola, former Chair of FIDIC's Capacity Development
Committee and a former member of the FIDIC Executive
Committee, has written a book titled Engineering is
Development that shares historic insights on the impact ofengineering on Nigeria's development in the face of a"developmentally challenged history". The book, published by
CPMS, Nigeria, and available in hard and soft copy from the
FIDIC Bookshop, concludes that stakeholders need to bringmore state-of-the-art thinking to the main issues so as to create
greater synergy between the needs of the population at large,
infrastructure requirements and knowledge intensive industries.
Business - PracticeSustainability infrastructure rating system to be developed [full item: 83Pr]
In October 2009, the American Public Works Authority (APWA), a forum forprofessionals to improve professional competency and performance and topromote public works, invited members to help design a Green Scorecard manualfor public works projects that would assist project managers to evaluatesustainability initiatives involving consultants and promote sustainability in thedesign and specification of projects. In January 2010, the ACEC-USA, after further
discussion with the partners and with the FIDIC Sustainability Development
Committee chaired by Bill Wallace, announced that the scorecard would aim toserve as a rating tool for sustainable infrastructure across the full spectrum of
public works projects, with a draft released for discussion in the first half of 2010.
The aim would be to develop a scoresheet and criteria for determining point
ratings so that designs would be more sustainable. The growing list of partners
currently includes the ACEC-USA, APWA, the American Association of Civil
Engineers, the UK's Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment andAward Scheme (CCEQUAL), the Federal Highway Administration, and the US Army
Corps of Engineers. A rating system is envisaged that uses FIDIC's Project
Sustainability Management approach as the framework with CEEQUAL, seewww.ceequal.org, for data collection. The initiative reflected a desire byorganisations representing firms, engineers as professionals and client bodies totake a leadership position on which projects get done and how they get done.

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Business - Contracts
A steady stream of new books on FIDIC contracts [full item: 83Co]
FIDIC's suite of works contracts undoubtedly represent
benchmarks for international best practice, with experts from all
relevant disciples continuing to publish comprehensive guides.
Authors are based in many different counties and many aim toshare experience of using the contracts in various types of legal
jurisdictions. FIDIC - A Guide for Practitioners (Springer-Verlag;
ISBN 9783642020995) by Sebastian Hoek and Axel Jaeger
provides invaluable guidance on how FIDIC standard forms ofcontract, with their origins in common law, should be used inlegal systems based on civil codes. Both authors are FIDIC
accredited trainers, with Dr Hoek having a legal background andAxel Jaeger an engineering background (he was a member of
FIDIC Contracts Committee for many years and recently stepped
down as the committee chair). The FIDIC Contracts - Law andPractice (Informa Law; ISBN: 9781843116288) by Ben Mellors,
Ellis Baker, Anthony Lavers, and Scott Chalmers provides an
excellent blend of legal practitioner and academic opinion byhighlighting controversial issues and outlining the main schoolsof thought. Practical Guide to Engineering and Construction
Contracts (CCH Australia; ISBN: 9781921593529) by Philip
Loots and Donald Charrett offers a concise, practical guide to thelaw relating to construction contracts in Australia that illustrates many bestpractice principles that are taken up in the FIDIC contracts. In each case, theauthors regularly present FIDIC contracts to international audiences. A complete
list of books relevant to users of FIDIC contracts is kept in FIDIC User Forums.

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CoursesponsorIndustry - Representation
Liaison programme planned [full item: 67Re]
There are several channels for informing Member Associations of what FIDIC does
to promote their interests and for helping to keep FIDIC better informed of whatis expected. Gregs Thomopulos, FIDIC President, wrote in January 2010 toMember Associations to ask for help in organising a new initiative, namely acoordinated programme of regional visits by Executive Committee members. The
committee has tended to rely on regular commitments such as visits to thedevelopment banks, Executive Committee meetings and the FIDIC annual andregional conferences. These are complemented by visits by staff to organise
conferences and training and publishing activities and to maintain contacts withinternational organisations with which FIDIC works to develop business practice.
The President asked for help in prioritising visits based on criteria such as issues
or events of strategic importance. The new liaison programme comes at anincreasingly busy time for FIDIC, which has a target of 100 Member Associations
for the 100th anniversary in 2013 when the anniversary conference in Barcelona
will have an expanded involvement by other organisations, especially those
representing client sectors.

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Innovation report planned for New Delhi conference [full item: 49Im]
With innovation now a necessity if consulting engineers are to respond adequately
to present and future challenges SYNEC-Ingénierie, a FIDIC Member Association
for France, has released a English version of its white paper on Engineering
Consultancy and Innovation. The report made recommendations on how tostrengthen the industry's capacity to deliver innovation by examining both firms
and their operating environment. The main conclusions: senior management must
commit to promoting innovation; government links must encourage joint actions
with industry; the way relations between the parties in a project are organised
must be must be adjusted. SYNEC-Ingénierie and the European federation EFCA
have agreed to work with FIDIC to prepare an international version of the reportthat consolidates industry best practice and guidance for release in a draft form
for discussion at the FIDIC 2010 New Delhi Conference (www.fidic2010.org) thathas "Managing Innovation" as the theme.
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An Analysis of Issues Pertaining to Qualifications-Based
Selection, a university study in the USA published in late-2009
by the ACEC-USA, has demonstrated that Qualifications-Based
Selection (QBS) achieved lower construction costs and better
project results. Key findings included that while the industry
average for construction cost growth (total cost of change orders
as a percentage of the final construction cost) was about 10
percent, on QBS projects it was only 3 percent. The extension of
construction schedules was also lower on QBS projects. The 52
pages report is available from the ACEC-USA.
Principles - Ethics
Guidance for the governance of lobbying released [full item: 49Et]
Lobbying is a global practice but only one-quarter of OECD member countries
have introduced government regulations and legislation. Many OECD countries
rely on the self-regulation of lobbyists and regulating lobbying has proved difficult
owing to its complexity and sensitive nature. FIDIC was invited to comment ondraft OECD Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying (PDF) whichwere approved by the OECD Council in February 2010, www.oecd.org. It is thefirst international policy instrument for guidance on governance principles forlobbying. Some issues apply directly to consulting engineers such as having clear
definitions of the types of communications with public officials that are notconsidered "lobbying", for example, communications that are already on publicrecord, notably public hearings and established consultation mechanisms.

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CoursesponsorA new OECD toolbox aims to enhance integrity in public procurement[full item: 48Et]

Procurement has received renewed attention in the current
global economic crisis since larger financial flows and use ofaccelerated procedures for government procurement in stimulus programmes
have given rise to additional risks. The 2009 OECD Global Forum on Public
Governance agreed that practical tools were needed to safeguard integrity inpublic procurement. The OECD Public Governance Committee subsequently
developed a toolbox to provide practical guidance on how to apply the 2008 OECD
Recommendation of the Council on Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement(PDF). The toolbox is a compilation of existing tools that support public officials indesigning and developing guidance and procedures at various points in the
procurement cycle. The heart of the draft document comprises short descriptionsof public procurement tools grouped into five categories. A draft has undergone a
consultation process and will be made public in early-2010 as a regularly updated,web-based document. In invited comments, FIDIC recommended recognition of
the fact that the procurement of intellectual services should be based on different
rules and procedures from those for price-sensitive commodities. FIDIC alsostressed the need to address both the demand and supply side of corruption,
through tools such as the FIDIC Government Procurement Integrity Management
System, which OECD sees as complementary to the toolbox.
Bank Doing Business Report has noted progress in building regulation to
reduce corruption [full item: 47Et]
The International Finance Coorporation Doing Business Report2010 (PDF) noted that a World Bank survey had found that firms
faced more issues related to corruption in countries where it wasmore difficult to obtain construction permits. For instance, arecent survey of 218 companies in 19 Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation member countries found that the time andprocedures for dealing with construction permits were the main
regulatory impediment to doing business. Reforms that madethe regulation of construction more efficient and transparent
helped reduce corruption and informality in the sector.
Reforms to simplify construction permitting have been on the rise for the past five
years, with Doing Business recording 91 reforms in 62 economies aimed atmaking construction permitting more efficient and easier to comply with. Efficientregulation often took a systematic approach in reforms by identifying areas ofoverlap among agencies, consulting widely with stakeholders, opting for riskbased approval systems, and introducing internal monitoring systems. It is notedthat specific reference was not made FIDIC's proposed Government Procurement
Integrity Management System (GPIMS) that ensures the implementation of acomprehensive monitoring system.
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French association signs sustainability agreement with ecology minister[full item: 8Su]

The Grenelle Environnement, a high profile,
government-driven process in France to plan a longterm strategy for sustainable development, has led to
SYNTEC-Ingénierie, a Member Association for France,
signing an agreement with the ecology ministry
represented by Chantal Jouanno, State Secretary(shown on the left in the photo with Alain Bentejac,
President, SYNTEC-Ingénierie) to take a leading role in several major initiatives,
namely improving the energy efficiency of existing buildings, urban planning anddiversifying transport systems. The agreement envisages the development andimplementation of new tools such as an "observatory" to monitor energy
consumption in buildings, ensuring that all stakeholder play an active role inprojects to design urban environments, and an innovative, publically available"sustainable development log book" that rates infrastructure projects andaccompanies each project throughout its life-cycle. The SYNTEC logbook
encapsulates many of the FIDIC Project Sustainability Management principles. It
comes at a time when the International Standards Organization has stateddrafting a sustainable construction standard for civil works and the USA has
established a group to draft an infrastructure rating system, see News item.

CoursesponsorAnnouncements - Events
Record participation for the 2010 management training programme[full item: 68Ev]
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programme comprises the usual online sessions, feedback and discussion on theeFIDIC training platform (see eFIDIC) for six months followed by closing working
sessions immediately before the FIDIC 2010 New Delhi Conference (seewww.fidic2010.org), with a final report presented during the Future Leaders
Workshop at the conference. For 2010, the programme was restructured so that
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FIDIC Guide to Practice training modules formed the core of the training uponwhich cases studies were built. This will provide the future managers with a better
understanding of how consulting engineering firms operate.

FIDIC Conferences and International Training Programme [full item: 63Ev]
FIDIC GAMA Africa 2010 Regional Conference, Mombasa, 14-17 Mar 10 GAMA
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Practical Use: Advanced), Brussels, 15-16 Mar 10
FIDIC Contracts Intensive Course (Practical Use), Gaborone, 15-16 Mar 10
FIDIC Contracts Intensive Course (Claims), Gaborone, 17-18 Mar 10
FIDIC-ACES Contracts Course (Claims), Belgrade, 22-23 Mar 10
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Practical Use), Qatar, 22-23 Mar 10
FIDIC Contracts Intensive Course (Practical Use), Qatar, 5-7 Apr 10
FIDIC Contracts Intensive Course (Claims), Qatar,12-14 Apr 10
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Practical Use), Ankara, 19-20 Apr 10
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Practical Use), Singapore, 22-23 Apr 10
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Claims), Vienna, 26-27 Apr 10
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Practical Use), Zagreb, 10-11 May 10
FIDIC-DBRF Training Workshop, Istanbul, 12-13 May 10
DBRF Dispute Resolution Conference, Istanbul, 14-16 May 10
CNEC-Mexico 25th Anniv./FEPAC Gen. Ass., Mexico City, 18-21 May 10
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Practical Use: Advanced), Dubai, 19-20 May 10
FIDIC Contracts and Claims Seminar, Tunis, 27-28 May 10
EFCA-Europe Conference, Rome, 27-29 May 10
FIDIC-DBT Contracts Course (DABs), Toronto, 31 May - 1 Jun10
FIDIC-ECV Contracts Course (Practical Use), Paris, 31 May - 1 Jun10 (in French)
FIDIC Seminar, Tripoli, 3 Jun 10
ACA-Austria 150th Celebration, Vienna, 16-17 Jun 10
FIDIC-Cornerstone Contracts Workshop (Contracts), Prague, 23-24 Jun 10
FIDIC Asia-Pacific Contracts Users Conference, Beijing, 24-25 Jun 10
FIDIC ASPAC Asia-Pacific 2010 Regional Conference, with FIDIC 2010 New Delhi
FIDIC 2010 New Delhi, 19-22 Sep 10
Announcements - Notices
Executive Committee reviews committee outputs [full item: 11No]

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In reviewing FIDIC committee activities, the Executive Committee noted at its
February 2010 meeting in Wellington that the Contracts Committee's demanding
workload included finalising FIDIC Procurement Procedure, a new version of the
CourseMultilateral Development Bank Harmonised Construction Contract and a newsponsor
FIDIC Design-Build-Operate Contract Guide. Meanwhile, drafting task groups were
working on updates to the services agreements and the 1999 works contracts. A
group was being formed to update the Dredgers Contract, with a likely extension
to the FIDIC Short Form of Contract. The Business Practices Committee (BPC) was
focussing on a revised Quality Based Selection guide, on a new FIDIC Safety in
Design Guide, and on a civil works supplement to the FIDIC Definitions ofServices Guidelines. The Quality Management Committee had been charged with
updating FIDIC's two quality management guides, and the Integrity Management
Committee was updating the FIDIC Business Integrity Management Guidelines.
The Sustainable Development Committee (SDC) was planning to complete revised
FIDIC Project Sustainability Management Guidelines and had agreed with EFCA to
finalise an international version of a SYNTEC-Ingénierie guide to innovation, seeNews item. The Executive Committee agreed to a SDC proposal to establish a
Climate Change Task Group to review strategies and prepare industry guidelines.
Meanwhile, the Risk and Liability Committee was updating Professional Liability
Insurance: A Primer and preparing a policy statement on limited liability. It wasalso decided that BPC would review all existing policy statements, some of whichwere relatively new whereas updates of others had not been finalised.

Executive decisions focus on regional and organisational issues[full item: 12No]

In spite of difficult economic conditions, FIDIC achieved a substantial financial
surplus in 2009 largely because staff had not been replaced and planned new staff
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had not been engaged given the uncertainty of the FIDIC Secretariat?s future
location pending a decision on how best to integrate activities in Europe with theEuropean federation EFCA. The Executive Committee meeting in Wellington, New
Zealand, in February 2010 decided that the FIDIC Secretariat should remain in
Geneva. The aim would be to update the agreement with the EFCA with EFCA
representing FIDIC in Europe and integrating activities wherever possible.
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European members of FIDIC and EFCA also tended to carry a relatively high
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financial burden for membership because they often fully represent their national
industries, which was frequently not the case elsewhere. To help start redressing
the situation, the Executive agreed that the President would write to Member
Associations asking them to report member firm staff numbers (the basis forContracts
membership fees) more accurately and in conformity with guidelines. The
Workshop
discussion of the relationship with EFCA was extended to include FIDIC's regional Prague
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Pacific group of Member Associations in the expectation that a plan of action
would be agreed. The plan may include organisation of a FIDIC-ASPAC regional
conference without the involvement of the regional development programme
TCDPAP. The 2010 ASPAC conference will take place with the FIDIC 2010 New
Contracts
Delhi Conference followed by Vietnam in 2011. A one-time grant of USD 5,000
Courseper year for two years was approved to help fund a Secretariat in South Africa for Abu Dhabi
the GAMA-Africa regional group. Unlike ASPAC, GAMA had recently reviewed its
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statutes and action plan and was currently pursuing a broad range of activities
including organisation of the FIDIC GAMA-Africa Regional Conference (Mombasa;
16-19 March 2010). Bisher Jardenah, the Executive Committee member from
Jordan, outlined alternative models for a mid-east regional group that is currently
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Torontocoordination with the South American federation FEPAC would be taken up when
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anniversary of CNEC-Mexico.
Other decisions taken by the Executive Committee included starting legal
proceedings in cases of blatant breaches of copyright by organisations that
prepared and used amended FIDIC documents, notably FIDIC conditions ofcontract. It was also decided that FIDIC documents would not necessarily be
printed in a hard copy form since these could not be watermarked with a user's
coordinates to mitigate reproduction of unauthorised scanned copies on thirdparty website. The Finance Committee would be reactivated and charged withexamining FIDIC's fiscal status and investment strategy once terms of reference
had been agreed. There was also preliminary discussion of reorganising FIDIC's
association and commercial activities in the light of the General Manager's
retirement in early-2011. Finally, with a view to organising a large andcomprehensive 100th anniversary conference in 2013 in Barcelona, potential
partner organisations from industry sectors connected to consulting engineering
were shortlisted.
Members announcements [full item: 5No]

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CoursesponsorUpdates Task Group, Cologne; 10-12 Mar 2010
Integrity Management Committee Meeting, Geneva; 26-27 Mar 2010
Contracts Committee Meeting, Cologne; 28 Apr 2010
Updates Task Group, Budapest; 12-14 May 2010
Updates Task Group, Cologne; 14-16 Jun 2010
Executive Committee Meeting, Mexico City; 19-20 May 2010
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MA Letter 16/09: Liaison Programme PDF
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