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FIDIC Member Associations in the Asia-Pacific Region（1）

ASPAC asia-pacific region news
No.8： March 2009

FIDIC Annual Conference 2008 at Quebec
The FIDIC Annual Conference was held at Quebec, Canada in 7-10 September 2008 under the theme“A strong industry serving society.”

During the Conference, the ASPAC Executive Committee

Meeting and the General Assembly Meeting were held to discuss the following three issues:
Technical sessions were the following three themes.
• Capacity Development Program• ASPAC YPF (Young Professionals Forum)• Progress of the Action Plan1.

Capacity Development Program

ASPAC secretariat proposed a framework of capacity development program for consulting engineersand government officials in the zones of most dynamic economic developments in ASPAC that iscomposed of future goals, target countries,
methodology and role of each actor related to theprogram.

This concept actually initiated by Dr.

John Boyd, FIDIC President.
aimed

atunderstanding

The programofrolesandresponsibilities of consulting engineers andgovernment officials, establishment of linkage
between local governments at ASPAC countries
and

FIDIC

memberassociations,andASPAC Executive Committee Meeting(7 September 2008)

establishment of sub-regional groups at ASPAC
for implementation of continuous capacity development programs.

This framework was agreed in

the ASPAC Executive Committee Meeting on 7 September 2008.
The capacity development program was continuously discussed in the ASPAC Forum on thefollowing day, and representatives from India and Australia informed that each association alreadyplanned or implemented a similar program by their own resources in cooperation with FIDIC
secretariat.

In addition, members of India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam announced theircandidacy for target countries that would carry out the program.
Although the general direction of the program had no objection, one of our proposals, i.e.
establishment of sub-regional groups at ASPAC for implementation of continuous capacity
development programs and support of the other future activities in ASPAC, was not agreed in theASPAC General Assembly Meeting on 9 September 2008.

Also, it regrettably had not reached an

ASPACFIDIC Member Associations in the Asia-Pacific Region（2）agreement that the ASPAC secretariat would decide the target countries for implementation of theprogram by consultation with FIDIC.

Participants of the ASPAC General Assembly Meeting:
EC-Members:
Akihiko Hirotani (ASPAC Chair; AJCE)
K.K.Kapila (ASPAC Member of Executive Committee; CEAI)
Karamat Ullah Chaudry (ASPAC Member of Executive Committee; ACEP)
Dennis Sheehan (ASPAC Member of Executive Committee; ACEA)
Representatives from ASPAC MA:
ACEA (Australia)

Dennis Sheehan

BACE (Bangladesh)

Mahbub Haque, Lailun Nahar Ekram

CNAEC (China)

Tang Ping, Jie Zhang

ACEHK (China, Hong Kong)
CAEC (China, Taipei)

Shou-Chich Kao

CEAI (India)

Amitabha Ghoshal, Ramesh Kehar, Dhaval ParikhChakravarthula Sravanth, Sangeeta Wij

INKINDO-TEKNIK (Indonesia)

Sarwono Hardjomuljardi

AJCE (Japan)

Yoshihiko Yamashita (11 Participants)

KENCA (Korea)

Haeng-Rae Cho, Kyu Yull Choi,
Myeong Jin Lee, Junsuk Lee

ACEM (Malaysia)

Donns Shawa, Bruce Siew Keat Chan

ACENZ (New Zealand)

Adam Thornton, Brent Meekan

ACEP (Pakistan)

Karamat Chaudry

ACES (Singapore)

Kok Siong Chan

ACESL (Sri Lanka)

Secretary:
Masakazu Maeda, Kazutosi Akasaka, Eiko Watatsu
Observer:Subhash Mehrotra (FIDIC EC)(ASPAC Secretary; AJCE)ASPAC
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2.

ASPAC YPF (Young Professionals Forum)

ASPAC YPF is a kind of capacity development program for young consulting engineers.

It wasproposed to set up the place for young professionals
particularly in ASPAC countries to communicate andenlighten each other.

Since FIDIC YPF has started

their activities, ASPAC YPF would be initiated basedon that of FIDIC YPF considering different
viewpoints from European countries and the UnitedStates.

It was also proposed that this forum would

be managed by sub-regional groups because ASPAC
ASPAC General Assembly Meeting(9 September 2008)

covers broad areas including a wide variety of races,
religions and cultures; however, it was not agreed byparticipants.

3.

Progress of the Action Plan

The following events of ASPAC Action Plan 2007-2009 were reported in the Meetings:•Regular meetings are held twice a year.
There are two occasions: regular meetings at FIDIC annual conference andFIDIC/ASPAC annual conference. The former was in Singapore, and the latter was inPakistan in 2007 and Seoul in 2008.

•Newsletter and Website are utilized for communication with member associations.
ASPAC Region News is issued periodically.
The annual action plans and events of the Member Associations (MAs) are reported bye-mail, newsletters and website.
Directory of MAs are displayed on FIDIC web site gradually.

The ASPAC Secretary additionally reported that they had received country reports from six MAs
before the Conference, and all members were asked again to send back complete report to ASPAC
Secretariat.

While this report has some questionnaires about activity plans, policy issues, demands

for training program, and activities for young engineers in each member association, it would be quite
important for ASPAC to improve and promote their actions.

Members agreed to promote theASPAC Action Plan continuously and activate communication among member associations.
It should make special attention in the ASPAC General Assembly Meeting that Professor Omoto fromKyoto University had the presentation about “Promotion of adjudicators in Asian region and its
action plan.” He is a sole Japanese adjudicator approved by FIDIC.
JBIC, Kyoto University and AJCE are promoting training of adjudicators in Asian region. They had
seminars in Tokyo, Kyoto, Manila and Delhi, and in future they would have seminars in Hanoi,

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Vietnam; Bangkok, Thailand and Denpasar,Indonesia.

A delegate from Pakistan requested

Prof. Omoto to have a seminar in his country, andanother delegate suggested that the plan orinformation on this matter should be circulated in
ASPAC region.

All members declared to support

the program for promotion of adjudicators in
Asian region.

4.

Current Status and Prospects of theIssues Related to ASPAC Activities

Special Presentation by Prof. Omoto(9 September 2008)

With regard to the Capacity Development Program, it was finally judged that demand for
implementation of the program was little among ASPAC member associations.

Because several

countries in ASPAC already started the similar programs, ASPAC Secretariat received a few requests
for the program implementation. Therefore, it was determined that the program would be proceededby each member association who is interested in the program.
On the other hand, some of the steering committee members of FIDIC YPF, such as member from Iran,India, China and Japan, have played a key role of ASPAC YPF activities.

They made an activity

paper that describes background, general direction, mission and objectives, function and organizationof ASPAC YPF, and clearly states their required actions and time schedule in the year of 2008 and2009.

Mr. Takashi Nakajima, Steering Committee member of FIDIC YPF, CTI Engineering

International Co., Ltd., has joined in ASPAC Secretariat since October 2008 and strengthened ouractivities to accelerate the YPF actions.
The year of 2009 is the last year of our Action Plan, and therefore the achievements in three years will
be reviewed and general directions of the follow-up actions of ASPAC will be proposed.
Additionally, problems on the establishment of an ASPAC permanent secretariat will be identified andsorted out, and solutions to these problems will be suggested accordingly.

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