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AJCE and Its Activity, 2006

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AJCE/ACEA
Young Professional Exchange Programme in Australia 2005

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AJCE Seminar 2005 Report

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Consulting services by AJCE members

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AJCE Standing Committee Report

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AJCE Yearly Activity

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AJCE and Its Activity, 2006

Akihiko HIROTANIPresident, AJCE

The new law also specifies that designers play avery important role to quality of product,
requiring consultants to keep up engineeringskills at the highest level of the profession.

The Association of Japanese Consulting
Engineers, AJCE, was established in 1974, by thethen members of the Japanese Consulting
Engineers Association (now called the Institutionof Professional Engineers, Japan: IPEJ). AJCE is
the sole member Japanese association adhering
to FIDIC and representing consulting engineersof Japan ever since then. AJCE has a 32 year
history, and Mr. Akihiko HIROTANI had
succeeded as the 10th president since 2005.

Among other news, Dr. Tomaru, former
president of AJCE, was elected President of IPEJ
in June.
In August, AJCE modif ied its Home Page,
making it much more attractive, and more in linewith the members strong determination tocontribute to higher level of activities and toassist domestic consultants to accessinternational environment.

One year has already passed since we delivered
the last issue of AJCE Newsletter. There were
definite changes in our business environment
during that period. Economic activities haveincreased dramatically, while being influenced byvery dynamic activities in China, Korea andelsewhere in Asia. All these economic changes
were private oriented and the consulting industry
in private businesses has profited from theseopportunities. As to public services, government
bodies were still unable to collect enoughrevenues leading to a belt tightening situation
during this period, affecting many of ourcolleagues in the public consulting industry.

In September, Dr. Ishii completed his term offour years as FIDIC's EC member. Our members
also played various roles at the Beijing
Conference which proved AJCE to be one of the
major and contributing member associations at
FIDIC.
In October, several Japanese young engineersvisited Australia for almost three weeks under
the Exchange Training Program between Japanand Australia. The program had been continuing
for about ten years creating internationallyminded young engineers in both countries.

A new law, named Quality Securing in Public
Project (Quality Secure Law in short) had passed
the Parliament and was immediately put into
force in April 2005. For contracting out of public
works, price plays the most prominent priority
under the Accounting Law. Within the
Accounting Law, the new Quality Secure Law
emphasizes a particular clause which specifies
that "cost and other items shall be taken into
consideration to secure the quality of end result
when necessary". A great deal of discussion has
been going on since regarding what should beconsidered, under which situation, and when.

In November, the annual seminar was held, witha title of "Better Quality in Consulting Industry".
Many members from AJCE participated.
Presidents and several guests from the Korean
Engineering and Consulting Association(KENCA) attended.
Collaboration among other related associations
for consulting industries in Japan has been

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AJCE shall continue those activities in the
coming year. In June, the EC members shall be
reshuffled so that a special committee according
to the by-regulations is now taking the necessary
steps. The new EC, after being established, shallcontinue to ensure the expected duties and toplay an important role in the Japanese consulting
industry.

strengthened. AJCE is playing an important rolein this case as importer and provider of up-todate international topics and news to domestic
consultants which information was collectedfrom MAs of FIDIC.
All of AJCE's eight committees including Ethics,
Planning, General Affairs & Finance,
Membership, International Activities,
Interchange of Technology, Professional Training
and Information & Publicity have continued tobe very active.

AJCE shall expect encouraging advice andcomments from colleagues, clients and otherrelated interest holders to our consulting
industry.
Thank you.

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AJCE/ACEA
Young Professional Exchange Program in Australia2005

YPEP 2005 Report

Kunji AKINAGA
Chair
YPF・YPEP Sub-Committee, AJCE

and at home. In Japan conducting business with extra
working hours is common and sometimes private
time is spent for works. They seemed to have felt
gaps and thought how to spend time in life and what
was valuable. Also they envied Australian life.

In 2005, five Japanese trainees stayed in Melbourne
as Young Professionals Exchange Programme(YPEP) in October. Topic for this programme was"Professional Development of Young Engineers" andpurpose was titled "Study the Different Business
Practices of Australia and Japan".

In their reports there are some interesting comments
and proposals.
・Due to lack of water in Australia, they reuse treatedeffluents from sewage treatment plants positively
and their lifestyles are based on such background.
・Although Australian engineers often discussed on
design process and decided, Japanese engineers
tend to rely on manuals in order to conduct a lot ofbusiness maters rapidly. Discussion in proceduresof planning and designing should be co-opted as an
ordinal item.
・As 3 or 4 weeks stay is short to join projects asengineers, a proper programme should be set for
YPEP on each country, considering topics andpurposes.

In this time, some of trainees stayed for 3 weeks andothers for 4 weeks due to business schedules ofbelonging companies. Host families of some trainees
changed every week or every two weeks, which madeloads of host families lighter and they concentrated
weekend lives together. The other advantage was thattrainees could find differences between host families
in a short time.
As all trainees belonged to sections meeting their
specialties fortunately, they watched everything fromviews of their fields and found differences, of which
details are shown in their reports. Almost of all
trainees pointed out different lifestyle both in office

Table

Trainees of YPEP 2005

Name

Company

Host-Company

1) Tetsuro Kawano

Oriental Consultants Co.,Ltd.

Persons Brinckerhoff Australia Pty Ltd

2) Hiroyuki Katsuki

CTI Engineering Co.,Ltd.

GHD Pty Ltd

3) Yoshinobu Nakajima

Nihon Suido Consultants Co.Ltd

Kellogg Brown and Root Pty Ltd

4) Naohiro TokiOYO Corporation

Golder Associates

5) Yusuke Kobayashi

NIKKEN Consultants,Inc.

SMEC Australia Pty Ltd

6)Yuji Munehiro

Chodai Co., Ltd.

Maunsell Australia Pty Ltd

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Report of Young Professional
Exchange Programme 2005 in
Melbourne

Tetsuro KAWANO
ENGINEER(ROAD PLANNING SECTION)ORIENTAL CONSULTANTS CO.,LTD

1. Introduction
I participated in the 10th Japan-Australia exchange
training program from 1 Oct to 29 Oct.(4 weeks) All
6 trainees participated this program in this time.

2.1 East-Link Project
I appreciated road design. It road is in Greater
Melbourne east, it is the road of extension 39km. Thisroad in Melbourne is unusual toll way.

I have been interested in the lifestyle of foreigncountries and labor environment , since I accepted
exchange trainee(YPE) three years ago.

There are installed 14 interchanges and have 3 lanes
oneside in this road.
A) Video-tolling System
There isn't installed toll gate in Melbourne. There is
installed "Video-tolling System" and Many cars are
installed an "e-tag".It is very useful system.But carwhich don't have it ,cannot drive on the toll way.

I report following ,about one month soent with a hostcompany and host families.
2. Training Outline
My exchange training was performed in Persons
Brinckerhoff Australia Pty Limited at Melbourne
branch(following, APB).

B) Work Contents
I was experienced work to make an answer for
reviewer's questions by the drawings and regulated
collections.

PB's Melbourne branch located at St.Kilda Road fromthe City for 10 minutes by Trams. And there is
Fawkner Park behind the office.
Folloing,The business in which I was able toparticipate was described while I stayed in
Melbourne.

Fig2 Video-tolling System

Fig3 e-tag

Fig1 Scenery in front of office(St.Kilda Road)
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space which can do park utilization is many.
Openspace at westinhotel, and Fawkner-park behindthe office etc, that was utilized by many citizens.
There is the caf in the openspace at westinhotel that is
utilized at lunch,rest,teatime etc

Because I was not accustomed to English, I spent
many times to make the answer. (Japanese justbecame inscription in English in those...)2.2 Smart-Link Projects
I experienced investigation that was 250 public
transportation connecting improvement in
Melbourne. The inside, I worked the field survey andmade a B.O.Q.

3.3 Trams
It was convenient for the Trams route in Melbourne
to go anywhere.
In the city, the driveway was abolished and theconstruction repaired on a footpath and the road of
only a tram was advancing.

It has about 200 investigation items. For example,
drainage state, a number of CCTV, lighting
equipments, helping points. I was interested in thefollowing 2 items on the work.
① This work was performed by JV of threecompanies. Each company's off icer can beaccessed to the data server. By this system, thiswork have streamlined.
② The second point is abundance of public orderequipments. Many supervisory cameras are
installed in Melbourne. Because of that, I was the
feeling which is always watched to someone.

Although there is no examination of tickets usually,
there is examination of tickets unannounced. It
seemed that therefore, almost all users had a proper
ticket and had got on.
A fare is not so cheap as AU$3.1 (= 270 yen).
However, a ticket is effective for 2 hours, and there isa ticket various type (such as a Sundaysaver
ticket,Weekly Full Fare ticket etc)

When I investigated, many supervisory cameras
were installed in the station. I realized that there
were many plant investment for crime andterrorism.

In addition to the tram, the ticket could be used also
for CONEX railroad and I thought that it was very
convenient.
3.4 Homestay
I did precious experience that was a homestay.
Because stay place had not been determined until
arrival, It was an uneasy start for me.

3. Felt in Melbourne
3.1 Multi Culture
Melbourne is consisted of many immigrant.I
experienced multiethnic community. I enjoyed eating
the food of each country, worked with people fromvarious countries(Nepalese,Indonesian,Salvador...)I had an opportunity to meet many people, because I
had a schedule which changes the Host family weekly
constructed. I was able to touch English conversation
everyday and everyhour, about the life-style of theusually, manners, etc.

3.2 Park
Melbourune is the town where there are many parks.
There are parks of various types from the large-scalepark, to the small-scale park. Especially, The open

Fig4 Open space at Westin Merbourne

Fig5 Tram on Bourke-Street

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4. Conclusion
In this training, we had amazing experiences for thebusiness, life,culture and people in Melbourne.
So, we had the great time and appreciated for thekindnesses by AJCE, ACEA and all staffs of the hostcompanies.

Especially 2ndweek and 3rdweek, thanks to stayedhome where room was shared, I had an opportunity tomeet other except PB.
According to any information, the house rent aroundcity is high. For that reason, some people lives with
their friends.

We, Japanese trainee will be united in business andprivate life as if we were in this training.

Table Trainees of YPEP 2005
Outline of hostfamily
1st week

Couple of year second

2ndweek

Mr.J with two his friends

3rdweek

Ms.A with four her friends

4thweek

Ms.E with her mother

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AJCE's Annual Seminar 2005
Quality Management of Consulting Service

Shigemichi HATAO
Chair
Professional Training Committee, AJCE

In the past the procurement of goods and service by
the governments was made in accordance with the
Public Accounting Law which in principle has placeda priority on lower or lowest price. However, under
the new law which can be deemed as a supplement to
the existing public accounting law, evaluation for the
public procurement should be made with due
reference not only to cost but also to quality. Some
explanations were added on possible influences tocompetitive bidding and design-build contracts forconstruction industries for public infrastructures.

AJCE has regularly held a seminar on CPD for theirmembers. The annual seminar 2005 was held at
Tokyo on November 11, 2005, with a theme as"Quality Management of Consulting Service". The
objective of the seminar was to review the quality of
consulting service, aiming at the quality assurance onan occasion of enforcement of the Quality Assurance
Law for Public Infrastructures (April 2005). It is
expected through this seminar that more discussions
would continue among the AJCE members and theconcerned agencies how to maintain the quality of theconsulting service and to minimize design faults.

Ms.Yokokawa reported some cases and examples of
QCBS for procurement of consultants by the multilateral development banks, against which AJCE haslong appealed for application of QBS. She also
introduced the evaluation procedure for procurement
used in JICA and JBIC.

The seminar was made with the following program.
1. Enforcement of Quality Assurance Law andQuality of the Consulting Service : Mr.A.Hirotani,
Chairman of AJCE
2. Procurement of Consultants in Multi-lateralDevelopment Banks: Ms.M.Yokokawa, Nippon
Koei
3. Quality Management of Nihon Sekkei : Mr. M.
Kurakazu, Nihon Sekkei
4. Panel Discussion
Moderator : Mr.Y.Yamashita, Vice Chairman of
PTC
Panelers : Mr.T. Go, Nihon Suido Consultants
Mr.Y.Tsutsumi, Oriental Consultants
Mr.E.Kawakami, CTI Engineering
Mr.H.Sadamura, Nippon Koei

Mr.Kurakazu introduced a quality management
system and method employed in his company whichmainly deals with architectural design. He explained
the various troubles and mistakes encountered inarchitectural designs, effects of ISO, increasing
requirements of owners, participation of various
stakeholders in the design process, importance ofrecords in writing, etc. He stressed importance ofprofessional responsibility of designers in addition tocontractual responsibility. Design mistakes are oftencaused by lack of communication, lack of method
statement of execution of works, lack of knowledgeof materials, improper use of CAD, lack ofknowledge on relevant laws and patents/loyalties, etc.
In his company there are three stages for design
review; planning stage, basic design stage and detaildesign stage.

As an opening speech, Mr.Hirotani introduced thebackground, objective, outline, guidelines of the
Quality Assurance Law for Public Infrastructures
which was enacted in 2005. The objective of the law
is to aim at upgrading of nation's welfare and sounddevelopment of nation's economy by quality
assurance of public infrastructures. This law
stipulates not only the obligation and responsibility ofcontractors but also of consultants.

In the panel discussion which was chaired by
Mr.Yamashita, Vice-chairman of PTC, panelers
reported the quality management systems and
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A month just after the seminar, a serious scandal
occurred in several new buildings(mansions) in Japanfor which earthquake-proof design was not carriedout properly with fake.

practices of their own firms and exchanged theiropinions on quality.
As a concluding remark, Mr.Hatao, Chairman ofPTC, summarized the issue on quality assurance asfollows.

It is worth while to remember that "Sustainable
Engineering" was selected as a theme for the FIDIC
annual conference at Beijing in 2005. It is further
noted that JCCA(Japan Civil Engineering Consultants
Association) regularly holds seminars in local cities
for minimization of design mistakes. It is consideredquite essential for the consulting engineers to tackle
seriously and earnestly for the issue of quality
assurance.

・Continue capacity building/capacity developmentof consulting engineers.
・Be more creative, time to time free from too muchdependence on manuals.
・Be more comprehensive by evaluating otheralternative.
・Take approach with due focus on project life cycle
time.
・Keep continuous communication.
・Think more about relationships with others(Connection & Chain).
・Do and repeat check and review.
・Obtain conf idence/trust from the clients andprofessional certificate.

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Consulting services by AJCE members
Preparation of technical data concerning fire safety in along span bridge of a city
Metropolitan Express Company Limited

ClientFinanced by Metropolitan Express Company Limited
Achieved by Oriental Consultants Company Limited
Period5/Aug/04〜28/Feb/05

Services◆

Risk analysis
Consideration of operation method◆ Consideration of administrative
operation level and system◆

This service consider totally method fortunnel f ire prevention with thecompletion of individual considerations
which range from normal times to fire
outbreak in a long-span bridge of a city
◆ Thisproject conducted undercooperation of associate professor Mr.
Daimon at Faculty of Science andTechnology, Keio University.

Outline

Details

technique that needed for manual
preparation and building system.
◆Established the operation manual fortunnel fire prevention based on effects
noted above.
◆Established programs for enlightment,
training and experimental use.
◆In the enlighten program, throughconsidering necessary contents andmedia, we proposed method how toprevail using the program to generalusers and commercial driver, enlightmentusing a quiz form, monitoring system forfire prevention.

Provided services including as follows;
Verification of relation between cost andrisk reduction concer ning disasterprevention facility.
◆ Proposal for effective informationdelivery system using driving simulator.
◆Consideration of concrete operative◆

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Hai Phong Binh Bridge Project in VIETNAM

ClientHai Phong People’s Committee, Binh
Bridge Project Management Unit

Financed by JBIC
Achieved by Chodai Co., Ltd.(Main) Japan Overseas
Consultants Co.,Ltd
PeriodNovember 2000-August 2005

Services◆

Modification of Detailed Design
Tendering Work◆ Construction Supervision◆

Briefing

The objectives of the project were:◆ Binh Bridge is constructed over the
Cam river of the Hai Phong City in
Vietnam.
◆ The main Bridge is cable stayed bridgeof span length 100+260+100m. Total
bridge length including approach
bridge is 1,280m.
◆ This project is first project of special
loans of Japan.

Details10Services carried out included:◆ Modif ication of detailed design byFinish Consultant◆ Additional detailed design of wind test
model, tollgate, building for
maintenance.
◆ Technical training in Japan and
Vietnam.
◆ Preparation of tender documents,
execution of the bid and evaluation ofbids.
◆ Construction supervision of bridge,
tollgate, building for maintenance.
◆ Environmental monitoring

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The Study on Improvement of Water Supply System inManagua, Nicaragua
Client

JICA (Japan International Cooperation
Agency)Financed by JICA
Achieved by Nihon Suido Consultants Co., Ltd. (asLeader of JV team, with Asia Air
Survey Co., Ltd.)
PeriodJuly 2004 - January 2006

Services◆

Master Plan

Details

Briefing

to formulate a long-term improvement
plan up to the year 2015 for an
efficient and sustainable water supply
system of Managua city
◆to identify a priority project withrespect to the improvement of watersupply infrastructure and prepare
preliminary outline designs of thepriority project◆to pursue technical transfer to
ENACAL's personnel in the course of
the Study◆

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Services carried out included:◆Field measurement of Flow/Pressures,
Leakage & Water Quality◆Water Consumption & Awareness
Surveys◆Assessment of Water Source & Water
Balance◆Review of Regulatory, Institutional and
Financial Aspects of Water Service◆Formulation of Long-term
Improvement Plan
◆Environmental & Social
Considerations◆Preliminary Outline Design of Priority
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The Study on Mekong Riverbank Protection around
Vientiane Municipality, Lao P.D.R.

Client3) Foot protection work
(Soda mattress work; 66 sheets 10m*6m)ii. Wat Chom Cheng Site
; L=240m
Wooden pile groynes(6 groynes: L=20 m, interval=40 and 60m)
iii. Sibounheuang Site; L=156m
1) Slope protection work
(Cobble stone with willow branch work)
2) Foundation work (Riprap work)
3) Foot protection work
(Soda mattress work; 23 sheets 10m*6m)2) Outline of Master Plan
- Target Year: 2020
- Total Project cost (national budget in principle):
US$4.89 million- Total length of 10 Master Plan projects: 7.38 km(5 Urgent Projects: 2.70 km and 5 Second
Priority Projects: 4.68 km)- Implementation Schedule: 16-year (2005-2020)

JICA (Japan International Cooperation
Agency)Financed by JICA
Achieved by NIKKEN Consultants, Inc.
NEWJEC Inc.
PeriodDecember 2001December 2004

Services◆

Pilot Construction Work
Master Plan
◆ Technology Transfer◆

Briefing

1) Objectives of Study
To study bank protection works
adaptable to the Mekong River andsustainable in Lao P.D.R., introducing
Japanese traditional river works method.
2) Study Area
Mekong riverbank around Vientiane
City in Lao P.D.R. (L=approx. 60 km)

Details
1) General of the Pilot Works
1. Construction Period: January 2003 - May 2003
2. Construction typei. Ban Dongphosi Site; L=643m
1) Slope protection work
(Cobble stone with willow branch work)
2) Foundation work (Riprap work)

Technology Transfer Seminar using Soda Method

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Hai Van Pass Tunnel Construction Project, Vietnam
1) Project Length : 12,182m
2) Traffic Lane : 2 Lanes
3.75 +1.25 shoulder. Total 10.0m
3) Tunnel Length : 6,280m (Main Tunnel),
6,286m (Evacuation Tunnel)
1,888m (Ventilation Adit)
4) Tunneling Method : NATM
5) Cross-section : 89m2(MT), 15.5(ET)36.2(VA)
6) Cross-Passage : 400m interval
7) Ventilation System : Longitudinal System, 23
Jet Fans, 3 EPs, 1 VA

Consulting Services
The Hai Van Pass Tunnel Construction
Project is located near the city of
Danang in Central Vietnam. The tunnel
civil works were commenced in October2000 and the breakthrough wascelebrated in October 2003. Since then,installation of electrical and mechanicalfacilities has progressed rapidly aided
by well-organized work coordination,and the tunnel was open to the public on
5 June 2005. The Consultant provided
state-of-art project management withreference to PMBOK.
ClientProject Management Unit No.85,
Ministry of Transport

Financed by JBIC
Achieved by JV of Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., Japan andLouis Berger International Inc., USA in
association with Transport Engineering
Design Incorporation (TEDI), Vietnam.
PeriodJanuary 1998-October 2005

Special Survey
Detailed Design◆ Tendering
Assistance◆ Construction Supervision◆ Training and Technology Transfer.
Project Major Features

Scope

◆
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Project Distinct Points◆ 6.3km long highway tunnel◆ 1st NATM tunnel in Vietnam◆ Longitudinal Ventilation System◆ SCADA for Overall System Control◆ Tunnel O&M Agency required
Project Website
http://haivan.cadp.jp/

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Astana Airport Reconstruction Project, Kazakhstan
ClientMinistry of Transportation andCommunications, Kazakhstan

Financed by JBIC
Achieved by Pacific Consultants Int'l
PeriodDec 1999 - March 2005

Services◆

Master Plan
Detailed Design◆ Construction Supervision◆

Summary

After the Republic of Kazakhstan
gained independent in 1991, the capital
was relocated from Almaty to Astana in
1997. Since Astana Air port wasdeveloped in the 1960's, it had noreservation system with world's airlines,
old terminal facilities, decrepit utilities,
cracked pavement, no parallel taxiway
and small apron, etc. Due to lack ofbudget and modern technology, theGovernment of Kazakhstan requested
the Japanese Government to improve
the airport to function as the airport of
the new capital.

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Services

PCI was the lead consultant in aconsortium of three companies. PCIservices included Master Plan, Basic
Design, Detailed Design, Assistance inTendering and Construction Supervision.

Details

Taxiways: 1,800 m reconstructed taxiway
and 2,800 m newly constructed taxiway
with 23 m width.
Apron: 128,100 m 2 asphalt/concrete
Passenger terminal: 6 story steel structurewith floor area 25,950 m2
Cargo terminal: 2 story steel structurewith floor area 2,200m2
Control tower: 40 m height steel structure
Terminal road and car parks: 4 lanes
access road and 270 lots for car parking
Airport utilities: power supply, fuel supply(hydrant system), heat supply, f ire
fighting system etc.
Vehicle procurement: f ire f ighting
vehicles, snow removal vehicles, fuelservice vehicles, etc.

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Dead Sea Panoramic Complex Subproject under Tourism Sector
Development Project in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Dead Sea
ClientMinistry of Public Works and Housing,
JordanFinanced by JBIC ODA Loan
JICA (Detailed Design)
Achieved by Pacific Consultants Int'l
PeriodApril 1999 - Ongoing assistance

Services◆

Detailed Design
Construction Management◆ Operations Management◆

Services

Details

Summary Dead Sea Panoramic Complex wasplanned and developed on the ragged edgeof 800 m tall sheer cliff from which visitors
can enjoy a panoramic view of the Dead
Sea, the lowest water body on earth, as well
as experiencing an arid desert environment
with natural floras and faunas including
avifauna. The complex also includes a
museum that provides unique perspectives
about the origin of Dead Sea andpreciousness of its environment.

Detailed design including building,exhibition and environmental designs◆ Tender assistance◆ Construction Management◆ Operations Management◆ Tourism Promotion◆ Safety Precaution and Environment
Protection◆ Institutional Development◆

Sanctuary area: 245,000 m2
Development site area: 60,000 m2
Total floor area of the Building: 2,310 m2(including 714 m2 exhibition hall, 450 m2
restaurant and 191 m2 conference hall)
Arabic design style and traditionalarchitectural typology are reflected
throughout the entire building.
Since the site is in an environmentallysensitive area and there is no water sourcein the adjacent area, a sewerage treatment
plant was installed and effluent water isrecycled for watering the plants in the
Complex.

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AJCE standing committee report
Professional Ethics
and the AJCE Ethics Committee

Shigeatsu TAKI
Chair
Ethics Committee, AJCE

responsibility to the society in January 2005. CTI
organized the Compliance Committee under thepresident's leadership, the Manifesto iscommunicated to all persons working for CTI, andthe Committee is successfully administers the
programs.

The Ethics Committee is continuing to present
corporate compliance programs operated in AJCE
member engineering f irms through AJCE News
Letter. In recent years, concerns of Japanese public is
obviously increasing on the cor porate social
responsibility and professional ethics of professional
engineers engaged in consultancy and engineering
services, since several cases related to professional
ethics are disclosed such as f alsif ication ofearthquake design calculations for condominiums andbuildings, and bid rigging scandals for government
purchase construction works. The government urges
to strengthen measures to cope such cases, forinstance, amendment of the anti-trust law, andimprovement of the government purchasing systems.

Oriental Consultants Co., Ltd.: Oriconsul has
implemented its quality management system based on
ISO9001 since 1997, and environmental management
system based on ISO14001 since 1998, and thosesystems partly included a compliance program foranti-trust law. In 2003, Oriconsul established a new
Total Management System (TMS), composing ofinternal governance rules and anti-tr ust raw
compliance systems. The TMS is edited in a booklet
titled Neo-Act, which also includes cor porate
mission, busyness policy and Oriconsul sprits. All
action programs incorporated in the Neo-Act are wellcommunicated to all persons and maintained by them.

In those situations sur rounding engineering
consultancy businesses, it should be valuable to share
information and knowledge on corporate complianceprograms implemented in AJCE member engineeringfirms. The Ethics Committee presented the following
three examples of corporate compliance programs
currently operated in AJCE members:

Nippon Koei Co., Ltd.: NK organized a Committee
for compliance for anti-trust law earlier in 1992. In
May 2001, NK released its corporate action program,which declares 14 commitments for society, clients,
shareholders, suppliers and employees. These
commitments are promoted by the Corporate Action
Committee chaired by the president, are welladministered and obtained higher reputation form
various stakeholders. NK's compliance program isalso supported by the hotline and helpline connected
to both corporate management and outside law officechannels, is effectively utilized.

CTI Engineering Co., Ltd.: CTI has implemented its
compliance program since 2001, conducted its
business on this framework based on the compliancemanual issued. In view of trend of CSR in theJapanese industr y, CTI newly published CTI
Manifesto, an integrated corporate business policy
and action programs, which declares CTI's

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Role and Activities 2005
Planning Committee
General Affairs & Finance Committee
Konomu UCHIMURA
Chair
Planning Committee
General Affairs & Finance Committee

General Affairs & Finance Committee
The role of the committee, as prescribed in the TOR,is i) preparation of budget and assessment of thestatement of the accounts for each fiscal year, andreport to the board of directors, ii) provision ofnecessary resources, such as personnel, office andequipment, to sustain AJCE activities under the
direction of the president, iii) preparation of thedetailed AJCE regulations based on the articles of theassociation, and iv) miscellaneous issues directed by
the president or the board. As seen in the above, therole of the committee is secretarial one. Activities of
the committee are, therefore, carried out mostly
behind the scenes, nevertheless these areindispensable for the operation of AJCE.

Planning Committee
The TOR of the Committee is as follows.
① Planning of a long-term plan concerning association
administration② Relate to articles of association③ Relate to a rule of association④ Cooperation with other domestic associations ofconsulting engineers(CEs)
2004 carried out following activity about TOR
mentioned above.
After bubble collapse of the later half of 1990's,
Japanese economy is stagnant, and reduction leads toa consultant market. As a result, by member
numerical decrease of AJCE, the financial situationof association adds to strictness. Through themember's increase measures and the tr usts ofinvestigation of information to relate to CEs, weplanned to reinforce a financial base of AJCE and tomaintain activity.

The revenue of AJCE has been decreasing for years
because of the shrinking public investment and theconsequent shrinking market for Japanese consulting
engineers. As a result, AJCE has been f acing
financial difficulties. The committee has a headache
when it prepares the next year budget. In order tosolve the problem and to strengthen the financial
status of AJCE in the long run, the committee has towork out measures to increase the revenue.
Cooperation with the committees is always sought inthis regard.

The Radical Reform of Public Interest Corporations
will be executed in 2007 in Japan. We are promoting
the preparation of it.
Representing Japanese CEs, AJCE is a member of
FIDIC. But the association where CE belongs to in
Japan has a plural number according to a engineering
field. AJCE cooperated with these plural associations
and worked on promotion of QBS was aimed forenhance the social position of CEs.

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Membership Committee
Report of 2005

Takeaki TOMOSAWA
ChairMembership Committee, AJCEa) Review of the Repor ts on admission orwithdrawal.
b) Presentation of the Idea of ways to increase
membership.
c) Update of the Name-list of non-member CE
firms for recruit.

1. Members of Committee
The year 2005 Committee is in activity byfollowing members.
Takeaki Tomosawa (Chair)
Kouichi Gotou(Vice-Chair)
Kazuhiro Asada
Kazumasa Itou
Shizuo Ouno
Tanenobu Moriya
Takeo Yamazaki
Noriaki Yoshida

4. Regular meeting
Membership Committee is holding the regularmeeting every two months to discuss the above
three matters.
We have prepared the leaflet for the entrance
invitation in this fiscal year and we are discussing
such as the name-list of the candidates for new
members, the def inition of the number of theregistration employees of member firms.
However, it is a disappointment that the number ofmembers couldn't be increased by our activities.

2. Terms of Referencea) To consider the requirements for AJCE
membership.
b) To consider ways to increase membership.
3. Activities in 2005
The three subjects shown in the following arebeing continued from the beginning of 2004.

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Annual Report
International Activity Committee(IAC)

Masafumi MIYAMOTO
ChairInternational Activity Committee, AJCE

AJCE bulletin. IFISC also published abridgedtranslation of FIDIC Annual Report 2005 on thelatest AJCE bulletin, Vol.29,No.2.

Terms of Reference (TOR) for the committee include thefollowings, and are general objectives of its sub-committees.
(1) Cooperation with FIDIC's activities.
(2) Exchange of information with other member
associations of FIDIC.
(3) Provision of up-to-date business informationworldwide to Japanese consulting engineers.
(4) Dispatch information about Japanese engineers andtheir views to the engineering community worldwide.

1.4 Quality Based Selection Sub-committee (QBSSC)
QBSSC was established to enhance cooperation
among four Japanese associations of engineering
consultant sector, viz. Japan Civil Engineering
Consultants Association (JCCA), Infrastructure
Development Institute (IDI), Engineering andConsulting Firms Association (ECFA), and AJCE topromote QBS in Japan and abroad. Secretariats
meeting was held in August 2005.
QBSSC has translated FIDIC Guidelines for CE
Selection and made efforts for publishing Japaneseversion. Now it's under a final review.
Remarkable activity to mention is a successful
completion of investigation on selection of CE inseveral developed countries funded by JCCA. The
investigation team was dispatched to USA, UK,
France and Germany. Members of QBSSC actively
participated in the investigation. Cooperation
extended by FIDIC member associations wascontributory to meeting strict requirements such as topresent the interim report by the end of May. AJCE isvery proud that it could show its capability to carryout tasks efficiently as a FIDIC family member. The
results of the investigation and analysis werecompiled in a report and submitted to JCCA.

As mentioned in the first clause of TOR, cooperation
with FIDIC's activities are most important objectiveof the committee. Thus, its sub-committees areformulated corresponding to FIDIC's standing
committees mostly. At present IAC has the following
four sub-committees, of which activities for the lastyear are reported below.
1.1 Contract Sub-committee (CCSC)
CCSC translated into Japanese and published the
FIDIC Red Book revised after the harmonization withinternational funding institutions(IFIs). CCSC alsoplans to distribute the summary of revised issues of
Red Book. Close watching to FIDIC CC activities
which are now underway regarding revision of Gold
Book and White Book is CCSC's responsibility.
CCSC will also correspond for the time being to
FIDIC's new standing committee, viz. Integrity
Management Committee.
1.2 Capacity Building Sub-committee (CBSC)
CBSC reviewed FIDIC's Training Manual andTraining Kit, and sought adaptability of these inJapan. CB SC keeps watching on Master of FIDIC
which is under consideration in FIDIC.

1.5 Other Activities
Sub-committee which had been formulated to support
AJCE's 30th Anniversary was terminated after
successful completion of seminars, celebration andcommemorative publication.
A member of IAC took part in Risk Management
Forum in Beijing Conference to exchange views andopinions regarding revision of the White Book.
IAC also advised to FIDIC-YPF which held a forumin Beijin, to strengthen its activities.

1.3 International Funding Institutions Sub-committee (IFI SC)
Main task of IFISC is reporting FIDIC's activities inrelation with IFIs. IFISC regularly carry out abridgedtranslation of FIDIC news and published them in
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Interchange of Technology Committee
during the Year of 2005

Takenori NAKANISHI
ChairInterchange of Technology Committee, AJCE

Business, Environmental Subjects and Management
Quality in order to regulate their activity.

Our Association (AJCE) is formed from Public-Firm
Membership and Private-Firm Membership. This
Committee is constituted from mainly private-Firm
Membership and practicing in own background. The
members of this Committee have different
professional areas in various fields and are capable toperform on business based on long-ser vingexperience and performance.

On 2005 this Committee had Continuous Capacity
Building Seminar to appeal their results of subcommittee activities.
Furthermore, the members of this Committee
participate actively in other Committees of AJCE as
observer to express from independent stance andshoulder their duty for activation of AJCE. In near
future this Committee is expected to make the best of
their ability.

The aim of this Committee is intercourse between
different professions and exchange of businessinformation from own professions which would be
effective to promote own business. Meantime thisCommittee has sub-committees such as China-

Activities of Professional Training Committee
in 2005

Shigemichi Hatao
Chair
Professional Training Committee, AJCE

regular activities are support and cooperation forparticipation of the FIDIC annual conference,
dissemination of the FIDIC activities andpublications, various seminars aiming at CPD
including the annual seminar, and organization andparticipation of YPE/YPF.

Under the Professional Training Committee (PTC)
activities are undertaken by four sub-committees;① Sub-committee for seminar/events, ② SubCommittee on FIDIC Policy Promotion, ③SubCommittee on Professional Training, ④ Subcommittee on YPF/YPE (Young Professional Forumand Young Professional Exchange Program). Main
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On November 11, 2005, the annual seminar was heldwith a theme as "Quality Management of Consulting
Service". This seminar was timely made on an
occasion of enforcement of Quality Assurance Law
for Public Infrastructures in 2005. Chairman of AJCE
introduced the outline of the law and the possible
influences of the law to consulting industries. The
quality management system of a firm which mainly
deals with architectural works was introduced. The
present status of QCBS for procurement ofconsultants used by ADB was explained. Paneldiscussion was made by 4 panelists selected from themember firms, and discussion was made on the actual
method and procedures for quality management of
the consulting service. About 40 participants attended
the seminar, out of which two were Korean engineers
dispatched by KENCA.

The FIDIC Annual Conference 2005 was held at
Beijing in September and the contents of theconference were reported at Tokyo by the participantson October 7, 2005. At the Beijing conference the
AJCE members made presentation on natural
disasters in Japan and application of PSM indicator to
Nagara River.
For the YPEP, the AJCE members (6 participants)
were dispatched to Australia in October, 2005, where
they implemented the 3 to 4 week program, and theresults were reported by the participants on
November 18, 2005. Questionnaire was sent to the
FIDIC member associations to promote the activities
of YPF.
The unique capacity of the consulting engineer wastranslated for promoting and dissemination of the
FIDIC publications.

Activities of Information andPublicity Committee

Nobuo ENDOH
ChairInformation and Publicity Committee, AJCE

Objectives
Information and Publicity Committee is one of theoldest ones of AJCE because of its fundamental
function for any organizations. At present, thecommittee is responsible for the objectives below:- To collect news and information about theactivities of AJCE and its members. They areprovided to the general public inside and outsideof Japan as well as to the members of AJCE,- To introduce activities of FIDIC and its member
associations to AJCE members and generalpublic of Japan, and- To introduce FIDIC publication to AJCE
members.

"30 Year History of AJCE." As a routine, thecommittee publishes AJCE bulletins for the domestic
readers three times a year and NEWSLETTER in
English for the readers outside of Japan once a year.
Running of AJCE Website
The committee renewed AJCE website in Japanese< h t t p : / / w w w. a j c e . o r. j p / i n d e x . h t m > a n d i sreconstructing the English site<http://www.ajce.or.jp/en/framepage-E.htm>. The website promotes
communications among the members by use of a fastand common facility as well as introduces theactivities of AJCE to the general public. The website
informs the members of the events scheduled by thecommittees or individual members of AJCE. Having
a link with FIDIC and its member associations, AJCE
website can enhance communications between AJCE
and FIDIC and MA's. AJCE website promotes the

The committee runs the website of AJCE for thegeneral public and its members. The committee also
made an effort in the background for AJCE to publish
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members, and related government offices and otherpublic organizations in Japan. The last three volumes
report FIDIC 2005 Annual Conference in Beijing,activities of eight (8) AJCE committees, exchange ofyoung professional engineers with the member
association of Australia (home-stay internship),seminars hosted by AJCE, major projects
accomplished by AJCE members, abridgedtranslation of FIDIC NEWS, opinions andinformation from AJCE members, etc.

sales of publications of FIDIC and otherorganizations inside and outside of Japan for the
professional advancement of the members byintroducing such products on the site.
Publication of 30 Year History of AJCE
AJCE published "30 Year History of AJCE." Thehistory contains photos of events, looking-back bysenior members, developments and activities of eachcommittee, and copies of historical materials. All are
digitized in one CD. "30 year History of AJCE" wasdistributed to the members and related organizationsin Japan last May. Regrettably, the history is compiledin Japanese only. A history of AJCE, however, isbriefed in the article tilted "AJCE, 30Year and More"on AJCE NEWSLETTER Vol. 26, March 2005.

Publication of NEWSLETTER
AJCE publishes NEWSLETTER in English once a
year in March to provide information about AJCE
activities mainly to FIDIC Headquarters and Member
Associations. They are also distributed to the officesof related international organizations located inJapan. The latest issue futures the annual seminar ontechnology, home-stay internship in cooperation with
Australia MA, and major projects accomplished by
AJCE members.

Publication of AJCE Bulletin
AJCE usually publishes three volumes of its bulletin
in March, July and December every year. They are
written in Japanese and distributed to the AJCE

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AJCE Yearly Activity (2005)

Goro FUJIE
Secretary General, AJCE

AJCE Activity always unify with FIDIC events inwhich FIDIC Annual Conference shall be essentially
important. On 2005, FIDIC Annual Conference washeld at Beijing, China. Our membership withaccompanied person participated over 50.

concerned at Consulting Engineer Industry world
widely and realize Q&A from the floor to let
understand correctly. As the results, AJCE will find
to focus what issue has to take for AJCE
Membership.

Upon announced FIDIC Conference Programme(Dairy), our Executive Committee will nominate
plural members as reporters at programme within
participants of the Conference and these reporters
will study carefully their nominated issues including
past documents of FIDIC also present situation ofJapan. During the Conference, these reporters have
duty to attend nominated programme.
After returned from FIDIC Conference (hereafter the
Conference), participants will rush to prepare theirreports for [AJCE the Conference Report Seminar]
which normally will be held within two weeks after
the Conference inviting all membership and otherrelated Associations to report all contents of all
Conference programme in order to raise interest also
the reporters will comment their results of analysis on
nominated programme to expand and develop AJCE
activity reflecting FIDIC Policy in our membership.

AJCE have 8 standing committees apart from General
Assembly Meeting and Executive Committee. There
are divided into two divisions namely administrative
committees which are Code of Ethics, Membership,
Planning, General Affairs & Finance and other
Activity committees which are International Activity,
Professional Training, Interchange of Technology,
and Information & Publicity. Normally, every
committee has several sub-committees.
Apart from our internal activity for our membership,
we expand our activity through small seminars at
related industries such as Engineering,
Manufacturing, and Governmental Organizations etc,
to explain FIDIC standard Contracts series withguide-books by volunteers of our membership.
On the other hand, ODA Organization in Japan andother Associations appreciate our activity which isresulted us to invite in their survey our knowledge
such as QBS, BIMS, DB, BIMS including CapacityBuilding. We issue our questionnaire and send
research-mission for FIDIC MAs and such results ofour survey would develop to FIDIC as reference data.
Probably this year we will develop own Capacity
Building seminars not only for our membership butother related associations and governmentalorganizations which are expected to have samecontents of business performance and extend to
discuss same subjects on business developments.
All the way, we feel in Japan there is different
business attitude between domestic market businessand overseas market business. So that, our final goal
would be intended to find the solution to approach toobtain same business attitude therefore AJCE havebeen trying to expand its activity to arrive this goal insome day.

Actually, AJCE continue to study MBD Contract,
QBS, CB, DB, White-Book, and PSM etc at ourconcerned committees, sub-committees contactingwith concerned committees of FIDIC to develop theirstudy. These results of study will hand over to anotherreporter of the next year's Conference to deepen
AJCE study continuously.
AJCE also translate [FIDIC News] in Japanese which
deliver to our Membership and other concerned
Associations including our Homepage which also
raise interest of Membership.
AJCE have every year Annual Seminar to explain
introductory contents how to apply FIDIC Publication
on business and comments comparing with own
business way. This Seminar is very useful for ourMembership to infor m what issues are most23

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A Letter From AJCE Office
AJCE, likewise, initiated and accomplished many
activities this year, as you can see from the reports ofeach article. The board members will be reorganisedin coming June and several new members will join
the committees to freshen them up. AJCE is about toplunge into a new stage. Looking back how we havechanged for the past years, we will try to make anyvague visions we may have clearer for thinking how
we want to be changed in the coming year and what
we can do to be still more attractive association.
Again, changes sometimes do not bring good results,of course, but when you get ready to accept every
single slight change positively and begin to walk thepath, it could possibly show you some great results
you never imagined.
So, AJCE "do not remain in the same place" so that
we can keep on progressing and so that we can see
the cherry blossom next year with the big smile forthe success of what we will have done within thisyear.
We do always appreciate every warm and kind
support from all related domestic/internationalorganisations and associations all over the world. We
hope your days flourish at the very present moment,
and toward the future you grow.

"People do not remain in the same place, while thetree blossoms do and look almost the same everyyear". This is a part of a famous old Chinese poem
which takes a view of man's life as something everchanging.
One year has already passed since we distributed thelast issue of the News Letter. This time a year ago, thecherry blossoms in the park near our office were justin full bloom, and now the buds have begun to beswelling day by day, telling us the whole country has
just started to be covered with the new season again.
A year goes round so quickly. How many of us havebeen in the same state or of mind as we were just ayear ago. Many incidents and events happened athome, abroad and in our industry too within the past
year. The world is moving and constantly changing,and changes do not always bring good results. But
things never truly come out until you see what you
actually do, after all. It seems like this is the age inwhich we are tested and required how to keep "theattitude of the heart" to respond flexibly when weface those changes. We have to try to find a way forwhat we can do and what we want to be at any given
time and place. This may be the comprehensive andeternal challenge.

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