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ECI Benelux at TU Delft takes up the Reins
As from 1 September, the ECI Benelux team at TU Delft have taken over the management of the Regional Unit. This followed the retirement of Professor Rodney Turner, ECI Benelux Operations Director, from his post at Erasmus University, hitherto the base for ECI Benelux.

ECI Benelux Chairman, Rick Donehoo of Fluor BV, says “TU Delft is an ideal academic partner for ECI Benelux, capable of producing the synergy with the industry for which ECI is already well-known. Its exciting work with engineering and construction has contributed to its excellent reputation and high esteem within the industry. This should help to make ECI Benelux a more progressive and active organisation in the future, which is bound to be of benefit to the European construction industry as a whole”.

The first events for the new unit will take place in Delft as follows:

The Whole Life Value Toolkit Dinner Lecture
Date: 29 September
Start time: from 18.00
Venue: Delft, the Netherlands
Speaker: Andrew Green, Director of Whole Life Asset Management,
Faithful and Gould, part of the ATKINS Group
This lecture is based on the work of ECI's Whole Life Value task force. It sets out to identify why the application of life cycle costing to purchasing and investment decisions has been slow to be adopted and to suggest some positive ways forward through the development of appropriate and manageable tools and techniques. ECI’s WLV Toolkit is a major advance in allowing clients and others to measure value, giving a basis for option comparison.

MC02 Partnering and Alliancing
Partnering and Alliancing has been adopted as the modern approach to contract formulation, in an attempt to overcome the destructive, confrontational approaches of the past. It is expected this will lead to better outcomes for both clients and contractors. The Master Class will also focus on how successful long term partnerships can be established and managed to the benefit of all parties. It will describe a process model which can be used and will highlight the risks associated with this type of relationship and how they may be overcome. Case studies of successful long term partnerships will be presented. This class draws on the work of ECI in this area.
Date: 19 October 2005
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Venue: Delft, the Netherlands
Course Tutor: Professor Rodney Turner

For further information and to register for the above events or for information about the ECI Benelux in Delft, please contact Edwin Dado at the ECI Benelux office on Tel: +31 (0)15 278 7700,
Fax: +31 (0) 15 278 7700 or e-mail E.Dado@ct.tudelft.nl


ECI joins COMIT
The COMIT Initiative, 'Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT', is now a freestanding organisation linked to BSRIA in the UK to promote and develop the application of wireless technology to the construction industry. ECI has been involved with COMIT since it began and, after approval by the ECI UK Board has now become a member of the new freestanding COMIT organisation.

Further details about COMIT and the benefits it can bring to ECI members from the ECI Office.

ECI Implementation Support Service Continues to Develop
The new Implementation Support Service launched by ECI last year continues to develop. A review of the ECI Knowledge Base has been completed and a wide range of tools and techniques designed to help companies improve performance have been identified. ECI ISS Advisors will help projects and organisations to apply these tools in company-specific applications. At a recent meeting of advisors held in Loughborough, work continued to find ways of highlighting to member companies the benefits of buying into the new service, including preferential rates.

The service continues to develop with work being done for Huntsman Petrochemicals in June. There have also been a number of enquiries about using the service which continue to be followed up.

Workshop to Launch ECI manual on Project Development and Definition
Date: 28 September
Timings: 13.30 - 17.00
Venue: Manchester, UK
Facilitators: Gareth Thomas, ECI, Chris Fox, author of publication,
Roland Farrington, Shell UK Oil Products Ltd and Karen Taylor, Shell UK Oil Products Ltd

Effective project definition is a cornerstone of good practice. Engineering and construction projects are important components of business investment processes. Unless projects are properly defined, their chances of success are slim, often posing a significant risk to the overall business.

This ECI manual, written by Chris Fox, will be an essential tool for clients, contractors, advisers and suppliers.

The workshop is aimed at clients of all sizes, contractors, project managers and general managers and will:

1. Explain the need for effective project definition
2. Run through the main elements of the manual
3. Illustrate good practice in project definition through a case study
4. Give delegates the opportunity to share their own experiences of project definition

The Whole Life Value Toolkit Dinner Lecture
Date: 29 September
Start time: from 18.00
Venue: Delft, the Netherlands
Speaker: Andrew Green, Director of Whole Life Asset Management,
Faithful and Gould, part of the ATKINS Group
Please see 'ECI News' section above for further information.

Workshop to launch new ECI handbook - Managing people in Construction Projects
Date: 13 October
Venue: Alstec Offices, Leicester
For the last two years the 'Respect for People' Task Force has been investigating how companies manage people in projects and this work has culminated in a new ECI publication: 'Managing People on Construction Projects Handbook'. The half day launch of this publication is free to ECI members who will receive a copy of the new publication at the event.

Autumn workshop for ECI members and Friends (open to all)
and the ECI Board of Advisors (BoA) meeting (ECI members only)
Date: Thursday 17 November
Venue: Thistle Hotel, London Heathrow, UK

The day will start with the ECI BoA meeting at 10.30am for ECI members, this will then be followed by the Workshop which is open to ECI members and friends to attend.

The workshop is an opportunity for ECI member companies and friends to hear about ECI’s current and future output and to contribute to our priorities and programme. It offers:

• A unique summary of the latest thinking of a range of topics vital to industry and company performance
• The chance to share experience with a peer group of leading industry practitioners
• The opportunity to shape future projects

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Sub-Contract Pricing Systems – Piping 2
• Project Definition
• Managing People in Construction Projects
• Whole Life Value
• Sub-Contract Pricing – Civil
• Global Health
• Euro ACTIF
• Multi-cultural team working (project management)
• Project governance (project management)
• Total project management of construction safety, health and environment
• Construction futures

Take Part in the 2006 ACTIVE Cup Competition
The ACTIVE Cup competition will be held again at Cranfield University from 27 - 29th January 2006 and companies are invited to enter a team by the end of September. Submissions should be made to the ECITB who are organising the event which has proved a very popular and competitive weekend here teams compete in a business game using the ACTIVE Principles. ECI has a long association with both Cranfield and the ECITB and warmly commend this event to ECI member companies in the UK.


ECI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006
Date: 23 & 24 March 2006
Venue: Aula Conference Centre, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands

ECI next Annual Conference 2006 - Call for conference papers

The conference theme will be 'Where will the industry be 10 years from now?'

This is the second and final call for papers and presentations, and is open to members and non-members alike.

These should cover one or more of the following aspects of the future of the European construction industry:

(a) Markets
(b) Technologies
(c) Competitors
(d) 'Cultural' factors such as new systems of project organisations or multi-cultural working
(e) Long-term trends in project management

Please forward your short proposals (working title and, if appropriate, no more than 50 words of explanation) by e-mail to Gareth Thomas by close of business on Friday 16 September.

If you would like any further information or to discuss the matter with Gareth Thomas, do not hesitate to contact Gareth at tel: +44 (0) 1509 228747.

To register for any of the events listed above or for further information, please contact Anu Khandelwal at the ECI office on +44 (0)1509 228797 or visit the ECI website for further details.

UK MASTER CLASSESS

MC04 Constructing the Team
Projects and contracts are delivered through people from different companies with different cultures and different perspectives working together. Thus, developing the working relationships between people is essential. In this class, we concentrate on building the relationships between the people working on projects and contracts.

Date: Tuesday 27 September
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Venue: The Parkmore Hotel, Stockton-on-Tees
Course Tutor: Professor Rodney Turner

MC16 Public Private Partnerships
Since the UK Private Finance Initiative was launched in 1992, Public Private Partnerships (PPP) have been established as a successful procurement approach to deliver new and improved assets and services. This Master Class will examine the PPP and other long-term partnering project processes with a view to highlighting successes and areas for improvement. The Master Class will be supplemented by two case studies looking at different areas of the PPP process.

Date: Wednesday 5th October
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Venue: Norton Rose Offices, London
Course Tutor: Howard Lawrence

MC03 Risk Analysis & Management
The programme is aimed at project and contract engineers who already use risk management but want to take their knowledge and experience to a higher level of practice.
The management of risk is inherent to both project and contract management. It is inherent to project management because projects, being unique, novel and transient, are uncertain, and hence risky. It is inherent to contracts because one of the functions of contracts is to share this risk between the parties in a project. This class looks at the principles of managing risk, the psychology of risk and examines both the qualitative and quantitative management of risk.

Date: Thursday 20th October
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Venue: Manchester Airport Moathouse Hotel
Course Tutor: Steve Simister

MC20 Learning from Experience (LFE)
This Master Class will describe learning from experience (LFE) and look at its application to projects and contracts, whilst explaining how organisations can make use of knowledge to add value to the project process. Delegates will be encouraged to share their own learning experiences, and industry-based case studies will highlight the benefits LFE can bring to projects and organisations.

Date: Thursday 27th October
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Venue: The Parkmore Hotel, Stockton-on-Tees
Course Tutor: Steve Simister


MC19 Project Development and Definition
Many studies have been carried out investigating why some projects experience major difficulties and in some cases fail completely. These studies have covered many different types of projects in different business sectors and yet one of the main conclusions is almost always that there had been failure in various aspects of the project development work. It is clear that quality of project development and definition is a key factor in determining project outcome and that it is in the development phase that the majority of the key strategy decisions are (or should be)taken.

Date: Thursday 10th November
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Venue: The Parkmore Hotel, Stockton-on-Tees
Course Tutor: Chris Fox

BENELUX MASTER CLASSESS

MC02 Partnering and Alliancing
Date: 19 October 2005
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Venue: Delft, the Netherlands
Course Tutor: Professor Rodney Turner
Please see 'ECI News' section above for further information.

For further information and to register for either of the above masterclasses please contact on
Anu Khandelwal at the ECI office on +44 (0) 1509 228797 or visit the ECI website for a full list of the topics and venues for 2005

EPMF Conference
BEHAVE YOURSELF! Culture in Project Management, How to Understand it and Manage for Success
This conference takes Behaviour & Culture as its starting point and proclaims that these elements account more significantly towards the success of projects than any amount of other project management process.

Date: Tuesday, 13th September 2005
Timings: 9:00 - 17:30
Venue: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

NEW PUBLICATIONS OUT IN SEPTEMBER

ECI Pricing System for Piping Works - Version 2
ISBN 1 873844 60 3

Since the initial publication in 2002, a number of owners, EPC contractors and construction contractors in our industry have applied the ECI Pricing System for Piping Works successfully on different types of project at various locations. Their contribution in providing comments and suggested improvements is highly appreciated and enabled the ECI Benelux Subcontracting Task Force to prepare this 'Revision 2005' of the system. In addition, a number of modifications were required to better support further automation of the execution work processes that interface with the system.

The system includes a spreadsheet with multipliers on a CD-ROM. It is not a ready-made software package, but it is simple enough to integrate the system into any company's existing software.

To reserve your copy, please contact the ECI office at tel: +44 (0) 1509 223526 or e-mail ECI


Managing people in Construction Projects
ISBN 1 873844 61 1

This major new ECI publication will introduce a suite of practical techniques to underpin effective project teamwork, leadership and empowerment strategies. Essential for all those involved with managing teams.

To reserve your copy, please contact the ECI office at tel: +44 (0) 1509 223526 or e-mail ECI


Design for health (D4h) and HASPREST (Double CD package)
(2004) ISBN 1873844557/ISBN 0947974164
Two important interactive CDs providing practical guidance for designers, suppliers and contractors. The CD's, authored by the APaCHe team at Loughborough University, cover the critical areas of off-site production, occupational health and designer interventions.

The toolkits are being sold as a combined package and are available from ECI at a total cost of £30.00 to ECI members and £50.00 to non-members.

The Engineering and Management of Retrofit Projects in the Process Industries
(2004) ISBN 1 873844 549
This handbook draws on the unrivalled experience of its author and has been enhanced by the experience of a number of highly professional and practised advisers and has also benefited from extensive discussion among the ECI membership.

Available to purchase from the ECI office at £40.00 to members and £60.00 to non-members.

A full list of publications available to purchase from ECI can be found on the publications page of the ECI website or contact Anu Khandelwal at the ECI office.

To learn more about the European Construction Institute (ECI), its members and work, please visit the ECI website: http://www.eci-online.org/ or contact the ECI office on tel: +44 (0)1509 223526.