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The Journal of the Association of Cost Engineers
Project ControlPROFESSIONALProject ControlPROFESSIONAL
November 2017Vol. 55 No 6
� ACostE Annual Report 2016–17
� ‘mycareerpath’ – the ultimate online CPD tool
� Prolongation cost claims – the basic principles
� Award-winning mountain village development
� ACostE Annual Report 2016–17
� ‘mycareerpath’ – the ultimate online CPD tool
� Prolongation cost claims – the basic principles
� Award-winning mountain village development
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Volume 55 No 6November 2017
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Front coverHuangshan Mountain Village in China
has won an AZ Award of Merit (ResidentialArchitecture Multi-Unit category) in AZURE
magazine’s 2017 Awards. See page 10.
4 President’s message
4 News & events
6 Prolongation cost claims – the basic principlesby Craig Enderbury
10 Cover story: Award-winning mountain village development
11 News & events
12 ‘mycareerpath’ – the ultimate online CPD toolby Roger M. Batten
16 News & events
17 ACostE Annual Report 2016–17Introduction and summary by Angela Pammenter, President
23 Your route to professional status via ACostE
24 Technical abstracts
24 News & events
25 New members
26 Diary of events
27 Association Council
27 ICEC news
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Dear Colleagues,
In reviewing the Annual Report(reproduced in this month'sjournal) for the AGM, I wasstruck by the many and variedactivities undertaken by theDirectors, Council and RegionalGroups of the Association – andall on an entirely voluntary basis.In particular, the regionalmeetings offer the opportunityfor real face-to-face contact with
President’smessage
like-minded professionals,something that is lacking in thedigital age.
There is no doubt that a virtualpresence is important, and ournew website (going live inNovember 2017) goes some waytowards ensuring that weincrease our online presence.
We have reviewed the rolesand responsibilities of the Boardof Directors, and have publisheda ‘Who's who’ guide on thewebsite in an effort to increasethe visibility of the Directors andto provide added impetus to ouraction plan for the coming year.We will publish more on ouraims and ambitions in the nextissue of the Journal.
We have executed amemorandum of understanding
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with the ECITB, building on theinformal relationship that wehave had in the past andidentifying areas for futurecollaboration. We are alreadyworking together on the newgeneration of QCF qualificationsfor project controls.
We are always looking toincrease our membership, as anincrease in our numbers enablesus to improve what we are ableto offer. Please feel free to passthe Journal on to anyone whomight be interested once youhave taken note of anyupcoming events.
Regards,Angela PammenterPresident ACostE
CorrectionOn page 25 of the September issue,
in the New Members section, IanPeter Hodges was incorrectly listed
as an Associate. Mr Hodges is aMember. We apologise for this
typographical error. Ed.
The ACostE Accreditation Committee
would like to congratulate Karl Horton
of Mott MacDonald who has achieved
Certified Professional Cost Engineer
(CPCostE). Karl is seen above (right)
being presented his Certificate by the
Accreditation Chairman, Alan Jones.
Certified ProfessionalCost Engineer –Karl Horton
It was great to see a good turn out again
to our latest branch event, with
attendees from various industries and
companies represented.
The ability to gain professional
recognition and qualifications in our
profession is of great interest and is
valued by the members.
Nigel Hibberd gave a presentation on
the Association, including the levels of
membership and the options for
professional qualifications that are
available.
Nigel also included a section on the
SW Region event –‘Professionalqualifications inproject controls’
Project Controls Apprenticeship, which
was launched this September.
The attendees all agreed that this is
an excellent initiative and will help
support our profession in becoming
established as a career of choice for
many people, including school leavers
and, in due course, improve the stand-
ing and capacity of the profession’s
workforce.
The evening also included an
excellent presentation from Isla Gordan
(one of Faithful + Gould’s planning
engineers), who has recently completed
the QCF Level 5 qualification and is
seeking to gain Incorporated Engineer
registration in the very near future.
Isla’s presentation outlined her experi-
ence of the QCF process, along with
the benefits she has derived from it.
Thank you to all the attendees who
contributed to the evening’s success
and to Faithful + Gould for hosting.
Rod Whiting, Chairman, South West Region
Nigel Hibberd
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cost claims cost claims
Prolongation cost claims – the basic principlesHKA Quantum Expert Craig Enderbury* sets out the basic principles of prolongation cost claims using asimple and hypothetical example. He highlights the common pitfalls of assuming time equals money and themisguided application of rates and prices from preliminaries schedule of rates/bill of quantities.
Acontractor holds an internal
monthly meeting on a con-
struction project that is in
delay and over budget.
Someone remarks: ‘Let’s get an exten-
sion of time and then we can recover all
our time-related costs’, swiftly followed
with an enthusiastic reply: ‘Sounds like
a plan. We can adopt our tender rates for
preliminaries items and multiply the
rates by the period of over-run.’
If this scenario sounds all too fam-
iliar, then for some I daresay the alarm
bells have already starting ringing.
Despite there being a wealth of inform-
ation generally available on this sub-
ject, all too often prolongation cost
claims are incorrectly calculated and
submitted on the flawed basis set out
above. It should therefore come as no
surprise that prolongation cost claims
formulated in this manner are frequent-
ly rejected by the recipient.
To avoid this common pitfall and in
order to add credibility to a prolong-
ation cost claim, the claimant should
pause to consider, amongst other
things, whether time does actually
equal money and, if so, what and how
much is claimable? With regard to the
appropriate method of evaluation, is the
application of tender rates for prelim-
inaries too simplistic or should it be
based on the actual cost/loss incurred?
Are there any valuation rules pre-
scribed under the contract or is it a
damages claim, e.g., actual loss and
expense due to a breach of contract?
It would be impossible to provide all
the answers to such hypothetical quest-
ions. Each case (or claim) will turn on
the facts and has to be assessed on its
individual merits, the evidence, the
complexity and circumstances sur-
rounding the events and, of course, in
accordance with the contract and app-
licable governing law. Needless to say,
in the case of a claim arising from
breach of contract the burden of proof
rests with the claimant to demonstrate
the cause, the effect and its entitlement.
Remember that he/she who asserts
must prove!
So, what is a prolongation cost
claim? Succinctly, it can be defined as
the contractual mechanism for the
recovery of additional time-related
costs that have been properly incurred
due to compensable delay(s) to the
completion of the works.
Those eagled eyed will have noticed
the use of the term ‘compensable’
delay. At this juncture it is worth taking
a few moments to make the distinction
between the terminology ‘compens-
able’ delay as opposed to ‘excusable’
delay and ‘disruption’. And, of course,
there is always the much debated issue
of ‘concurrent’ delays, which is touch-
ed upon later.
Compensable delay – These are events
that give rise to an entitlement to
extension of time to the project com-
pletion date and an entitlement to
recovery of prolongation costs.
Excusable delay – These are events
that give rise to an entitlement to
extension of time to the project com-
pletion date (and therefore relief to
liquidated damages) but not necessarily
an entitlement to the recovery of pro-
longation costs, for example, neutral
events such as force majeure, like
adverse weather conditions whereby
typically the parties bear their own
costs.
Disruption – There are a myriad of
events that may impact on cost but do
not necessarily trigger any entitlement
to extension of time to the project
completion date and therefore no
prolongation costs. An example of such
event could be the resequencing of
programme activities resulting in a loss
of productivity that may impact the
overall cost of performing the affected
activities, but does not impact on the
programme critical path activities
driving the project completion date. In
such instances the cost is localised to
the affected activities, not the prolong-
ation of the project as a whole. Such
events can be classified as disruption as
opposed to delay.
For the purpose of prolongation cost
claims, the delay(s) to the completion
must be the consequence of a compens-
able delay to the completion of the
works, i.e., it is a direct result of a site
instruction, variation or change order,
the occurrence of a specified employ-
er’s risk event or employer’s breach,
e.g., an act of prevention, denied access
or possession of the site or the adverse
effect to the regular progress to the
works due to the late approval of
design, the late delivery of employer
documentation or free issue plant/
equipment.
In short, to warrant payment of
prolongation costs the delay must be
compensable, affect the critical path
and delay completion of the works.
Any prolongation cost claim that
includes costs attributable to contractor
culpable delays, concurrent delays, the
occurrence of contractor’s risk events
or neutral events (e.g., force majeure) is
likely to be rejected in principle by the
employer, as the contractor usually has
no entitlement to the recovery of time-
related costs under such circumstances.
With regard to compensation, the
Delay and Disruption Protocol issued
by the Society of Construction Law
provides the following guidance:
‘Compensation for prolongation shouldnot be paid for anything other thanwork actually done, time actually takenup or loss and/or expense actuallysuffered. In other words, the com-pensation for prolongation causedother than by variation is based on theactual additional cost incurred by thecontractor.’
Often I see prolongation cost claims
predicated on the additional time-
related costs during the over-run period
between the original completion date
and the actual completion date. This is
incorrect as it does not represent the
actual loss and expense suffered at the
time the project was actually delayed.
For example, an original project
completion date of 1 August was
delayed by four weeks to 29 August,
due to an earlier four-week critical
delay that occurred in March the same
year. The delay event occurred in
March not August and, therefore, it is
the loss suffered in March that should
be quantified.
It is, therefore, vitally important to
identify the root cause of delay, when it
occurred and finished and the con-
sequential effect the delay event had on
the regular progress of the works and,
in turn, the impact on completion of the
works. All too frequently problems
arise when parties are unable to agree
when the delay(s) occurred and/or are
unable to agree the extent and impact of
the delay(s). Quite often an area of
disagreement is the matter of con-
current delay. A useful definition of
concurrent delay can be found in the
case of Royal Brompton HospitalNational Health Trust v Hammond as
follows: ‘Two or more events occurring
within the same time period, each
independently affecting the Com-
pletion Date.’
As alluded to above, concurrency
will affect the contractor’s entitlement
to prolongation costs where a con-
tractor culpable delay runs concurrent
with compensable delay. The topic of
true concurrency and dominant delay
has been, and undoubtedly will con-
tinue to be, the subject of much debate
and case law. This is a topic in itself
which is best left to the expert delay
analysts to opine on and lawyers to
litigate over.
In layman terms when preparing a
claim for prolongation costs: If theculpable delay extends over a longerperiod than the compensable delay, thecontractor will have no entitlement toprolongation costs. If the compensabledelay extends for a longer period thanthe culpable delay, then the contractoris entitled to prolongation costs for theperiod where the compensable delay isnot concurrent with the culpable delay.
The theory is that if the contractor’s
actions, or lack thereof, is the root
cause of its own losses during a period
of delay, then the contractor cannot
benefit from its own failings/breach by
being reimbursed losses that it has
caused.
Figure 1 summarises a hypothetical
scenario. It shows the summary
analysis of a contractor’s entitlement
(in calendar days) to extension of time
and loss and expense taking account of
excusable, culpable and concurrent
delays as well as float.
So, having performed a delay
analysis and calculated an entitlement of
62 calendar days for loss and expense,
how should a contractor approach
valuing its prolongation costs?
Generally, prolongation cost claims
need to reflect the actual loss/cost
incurred, not a sum derived from pre-
liminaries rates and prices contained in
the contract price. A pragmatic way of
calculating prolongation costs is to
work out an average actual time-related
costs during the delay periods.
The following suggestions and exam-
ples should assist with the exercise of
ascertaining the average actual time-
related costs:
� Identify and review the cost pool
(usually obtained by a detailed
analysis of account records, cost
reports, payroll, invoices etc.).
� Strip out all the direct costs (i.e.,
fixed costs and task/volume-related
costs linked to units of work) and
any other one-off costs/fixed charges
that are not time-related, e.g.,
mobilisation charges that would
have been incurred in any event.
� Having identified the indirect time-
related costs (including an
unabsorbed off-site/head office
costs) these should be linked to the
activities and project duration.
� Don’t be tempted to add a % profit
mark-up for profit, as profit is not a
‘cost’ incurred by the contractor as a
direct consequence of a
compensable delay. Any loss of
The burden ofproof rests withthe claimant todemonstratethe cause, theeffect and itsentitlement.
Figure 1
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profit is a ‘loss of opportunity’,
which is an entirely separate subject
matter requiring different means of
demonstration and calculation.
� Where applicable, calculate the
adjustments and/or abatements for
any indirect time-related costs that
have already been recovered
elsewhere, e.g., under dayworks,
variations or other claims. This will
avoid any potential criticism of
‘double dipping’.
� Demonstrate that the costs being
claimed could not have been
mitigated, e.g., off hiring of
plant/equipment, lowering of
resources or redeployment of
resources to unaffected activities.
� Evidence the costs have been or will
be incurred – records, records,
records!
Having identified when the delay
occurred, a precise calculation of cost
can be made for that period. An
example is shown in Figure 2.
The process is then repeated for the
other periods, in this hypothetical
example periods 2, 3 and 4.
Figure 3 shows the summation of the
prolongation cost calculation by
applying the average actual cost per
day to the period of loss and expense
entitlement measured in calendar days.
SummaryThe project completion date was
delayed by 84 days, of which the
contractor is entitled to an extension of
time of 74 days. Despite having
established entitlement to 74 days
extension of time, the contractor is only
entitled to recover prolongation costs
for 62 days falling into periods 3 and 4.
The actual prolongation costs recovery
is therefore £95,572.86 less an
abatement of £24,580.00 for costs
already recovered in dayworks and
Figure 2
cost claims cost claims
Figure 3
variations during the time period
claimed.
Conclusion This very simple and hypothetical
example sets out the basic principles of
prolongation cost claims and highlights
some the common pitfalls of assuming
time equals money and the misguided
application of rates and prices from
preliminaries schedule of rates/bill of
quantities.
* Craig Enderbury, BSc, PGDipArb,
FACostE, FCIArb, AMAE
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cover story
Huangshan Mountain Village in China has won an AZ Award of Merit (Residential ArchitectureMulti-Unit category) in AZURE magazine’s 2017 Awards
Project: Huangshan Mountain Village
Location: Huangshan, China
Firm: MAD Architects, China
Team: Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun andMa Yansong with Jakob Beer, PhilippeBrysse, Tiffany Dahlen, AndreaD’Antrassi, Augustus Chan, WangDeyuan, Jeong-Eun Lee, Geraldine Lo,Luke Lu, Achille Tortini and Zhao Wei
With their dramatic limestone cliffs,the Huangshan mountains of easternChina are the kind of landscape peoplewrite poems about. HuangshanMountain Village, a suite of residentialbuildings by MAD Architects, blends inperfectly with its surroundings.The structures’ profiles resemblemounds of sediment, like stalagmitesor hoodoos; on each level, therounded, irregularly shaped floorplates extend past wraparound
windows, creating 360-degreebalconies. Taken together, thesculptural peaks form a balancedcomposition that’s as stunning to lookat as it is to look out from.
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The new centre will be built on the
Royal United Hospital’s (RUH) Combe
Park estate, and will combine existing
therapies services at the RUH with
those of the world renowned Royal
National Hospital for Rheumatic
Diseases (RNHRD), currently located
in the centre of the city.
Situated in a prominent position adj-
acent to the main entrance of the
hospital, the building will become
home to General Therapies, Hydro-
therapy, Rheumatology and Pain Man-
agement Services, as well as allied
administration and support areas.
IBI Group Architect & Studio
Associate Director, Richard Ager. said:
‘Our IBI Healthcare+ team has worked
closely with the Trust to create a very
interesting, new outpatients centre; one
that is in tune with the Trust’s holistic
and patient-focused model of care. Its
architectural features have been shaped
by the diverse number of therapies
services that it will support, from the
stimulating body shop gym that opens
out onto a patients’ activity courtyard,
to a calming and therapeutic spa-
inspired hydropool overlooking a
secret garden.’
Sustainable design features include:
optimum natural ventilation, roof top
wind catchers, photovoltaics, and a
‘BluRoof’ stormwater management
system.
Gina Sargeant, Head of Therapies at
the RUH and RNHRD said: ‘We are
creating a nurturing environment with
dedicated specialist facilities for our
patients. Designed in conjunction with
staff and patients, the Centre will in-
clude a large hydrotherapy pool,
specialist gym and rehabilitation equip-
ment, and a Biologics treatment space
to support treatment, recovery, well-
being and the management of long-
term conditions.’
The Royal United Hospitals Bath
NHS Foundation Trust provides gen-
eral acute and emergency care for a
population of around 500,000 people in
Bath and the surrounding areas.
IBI Group has been working with the
Royal United Hospitals Foundation
Trust since 2008, when it was com-
missioned to assist in developing their
estates strategy. The team subsequently
designed the re-provision of the blood
sciences, histopathology and mortuary
departments together with a new
pharmacy, and is currently designing the
proposed new Dyson Cancer Centre.
New Therapies Centre to be built in Bath
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This year has been a year ofconsolidation for the Asso-ciation – we have welcomednew members onto Council,
said farewell to two of our Directors,and engaged a new full-time memberof staff in the office. We are still lookingfor additional volunteers to joinCouncil and help us to push thingsforward. Our membership continuesto grow, and we have seen 147 newmembers during the past year.
The Regions are moving fromstrength to strength, with interestingspeakers and opportunities for face-to-face networking – something thatyou just do not get from an onlineforum. We are looking to set up aMidlands cluster, which could dev-elop further into a fully-fledgedregion if there is sufficient interest. Istrongly recommend members toa�end local meetings whenever poss-ible – you can be assured of a warmwelcome and an interesting topic fordiscussion, as well as the opportunityto add to your CPD.
On the subject of CPD, themycareerpath system is available to allmembers, providing an independent,personal and portable record of CPDthat can accompany you throughoutyour career. It is intuitive and easy touse, and can hold an ongoing record toall your training and personal dev-elopment, wherever your employ-ment may take you.
We have not held our own con-ference this year – something that weare hoping to remedy next year.However, we have supported thevery successful events organized byCranfield, SCAF and the ProjectControls Expo.
We are initiating a Young Profess-ionals group, bringing together
people who are starting out on acareer in the project controls disci-plines from across different industrialsectors. Through working together tosupport specific projects we hope thatthey can share best practice fromacross the different sectors, helpingthem to grow in confidence andknowledge whilst providing theAssociation with the necessary horse-power to move forwards.
It has been a tough year for TASC,who have seen a drop in candidatenumbers, reflecting the state of the oiland gas industry and overall lowertraining budgets. The TASC Boardhave worked to reduce overheadcosts, increase the training courses onoffer, and expand into new sectors.Together with the ACostE Board theyhave played an important role inge�ing the new Level 3 ProjectControl Apprenticeship approved,and are working towards a new Level6 Apprenticeship and the revisedQCF qualifications.
The demand for ProfessionalAccreditation through the Associ-ation continues to increase, placing aheavy load on the AccreditationBoard and on Alan Jones and NigelHibberd in particular. We have celeb-rated significant success in awardingCertified Professional status to anumber of applicants, and have arecord number of candidates inprogress.
Internationally, as a founder mem-ber of the ICMS, we are very proud toconfirm that the first truly inter-national construction measurementstandard has been published and isavailable for use. The work that hasgone into the development of thestandard has been considerable, andwe hope that the benefits of the
standard will soon become apparentas it is adopted throughout industry.Our representative (Alec Ray) hastaken over as Chair of ICEC Region 2(Europe), and will chair a meeting tofollow on from the Project ControlsExpo in November. Through ourmembership of ICEC we are able toaccess papers and publications fromother ICEC members worldwide,some of which you will have seenreproduced in the Journal.
Finally, our online presence hasbeen revamped and updated, withthe publication of our new websiteand membership database. We willbe rolling out additional contentthrough the coming months, im-proving the content and simplifyingour administrative tasks. We haverelaunched our Linked-In pages, andencourage participation and contri-bution to online discussions, sharingyour expertise and insights.
As always, we welcome any inputfrom the membership. We exist tofurther the cost engineering profess-ion, to maintain our reputation as thelearned society representing costengineers, schedulers, estimators andproject controls professionals, and toenhance the professional standing ofour members. To do this we needvolunteers who are willing to takepart, and we need to understandwhere to focus our a�ention as wemove forwards. Should you wish totake a more active role in theAssociation please contact Vanessa,Helen or Sophie in the office in thefirst instance, or email me directly([email protected]).
Angela Pammenter President
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The developer team of the German-
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Technologie has adapted the data
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the latest trends in CAx and Industry
4.0 and implemented clever inno-
vations.
Virtual and augmented reality
Version 4.1 of the Simplifier module of
the conversion software 3D_Evolution
serves the requirements of digitization
trends such as Virtual Reality (VR) and
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The module generates in seconds an
envelope geometry from detailed CAD
models for know-how protection. With
a new FBX interface the CAD models
from all common formats are extremely
reduced and stored in the VR and AR
standard. The number of polygons can
be reduced by 90 per cent and more, so
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Additive manufacturing
The megatrend of additive manu-
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With the latest version of the successful
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Augmented reality and additivemanufacturing in data conversion
Project Control Professional November 2017 1918 Project Control Professional November 2017
Project Control Apprentice/Degree
Route, again at Birchwood Golf Club.
Dave charted his journey from being
one of the first Project Control appren-
tices to his role at Costain’s as a senior
planner and how he valued each step of
the way. This led to a spontaneous
discussion with the attendees, who
showed a great deal of interest. The
original idea was to phase this to the
soon-to-be-announced trailblazer
Project Control apprenticeship, which
is scheduled to be released in Q4 2017.
On 17 May 2017 a presentation at the
Birchwood Conference Centre was
given on Managing the Contract:
focusing on setting up a contract for
success and avoiding some of the
common pitfalls, by John Rossiter of
Solomon’s Europe and Joe Hale of
Freeths LLP. This was a fascinating
topic and very well received by the
attendees.
On 20 June 2017, Kevin Sinton from
Sintons Solicitors delivered an excel-
lent session on NEC3 – compensation
events and unexpected events. The
session was delivered to a large
audience at UCLAN Samuel Lindow
building in Whitehaven.
On 28 June 2017, we tried a new
Cumbria cluster location of Furness
College in Barrow on NEC 3 –
Extensions of Time, again given by
John Rossiter of Solomon’s Europe.
The results from this first event in
Barrow are very encouraging and plans
are afoot to hold more events in this
region in the future.
With the launch of NEC 4 we
decided to get ahead of the game and
carried out a series of events in the NW
and NE regions entitled NEC4
Unwrapped – the Northern Road Show,
utilising John Rossiter’s extensive
knowledge of the NEC contracts to
deliver the presentations. These were
all well attended and enthusiastically
received by all attendees.
The event dates and locations were as
follows:
• 5 July 2017 – Durham Cricket Club
(NE Region).
• 12 July 2017 – Birchwood
Conference Centre
• 19 July 2017 – UCLAN Samuel
Lindow Westlake’s Science Park
Whitehaven.
The first meeting in the next report-
ing year is planned for Birchwood in
September on the Northern
Powerhouse Infrastructure Projects,
with speakers talking about the
expansion of Manchester Airport and
High Speed Rail 2a. This will be
followed by a presentation on Docu-
ment Control in November. With all
the success of the Northern Regions’
events, we are keen to see if this
increased activity is leading to an
increase in the membership in the
respective regions.
Overall, the Northern Regions are
very pleased with the way things have
continued to grow over the year, with
the opening up of new venues in new
regions. We are now also exploring the
feasibility of a Midland cluster as a way
of trying to encourage a greater
participation from both the outlying
and local membership.
We have continued to capture
attendance from members of CICES,
with whom we have a Memorandum of
Understanding, and are able to attend
their meetings as part of a reciprocal
arrangement. We plan to build further
on this relationship in the next year.
We would like to thank all the
members who attended our seminars
and made them a success. We look
forward to meeting more of our NW
community in the coming year
2017/18.
Any volunteers for the NW Region
Organising Committee, please contact
us through the Sandbach office, tel:
01270 764 798. Similarly, any NW
volunteers to present a topic for an
evening, say 45 minutes to 1 hour, also
please contact Sandbach.
NW Region Committee
Dominic Doig (retiring Chairman)
Mark Coburn (Joint Chairman)
Rosie Dutton (Secretary)
Nigel Hibberd
Chris Seddon
James Evans
Ken Phillips
Dominic Doig
South West RegionWe have had another increase in
attendance this year at our evening
events hosted at F+G’s offices at Aztec
West, Bristol, with growing numbers of
attendees from a number of organ-
izations within the area. Andrew
Langridge’s presentation on the value
and importance of data collection,
collation and management was parti-
cularly well received.
The transition from Chair of the
branch from Paul Clewes to myself has
been seamless and Paul continues to be
very active in the planning and co-
hosting of the events.
The need for CPD activities among
the attendees is helping to support the
increase in attendance and I expect this
will lead to further increase in the
future.
We are looking for our next event in
the autumn to share the qualification
and apprenticeships that are available
to project controls professionals. This
will be presented by Nigel Hibberd
with Isla Gordon as a young profess-
ional who has recently completed the
QCF Level 5.
We are continuing with our strategy
of offering events which provide
valuable CPD to our experienced
members and their organizations, along
with events that attract younger
members.
Rod Whiting
InternationalThe Association has been a leading
member of ICEC (the International
Cost Engineering Council) since it was
founded, in 1976, to promote
cooperation between national and
multinational Cost Engineering, Project
Management and Quantity Surveying
associations. There are now 48
member associations, represented in
four regions worldwide. ACostE
members, by virtue of the Association’s
membership of ICEC, are all part of a
unique network of the knowledge and
experience of some 180,000 cost
professionals in over 120 different
countries.
The ICEC website (www.ICostE.org)
is continually evolving and has links
annual report annual report
Seddon of Costain Ltd, James Evans of
URENCO Ltd, Ken Phillips of AMEC
FW and Mark Coburn of Solomon’s
Europe who has recently re-joined the
Committee to replace Dominic as
Chairman. Dominic is relinquishing his
Chairman role to concentrate on grow-
ing the Cumbria region.
We have continued to hold several
evening seminars during 2016/17 and
have seen a large increase in attendance
at the seminars that have been delivered;
some events achieving in excess of 50
persons. This is considerably more than
the 25–30 person average attending
events in 2014/15 season. During the
period of this report, the NW Region has
developed further the Cumbria area
(with events held in both Whitehaven
and Barrow areas, supporting the large
contingent of members working at
Sellafield & BAE Barrow, respectively).
In addition, a committee has been
formed to develop the North East
Region and several successful events
have been held in that area.
The following meetings have been
held over the 2016/17 year. The first
meeting was held at Westlakes Science
& Technology Park, Cumbria, on 7
September 2016. This was a presen-
tation by Mike Millet of Solomons
Europe on NEC3 Auditing: the payment
for and responsibilities for under the
contract. We held the event again in the
NW area on 28 September 2016, in the
Birchwood Conference Centre.
Our final meeting for 2016 was at
Birchwood Golf Club on 16 November.
It was delivered by Alan Jones of
EST.i.MAT-A on IRiS – inherent risk in
spreadsheets and how to structure
spreadsheets to minimise risk by sub-
sequent users’ updates, and scoring
process to assess how well structured
spreadsheets are, which the attendees
found very to be a very useful approach.
On 25 January 2017, at Birchwood
Golf Club, Ken Phillips of Philips
Project Services Ltd gave part two of
his very interesting lecture on Project
Delivery, Growth and Collaboration:
looking at how the implementation of
BIM is going both in the client and the
contractor organizations.
On 22 March 2017, Dave Fogarty of
Costain presented his lecture on the
Talk by Andrew Wooldridge-Irving at
the Royal Over-Seas League, London.
22 March 2017 – ‘The Thames
Tideway Tunnel Project”
Talk by Geoff Loader at the ROSL,
London.
16 May 2017 – ‘Heathrow Airport’
Talk by Mike Ball at the ROSL,
London.
12 July 2017 – ‘The Ancient City at
Night’. Guided walking tour around
the financial city area starting at the
Bank underground station.
The three technical meetings were
held at the Royal Over- Seas League,
which still provides good facilities in
the centre of London, even though
expensive. Our speakers have all pro-
vided excellent talks which attracted
interest from many members.
Unfortunately, I was not able to agree
a suitable date for the Wine Tasting this
year and so decided to have another
technical meeting instead. as Mike Ball
had previously offered a talk on
Heathrow. Mike Ball is prepared to make
an article for the Journal. The Wine
Tasting evening is an enjoyable, but
expensive item within our budget as we
now have to hire the room at the ROSL.
I wish to thank Pauline and Paul
Vosper for organizing the July evening
guided tour. The tour in July was based
around the financial area of the City and
was enjoyed by members and guests.
Our Committee Meeting was held in
July in the Coal Hole Public House in the
Strand. We welcome Mike Ball onto the
Committee, who will bring a younger
perspective into discussions about our
future programme of events. I wish to
thank James Studman for issuing the
minutes and the remaining committee for
their support during the year.
Stephen Allen
North West RegionThe NW Region Committee consists of
Dominic Doig MD of Solomons
Europe (Chairman), Rosie Dutton of
Sellafield Ltd (Secretary), Nigel
Hibberd from ACostE Council, Chris
MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITY
AdministrationThe Administration Office hours are
Monday to Thursday 9 am – 4 pm and
Friday 9 am until 3 pm.
The office staff are Helen Jackson,
Vanessa Tattersall and Sophie Jackson.
Email is the preferred method of
communication and we would ask that
you let us know if you change your
email address in order to maintain
contact. This has enabled large savings
to be made on our postal and stationary
costs.
We are always happy to hear from the
membership if they have any com-
ments or queries regarding the running
of the administration. Please use the
online facility through the website to
keep details up to date and assistance
will always be given from the office to
guide members through the procedure
if they experience problems.
AdmissionsThere has been an increase in the
number of applications we have dealt
with compared with last year. The
Committee aims to turn round appli-
cations received in two to three weeks.
Applications are being received from
the UK and various areas around the
globe and new members are also
coming via the QCF Learner route.
The number of applications for
membership, upgrade and reinstate-
ment are detailed below:
New Members: 147
Upgrades: 9
Reinstatement: 5
Vernon Thompson
REGIONSSouthern RegionThe Southern Region has been
provided with the following pro-
gramme of events:
• 16 Nov 2016 – ‘Victoria Station
Upgrade Project’
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with many other groups’ websites. The
International Round-Up is published
on the website, in the autumn and in the
spring, and there is a section where all
Notices, Agendas and Minutes of
Meetings are available.
Communication between ICEC
officers, delegates and member asso-
ciations is almost exclusively by email.
The ACostE Certification Pro-
gramme is accredited by ICEC.
Certified members may use the ICEC
name and logo and the initials ‘ICECA’
(ICEC accredited) after their name.
ACostE President Angela Pammenter
(as ACostE Delegate), Roger Batten (as
Past-Chairman of ICEC and ICEC
Advisory Group Chairman) and Alec
Ray (as ICEC Region 2 Director) have
all been active in representing the
Association within ICEC.
Angela Pammenter, Alec Ray and
Roger Batten attended the 40th ICEC
Council meeting, which was held on
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 October prior
to the 2016 10th ICEC World Congress
(the 24th International Cost Engin-
eering Congress) which was hosted by
the Instituto Brasileiro de Engenharia
de Custos (IBEC) at the Hotel Winsor
Barra, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from
Sunday 9 to Wednesday 12 October.
Some 40 delegates, from all four ICEC
Regions, attended the Council Meeting,
with noticeably more female delegates
attending than at previous meetings.
In recognition of significant contri-
butions to the work of the Council the
ICEC Region 2 Awards were made to
Andrej Kerin (Slovenia) and Alec Ray
(UK). A proposal was put forward to
establish a new ICEC Director position
for a Middle East Region and Madhu
Pillai was subsequently elected to this
position.
AACE-International signed a new
Memorandum of Understanding with
the RICS on Monday 10 October 2016.
This MOU is modelled after other
Association MOUs and provides a
framework to acknowledge each
other’s intellectual property and
certifications, and opportunities to
collaborate on an increasingly global
scale on various industry initiatives.
The Congress attracted around 500
delegates of whom about 50 were
students. Some 300 papers had been
received, of which 90 were presented,
in four streams, and there were also 11
exhibition stands. IBEC introduced a
new concept, each morning all the
delegates met together and a panel
discussion was held. The topics
included ‘The Reality of Cost
Engineering Worldwide’ and ‘Inno-
vative Trends in Project Management’.
Panellists included the IPMA President,
Reinhart Wagner; the RICS Global
President, Amanda Clack; the RICS
Director of Built Environment Profess-
ional Groups and Forums, Alan Muse;
the AACE-I President, John Livengood
and Alec Ray.
Alec Ray and Roger Batten attended
the ICMS Launch Event at the RICS in
London on Friday 11 November. Also
present were Dr Alexia Nalewaik
(ICEC Immediate Past Chairman) and
T.T. Cheung (ICEC Chairman). This
event focused on the challenging nature
of the construction industry and looked
at how ICMS can facilitate greater
transparency and investment. The
International Construction Measure-
ment Standards Coalition (ICMSC) is a
growing group of more than 40
professional and not-for-profit organ-
izations from around the world, work-
ing together to develop and implement
international standards for bench-
marking, measuring and reporting
construction project cost.
Roger Batten met with Peter Smith
(ICEC Secretary General), at the RIBA
on Friday 9 December. He was very
pleased to have been able to meet with
the ACostE Directors previously and
was impressed by the ACostE’s
Accreditation programme
Discussions have continued with the
Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors (RICS) on closer co-
operation. The RICS acknowledges
that the ACostE traditionally has
strengths within the engineering and
manufacturing communities with very
good international connections and
consider that we complement each
other in the areas of Total Cost
Management/Project Controls and
Project Management, with very little
overlap. ICEC and the RICS already
have a Memorandum of Co-operation
(MOC) that was signed on 27 June
2012 during the 8th ICEC World
Congress in Durban, South Africa.
The next ICEC Region 2 (Europe and
the Near East) meeting is being hosted
by the Association and will be held in
London on Friday 17 November 2017.
This will be at the end of the week of
the IET/ACostE Project Controls
Network Prestige Lecture and the 2017
Project Controls Expo, which will be
added attractions for our international
delegates.
The 2018 11th ICEC World Congress
(the 25th International Cost Engin-
eering Congress) will be hosted by the
Australian Institute of Quantity
Surveyors (AIQS) at the International
Convention Centre in Sydney,
Australia, from Wednesday 14 to
Friday 16 November 2018.
The 2020 12th ICEC World Congress
(the 26th International Cost Engin-
eering Congress) will be hosted by the
Ghana Institution of Surveyors
Quantity Surveyors Division (GhIS).
Alec Ray
FinancialA difficult trading year for The
Assessment Service Centre resulted in
a severe drop in the number of
registered candidates, due mainly to
reductions in industry training budgets
and uncertainty over the revised
qualifications currently being prepared
on behalf of government. However,
even though this produced a reduction
in turnover, budget savings resulted in a
positive cash balance at the end of the
year. The Association itself, mean-
while, continued its business success-
fully within budget, while at the same
time investing in new technology for
the future.
Roger Carter
COMMUNICATIONSProject Control ProfessionalThe Association is still producing six
issues per year. We are indebted to the
Editor, Clive Wellings, for the pro-
duction of the Journal.
Contributions of technical papers,
case studies, opinion/comment pieces,
news, appointments, etc., are always
welcomed. Anyone wishing to con-
tribute should email the Editor via
The Journal is despatched through a
mailing house but the increase in
postage rates to Europe and Overseas
has put expenditure at a high cost.
Any constructive comments that
members have are always welcome.
TECHNICALACTIVITIESEngineeringThe Engineering Committee oversees
the activities of the Association relating
to the Engineering Council and the
registration of members as Chartered
Engineers (CEng), Incorporated Engin-
eers (IEng) and Engineering Tech-
nicians (EngTech).
Members of the Committee
R.M, Batten, CEng, FICE, FACostE
F.B. Cowell, CEng, MIMechE,
MACostE
R. Dutton, CEng, MACostE
N. Hibberd, CEngMIMechE,
MACostE
K. Kapoor, CEng, MACostE
H.H. Malleson, CEng, MIMarE,
MACostE
R.W.D. Plumb, CEng, MIStructE,
MACostE
G.W. Stokes, CEng, FIChemE,
FACostE
M. Younger, CEng, AMIMechE,
MACostE
The Engineering Council Liaison
Officer is:
B.L. Sefton-Smith, IEng, FIHIE
The Committee usually meets three
or four times a year on a Tuesday
morning at the beginning of a month.
We would welcome hearing from other
CEng, IEng or EngTech members of
the Association who could be interested
in joining our Committee.
Two members of the Committee are
Engineering Council Volunteers, Roger
Batten and Howard Malleson, Howard
Malleson acting as ECUK Liaison
Officer on the Membership Committee
of the IET.
Roger Batten, Bryan Sefton-Smith
and Geoff Stokes attended the the
ECUK Professional Affiliates Seminar
on Thursday 29 September 2016 at the
EngC.
Roger Batten, Howard Malleson and
Brian Sefton-Smith attended the ECUK
Liaison Officers Seminar in November
2016 at the EngC. They also attended
the ECUK Volunteers Seminar, on
Wednesday 5 May 2017 at the ICE.
The Association is a Professional
Affiliate of the Engineering Council
and, currently, has an agreement with
the Society of Environmental Engin-
eers (SEE) to enable suitably qualified
members of the ACostE to achieve
registration with the Engineering
Council through Joint Membership.
However, once registered, candidates
do not have to continue with this joint
membership. Under this agreement,
five candidates have achieved regi-
stration as Chartered Engineers and
four candidates have achieved regi-
stration as Incorporated Engineers.
Currently 34 members are registered as
Chartered Engineers and nine members
as Incorporated Engineers through the
Association.
Following the 5-Year Review, held at
the EngC on 31 August 2016, the
Association’s status as an Engineering
Council Professional Affiliate has been
renewed for a further five years.
Following this we were asked to review
our governance documents and
institute a document control system,
submit a formal document detailing
progress against our strategic object-
ives and produce an updated regi-
stration agreement with SEE.
The Engineering Council Third
Edition of the UK-SPEC (UK Standard
for Professional Engineering Com-
petence) and the latest ‘Pink Book’
–‘Pocket Guide to Professional
Registration for Engineers and
Technicians 2016’ are available
through the EngC website.
The ACostE Council have agreed
that all members, including registrants,
are required to practise Continuing
Professional Development (CPD) and,
to this end, has adopted the Engin-
eering Council’s MyCareerPath com-
puter based system. This system has
already been adopted by some 30 other
engineering institutions, and individual
ACostE members are urged to use this
to maintain their CPD records. The
Committee will be randomly sampling
the CPD records from a selection of our
registrants.
The Committee have supported the
work of the Accreditation Committee
in developing the ‘Incorporated’ level
qualification based on the Engineering
Council’s UK-SPEC but without the
emphasis on general and specialist
engineering knowledge and under-
standing. Those qualifying at Incorpor-
ated level, like registered engineers,
must be able to demonstrate their
competence to perform professional
work to the necessary standards.
Competence includes the knowledge,
understanding and skills which under-
pin performance
Roger Batten
EDUCATION AND TRAININGTASCIntroduction
The year ending in March 2017
achieved enrolment of 16 learners on
QCF Diploma programmes. The poor
uptake reflects two major factors:
current business climate and the
uncertainty about the future of the
Diploma programmes.
Financial status
The QCF enrolment numbers at TASC
of 16 have meant that measure have
had to be taken including reductions in
budgets to maintain a cash reserve.
The market downturn driven, to a
large extent by the reduced oil price,
has been the major cause with cutbacks
to training programmes. The ongoing
changes dictated by Government have
also added an uncertainty which has
resulted in many organizations putting
plans on hold.
Estimating and training courses
The revenue from the Estimating
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course has continued. The future of this
course is under review although a
reasonable take up has been achieved.
ECITB
TASC is part of the Qualifications
Working Group, which is rather
belatedly focusing on the revisions to
QCF to start in January 2018. The
changes have required a re-think of
structure and delivery methods.
End Point Assessment (EPA) for
Apprentices is also under consider-
ation, in conjunction with ACostE and
ECITB.
TASC Strategic Review
Whilst TASC/ACostE Accreditation
can provide services to members and
client organizations for Project Control
assessment, career development and
Continued Personal Development
(CPD) they are all under review at this
time.
TASC operations overview
The poor enrolment in 2017 has put the
revised TASC management system on
hold.
J. Ward/R. Carter/D. Langton
Accreditation2016/17 has been a year of consoli-
dation and growth for the Accreditation
Board/Committee.
Due to the work and private commit-
ments of its volunteers it has again been
difficult to arrange committee meetings
and most of its business this year has
been conducted by email. However, we
have recently held a Committee Meet-
ing with some new volunteers.
There are some 86 people registered
on the programme who have yet to
complete, or have withdrawn. It is too
early to generate any meaningful
statistics on conversion rate due to the
time lag between application and
completion in many instances.
Recognising that an impediment to
sustained progress is the fact that many
senior managers of large organizations
have not taken up the accreditation.
However, we see these people as being
the ‘torchbearers’ to set an example to
those who work for them. In response
to this we have introduced a Fast-Track
Accreditation at the CPCostE level
aimed at these individuals with sustain-
ed experience in these senior positions.
A pilot of four people has been very
successful, and a further pilot for
another six is being planned.
There has been some interest shown
of late in Company Accreditation,
mainly from the Aerospace and
Defence sector, but nothing confirmed
to date. It is recognised that the process
must be simplified and its cost reduced
to attract more interest. We are curr-
ently in discussion with BAE Systems
on what might be an appropriate
process to re-accredit their Gold Award,
which is due to expire this year.
Following on from last year’s
decision by the Board to consider
licensing of the ECostE and RCostE
awards to Company Accredited
Members, we are currently in dis-
cussion with BAE Systems, and the
Project Control Institute on how such
licensing might operate.
There has been renewed interest in
Course Accreditation and a pilot is to
be arranged with Cranfield University.
The proposed framework was mooted
two years ago.
Alan Jones
IET CollaborationThe IET-ACostE Project Controls
Technical & Professional Network
(The Project Controls Network) is a
jointly operated community between
The Association of Cost Engineers and
the Institution of Engineering and
Technology.
Its members are a distinct grouping
of practitioners with responsibility, at
all levels, for the prediction, planning
and control of resources and cost, for
activities that involve engineering,
manufacturing and construction.
Activities include:
• networking sessions
• technical events
• interactive online discussion forums
• technical conferences and seminars
What members get from joining:
• Free membership to the Network
• Active involvement in our Networks
• Access the global project control
community resources, papers, ideas
and discussions with their peers
• Participate in topical, informative
and interesting activities
The ICMS (International
Construction Measurement
Standards)
Established in June 2015, when
professional bodies from around the
world met at the IMF (International
Monetary Fund) in Washington, DC, to
launch a major initiative, which seeks
to create international standards in
construction measurement, represent-
ing professionals in over 100 countries.
The ICMS has the support of the IMF,
World Bank and the EU.
The Project Controls Network
(together with ACostE) is a founding
member of the ICMS Coalition Board,
and supports the work to create
International Standards.
The International Construction
Measurement Standards (ICMS)
Coalition are pleased to publish the
final version of the ICMS standard.
Organizations from around the world
have joined together to create a new,
universal system that, for the first time,
enables global comparison of building
and civil engineering construction
project costs, on a like-for-like basis
between countries. The launch marks
the culmination of two years’
collaboration between the Coalition
and 27 experts on the Standards Setting
Committee.
The recently issued ICMS Standard,
can be accessed at:
https://icmscblog.files.wordpress.com/
2017/07/icms_standard_200717_jf.pdf
Activities for the current year
The Project Controls Network contin-
ues to provide events in London,
Midlands, and Glasgow. This year we
have also included Sheffield, and will
continue to explore other locations in
the UK:
• 28 September 2017: Change
Management in the 21st Century,
presentation, to be held in Sheffield
• 23 October 2017: Acting Effectively
with Social Complexity and
Uncertainty, presentation, to be held at
the IET Savoy Place, London
• 15 November 2017 Prestigious
Lecture by Cranfield, on Redefining
the Role of Cost Engineering, to be
held at IET Savoy Place, London
• January/February 2018: Event in the
Midlands, details will be announced
later
• March/April 2018: Risk
Management presentation by Tony
Reid in Glasgow.
ACostE Members of the Project
Controls Network Committee
Roger Batten
Alan Barltrop
Alec Ray
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Technical abstractsTechnical abstracts – briefparticulars of the contents
of journals received byACostE and available
for loan from the Sandbach office
CIVIL ENGINEERING SURVEYORPublished by the Chartered Institution of
Civil Engineering Surveyors
July/August 2017
Main articles include:
To be or not to be … an expert witness –
Dr Chris Pamplin, Editor, UK Registerof Expert Witnesses. Dr Chris Pamplin
on the benefits and practicalities of
being an expert witness.
Monitoring Dover sea wall – Tareq
Khodabacksh, Senceive. How wireless
monitoring aided emergency remedial
works on Dover’s railway.
September 2017
Surveying ‘lost`WW1 tunnels on
Salisbury Plain – Jim Allen, Partner,
Cundall. Hidden tunnels, UXO and a
Neolithic cow carcass – surveying for
the British Army on Salisbury Plain.
Credit where it’s due? – Research and
development tax relief – Gemma Davies,
R&D Tax Professional, Creditax, on the
benefits of R&D tax credits. Could your
business benefit?
ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGYPublished by The Institution of
Engineering & Technology
Vol. 12, Issue 7/8, August/September
2017
The Graphic – HMS Queen Elizabeth
sea trials. HMS Queen Elizabeth,
Britain’s biggest ever warship, is
conducting sea trials ahead of her
commissioning in 2018. The £3.5bn
vessel is the world’s largest aircraft
carrier by displacement outside of the
United States.
Photo essay: Extremely old skyscrapers
– Rebecca Northfield. People have been
building high-rise architecture for
centuries.While you can’t compare these
early ‘skyscrapers` to their modern
counterparts, such as the world’s tallest
multi-storey, the Burj Khalifa (which
stands 828m high), shows that the desire
to dominate the skyline goes back a long
way.
Castles built on sand – Chris Edwards.
Battered by wind and waves above the
ocean’s surface, offshore wind
foundations can’t take chances on what
lies on the seabed.
THE CHEMICAL ENGINEERPublished by the Institute of Chemical
Engineers
Issue 913/14 – July/August 2017
Mega Management – The challenges of
managing interfaces and integration at a
complex, world-scale refinery and
petrochemicals project – Zainab B.T.
Kayat, Mohamad Nasir & Bijay Kumar
– Group Technical Authority, Petronas;
Process Engineering Head, PRPC; &
Refinery Process Manager, PRPC.
Regular readers will be familiar with
PETRONAS` progress in developing
and building its RAPID project, a huge,
new, integrated refinery and
petrochemical complex in Pengerang,
Malaysia.
Adding Value to Gold. Scotland’s first
ever commercial goldmine proves that
precious metals can be worth more than
their weight in gold. Richard Gray,
Scotland CEO, speaks to Neil Clark.
Helmsdale, 1830: the harbourmaster
watched what he previously thought was
impossible. In front of his eyes, rock is
‘pulverised and put into conical
crucibles which are then put into a
furnace, and by some chemical process,
the gold falls down in a molten state into
the short conical apex at the bottom of
the crucible and retains that shape after
cooling’.
Health & Safety: Diverse and Inclusive
– Mark McBride-Wright, Managing
Director, McBrideWright; Chair & Co-
Founder, InterEngineering. Employers
should know that robust D&I initiatives
will lead to better H&S.
Issue 915 – September 2017
CCS: Carbon Capture and Strategy –
Helen Tunnicliffe goes on safari in
Norway to learn about a government-
backed scheme to set up a full-chain,
full-scale CCS project.
Better by Design – Quality by design
must be viewed as an opportunity, not as
a regulatory burden – Christoph Herwig,
Chair of EFCE Working Party on QBD
& Head of Biochemical Engineering
Dept. Tu Wien, et al. Simply increasing
the amount of testing on a product will
not improve its quality. Quality must be
built or designed in before production.
The Association extends a warm welcome to the following members, whohave recently been elected by the Membership Admissions Committeenew members
IAN PETER HODGES – 6744 – MEMBERConsultant Estimator – CE Associates Ltd,Kent
HARRY STEPHEN – 6761 – MEMBERCost & Planning Engineer – MassuteraEngineering SDN BHD, Negara BruneiDarussalam
AMBER LILY BILVERSTONE – 6762 –ASSOCIATEApprentice Estimator, AC BaconEngineering Ltd, Norwich
JAEYEON KIM – 6763 – MEMBEREstimation & Proposal Engineer, DaelimIndustrial Co Ltd, Republic of Korea
PUSSELLA HEWAGE PRIYADARSHANACHAMARA KUMARA – 6764 –MEMBERCost Control Engineer/Quantity Surveyor,Urbacon Trading and Contracting, Qatar
SHONA ANN ADCOCK – 6765 –GRADUATECost Analysis, AWE, Aldermaston
NICOLA JANE BAWTREE – 6766 –MEMBERSenior Cost Engineer, AWE, Aldermaston
PETER JOHN ALLINSON – 6767 – MEMBERConsultant Contract & CommercialManager, EEA Management LTD,Middlesbrough
NICOLA SOLECKI – 6768 – MEMBERSenior Cost Engineer, AWE, Aldermaston
GEETHA KAUNASINGHE – 6769 –MEMBERSenior Estimator, Faithful & Gould,London
HOWARD PHILIP ROLAND MALTBY – 6770– MEMBERPrincipal Cost Control Enginner, DE&S,Manchester
VERONICA JANE ANN WILSON – 6771 –MEMBER
Project Controls Manager, Cost Assurance& Analysis Service, Aldermaston
YAZID ALLAOUI – 6772 – GRADUATECost Control Engineer, AssociationBP/Statoil, Algeria
LILI ZHOU – 6773 – ASSOCIATEAssistant Estimator, Mott MacDonald,London
SCOTT JOHN ROBERT DONALDSON –6774 – MEMBERSenior Consultant Quantum, SystechInternational, London
CHEW LING TAN – 6775 – MEMBERQuantity Surveyor, Wai Fong ConstructionPTE Ltd, Singapore
MICHAEL EYESON – 6776 – ASSOCIATECost Engineer
VIJAYA PRAKASH DUPPATI – 6777 –FELLOWSenior Manager – Project Management,Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea
KEITH JENKINSON – 6778 – MEMBERSenior Quantity Surveyor, SoilEngineering Geoservices LTD, Leeds
ANDREW LUCAS – 6779 – MEMBERQuantity Surveyor, George Morrison ELPLtd, Blackpool
MASADI LYDIA MODIBA – 6780 –GRADUATEAssistant Quantity Surveyor, MottMacDonald, Cambridge
RACHEL ANNE HANSON – 6781 –MEMBERSenior Cost Engineer, AWE Plc,Aldermaston
ABHISHEK PRADHAN – 6782 – MEMBERSenior Estimating & Risk Engineer,Technip Fmc, London
SAM CROCKFORD – 6783 – GRADUATE
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Project Cost Engineer, AWE Plc,Aldermaston
JONATHAN GREENFIELD – 6784 –MEMBERSenior Cost Engineer, Bazalgette TunnelLtd, London
CARL OSEI ASIBEY – 6785 – MEMBERSenior Cost Estimator, Mott MacDonald,Reading
NINA MARIE WATKEYS – 6786 –GRADUATECost Analyst, AWE Plc, Aldermaston
JAY RICE – 6787 – GRADUATECost Engineer, AWE Plc, Aldermaston
ZOË HEELEY – 6788 – MemberEstimator, Mott MacDonald, Birmingham
REZAUL BARI LITON – 6789 – GRADUATECost Forecaster, MoD CAAS, Bristol
REINSTATED
ROBERT HARRIS – 5331 – MEMBERValue Engineering Specialist, Rolls-Royce,Bristol
UPGRADED
SIMON LESLIE ROW – 6706 – MEMBERCost Engineer, Magnox Ltd, Oxford
DAVID DON – 6605 – FELLOWCost Engineering Programme & SectionLeader on Procurement of MaritimeProjects/Programmes
DANIEL CHARLES BERNARD O’BRIEN –6712 – MEMBERSenior Cost Engineer, Cavendish Nuclear,Irlam
PAUL NORTON – 5510 – FELLOWHead of Project Delivery & ProjectControls, Viridor, Taunton
Cutting-edge costmodel softwarelaunched at DSEIQinetiQ and PRICE Systems have
joined forces and launched their
cutting-edge cost model software at
Defence and Security Equipment
International (DSEI), London, in
September.
The QinetiQ Family of Advanced
Cost Estimating Tools (True FACET)
software, part of the PRICE Cost
Analytics framework, is the result of a
12-month internal research and dev-
elopment project.
True FACET provides cost fore-
casting applications early in a project’s
life cycle, including analysis of
alternatives, independent cost esti-
mating and balance of investments.
The PRICE Systems Cost Analytics
framework is a powerful implemen-
tation of predictive cost analytics
encompassing a suite of proven pro-
cesses, automation software and pre-
dictive models.
The framework is said to be unique in
its ability to host other predictive
models, such as QinetiQ’s FACET
models.
Dale Shermon, QinetiQ Fellow/
Managing Consultant, Cost and Risk,
said: ‘True FACET complements the
subsystem level of a project in their
estimates.’
The QinetiQ Family of Advanced
Cost Estimating Tools is a suite of over
50 models capable of generating
whole-life costs at the earliest stage in a
project’s life, when key decisions need
to be made against requirements and
costs.
PRICE Systems provides a cost
management solution based on a suite
of powerful cost estimation and
existing PRICE Systems models and
gives the TruePlanning community
through-life parametric estimating
capability in a single, easy to use, cost
modelling framework.’
Anthony A. DeMarco, President,
PRICE Systems, commented: ‘The
implementation of True FACET into
the PRICE Systems Cost Analytics
framework provides added value to
customers who can now focus on the
system level, in addition to the
analytics tools used globally by
governments and commercial organ-
izations to provide trusted baseline
estimates for programme budgeting,
RFP response, cost management,
affordability engineering and to track
the movement of those costs through
the life of a programme.
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diary of eventsJULYAssociation of Cost EngineersThursday 5th– 2.00 pmCouncil MeetingOffices of Mott MacDonald, London
ACostE Southern RegionEvening Walking Tour in LondonDetails to be confirmed
OCTOBERAssociation of Cost EngineersThursday 4th– 2.00 pmCouncil MeetingOffices of ACostE, Sandbach
NOVEMBERICEC/PARS/Australian Institute ofQuantity Surveyors (AIQS)Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th11th ICEC World Congress (25thInternational Cost EngineeringCongress)/22nd PARS AnnualMeetingInternational Convention Centre,Sydney, Australia
DECEMBERAssociation of Cost EngineersThursday 6th– 2.00 pmCouncil MeetingOffices of Mott MacDonald, London
International Federation ofSurveyors (FIG)FIG Working Week 2019, Vietnam
JUNEAACE InternationalSunday 16th to Wednesday 19th63rd Annual MeetingSheraton Centre, New Orleans,Louisiana, USA
ICEC/AAQS/Ghana Institute ofSurveyors (GhIS)12th ICEC World Congress (26th International Cost EngineeringCongress), Accra, Ghana
NOVEMBERAssociation of Cost EngineersThursday 2nd – 2.00 pmCouncil MeetingAGM– 5.00 pmOffices of Mott MacDonald, 10 Fleet Place, London EC4M 7RB
IET/ACostE Project Controls NetworkWednesday 15th – 6.00 pmPrestige LectureIET, Savoy Place, London WC2 0BL
Project Controls ExpoThursday 16th – all dayEmirates Arsenal Stadium, LondonN5 1BU
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MARCHAssociation of Cost EngineersThursday 1st – 2.00 pmCouncil MeetingOffices of Mott MacDonald, London
MAYAssociation of Cost EngineersThursday 3rd – 2.00 pmCouncil MeetingOffices of Mott MacDonald, London
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG)Sunday 6th to Thursday 10thFIG Congress 2018, Istanbul, Turkey
AACE InternationalSunday 24th to Wednesday 27th62nd Annual Meeting, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego,California, USA
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Association Council DIRECTORSA. Pammenter – PresidentA.J. Barltrop – Immediate Past PresidentA. Ray – Vice-President, International Chairman
N. Hibberd – Vice-PresidentR. Carter – Treasurer, The Assessment ServiceCentre Contracts and Finance
V. Thompson – Admissions ChairmanJ. Ward – Company Secretary, The Assessment Service Centre Operations
Alan Jones – Accreditation ChairmanS. ForthR. RobinsonJ. StudmanF. Houghton
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Many of us will have had a fake
email claiming to be either
from PayPal, a bank or
HMRC. These are probably the most
common current phishing scams and
should be treated as such. Lately,
however, there have been sent out spam
emails in the name of The International
Federation of Surveyors (FIG) – but not
from any FIG email address. FIG are
sorry about this, but unfortunately, it is
almost impossible to prevent this kind
of fraud. It is a reflection of the times
that we always have to be on the
lookout for fake emails, maybe with
impersonal greetings and links to
dodgy websites, and treat them
accordingly.
See Lian Ong, Chair of FIG
Commission 10, has served as Chair of
the International ICMS Coalition
Standards Setting Committee. Their
effort has resulted in a successful ICMS
standard that was launched in July
2017. This standard is a universal
system that enables the global com-
parison of construction costs. ACostE
and ICEC are members of this
coalition.
This year’s ICEC Region 2 (Europe
and the Near East) meeting is being
hosted by the Association and being
held in London on Friday 17 November
2017. This is at the end of the week of
the IET/ACostE Project Controls
Network Prestige Lecture and the 2017
Project Controls Expo which are all
added attractions for our international
delegates. In addition to the Region 2
association delegates T.T. Cheung
(ICEC Chairman), Alexia Nalewaik
(ICEC Immediate Past Chairman) and
Peter Smith (ICEC Secretary General)
are expected to attend.
The Call for Papers is out for the FIG
Congress 2018. This Congress is being
organized by FIG and the Turkish
Chamber of Survey and Cadaster
Engineers (CSCE) and is being held in
Instanbul, Turkey, from Sunday 6 to
Thursday 11 May. 2018 The theme for
this four-year Congress is ‘Embracing
our smart world where the continents
connect: embracing the geospacial
maturity of societies’ and finds its
meaning in the joint effort for the
‘Geospacial Transformation of the
World’ and is aligned with the defi-
nition of the geospacial maturity of
societies. The deadlines are: for Peer
Review Papers: 1 October (full paper)
and Normal Papers 15 November
(abstract).
ICEC encourages the conduct and
promotion of regional and worldwide
congresses, meetings, forums and
seminars.
The 2018 11th ICEC World Congress
(the 25th International Cost Engin-
eering Congress) will be hosted by the
Australian Institute of Quantity
Surveyors (AIQS) at the International
Convention Centre in Sydney,
Australia, from Wednesday 14 to
Friday 16 November 2018.
The 2020 12th ICEC World Congress
(the 26th International Cost Engin-
eering Congress) will be hosted by the
Ghana Institution of Surveyors
Quantity Surveyors Division (GhIS).
Minutes of past meetings and details
of future meetings, as well as ICEC’s
International Roundup News, are all
available on the ICEC website at
www.ICostE.org.
ICEC news
Roger Batten, MBE,ICEC spokesman for the Association
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www.acoste.org.uk
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