CICES Council of Management election ballot moves online
In harnessing the golden threads of digitalisation and sustainability the institution’s council election ballot is now online. Mi-Voice, an independent specialist in this area, is supporting CICES with the election. This year, the institution has received 12 nominations for six vacancies to sit as trustees on Council of Management.
Those corporate members who have registered an email address with the institution will have received communications about the election via email from elections@mi-voice.com. Those members who have not registered an email will have received correspondence via post directing them to the online voting site. Correspondence will also be sent by post to members whose emails were undeliverable.
Voting closes at midday on 23 August. Use your vote by emailing: support@mi-voice.com.
CICES AGM: 18 September 2024
The institution’s annual general meeting will take place on Wednesday 18 September at 9.30am via MS Teams. As with the last few years, this year’s AGM will again be a virtual meeting and those wishing to attend will need to register on the CICES events page on the website via www.cices.org/events.
Once registered a link to join on the day.
Webinar roundup
Thanks to Skanska’s Nikolaus Moore, and Mott Macdonald’s Richard Patterson for the recent webinar on ‘NEC clause X29 in theory and practice’.
L-R: SCSI immediate past president Enda McGuane, Kevin Hollingsworth and SCSI CEO Shirley Coulter.
New president for SCSI
The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) has announced the appointment of Kevin Hollingsworth as its new president.
Kevin brings extensive experience and a distinguished career in the building surveying industry to his new role.
He commented: “I am honoured to take on the role of president.
I aim to bring a new level of enthusiasm and engagement, promoting further involvement in the APC process and advancing the surveying profession.”
New VP for CICES
The institution has announced that Marek Suchocki has joined the presidential chain as its new vice president from September.
Marek is head of industry associations strategy at Autodesk, coordinating engagements with key professional associations, industry organisations and standards bodies globally.
He holds a degree in civil engineering, is a chartered engineer, chartered IT professional and a fellow of BCS, ICE and CICES.
Marek has over 30 years of industry experience, and as a product of his activities, he has authored papers and reports on BIM, collaborative working and the application of new technology to the architecture, engineering and construction sector.
He sits on the CICES Council of Management and Geospatial Engineering Practices Committee, is vice-chair of the Technology Group of Nima (previously UK BIM Alliance) and is part of the British Standards B555 committee that drove development of the ISO 19650 series of BIM standards where he is the nominated representative to CEN (European Standards Committee) for common data environments (CDE) and BIM for Infrastructure.
He is part of the buildingSMART UK & Ireland management committee as well as the international infrastructure domain steering committee where he also chairs the project steering committee.
New guidance for NEC and FAC-1
New guidance on how to implement NEC4 under the Framework Alliance Contract (FAC-1 ) has been unveiled at the NEC’s annual conference in June. The contract has been recommended by the UK government and can be used with any form of project contract or consultancy agreement. Peter Higgins, chair of the NEC Contract Board, said:
“I’m pleased to be able to share new guidance for the industry on implementing NEC4 with the FAC-1 framework.
Using these forms together can help optimise project outcomes globally, encouraging strategic collaboration between project stakeholders to foster best practice and deliver efficient and effective project management. I’m confident that this new guidance can help empower an increasing number of people across the industry to realise their combined potential in future.”
The guidance can be found on the NEC website at www.neccontract.com.
Special discounted training for CICES members
CICES training partner Built Intelligence (BI) has offered members a 25% discount on its annual training subscription. BI boast an impressive academy with over 1,000 training courses, including NEC, JCT and FIDIC contract training, as well as CDM, project management and a suite of construction and civil engineering focused support and learning.
Darrell Smart, CICES operations director stated:
“We are thrilled to continue our partnership with BI. Our members have unrivalled access to an enviable amount of free content and learning and paid for training programmes, with bitesized modules available to facilitate easy and accessible CPD and training. All of this together with FastDraft contract management software and the free community helpdesk, ReachBack, which gives a unique platform to over 250,000 industry professionals for Q&A with a library of existing queries and answers and a panel of experts on hand to respond to any question.”
Built Intelligence provides a support ecosystem for the construction industry. For those interested in signing up for training or discussing the available options, contact support@builtintelligence.com or schedule a demo at builtintelligence.com.
CICES Commercial Management Conference 2024
In June, CICES hosted its eighth annual commercial management conference at Turner & Townsend in London. The theme for this year’s conference was collaborative dispute resolution. Chairing the event was Rudi Klein and it began with the keynote from Jonathan Cope, Director, MCMS.
Many thanks to our other speakers on the day Batsetswe Motsumi, CICES president; Steve Cannon, Partner, Clyde & Co; Adrian Miller, Membership Director, Institute for Collaborative Working and Dawn Stallwood, Chief Integrity Officer and Director, Floodlight Business; Shy Jackson, Partner, BCLP LLP; Derek Nelson, Partner, HKA; Tim Tapper, Head of Contracts, Claims & Disputes, Turner & Townsend; Martin Burns, RICS Head of ADR Research and Development and Member of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition Steering and Mark Wheeler, Diales CEO.
A special thank you to the members and guests who attended and to the generous sponsors Diales, Kier Nuclear, Turner & Townsend, and Two Plus Two.
