This section of the ICEC homepage provides links to pdf copies of papers which have won an Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award at ICEC International Congresses.
Beginning in 1992 at the 12th International Cost Engineering Congress, the International Cost Engineering Council initiated the Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award to recognize the paper chosen by Congress delegates through their evaluations as the outstanding paper presented at each International Cost Engineering Congress.
The award was created in memory of Jan Korevaar, Executive Director of the Dutch Association of Cost Engineers and Assistant Secretary of ICEC for many years.
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2006 Award Winner - Maja Ferle PMP
The 2006 Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award has been awarded to Maja Ferle PMP, of SRC.SI, for her paper, “Implementing Earned Value Management on IT projects”.
The 2006 Korevaar Award was selected from papers presented at the 1st ICEC & International Project Management Association (IPMA) Global Congress on Project Management, which incorporated the 5th World Cost Engineering, Project Management, Cost Management and Quantity Surveying Congress. The Congress was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in April this year.
Ms Ferle’s awarding winning paper discusses the use of Earned Value Management (EVM) in monitoring IT projects arguing that addressing issues as soon as they arise gives projects a greater chance of successful completion. She concludes that “mature project management with formal project status and progress reporting procedures [provide] a realistic picture of the project, the resources it is using and the progress it is making towards its goals … Regular periodic monitoring and reporting on the status of the project gives an indication of the overall project health and signals that project may go off its planned course.”
Previous Awards
- Development of an integrated business and career model for Cost Engineering (2004 - Cape Town, South Africa);
- Trends in the Australian Quantity Surveying Profession: 1995-2003 (2004 Runnerup - Cape Town, South Africa);
- Do's and Don'ts for E-Tendering: A Quantity Surveying Perspectived (2004 Runnerup - Cape Town, South Africa);
- Calculation and Recovery of Home/Head Office Overhead (2002 Runnerup - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia);
- Expert Witness Services in Construction Litigation (2000 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada and 2002 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia);
- Are You Prepared for Mediation? (2000 Runnerup - Calgary, Alberta, Canada);
- Enhanced Project Control: A Dynamic and Contemporary Approach to Accessing and Modifying Project Information Using the Intranet (1998 - Rotterdam, The Netherlands);
- The Planning and Execution of an International Project: A Checklist of Actions (1998 Runnerup - Rotterdam, The Netherlands);
- Sources of International Cost Data (1996 - Guadalajara, Mexico - with partial updates through to September 2005);
- Developing Location Factors Using a Factoring Method (1994 - London, England); and
- Steps to Sponsoring Successful Seminars and Symposiums (1992 - Orlando, Florida, United States of America).