Volume 19, Number 1

December 2004

International Roundup

The electronic journal of the
International Cost Engineering Council

A Journal of Cost Engineering, Project Management
and Quantity Surveying
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Table of Contents Roundup News Chairman's Message and Articles Coming Events
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Table of contents

Roundup News

ICEC Chairman's Message

Verster, Professor JJP (Basie)
Internationalisation of skills, competencies and quality service by cost engineers, quantity surveyors and project managers.

Feature and Technical Articles

Hanscomb
Design-build becoming a revolution in Hanscomb Means Report, International Construction Intelligence Vol. 16, No. 6, January / February 2004
Mattheys, Kevin
Development of an integrated business and career model for cost engineering which would build an effective project management / cost engineering relationship based on the High Performance Work Team concept - Winner Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award at the ICEC 4th World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, April 2004.
Sandabacka, Jan
Be Sure, The importance of confidence in project management - Paper presented at the 2004 NORDNET, Helsinki, Finland, September 2004
Seah, Eugene
Do's and Don'ts for e-tendering, A quantity surveying perspective - Runner up Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award at the ICEC 4th World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, April 2004.
Smith, Peter
Trends in the Australian Quantity Surveying profession, 1995 - 2004 - Runner-up Jan Korevaar Outstanding Paper Award at the ICEC 4th World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, April 2004.
Wickramatillake, Dr Chandika Diran
Co-ordinating multi-plans within a large scale project - Paper presented to 2004 SENET Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 2004
Yin, Professor Yi-Lin
Latest developments in the cost engineering profession and higher education in Mainland China - Discussion paper to be published in the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors Newsletter, December 2004.

Coming Events

Member Society Reports

Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) Institute of Surveyors, Malaysia (ISM)
Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineers (AACE) Japan Society of Cost and Project Engineers (JSCPE)
Association of Cost Engineers (ACostE) Mauritius Association of Quantity Surveyors (MAQS)
Association of Cost Engineers - Hong Kong (ACostE HK) Norsk Forening for Prosjektledelse (NFP)
Associazione Italiana d'Ingegneria Economica (AICE) Project Management Austria (PMA)
Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) Project Management Association Finland (PMAF)
Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS) Russian Association of Bidders and Cost Engineering (RABCE)
Dutch Association of Cost Engineers (DACE) Spolecnost Pro Projektove Rizeni (SPR)
Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) Swedish Project Management Society (SPMS)

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