Subj.

: Call to contribution

To the attention of all D and S FIDIC Association Members

Dear Colleague,

Our objective is to open the annual FIDIC conference to explode with new ideas, contacts, and action
plans to the benefit of the members of our associations, and relevant to the national and international
organisations as well as our industrial partners.

We would like all the FIDIC 2003 conference participants to be active in the 10 workshops presented
even before the conference begins through an interactive exchange of ideas and opinions.

The plan of action comes in various stages:

a) collection of your ideas and opinions on each of the 10 workshops. You are quite welcomed
to rate the workshops in terms of interest, and add to the workshop overviews should you think
that a point has been missed or submit various questions where necessary. A form has been
prepared especially to help you reply to our demand: please see the attached form. Please
complete and send this as soon as possible and by the latest the 30 June 2003.

b) The speaker of each workshop will then integrate the much valued information collected from
you.

c) The outline workshop briefs will be distributed in English to the workshops participants

The aim of the workshops is to open the way for progress and development in the consulting and
engineering industry be it national and internationally.

Thanking you in advance for dispatching the attached documents to your members.

Attached: 1. Call to contribution.

2. Organisation and workshops themes.
3. Answering form, contributions specifications.

Maxime Mazloum Jean Félix

Co-chairman organizing committee Délégué Général Syntec-Ingénierie
m.mazloum@syntec-ingenierie.fr j.felix@syntec-ingenierie.fr
Tel : 33 1 44 30 49 55 Tel :33 1 44 30 49 59
 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP THEMES
Tuesday, 9th September
Each workshop presented consists of a discussion based on a theme, these discussions naturally lead to numerous questions.
Comments collected prior to the conference will be used to illustrate various replies to these questions.
From there an open debate will start. Other comments experiences and examples should occur throughout the session.
At the end of the Tuesday plenary sessions, a synthesis of the workshops shall be presented by each speaker. This occurs before
the introduction of the “10 Young Professionals” whom have been invited to comment their views on the various themes.

Questions raised in the morning workshops:
What are the new type of services (expertises, responsabilities…)
that engineering companies have to provide to their clients
to ensure a “responsible investment”?
What are the perspectives for engineering companies and
what are the subsequent implications regarding the
professional organisations they work with?
Questions raised in the afternoon workshops:
How should engineering companies organise themselves
(in terms of qualifications, independence, ethics, and method-
ologies,...) so that they can efficiently contribute to today’s
requirements of responsible projects? What are the perspectives
for engineering companies and the subsequent implications
regarding the professional organisations they work with?

✓ WORKSHOP 1 ✓ WORKSHOP 6
What can engineering companies do help their clients How does an engineering company ensure the contribution of
to select and plan responsible investments? multidisciplinary competences (employment issues, training,
Two primary examples to illustrate this are the hospital and external ressources…) necessary in the foresight of a
the highway case studies. responsible project? Example via the two roadwork projects
in Malaysia and Ireland, and via the extension of an airport
✓ WORKSHOP 2 in Germany.

What can engineering companies do to integrate and control ✓ WORKSHOP 7

the economic and social consequences of a project? In which
direction is progress?
Examples via the Guiana case study, an African roadwork case
study, and a case study on the restructuring of a problem zone
in France.
✓ WORKSHOP 3
How can an engineering company help its client to take into
account the needs of persons who are not directly linked to
the project financially, such as the end-users…?
Example presented by the director of a hospital.
Can an ethics oriented approach reduce risks in a “responsible
project” ? How to manage ethics requirements in a engineering
company?
Round-table.
✓ WORKSHOP 8
What is the role of an engineering company in the organisation
of public debate (be it legal or general) between concerned
parties of a project and the end users?
Primary example is that of the development of the TGV
(Very-Fast Train) in France and in East-Europe.

✓ WORKSHOP 9
✓ WORKSHOP 4
How does an engineering company account for the social,
How can engineering companies integrate at the design stage
environmental, and economic requirements of a responsible
issues such as operating and maintenance costs?
project in a decentralised system on a world scale?

✓ WORKSHOP 5
How can engineering companies manage the risks of a project
(identify, evaluate and manage the clients risks) and in turn
assist him in his decisions ? How can they evaluate and
anticipate the operating risks?
✓ WORKSHOP 10
What new legal and contractual responsibilities arise for
engineering companies when regarding their participation
in the conceptual design of responsible projects and how can
they manage these responsibilities?
 Att. 2

TUESDAY 9 TH SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP

Contributor details

Family Name : …………………………………….First Name: ……………………………………………………..

Company or Organization: ………………………………………………………………………………………………
Address: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Telephone: ………………………………… …………………... Fax:………………………………………
E-mail: ……………………………………………………………..
FIDIC Association concerned: ………………………….. Country: ………………..……………

Workshop interest ratings. I would like to attend the following workshops. Please select
workshops for each half day and rate them according to your preference,
ie: 1 = the most interesting. 5 = the less interesting
Morning sessions Interest Afternoon sessions Interest
(1 to 5) (1 to 5)
Workshop 1 Workshop 6
Workshop 2 Workshop 7
Workshop 3 Workshop 8
Workshop 4 Workshop 9
Workshop 5 Workshop 10

Questions or comments on the workshop N° _____

(please write in either English or French)
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

My contribution to the workshops N° ______ here annexed

In order to make all FIDIC 2003 documentations to get a similar presentation, we suggest
the authors of contributions to workshops to follow these recommendations:
Only contributions received by E mail in Word or Power Point format and in French or
English are acceptable.
The author will give his title and his functions and a short biographic notice with a photo.
WORD FORMAT
The text must not exceed three pages of 2000 signs each, double spacing.
Each paragraph must have an intermediary title.
The main title is important, must be short and attractive.
The contribution must be introduced an executive summary showing the interest of the
subject.
Illustrations, maximum four, must be attached with subtitles (format JPEG).
POWER POINT FORMAT
Refer to the attached documentation to download from our website:
www.syntec-ingenierie.fr, click “news”, click “FIDIC 2003” and click “contribution
format”.
Thank you in advance to follow these recommendations and to send us your contribution
before 30th of June 2003.
To send back to Syntec-Ingénierie,
the French Federation of professions in engineering consultancy,
Mr Maxime Mazloum : m.mazloum@syntec-ingenierie.fr