Conference Day Two: Monday, 3 November 2008

08.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Dr. Sadek Owainati
Board Member & Past Chair
EMIRATES GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL

09.00 INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY: Dongtan, China – The Future Of Eco-Cities

• Advocates Eco-city principals and the framework for successful Eco-city development
• Assesses Eco-city projects all over the world that have resulted since Dongtan and the broader Eco-city movement
• Supports delivery mechanisms, including sound governance structure and a new economic model for Eco-city growth

Roger Wood
Director
ARUP

09.30 Keynote Panel: Overcoming The Major Challenges In Sourcing New Talent: A Regional And International Focus

• Identifying new avenues of sourcing high-calibre technical staff
• Assessing the regional and international employment markets including increased demand for staff from India and China
• Utilising cutting-edge sourcing strategies to leverage alternative markets

Grahame McCaig General Manager DUTCO BALFOUR BEATTY	Nigel Harvey General Manager MURRAY & ROBERTS MIDDLE EAST	Steven Hunt Senior Legal Counsel NA KHEEL
James Wood General Manager Al Fara’a Contracting	Khalid Eid Executive Director, Global Project Operations INJAZ

Global and regional staff shortage

11.00 CASE STUDY: Dubai Metro Global Crisis Of Finding Highly Skilled Staff – Effectively Managing And Planning For Changes That Will Deliver More Stability By 2009

• Upskilling and managing professionals in a high pace environment
• A chieving world-class human capital management in GCC construction firms
• Establishing the benchmarks for best practice in HR and the strategies that GCC firms need to adopt in order to equal them

Adnan Al Hammadi
Rail Construction Director
ROADS & TRANSPORT AUTHORITY (RTA)

11.30 Accountability Within The Construction Industry

• Assessing the issue of accountability and the role of the press
• Quantifying the damage to company reputation and country reputation
• Why companies should be held more accountable for their actions

Grahame McCaig
General Manager
DUTCO BALFOUR BEATTY

12.00 Challenges And Innovation In The Gulf Construction Industry

• Why the conventional time, cost and quality triangle needs to be revised
• Innovation vs. solutions for resource, procurement, contract and partnership related issues
• Quality and improvement techniques to achieve continuous improvement

Dr. Fahd Bakour
Executive Director
Al Fara’a Group

Price escalation and procurement

13.30 Alternative Procurement Methods

• Forecasting the balance of supply and demand in materials and labour markets and planning procurement accordingly
• Changing the mentality of an industry: What needs to change for clients, contractors and design consultants to deliver projects successfully in partnerships?
• Identifying problems with current contract types used in theGulf and analysing possible solutions

Dr. Denis Beaupre
Operations Manager, Technical & Sales
Unibeton Readymix

14.00 Next Generation Project Management - Construction Solutions And Procedures

Representing a wide range of perspectives and opinions, this groundbreaking session will enable delegates to assess how future trends in project management can positively affect the Middle East. Key solutions to be covered include:

• Prefab construction
• E-construction
• Cutting edge technologies

Nigel Harvey
General Manager
MURRAY & ROBERTS MIDDLE EAST

Health, Safety and environment

15.00 Optimising Your HSE Management Systems

• Integrating people, processes and facilities to ensure your holistic HSE policy works in practice
• Defining measures for alleviating safety implications of contractors working with limited regulations
• Ensuring your overall safety standards are never compromised while undertaking multiparty projects
• Quantifying the financial and reputational risks that result from inaction

Dave Bass
Group HSE Manager
ALNABOODAH CONSTRUCTION GROUP

15.30 Final Roundtable Session: Fulfilling Budgetary Requirements And Deadlines By Avoiding Poorly Defined Scope

Poorly defined scope is cited as one of the biggest causes of cost and time overruns in global construction projects. Delegates will analyse common challenges, perceptions, concerns and objections in mixed groups. All groups will put together solutions to be implemented within the construction industry and between their companies that will begin the path to clearly defined scope. Groups will then present their solutions to the audience.

Some points to consider:

• Chasing the quick wins: What are the common mistakes and how can they be avoided?
• What do developers, contractors and consultants need to change about the way in which they work to ensure success?
• The importance of clarity in contracts
• Moving from a ‘claims culture’ to a more collaborative project approach

16.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks And End Of Conference

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