• Membership Statistics as at 17 August 2010
• ICCEPM 2011 - Call For Abstracts
• ACostE Conference 2010 - Call For Registration
• IPA 2010 Project Effectiveness National Breakfast Series
• Decision Making and Quantitative Risk Analysis using @RISK
• NEW Project Earned Value Management 1-Day Course

The Organizing Committee for the fourth International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management (ICCEPM-2011) cordially invites you and many other participants to the ICCEPM-2011 Conference in Sydney, Australia from February 16 to 18, 2011.

• Project Management
• Project Delivery Systems
• Legal Systems for Construction
• Cost, Time, Quality, and Safety Management
• Design and Engineering Management
• Claim and Dispute Resolution
• Information Technology in Construction
• Automation and Robotics in Construction
• Construction Productivity Improvement
• Construction Education and Training
• International and Global Issues in Construction Project Management
• State-of-the-Art in Construction Engineering and Management
• Sustainability and the Environment
• Building Information Model

It is with great pleasure that IPA invites you to our 2010 Project Effectiveness National Breakfast Series to be held around the nation during September and October 2010.

• September 30 - Perth  - Hyatt Regency Perth - 99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth WA 6000
• October 4 - Melbourne - Park Hyatt Melbourne - 1 Parliament Square, Off Parliament Place, Melbourne Victoria 3002
• October 6 - Sydney - Sydney Hilton - 488 George Street, Sydney  NSW 2000 
• October 8 - Brisbane - Brisbane Hilton - 190 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 

This year, we are thrilled to feature the Producer of the Australian feature film Beneath Hill 60, Mr. Bill Leimbach as our special guest speaker.

The Breakfast Series will follow a dynamic format of presentations followed by discussion time, providing attendees a unique opportunity to probe key note speakers with their industry related questions...all before their day at work begins!

IPA presentations will be drawn from the following topics;

·         Upstream Industry Trends

·         Mega Projects in Australia

·         Small Projects in Australia

·         Effective Teams and Organisations

Click here for  registration form.  For more information please go to www.ipaglobal.com/events or contact ipaseminar2010@ipaglobal.com.

Warm Regards,

The IPA Team

IPA - Independent Project Analysis
56 Burgundy Street

Heidelberg, VIC 3084

AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 9458 7300
Email: ipaseminar2010@ipaglobal.com

The Association of Cost Engineers are pleased to announce that they are presenting a two day Annual Conference entitled “Cost – The Bottom Line”, to be held at the Holiday Inn Coventry South, UK on Wednesday 6^th and Thursday 7th October 2010. This prestigious Conference is aimed at specialists in Cost Estimating, Cost/Schedule Control, Project Controllers and Project Managers & Programme Managers.

Day One

Twelve papers will be presented covering the following topics:

-          Estimating de-commissioning costs for nuclear power stations

-          International project estimating

-          Controlling project development costs – lenders perspective

-          Review of a new IT system on a high profile capital project

-          10 key considerations when estimating IT projects

-          Bottom up estimating

-          Integrated project management

-          EVMS Cost Control System

-          Vocational Qualifications

-          A system modelling approach to the evaluation of new tech. cost impacts

-          How to estimate cost impacts of obsolescence

-          Lean cost engineering in construction

Day Two

Day two is a Learning Event at which delegates will have the opportunity to further explore the speciality of their choice in the following series of workshops (CPD points to be awarded):

-          Introduction to risk for cost engineers

-          Introduction to earned value management

-          Regression analysis

-          Introduction to parametric techniques

-          Best practise cost modelling in excel

-          Uncertainty based cost estimating: a systematic approach

For further information please contact Anne Fairless at Anne@acoste.org.uk Please note 6^th Oct evening there is a conference dinner for all the registered delegates.

For Registration form please visit:

www.acoste.org/conference

Decision Making and 
Quantitative Risk Analysis using @RISK
August 25th - 26th, Brisbane

Please join us for a hands-on course designed to introduce attendees to the concepts and methods necessary to develop a risk assessment and to make a defensible decision under uncertainty, using Palisade software.

Attendees will discover how to translate their deterministic Excel analysis into an @RISK model that can be used to quantify exposure and test mitigation strategies. The importance of correlation is discussed, as well as how to include it in spreadsheet models. Business and modelling decisions will be compared using special @RISK functions and charts. Several key modelling concepts will be introduced, as well as creating report templates. Examples will be presented which will demonstrate how to effectively use the software and to interpret the results. 

Please contact me to make register, at atran@palisade.com.

» More about @RISK

Palisade training courses are professional public courses designed to teach you how to apply @RISK, the DecisionTools Suite, and other Palisade software to real-life problems. The training is hands-on, and includes a flash drive with course notes and example files. Join us at a location near you.

» Click here to view the complete list of training and business consulting services, 
   and further details regarding the schedules below.

SYDNEY October 20-21 
Palisade Risk Conference: 
Risk Analysis, Applications, and Training

MELBOURNE November 10-11 
Decision-Making & Quantitative Risk Analysis using @RISK

PERTH December 1-2
Decision-Making & Quantitative Risk Analysis using @RISK

SYDNEY December 8-10 
Decision-Making & Quantitative Risk Analysis using the
DecisionTools Suite

» Click here to see the complete seminar schedule.

Contact me today to discuss your training or consulting needs, at atran@palisade.com.

Sincerely,

Arthur Tran
Regional Sales Manager
Palisade Asia-Pacific
atran@palisade.com
1 800 177 101 | +61 2 9252 5922

The NEW Project Earned Value Management 1-Day Course defines Earned Value Management and incorporates case studies and workshop exercises to ensure practical learning in the context of ‘real’ engineering  projects. It has been developed for Project Managers who are seeking more in-depth information on Earned Value Management or, as it is sometimes referred to, Performance Management of Projects.

The course will address the Australian Standard (AS4817-2006) in earned value and is suitable for Project Managers, Program Managers and Senior Managers considering the improvement of Project Governance and reporting methods and systems.

For more information and to register for the Project Earned Value Management course please CLICK HERE or please click on the location and date for delivery as below.

• Adelaide 15 Nov 2010 CLICK HERE

• Brisbane 18 Nov 2010 CLICK HERE

• Melbourne 16 Nov 2010 CLICK HERE

• Perth 12 Nov 2010 CLICK HERE

• Sydney 29 Oct 2010 CLICK HERE

Please note, this course is also available for delivery in-house/on-site at any location on agreed dates and can be adapted to meet the specific needs of your organisation. For more information about in-house/on-site course delivery please CLICK HERE.

Regards

Gavin

Gavin Altus
Executive Manager Development
Engineering Education Australia

PS

Engineering Education Australia also deliver the Project Management Practice Course which is a special series of 5 x 2-day courses/modules specifically for engineering project managers and which leads to a Diploma of Project Management and is endorsed by the Australian Institute of Project Management and recognised for Continuing Professional Development by Engineers Australia. For a full list of Project Management courses please CLICK HERE.

The following table provides the ACES membership status as at 17 August 2010.