Agenda

1
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING

• Agenda
• 11.30 am Endorsement of Minutes of GAM in 2005
• 11.40 am Matters arising from Minutes of GAM
  TCDPAP-ASPAC (FIDIC) Conference in Pakistan, Mar
  2007
• 11.50 am Election of Executive Committee Members
  and Chairman of ASPAC.
• 12.05 pm Country Report, Direction of ASPAC,
  ASPAC to focus on Training Courses
• 12.15 pm Agreement Signing Ceremony between
  FIDIC and CNAEC on the Certification of
  Consulting Engineers
• Seminar
•  
• 12.30 pm Seminar Topic 1 Design Excellence
  Awards
• Megan Motto, Chief Executive, ACEA.
• 12.40 pm Seminar Topic 2 Evaluation Criteria
  for the Award of Construction Contracts by Mr KK
  Kapila, Vice President, CEAI

2
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ELECTION OF
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND CHAIRMAN

• Administration and Management
• Article 5
• 5.1 ASPAC EC shall consist of not less than 5
  representatives from Member Association of
  ASPAC, including Chairman who shall be elected
  by the General Assembly of ASPAC, with term of 3
  years and plus one member nominated by the FIDIC
  EC, who shall serve as an ex-officio member of
  the EC. All of whom shall act in an honorary
  capacity.
• 5.2 The General Assembly of Member Associations
  shall elect the Chairman from amongst the EC to
  serve a 3 years term. Such election shall take
  place at a sitting immediately proceeding the
  cessation of the previous 3 years term. A
  member of the EC who has completed his term of
  office (except the Chairman) shall be eligible
  for re-election.

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ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ELECTION OF
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND CHAIRMAN

• The General Assembly of ASPAC
• Article 3
• 3.1 The General Assembly of ASPAC shall consist
  of the duly appointed delegates of the Member
  Associations of ASPAC.
• 3.2 A Member of EC may not be appointed as
  delegates.
• 3.3 Each Member Association shall be entitled to
  two delegates
• 3.4 Only the delegates shall have voting power.
  Each delegate has one vote but in the event of a
  Member Association being represented by only one
  delegate, this delegate shall have two votes.

4
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ELECTION OF
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND CHAIRMAN

• Nominations for Executive Committee are as
• follows
• Mr SP Castro, Immediate Past President Cecophile
• Mr Adam Thornton, Immediate Past President, ACENZ
  (extension for another year)
• Mr KK Kapila Vice President from CEAI
• Mr Yap Kok Ming, President ACEM and
• Mr Karamat Ullah Chaudry, President ACEP

5
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ELECTION OF
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND CHAIRMAN

• Candidates standing for election as Chairman
• of ASPAC are as follows
• Akihiko Hirotani
• K K Kapila
• Karamat Ullah Chaudry

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ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING ELECTION OF
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND CHAIRMAN

• Proposals for the consideration of the GAM
• Accept all nominations for the EC since the rules
  allow the election of not less than 5 members.
• Accept the extension of 1 year in the term of Mr
  Adam Thornton as an EC Member.
• Proceed to elect the Chairman of ASPAC by secret
  vote, We will elect a Returning Officer and an
  Assistant Returning Officer to conduct the
  election.

7
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING COUNTRY REPORT

• AJCE
• Seminar on the Beijing FIDIC Conference
• Seminar on CPD, AJCE Annual Seminar
• Australian-Japan Young Professional
• Exchange programme
• Activities by AJCE Committees

8
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING COUNTRY REPORT

• ACEM
• FIDIC Courses on Contracts and BIMS
• Local Training Programmes
• 3 Key Issues
• Limitation of Liability of engineers
• Globalisation
• Mandatory Professional Indemnity Insurance
• Engineers to issue Certificate of Completion and
  Compliance

9
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING COUNTRY REPORT

• BACE
• Training Courses, seminars, workshops Etc
• 3 Key Issues
• Weak effort in capacity building
• Serious shortage of opportunity leading to brain
  drain
• Corruption

10
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING COUNTRY REPORT

• CEAI
• FIDIC Courses, seminars and workshops
• 3 Key Issues
• No Registration of Engineers yet
• Globalisation
• Consulting Fee is still the main criterion for
  the
• ward of services

11
ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING COUNTRY REPORT

• CECOPHIL
• General and Special Training Courses
• FIDIC top conduct training of trainers
• Training of adjudicators
• Setting up of National FIDIC Adjudicators,
  Arbitrators and Expert Witnesses.

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ASPAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING COUNTRY REPORT

• ACES
• FIDIC Course and other seminars
• International Conference on Deep Excavation
• World Roads Conference
• Consultation with Government Authorities and
• other Key Industry Players
• 3 Key Issues
• Low Consultancy Fees
• Shortage of young engineers
• Engineers asked to take on responsibility for
  non-engineering matters