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CIC Cascade28 September 2006
1. CIC Publishes Scottish Novation Agreement CIC has published a Scottish edition of the Novation Agreement: a standard form of agreement for use where the appointment of a consultant is to be novated from an employer to a design and build contractor for use where the applicable law is that of Scotland. The Scottish Novation Agreement (CIC/NovAgr(S)) is priced at £10.00 and is published only in electronic format as a pdf file. Full list of CIC publications. 2. ConstructionSkills Partner Princes Foundation to support First Heritage Academy The Prince’s Charities Foundation and ConstructionSkills have announced that they are providing start-up funding for a Project Director to develop plans for a new ‘Cotswolds Heritage Academy’. The new Project Director will develop proposals for the Heritage Academy in the first instance. The Academy is the initiative of Stephen Davis, Chairman of the Woodchester Mansion Trust. It will aim to train apprentices at all levels to help provide a new generation of craftspeople. It will provide the core skills integral for ensuring growth in the built Heritage sector, offering accredited training in a range of craft skills and related heritage skills at HE level. The Heritage Academy will promote to school pupils at primary and secondary levels the relevance and rewards of careers in the heritage sector. The announcement was made at a Seminar hosted by HRH, The Prince of Wales at Highgrove to promote traditional building craft skills. It comes a year on from the launch of a Skills Needs Analysis of the built heritage sector produced by the National Heritage Training Group and funded collectively by English Heritage and ConstructionSkills. Its aim was to accurately quantify the size of the sector in England, and identify the most acute skills shortages and skills gaps and to establish an action plan to address this. The report has provided evidence that although some 86,000 people currently work in the built heritage sector which generates over £3.5 billion per year – demand is still outstripping supply. In fact at least 6,500 craftspeople will be needed simply to satisfy demand in the cyclical period 2005/06. Many of the specialist skills which are needed to preserve Britain's heritage are in decline, their very existence threatened. The academy will build links to the region and its communities using the skills experience and influence of all the partners with the academy to encourage engagement with heritage, and it will expand the skills set of existing heritage and mainstream construction sector craftspeople. It will also provide management and business skills and conservation training to the sector. Peter Lobban, ConstructionSkills Chief Executive, said “It is my great pleasure to tell you that ConstructionSkills will match fund his Royal Highnesses’ commitment and partner the Prince’s Foundation to support the first Heritage Academy. We will also be looking to involve other partners who share our enthusiasm and are prepared to make similar commitments. This is an exciting breakthrough but it is only the beginning. Let us hope what we are announcing today becomes the first in a network in heritage academies covering all the regions and countries of the UK.” A Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment Spokesperson said: “We are excited to help incubate this worthy endeavor which hopes to demonstrate the relevance of a joined-up approach to crafts training in a heritage rich region of the country.” Stephen Davis, Chairman of the Heritage Academy, said “The academy is an innovative and positive solution which will help project the region nationally as a rich historic environment which sees real economic value in protecting its heritage.” 3. CIC-ConstructionSkills sets a challenge for professionals Do you want to meet other Built Environment professionals in your region in a competitive but informal environment? The Construction Challenge is one way you can do just that while promoting better teamwork and increased interdisciplinary understanding among professionals. Teams at each regional competition will be asked to complete a practical task. This may, for example, involve building a model from a selection of materials provided on the night. The exact task for the evening will be revealed to teams at the start of the event. All tasks will however make full use of a variety of skills and knowledge possessed by different Built Environment professionals. To achieve the most success participants will be required to work together with their team members. Events will be held in Manchester, Bristol and Guildford in November 2006. Each Construction Challenge event aims to:
Any organisation working in the Built Environment can enter a team of between 3 - 5 people. This includes, among others, consultants and universities. The only requirements are that team members must:
There should be no more than five members per team, who ideally should be from different professional disciplines, although this may not be possible in every case. You may for example decide to enter a team comprising of a surveyor, a town planner, an architect, a project manager and an engineer. The events are free – and there will be prizes for the winners! Drinks and a buffet will also be provided. For further information or to register a team for an event, please contact Janette Welton (Tel 020 7399 7404, Email jwelton@cic.org.uk) or Fiona McGregor (Tel 0161 2955051, Email fmcgregor@cic.org.uk) before Friday 27 October 2006. 4. ACE forms aviation and maritime industry group Consultants working in the aviation and maritime sectors are set to have a stronger voice with the creation this week of an ACE Aviation and Maritime Sector Interest Group by the Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE). The new group, chaired by Scott Wilson director of airports and ports, Alan Campbell, will enable ACE to better connect with the aviation and maritime industry and the key players within it. Chairman of the group Campbell has over 20 years experience of management in aviation-related projects and is a specialist in project management and dispute resolution. All other representatives on the group are also experts in this field. ACE says the group will examine the major issues affecting the aviation and maritime sector and strengthen relationships with major clients and key stakeholders. The group will also ensure that consultants and engineers are better engaged with and able to feedback on ACE activities in the sector. ACE economic, policy and regional director Irum Malik said: “Like all ACE sector interest groups, the aviation and maritime group will meet three times a year, helping us to stay abreast of issues of strategic importance to the industry. Representatives on the group are key individuals from some of the most influential consultancy and engineering organisations working in the aviation and maritime sector. Their outputs will be used to inform ACE’s policy making and to influence key clients.” The aviation and maritime sector interest group means that ACE now has groups covering most of the key sectors in which consultancy and engineering firms are working. ACE’s increased knowledge of the industry and those that work within it will be further highlighted in late September with the launch of the organisation’s second comprehensive annual State of Business report. ACE represents over 800 member firms that employ over 45,000 staff and is the leading business association for consultancy and engineering in the UK. 5. Penultimate notes from ICES PresidentAs his term nears its end, ICES President Mr John MD Bacon, comments on the future for surveyors and asks for younger members to step up to the challenges ahead. “The last couple of centuries have seen the mushrooming of civil engineering talent both nationally and internationally and we, who are experienced practitioners in the profession, have grown used to observing the developments of the past and transporting and adapting information learned into future projects. In principle, that process won’t change, but what will change is the way in which that transition occurs. New ways must be found to control the changes that are taking place to the earth and the impact that those changes are having on the environment. Sea levels and temperatures are rising, pollution is increasing, energy requirements are soaring over availability, weather patterns are becoming more violent and erratic; something has to happen if we are not to frazzle and implode upon ourselves. Civil engineering and the infrastructure industries exist to control the environment to suit mankind’s desired impact. The development of the civil engineering surveyor must continue. We are needed by the side of our engineer colleagues as they embark upon this major transition as the new way in which engineering is conducted and developed in the time to come. Surveyors must work with the engineers themselves as an essential part of the tool kit of the construction process. The clarion call I make here is to our younger members; recognise the enormous potential that lies ahead of you, recognise the groundbreaking work which your Institution forebears have carried out and pick up the responsibility for taking the Institution into the next and most immediate phase of its development alongside our colleagues in the civil and heavy engineering industries. If the profession is to flourish and thrive in the times to come, then this Institution has to have leaders who can rise to the challenge.” John MD Bacon. 6. CIC London develops a free advice service to Charities Registered charities in London will be able to get free property and construction consultancy advice with the launch of a new scheme aimed at encouraging and facilitating corporate social responsibility (CSR) among surveyors, architects, engineers and other property related consultants. Property Advice for London will provide a match-making service for London based charities to access specialist property expertise from established providers. The scheme, sponsored by Barclays Bank, is being run by the Construction Industry Council London (CIC) and RICS, who will ensure that the charity clients are matched with companies with the right experience, expertise and resources to provide answers to often complex property issues. Mark van de Berg, Chairman of CIC London and Director of Northcroft Construction Consultants, said “It is interesting to chart the journey of CSR as a business issue. What may once have been perceived as an inconvenient luxury is rapidly becoming an essential business activity and demand for this scheme has been driven by property consultants as much as the potential beneficiaries." “Charities increasingly recognise how the right property strategy is central to business success and Property Advice for London will provide them with professional property advice and guidance that would otherwise be expensive and difficult to access.” To take the opportunity for your company to sign up and become to be one of the service providers of this worthwhile scheme simply download the application form CIC London 7. IstructE publishes Manual for the design of concrete building structures to Eurocode 2 (2006) The document entitled ‘Manual for the design of concrete building structures to Eurocode 2’ (1st edition, September 2006), is the first manual in a planned series covering the new Eurocodes which aims to provide structural designers with practical and straight-forward guidance. Further additions to this series are expected in early 2007. Partly funded by The Concrete Centre and British Cement Association (BCA), this Manual covers the design of the majority of reinforced concrete building structures. It supports the design of structures to BS EN 1992-1-1: 2004 and BS EN 1992-1-2: 2004 for construction in the UK. The limit state design of foundations is included and the initial design of pre-stressed concrete structures is covered. The Nationally Determined Parameters from the UK National Annex have also been incorporated in the design formulae that are presented. Laid out for hand calculation, the procedures are equally suitable for spread sheet and/or computer application. It is similar in layout to the Institution’s earlier manuals on British Standards, and covers the following design stages:
For further information visit http://www.istructe.org.uk/ 8. Water Framework Directive - Final River Basin Planning Guidance to the Environment Agency - now published Defra are pleased to announce the launch of the River Basin Planning Guidance to the Environment Agency, jointly issued by Defra and the Welsh Assembly Government. The purpose of this guidance is to set out principles and key steps for the river basin planning process. It focuses on the nine river basin districts in England and Wales, and one of the two cross-border river basin districts in England and Scotland, each of which is required to have a River Basin Management Plan. Having launched a draft version for consultation at the end of last year, this is the final version, having taken into account the responses gathered from the consultation. An electronic copy of the Guidance can be found here: http://www.defra.gov.uk/ A document has also been produced containing the summary of the consultation responses, and the changes made to reflect them, which is also available on Defra's Water Quality website pages. Requests for additional hard copies can be addressed to: River Basin Planning Guidance, Water Quality Division, Defra, Room 209, 55 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HH or via email at wfdconsultation@defra.gsi.gov.uk 9. Events The events page of the CIC website is frequently updated visit the events page for details. |
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