PRESIDENT'S DESK IN THIS · New Delhi. Mr Bogdan Oprea, a FIDIC accredited faculty, conducted the training programs. He has trained extensively for FIDIC as an accredited trainer

Consulting Engineers Association of India

1 January 2018

FROM THE

PRESIDENT'S DESK

Dear Members,

With the Government of India’s major investments in Infrastructure, project execution of the required quality within given timelines becomes important. The Contract Document is a major enabler and for high end projects requiring National and International Experts, it is becoming the norm to use FIDIC form of contracts.

FIDIC contracts are considered fair in apportioning of risks, rights and obligations among stakeholders and are recommended by multilateral development banks, bilateral funding agencies and, recently, for selected large domestic projects where participation from international vendors, contractors or consultants is expected. In the past month, CEAI conducted FIDIC training programs by an accredited trainer for DFCCIL and NHSRCL, two respected professional organisations in the country. In addition, CEAI also organized an open training module, for other participants. We had delegates from public sector undertakings, consultants, contractors and individuals who wished to get trained, including, from the Middle East.

CEAI has also intervened on behalf of CEAI members, where deemed appropriate, with relevant Authorities about unfair technical/ commercial terms and conditions, of consequence to the larger Consulting Community.

Now that Fy18 is almost behind us, we have started planning events for Fy19, based on inputs from our Regional Centres. We also invite our esteemed members to give their suggestions on how CEAI can better serve you, and seek ideas for training programs or Seminars in potential growth areas.

Best wishes for a prosperous New Year!

S Philip

January 2018

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FIDIC TRAINING PROGRAMS HELD IN JANUARY 2018 _________________________________________________ TRAINING COURSE ON CONSULTING ENGINEERING PRACTICE IN FEBRUARY 2018 _________________________________________________ FOLLOW CEAI ON SOCIAL MEDIA CEAI INTERVENTIONS _________________________________________________ CEAI OUTREACH _________________________________________________ OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE 2017 FIDIC SUITE OF CONTRACTS IN LONDON _________________________________________________ FIDIC YPMTP 2018 – THE ONLINE SESSIONS _________________________________________________ VIEW POINT – MARCH ISSUE _________________________________________________

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FIDIC TRAINING COURSES

CEAI successfully conducted FIDIC Training Courses for the general public and in-house programs for the senior executives of DFCCIL and NHSRCL from 12th to 20th January 2018 at New Delhi.

Mr Bogdan Oprea, a FIDIC accredited faculty, conducted the training programs. He has trained extensively for FIDIC as an accredited trainer in Europe, Middle East, Asia, South America and Africa, specializing on FIDIC contracts and the management of claims and the resolution of disputes.

a) OPEN HOUSE TRAINING PROGRAM

Training Course on the module “Management of Claims and Disputes Resolution” held on 17th & 18th January 2018 at New Delhi.

A view of the Participants

Ms S Philip, President CEAI inaugurated the Training.

Senior Executive from major organisations like Project Seabird / RITES Limited / PACE Engineering Consultant-Kuwait/ Uniquest Infra/ LEA Associates / Tata Consulting Engineers /

COWI India/ International Seaport /Tata Projects / Vedanta / ICT Pvt Ltd etc. attended the program.

Distribution of Certificates

The course provided the participants, the necessary detailed knowledge and insights to the claim management and dispute resolution provisions under the FIDIC Conditions of Contract document, 1999 Edition.

b) IN-HOUSE TRAINING PROGRAMS

i) Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd

CEAI organised trainings for Senior executives of Dedicated Freight Corridors Corporation of India Ltd (A Government of India Enterprises), on the following modules:

• Training on “Practical Use of FIDIC Conditions of Contract” held on 12-13 January 2018. Mr Somenath Ghosh, Vice President CEAI, inaugurated the program. 43 executives of DFCCIL trained on the topic.


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DFCCIL Participants

Distribution of Certificate to participants

• Training on “Management of Claims and Dispute Resolution” held on 15-16 January 2018. A significant number of DFCCIL Executives participated in the training.

DFCCIL Training in progress

Distribution of Certificate to Participants

ii) National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL)

Training Course on “Practical Use of FIDIC Conditions of Contract” for senior executives of the National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited, a Joint Venture of Government of India and Participating State Governments for Implementing High Speed Rail Projects, held on 19-20 January 2018.

FIDIC training for NHSRCL Executives


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Mr Bogdan Oprea being presented a memento by Mr Achal Khare, Managing Director, NHSRCL

TRAINING COURSE ON ‘CONSULTING ENGINEERING PRACTICE’

With a view to improve the skill development of new entrants to Consulting Engineering Organisations, fresh engineering graduates and final year engineering students, CEAI is planning to organise a training programs for young engineers and engineering students on different modules. The courses will be conducted by experienced high profile practising consulting engineers.

The first training course ie Module I on the topic ‘Consulting Engineering Practice’ is scheduled to be held on 17th February 2018 at CEAI Centre, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. Upto a maximum of 20 participants will be accommodated on a first come first served basis. The training fee will be Rs 2000/- plus GST as applicable per person. Currently the GST applicable is 18%.

For more details, please contact CEAI Secretariat: [email protected] or visit our website www.ceai.org.in

FOLLOW CEAI ON SOCIAL MEDIA

As you are aware, CEAI opened its account on Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook on 15 August 2017. The purpose was to keep in touch and share news of technical advances, topics of interest and CEAI events and to reach out to more and more people, harnessing the current technology. CEAI is also following all the relevant ministries.

But the number of people following CEAI are just a handful, though FIDIC does follow it.

In order to maximise benefit from CEAI membership that that CEAI members get more connected and are involved in CEAI activities.

We, therefore, request members to join twitter and follow CEAI and most importantly, retweet our tweets to your followers.

For individual members, a short guide to join twitter, someone more familiar with SOCIAL MEDIA can assist you, if required :

1. Open the website www.twitter.com

2. Fill in the details, full name, mobile number/email and password of your choice and click on sign up/ continue

3. You will receive a code on your mobile number/email (whichever you have used to login)

4. Choose your display name (you will have to choose a name, not taken already by somebody, suggestions for the same are displayed below)

5. You can select your areas of interest or skip this page and get started.

6. Your twitter page is open. You can complete your profile on the left side.

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.twitter.com/


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7. You can tweet by clicking "tweet" on top right

corner

8. You can find CEAI India by typing in search box and follow it.

Kindly join twitter, make your friends and acquaintances follow you and tweet CEAI's tweets. Please contact CEAI Secretariat, in case of any query/assistance.

CEAI INTERVENTIONS

DMRC TENDER NOTICE

DMRC issued a Notice inviting Tender for Contract for selection of DDC Consultants for the Phase IV of Delhi MRTS projects. CEAI is concerned that the provisions in the document are likely to eliminate participation of Consulting Organisations from India in Metro projects.

Construction of Metro Railway projects, whether underground or elevated, have started in India with full vigour only in recent years, leaving aside the first Metro at Kolkata, that was completed in the early eighties. The technology has changed significantly thereafter. Starting with the systematic expansion of Delhi Metro, that brought in new technology, followed by commencement of Metro work in other centres like Jaipur, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, etc., the Indian Consultancy organisations have had the opportunity of participating in the design of underground, at grade or elevated Metro projects for the track work as also for the Stations. Indian Consultants also got experience in other packages like electro-mechanical, planning and Architecture. The Indian organisations are looking forward to gain increasing proficiency in Metro projects, along with the continued development and expansion

of DMRC, and other Metro organisations in India.

In view of the above, CEAI wrote to DMRC to review the qualifying criteria for submission of the bids, keeping in mind the National need for strengthening Indian Consultancy capability to a level that, they can emerge as International players in this growing sector all over the world, with rapid urbanisation taking place.

ENGAGEMENT OF CONSULTANTS FOR NHAI PROJECTS

CEAI has been collaborating with NHAI & MoRTH for a number of years to streamline the process of engagement of consultants for their projects and take steps to prevent fraudulent use of CVs.

CEAI has again written to NHAI/MORTH requesting them to get a thorough, impartial and time bound inquiry conducted into this matter, so as to convey the message that award of Consultancy Services will only be on the basis of merit and correct technical weightage and not subject to any manipulation, whatsoever.

CEAI also suggested that a system be adopted whereby the bids are submitted in a transparent manner having all the required information, to enable the NHAI team do the evaluation in the correct perspective.

CEAI OUTREACH

CEAI continues to expand its outreach by way of providing support to other professional events and promoting its own, to reach out to new members. One such event is: ➢ India Smart Grid Forum - 4th Edition of India Smart Grid Week (ISGW 2018), International Conference and Exhibition on Smart Grids and Smart Cities, scheduled from


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05-09 March 2018 at Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi.

OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE 2017 FIDIC SUITE OF CONTRACTS IN LONDON

FIDIC Contracts Committee has updated the FIDIC 1999 Contract documents (Red Book, Yellow Book and Silver Book) and the Second Edition 2017 of each of these three FIDIC contracts was launched at FIDIC Internal Contract Users’ Conference held at London on 5-6 December 2017.

FIDIC YPMTP 2018 - THE ONLINE SESSIONS

FIDIC YPMTP 2018 starts on 5th of February 2018 with 7 months of online sessions where different ideas based on real life cases are discussed. Lectures by the YPMTP mentors are presented as well.

On a monthly basis, participants meet in an online 1-2 hours classroom and present their findings and conclusions about the case work. The average time input of the programme is approximately 100 hours.

The discussions take place on a chat like platform. All discussions, lectures and classroom sessions are recorded and saved, and may be accessed at any time during the course.

A Certificate of Successful Completion is related to the online part only and requires the participant having responded to all case questions and attended at least half the sessions. A Certificate of Participation requires that he/she should have contributed to at least half the case discussions and attended at least half the sessions.

The Conference Session

The final 5-day session involves further lectures and discussions with Mentors and among the students. Intercultural exchange based on some

30 nationalities getting together and representing a variety of approaches to the discussed management issues. An important element is that networking becomes the basis for future international cooperation as consultants.

The final assignment is a plenary presentation at the FIDIC conference of the teams’ perception of their challenges as future leaders in the consulting industry: The Future Leaders Workshop.

International Networking

Almost 60 countries have participated in the course since 2004, linking up in the FIDIC Young Professionals Forum.

Optional Exam

The YPMTP offers an optional exam based on a multiple choice test. This takes place at the conference session. Passing the exam will provide a Certificate enabling them to claim educational points in relation to any required professional accreditation.

Registration Online Registration: http://fidic.org/ypmtp2018

VIEW POINT – MARCH ISSUE

The December issue of the View Point has been circulated to all members and relevant organisations including the Government, public and private sector in the first week of January 2018. This issue was on the topic ‘Railways & Metros – Safety, Signalling & Telecommunication’.

The next issue of the View Point will be published by end March 2018. The theme for this issue will be ‘Environment & Climate Change.’


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Considering the experience in the subject of CEAI members, CEAI would be happy to receive articles on the above theme.

The articles for the December 2017 issue of VIEWPOINT need to reach CEAI by 15th February 2018. Articles need to be in Times New Roman 12 with single line spacing and of no more than five pages.

Authors could share their views, practical difficulties experienced and suggest solutions. Photographs may be added in the articles for better appreciation of the issues encountered and addressed.

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VIEW POINT is circulated to all CEAI Members, Ministries of the Government of India, Public & Private Sector Undertakings, Construction Firms, Contractors, Consultants, Foreign missions and Funding Institutions in India and other organisations related to or dealing with the engineering profession.

In order to encourage members and others, CEAI offers attractive advertisement tariffs.

The advertisement tariff per issue is given below:

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GST @18 % is extra

From 01 April 2018, due to escalating costs in publishing, these tariffs will get revised to

Back Cover ₹ 25,000

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Full Page ₹ 10,000

GST as applicable will be extra

In case the advertisement is to be inserted in four or more consecutive issues of View Point, a rebate of 20% will be admissible.

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PRESIDENT'S DESK IN THIS · New Delhi. Mr Bogdan Oprea, a FIDIC accredited faculty, conducted the training programs. He has trained extensively for FIDIC as an accredited trainer