When I think back to the presidential theme that President Jim Hall shared at the start of his term, one message stands out: the power that engineers have to build a sustainable future.
Janet Young is the ICE Director General and Secretary
We know the challenges that our industry faces are global; the climate crisis, slow and unstable economic growth and geopolitical uncertainty affect us all. So, to build a sustainable future, we must work together.
I’m particularly proud of how our Enabling Better Infrastructure (EBI) programme is helping us do this.
The EBI programme brings together governments to share best practice in strategic infrastructure planning which in turn improves outcomes in society and, when planned with nature in mind, the planet as well.
On 10 October, we will be hosting our first EBI International Conference in London.
The conference is a chance for global policy makers to meet, share best practice and discuss how we can work together to address the shared challenges we face. We will also launch updated EBI guidance at the event.
Ahead of this, our policy and external affairs team will attend the political party conferences in the UK. They will explore our sector’s most pressing challenges and opportunities with key decision-makers and stakeholders at fringe events and roundtable discussions.
Working with policymakers and international governments is just one aspect of building a sustainable future.
Just as important is giving the infrastructure sector the tools needed to design and deliver projects globally.
In March, Thomas Telford Limited (TTL) partnered with Peru’s Ministry of Economy and Finance to release the first Spanish translation of select NEC4 contracts.
The new Spanish language web portal has been created to help teach new users about the benefits of NEC contracts. Further Spanish translations of other contracts within the NEC4 suite are due for release later this year.
TTL has also acquired the Framework Alliance Contract (FAC-1) and Term Alliance Contract (TAC-1), bringing together the leading collaborative contracts and forms under one roof.
This is an exciting milestone for the ICE Group. The real value of these contracts lies in how they enable our members and the infrastructure community at large to take a more collaborative approach to project delivery, and I’m pleased that the ICE can provide tools to do that.
Building a sustainable future requires every link in the infrastructure chain to play its part. I’m proud of the efforts ICE’s global membership is making to strengthen those links.
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