FIDIC Annual Report 2021/2022

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About FIDIC FIDIC, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, is the global representative body for national associations of consulting engineers and represents over one million engineering professionals and 40,000 firms in about 100 countries worldwide.

Founded in 1913, FIDIC is charged with promoting and implementing the consulting engineering industry’s strategic goals on behalf of its member associations and to disseminate information and resources of interest to its members. Today, FIDIC membership covers around 100 countries of the world with a combined population in excess of 6.5 billion people and a combined GDP in excess of $30 trillion. The global industry including construction is estimated to be worth over $22 trillion. This means that FIDIC member associations across the various countries are an industry are worth over $8.5 trillion.

FIDIC’s key role and that of its member associations around the world is to improve people’s quality of life through the promotion of quality, integrity and sustainability in the infrastructure industry and the projects and services it delivers on a global scale.

FIDIC Board Anthony Barry (President) Australia Chantal Dagnaud France Sarwono Hardjomuljadi Indonesia Martina Hess Zambia Catherine Karakatsanis (Vice President) Canada Liu Luobing China James Mwangi Kenya Mark Pehlig Netherlands Luis Villarroya (Vice President) Spain Nelson Ogunshakin (Chief Executive)

Contents President’s message______________________________ 4 Chief executive’s report___________________________ 6 Board overview__________________________________ 9 Risk and audit committee report___________________ 10 Global Leadership Forum update__________________ 12 Committee and advisory council reports____________ 14 FIDIC Ambassadors update_______________________ 22 Sustainability update_____________________________ 23 Strategic Plan update____________________________ 24 Review of the year_______________________________ 26 Publications update_____________________________ 30 Contract Users update___________________________ 32 FIDIC Academy update__________________________ 34 FIDIC Credentialing report________________________ 36 FIDIC Consulting Services update__________________ 38 FIDIC Awards___________________________________ 39 Regional update________________________________ 40 List of member associations and associates_________ 44 Digital update___________________________________ 46 FIDIC staff team list______________________________ 47

President’s message pandemic. We were able to move quickly to publish guides on dealing with pandemic issues, to run webinar programs engaging very large audiences, to hold virtual conferences and general assembly meetings and maintain our connectivity globally.

On behalf of you all, I thank and commend Bill, in particular as our past president, who continued to give of his time, intellect and energy, when the circumstances globally and at home were so challenging. He was calm, confident, consistent and persistent in leading us to a better place. I also thank Diane and Bill’s family for sharing him with us throughout a very difficult time.

Nelson and his team stepped up to every challenge and opportunity with energy, passion, commitment and professionalism, of which we can all be proud. Again, on your behalf I thank them for their excellent work.

Tony Barry, FIDIC president

Since the world was disrupted by Covid-19, with the increasing frequency and severity of weather-related disasters and more recently the escalation in geopolitical tensions, many of our norms and accepted practices are being challenged. For many people in our world, these past years have been traumatic and difficult. For others, the disruption has led to discovery and, for others, change.

Our resilience and that of our political systems, our communities, our economies and our infrastructure have been tested. In some cases, like never before.

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FIDIC, our member associations, our industry, our firms, our clients and the contracting sector have all been challenged.

It is a great credit to technology and to the investment in it by our industry, that many of the businesses in the industry have survived, and in many cases, thrived. They have adopted flexible work practices, enabled remote working, implemented collaborative technologies and continued to serve their clients effectively. Leadership and the people in our industry have shown themselves to be very resilient.

At FIDIC, we have been privileged to have had Bill Howard as our president from 2019-2021 and also Dr Nelson Ogunshakin as our CEO to lead us through the worst of the

I was, on the one hand, humbled in becoming your president in 2021 and on the other, very enthusiastic to build on the work of so many before me. It was a pleasure to have launched the FIDIC Climate Change Charter in October 2021 and I would urge everybody in the FIDIC family to sign up to it at www.climatechangecharter.world.

In 2020-2021, we redefined our statutes and by-laws and revamped the terms of reference and membership of FIDIC’s working committees. These moves are already having a positive effect. We also initiated FIDIC Credentialing and have now launched all five of the credentials on offer, engaging professionals from 78 countries in seeking FIDIC credentials.

This is a vital element of our FIDIC capacity building strategy.

In the past year, we have also launched the FIDIC Academy, building on the substantial training offerings around FIDIC contracts to address the full scope of the FIDIC Body of Knowledge, going forward. As with FIDIC Credentialing, we started by establishing a clear governance structure and have recently begun to appoint both volunteer participants and welcomed our first FIDIC Academy general manager.

Both of these initiatives will contribute in a very real way to the more effective delivery of global infrastructure and have been welcomed by members, firms and our stakeholders.

Successful projects rely on sound planning, design, procurement and construction and FIDIC agreements and contracts are core to that success.

“Our resilience and that of our political systems, our communities, our economies and our infrastructure have been tested. In some cases, like never before.”

We are also developing new forms of contract and updating our existing forms. This year the reprint of the 2017 suite and the guide to be launched at the International Contract Users’ Conference in London in November, the publication of the Green Book (short form) and Emerald Book (tunnelling) have been significant achievements. The contracts committee, its task groups and our many volunteers is key to this success and very much appreciated.

Since becoming president, I have had the opportunity and pleasure of addressing various FIDIC regional conferences, webinars and contract users’ conferences as well as a number of our member associations and ten stakeholder conferences and meetings, including the 17th plenary meetings of the OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue on Global Value Chains. I have experienced first-hand the tremendous appreciation our stakeholders have for FIDIC. We are also now working with the sustainable development and business practice leadership committees to set up substantial task groups to provide the specialist guidance on the many issues impacting our industry.

The new Global Leadership Forum and the advisory board running it are in place, engaging C-suite participants from many infrastructure clients, contracting organisations and consultancy firms across the globe with two major online events in 2022 and the first in person meeting to be held in April 2023. Many of our MAs have nominated invitees from their top firms to join the forum and we are pleased that it now has nearly 100 members.

We have also begun the initial work to establish FIDIC Africa, hosted by Consulting Engineers South Africa and FIDIC Asia Pacific in Beijing. These initiatives will give life to our regional strategy and in time enable FIDIC to support our member associations and to work across the time zones much more effectively.

These initiatives would not be possible without the tremendous support of volunteers, who enable FIDIC to contribute to lead and advocate on behalf of the industry to addressing some of the world’s key challenges and opportunities.

Subscription income continues to decline in real terms, but we are implementing initiatives to grow our revenues and deliver real value to our members and their member firms. Financial management is key to our stability and we very pleased to be able to deliver a good balance between financial results, service to our industry and investment in our industry’s future.

Lastly, I am very grateful to two wonderful people who have given a great deal to FIDIC and contributed very significantly to the FIDIC board. Lui Luobing served as vice president from 2019-2021 and has been a board member since 2017.

He has also been involved in working with FIDIC contracts and our transparency and integrity agenda. Mark Pehlig also retires after four years and has contributed very significantly to our governance, statute changes and nominations process as well as our collaboration with EFCA. On behalf of the board, I thank them for their contribution and leadership.

I would also like to thank our two vice presidents, Catherine Karakatsanis and Luis Villaroya Alonso for their tremendous support and leadership throughout the year and the board members for their great work in supporting FIDIC in achieving so much in 2021-2022.

Looking forward, I believe that FIDIC is well positioned to continue its development and growth, to serve the industry effectively and to support its members to address some of the key global challenges affecting us all.

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FIDIC chief executive’s report

As I write my update for this year’s FIDIC Annual Report, I do so with a sense of real optimism about the future and pride in how FIDIC and our organisation at every level has responded to the challenges of the recent period. Once again, the Covid pandemic cast its shadow over the past 12 months, but FIDIC redoubled its efforts and continued to work in an agile and flexible way to ensure that we delivered on behalf of our members and the wider global industry. So much so, that I believe that we have emerged from recent challenges with FIDIC on a much firmer footing that we were before the pandemic.

The focus of my update this year will cover the ‘new normal’, FIDIC’s stakeholder engagement, diversity and inclusion, communications to stakeholders, support to our MAs, financial viability, the FIDIC Climate Change Change Charter and some closing thoughts.

The ‘new normal’

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Our response to the Covid pandemic, followed by the impact of the war in Ukraine, global energy crisis, rising inflation and potential global recession, has resulted in FIDIC adopting technology-based delivery of services to members and stakeholders. A new business model, coupled with hybrid working, seems to be the new normal and a way forward for the future. Our online conferences and events programme has kept our stakeholders engaged and informed and we were bold enough to take an early decision to look to hold our annual FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference as an in-person event in Geneva, which has certainly paid off. The uncertainty of the past two years has taught us all to expect and plan for the unexpected and I am

Dr Nelson Ogunshakin OBE, FIDIC chief executive.

delighted and proud at how the FIDIC management team and staff under the direction of the board have responded to the challenges we’ve all faced and this stands us in good stead for the future.

Stakeholder engagement

As this annual report illustrates, FIDIC has made further significant steps forward over the past year and is increasingly making a positive impact on our industry. Our committees and advisory councils continue to do important work (page 14-18), reaching out to key stakeholders and developing plans and strategies to address the key issues facing the engineering, construction and infrastructure sector. The last 12 months also saw us hold our Official FIDIC Contract Users’ Conferences as in-house-organised event (page 28-29), thus beginning the process of bringing our contract users closer to FIDIC and putting them at the centre of these important events for our industry.

This report’s review of the year (page 22-25) shows the frankly enormous scale of the work and activity that FIDIC is undertaking on behalf of our industry and I never cease to be amazed by the enthusiasm of our staff and volunteers who continue to go the extra mile in delivering on behalf of our member associations and the industry we represent.

I am confident that activity will continue over the next 12

months as FIDIC steps up to the challenges we face in an ever-changing world.

Diversity and inclusion

Speaking of change, a key priority for FIDIC over the past year (and coming years too) has been the diversity and inclusion agenda. We have put steps in place to ensure that our board and committees better represent our industry and society and I am pleased to report that we have taken some key steps forward in this area. Backed up by our revitalised and modernised governance structure, which is now working through the organisation, FIDIC is much better placed to deal with the challenge of change. We still have a road to travel on diversity - and not just in the area of gender – but I am confident that with the measures we have put in place we will see further strides forward over the coming 12 months.

Improved communications

As ever, communications remain super-important for FIDIC as we continue to do more and make a greater impact and that is why we have continued with the monthly CEO’s Update issued to all our members and stakeholders during the year. If people do not get to hear about what we are doing, then it may as well have never happened, so we have taken further steps over the past year to improve our communications and marketing output and impact. In addition to the improvement in our website and YouTube output, our online news and information platform Infrastructure Global has really developed apace and our social media is thriving and vibrant (page 38). I look forward to more progress being made over the coming year.

Communication and engagement with FIDIC’s regional groups has also improved over the last year with our regionalisation agenda helping to empower our geographical regions around the world as well as their member associations. FIDIC has a global footprint and it is important that we act in a global way, but not just through the Geneva HQ. The FIDIC regional groups - in Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe and Pan-America - will play an increasingly important and influential role for us going forward.

Support to FIDIC member associations

As always, FIDIC remains focused on delivering on behalf of its member associations. In everything that we do we are constantly thinking about how we can leverage our advocacy for the benefit of our MAs, large, medium and small. We know that our smaller members need specific assistance and that is why we collectivise the experience and knowledge of our wider group of MAs and our committees to ensure that outputs are tailored for use by all members. The large resources developed over the last two years, which now form part of the FIDIC Body of Knowledge in terms of webinars delivered, State of the World reports, briefing notes and bulletins produced, are all available on our website or YouTube for download by our MAs for use at national level The pandemic and now the post-Covid period has seen many changes in the leaderships of a number of our MAs. FIDIC stands by ready to assist these new leaders by ensuring that we reach out and collectivise the knowledge and resources that we have at our disposal to ensure that everyone can learn from the experience we have within the FIDIC organisation.

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Financial viability

As you will see from the treasurer’s report (page 10-11) FIDIC’s finances are in a healthy position. That’s down to the hard work of everyone concerned but we do not rest on our laurels. We are continuing to invest in our training, now branded as the FIDIC Academy, and also our conference platform as well as developing new contracts and standards and improving our publications sales platform to ensure that we can reduce our dependence on subscription income and thereby provide better value to our members and stakeholders. The current FIDIC Strategic Plan will help us to keep on track up to and beyond its term in 2024 as we seek to build and run an organisation that is connected, effective, efficient and proactive in engaging with all our key stakeholders.

meet net zero commitments. We are proud to be a global organisation that brings people, businesses and cultures together. It’s what we do. Leadership is also critical and our newly Global Leadership Forum (page 12-13) will enable FIDIC to remain connected with those important large firms internationally so that we can feed this knowledge and influence back into our MAs as we leverage that collective experience on behalf of the global industry.

“A new business model, coupled with hybrid working, seems to be the new normal and a way forward for the future..”

FIDIC Climate Change Charter

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More than ever, we live in a global and connected world. With the COP27 conference on the horizon, bringing with it yet more global conversations on climate change, it is clear that the key subject of sustainability is the issue of the hour. FIDIC is addressing that with our Climate Change Charter (CCC) and by embedding sustainability in everything that we do as an organisation.

The CCC initiative, launched during the COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, provides opportunities for FIDIC, its member associations, consulting firms, project delivery teams and individuals to sign up to the initiative so that our industry can play its role in achieving the UN sustainable development goals by 2050, take forward the circular economy and

In conclusion

I said at the start of this report that I believe that FIDIC is better positioned than ever before to take advantage of the opportunities and challenges facing our global industry. Through our work, connections and people we can make a real difference to those we represent.

FIDIC aspires to be the go-to organisation for our engineering, construction and infrastructure sector and this will continue to be our aim as we rise to new challenges to provide the leadership and vibrant network that our industry needs in the months and years ahead.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the FIDIC board, committee and council members, member associations, staff, partners and our wider industry stakeholders for their collective efforts and support during the last 12 months, without which it would have been very difficult to deliver our achievements for the period under review.

Board overview

The board met on four occasions during the 2021-2022 period for regular board meetings in September and December 2021 and in March and June 2021. Due to the Covid-19 situation, all meetings up to March 2022 were held online and the first physical board meeting for two years was held in June 2022 in Singapore. The next board meeting will be held during the FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference in Geneva in September 2022. Additionally, two extraordinary board meetings took place online in March and in July 2022.

Once again, the FIDIC board has played a vital role in leading and guiding the organisation during the Covid crisis and the efforts of all board members is very much appreciated. As well as directing the organisation’s response as the world has begun to emerge from the global pandemic, the board has also remained focused on oversight of operational, strategic and governance matters and also represented FIDIC, enhancing its profile, influence and standing within the industry.

Over the past 12 months, during its meetings and in-between times, the board has continued to guide the work of the FIDIC committees, played an important role in the delivery of FIDIC’s webinar series, oversaw the bedding in of the new statutes and by-laws and continued to drive forward the new FIDIC Strategic Plan for 2020-2024. The year under review has also seen the consolidation of some active board committees dealing with governance, risk and audit and nominations, steps which are helping to improve the effectiveness of the FIDIC organisation.

As reported elsewhere, the board has also taken some key steps forward in its diversity. For the first time ever, FIDIC has three female board members and board members are also playing an important role in ensuring that FIDIC makes extra efforts to be more inclusive in future board elections.

Despite the ongoing challenges brought about by the global pandemic, the board has continued to lead the organisation effectively and efficiently as shown by the activities outlined in this annual report. Once again this year, board members have led from the front and kept FIDIC on track and well positioned to take advantage of new opportunities going forward.

Elsewhere, this year, the board bids farewell to FIDIC board member and vice president Liu Luobing from China and also to board member Mark Pehlig from the Netherlands, who have both completed their terms of office. Liu Luobing served the FIDIC board for five years and was a tremendous asset during the pandemic period. FIDIC is especially grateful to Mark Pehlig for his expertise and guidance as part of the Global Infrastructure Conference advisory group.

Both will continue to volunteer for FIDIC in their roles as FIDIC Ambassadors.

The board will also welcome two new members when they are announced at the general assembly meeting in September 2022.

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Luis Villarroya, FIDIC treasurer and chair of the risk and audit committee.

The year 2021 has represented a certain return to normality after the anomaly experienced during 2020 due to the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, all the key activity carried out by FIDIC during the year still took place virtually without carrying out face-to-face activities.

This concentration of online activities has had a positive impact on significant cost savings due to the absence of travel costs and face-to-face meetings, which has allowed FIDIC’s consolidated figures to end the year with a surplus and contributions to reserve of CHF 388,034, compared with the CHF 140,438 of losses of the budget approved at the 2020 general assembly meeting.

All the entities that were consolidated have ended positively, with CHF 153,595 corresponding to FIDIC, CHF 65,076 to FIDIC Credentialing Ltd and CHF 169,364 to FIDIC Consulting Services (Beijing) Ltd. The audit firm BDO, through its Geneva office, completed the FIDIC audit report on 4 April 2022, issuing a clean opinion without any qualifications.

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Income 39%37% Income 2020 2021

35% 38%

26%24% Events Events Secretariat Secretariat

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Expenditure Expenditure 2020 2021

68%83% Publications Publications Other Other

Committeeexpenses expenses Committee Subscriptions Subscriptions

FIDIC’s income has been practically closed in budget with CHF 3,759k against CHF 3,797k budgeted. However, not all income concepts have behaved the same. Subscriptions have been lower than those budgeted, fundamentally due to the number of member associations that continue to suffer from the crisis caused by the pandemic.

However, revenue from sales and training performed better than expected, offsetting the dip in subscription income.

Regarding expenditures, a total saving with respect to the budget of CHF 317,329 has been achieved, mainly due to the absence of travel expenses for the board and the committees.

After the end of the 2021 financial year, FIDIC has ended with a very considerable solid balance sheet. The cash position slightly exceeds CHF 2,000,000, a figure that represents two-thirds of the federation’s annual operating expenses, thus giving a high degree of stability to FIDIC’s viability and continuity in the face of any future negative events.

Likewise, the total capital of FIDIC, including reserves, reaches CHF 1,858k, which means a solvency ratio of 57.6%, a clear example of the financial solidity of the organisation.

Risk and audit committee report In relation to FIDIC Credentialing Limited (FCL), the Geneva office of our auditors BDO issued an unqualified report on 4 April 2022.

The improvement in the expected result in FCL has been fundamentally due to a significant effort in cost containment. In fact, the income has been closed with a figure of CHF 437k, being budgeted at CHF 516k, due to less activity in the accreditation of trainers. The expenditure finished CHF 174k below budget due to a lower cost in the activities carried out and a lower cost in the FIDIC staff team due to the delay in the incorporation of part of the planned staff.

In compliance with the best governance practices, I met in person in Geneva with the partner responsible for BDO to begin the FIDIC and FCL audit process. In both cases, the auditor conveyed to me the maximum collaboration and transparency on the part of the FIDIC team during the execution of the audit and his positive opinion regarding the accounting and internal control procedures at FIDIC.

32% 45%

GAM Budget 2022 Income

FCS activity has been affected by the restrictions imposed in China to contain the pandemic. In fact, income was budgeted at CHF 815k and reached CHF 679k.

However, the adaptation of the expenditure to the real level of activity has made it possible to end the year with a saving of CHF 290k in real costs compared to budgeted costs, so it has ended with a very positive result.

22%

4% 25%

5%

GAM Budget 2022 Expenditure 59%

The audit of FIDIC Consulting Services (Beijing) Ltd was completed on 21 January 2022 by the registered firm Beijing Puhong de CPA Co Ltd and they reported a clean and unqualified report like the previous two.

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In summary, it has been a very positive year from a financial point of view for FIDIC and one that allows us to strengthen the balance sheet by increasing our capital and reserves and also the net cash position, while dedicating all the necessary resources to achieve the objectives set for 2021 in our Strategic Plan 2020-2024.

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Forecast 2022 Income

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Forecast 2022 Expenditure 2%

21% Events Secretariat

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Committee expenses Subscriptions

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Global Leadership Forum update

FIDIC announced the formation of the Global Leadership Forum in September 2021 to bring senior influencers and decision makers together from the construction and infrastructure sectors to help address the critical issues faced by society and the industry and to develop workable solutions to solve them.

Advisory board convenes

As Tony Barry, FIDIC president, explained: “The forum provides a powerful global network for leaders to discuss these key issues. Through their discussions, deliberations and actions, we will be able to build a solid coalition of support and buy-in for what needs to be done to address the key global challenges we face and, crucially, how we collaborate to solve them. Participants in FIDIC’s Global Leadership Forum are selected based on their prominent knowledge and expertise across the sector and around the globe.”

Advisory board members were selected on the basis of their key positions, knowledge and expertise of the engineering, investment, construction and wider infrastructure sectors.

The advisory board has a remit to establish working think tanks with a mandate to bring other global industry leaders together to deliberate on key global issues and produce tangible insights to enhance the sector’s public engagement and activity.

Think Tank 1

Think Tank 2

Think Tank 3

Think Tank 4

Industry recognition

Sustainability and the sustainable development goals

Market intelligence

Delivering tomorrow’s infrastructure

Objective To develop programmes to promote global leaders across the infrastructure sector and to recognise their achievements and key role in meeting goals like the SDGs, net zero and the infrastructure deficit.

To provide global leadership around delivering sustainable infrastructure and encouraging global cooperation to meet the SDGs and net zero.

The GLF’s market intelligence and insight theme provides data and expert insight into market conditions and company performance to inform work to determine the future of the infrastructure sector.

If you are standing still, you are falling behind> This project brings together the leadership of the GLF’s members to discuss and consider what tomorrow may hold for the sector and what actions may be needed.

Output

Case studies showcasing how the infrastructure sector can influence Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions in projects.

An analysis of ESG metrics to assist the global infrastructure sector in the identification and adoption of common reporting standard.

A regular sentiment survey to keep track on the status of the global infrastructure sector.

An in-depth global benchmarking research project into the state of the global infrastructure sector.

The publication of a major thought leadership piece outlining future scenarios for the global infrastructure sector.

Topic

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The Global Leadership Forum is led by a global advisory board of 18 industry leaders who share expertise and help set the direction of the forum, examining areas for research ranging from climate metrics to the UN sustainable development goals.

Publication of a ranking list of top industry leaders (Top 100/Top 50). This will aim to establish a recognised listing of the top players in the global infrastructure sector across various criteria.

The advisory board met in early January 2022 to agree the topics for four think tanks and to mobilise their activities. The following graphic outlines their objectives and outputs.

Members attended events throughout the year During the year, the Global Leadership Forum ran a programme of events for members, which included the launch event at the FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference in September 2021, followed by virtual meetings in January and November. At these events, members heard from speakers from around the world, including those from multilateral development banks, advisory firms, climate change experts and infrastructure investors.

Looking ahead to 2023, work is well advanced to host the first in-person Global Leadership Forum Summit event in Geneva, Switzerland, to determine how the most

senior influencers in the global infrastructure market can collaborate to exert greater influence and to enable enduring change. This event will be complemented by two virtual meetings in June and November and see the outputs from the think tanks established during the year.

As FIDIC CEO Dr Nelson Ogunshakin points out: “When we announced the formation of the Global Leadership Forum, we did so with the aim of bringing key influencers and decision-makers together from the construction and infrastructure sectors to help address the critical issues we face as a society and an industry and to develop workable solutions to solve them.

“In our first year of operation, we have achieved our objective and grown to just over 100 members, creating a powerful coalition for collaboration and change.”

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Lifeblood of FIDIC that’s so crucial to building success FIDIC’s committees are the lifeblood of the organisation and are so important to achieving success. Over the past year, FIDIC’s committees have made further steps forward, enhancing links with key stakeholders, raising FIDIC’s profile and widening its influence in the global infrastructure industry. Brief reports from each of the FIDIC committee chairs appear below.

Contracts Committee Update from the chair, Vincent Leloup, managing partner of contracts consultancy Exequatur in France.

The past year has been a busy one for the contracts committee (CC), with several significant milestones achieved.

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First of all, the long-awaited update of the FIDIC Green Book (Short form of Contract) was published in December 2021 in conjunction with the International Contract Users’ Conference.

Within the FIDIC suite of contracts, the Green Book is positioned as an alternative to the Red and the Yellow Book for projects where the perceived level of risk is low, and/or where parties wish to use a simplified contract machinery which does not require mobilising extensive contract administration resources. The new Green Book is perfectly fit for the purpose of the ‘small works’ contracts financed by multilateral development banks (capital value less than $10m). It can also be used in larger value projects, for example a $30m water pipeline construction contract. First market feedback is extremely positive, and the combined simplicity, completeness and robustness of the Green Book, together with its many user-friendly features and innovations, have been praised by many users across the globe.

The CC has also been actively working throughout the year on the completion of a reprint of its flagship 2017 suite of contracts (Red, Yellow and Silver books), which includes many user-friendly improvements in the text. The CC also completed the Guide to the 2017 Suite, which was a colossal task (600+ pages) of drafting detailed and in-depth guidance to the users of the 2017 suite. Both the reprint and the guide will be published in December 2022.

On the organisation side, the CC increased its workforce from seven to ten active task groups and is now well on the way to reach its target of 15 task groups to fulfil its plan and objectives over the 2020-2024 period.

The following task groups have kicked off their work this year:• EPCM contracts.

• Subcontracts to the 2017 suite, to the 2019 Emerald Book and to the 2021 Green Book.

• Handbook for practitioners (for 1999 and 2017 suites), which aim at providing users with sample forms (for notices, letters, certificates, etc) for use on their projects and flowcharts to assist their understanding of the contract machinery.

Finally, the CC continued supporting the market in Covid-19 times by publishing a guidance memorandum for consultants working under FIDIC contracts and agreements, echoing what the CC did in 2020 for works contracts.

Business Practice Committee Update from the chair, Andrew Read, director of Pedersen Read in New Zealand.

The business practice committee (BPC) has continued its work despite the challenges brought by the pandemic, holding six teleconference meetings since the 2021 September conference. Whilst technology enables us to meet and work remotely from all points of the globe, we are looking forward to meeting face-to-face for the first time in three years at FIDIC’s September conference.

FIDIC has long advocated that the best practice for selecting consultants should be qualifications-based selection (QBS), where the decision is assigned to a qualified group that would base its decisions solely on the concept of qualifications, guided by their expertise and their ethics. However, recognising that some clients may be apprehensive about the consequences of moving too suddenly from cost-based selection (CBS) to QBS, a key activity in the past year has been the development of a guidance document provisionally titled Recommended Procedures to Improve the Application of Qualifications/ Quality & Cost Based Selection for Consultants. Led by BPC vice chair Fatma Colasan, one of the issues that the QCBS task group has been debating is the difference between ‘quality’ and ‘qualifications’ in consultant selection processes and how a better understanding of these terms can improve project outcomes.

Recognising that consultant selection is one of the most important decisions that a project owner can make and building on the development of the QCBS guidelines

above, a BPC 2022 webinar focused on the evolving practices in consultant selection being experienced globally.

A knowledgeable panel discussed key developments in consultant selection from client, consultant, World Bank and government perspectives.

Going forward, the Board has decided to restructure the committee with new title Business Practice Leadership Committee (BPLC) in Q4 2022.

New terms of reference (TOR) for the committee, formalised in March this year, sees the introduction of standing task groups on key industry themes. At the time of writing, the TOR for these groups are being developed with possible topics including, consultant and contractor selection, procurement, risk allocation, human resources, business management, project management, safety and security culture, etc. These task groups may create an opportunity for those with experience in the topics to provide thought leadership.

I would like to thank all those who give so greatly of their time, whether it be on the committee or on the various task groups that we have. The many guidance documents that we have produced over the years are testament to their dedication. I am particularly grateful to committee vice chairs Fatma Colasan and Chris Newcomb for their support. We will continue to work on your collective behalf in the year ahead.

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International Financial Institutions Committee Update from the chair, Manish Kothari, president and CEO at Sheladia Associates in the USA.

Over the past 12 months, the committee has continued to build on its ‘partnership with purpose’ approach to liaising with and influencing the international financial institutions (IFIs) which have an important influence on the global infrastructure sector.

We have had multiple meetings with IFIs, including an important session between the committee and members the IFI advisory group which had senior representation from the European Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank, the French Development Agency and the Japan International Cooperation Agency. All of the organisations were appreciative of the value of building FIDIC’s relations with the IFIs and can see many common areas where we can work together.

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The IFIs can see an important role for FIDIC going forward in brokering conversations between key international stakeholders, including funders, on contractual and risk issues. The committee plans to organise a global webinar on some of these issues before the end of the year.

The IFI committee is meeting on a monthly basis and every three months we have met with the advisory group and discussed a range of issues like the

effectiveness and the effect of sanctions in the industry, ESG issues, sustainability and what it means in contracts, funding and procurement. Key global issues like the energy crisis are also being discussed and we are also working closely with other FIDIC committees by assigning members to each committee to ensure that we have a joined-up approach across the organisation.

Going forward, we are planning two further webinars before the end of the year. The first, in October 2022, is an event in partnership with the European federation EFCA which will highlight the availability of project preparation funds based on quality infrastructure principles.

The second webinar in December 2022, will address the challenges and opportunities faced by engineering services during and after conflicts or disasters.

The committee remains focused on its key ‘partnership with purpose’ approach which will continue to guide all its dealings with the crucial IFI audience. We are at the right place at the right time. Through dialogue, discussion and collaboration we will gain a better understanding of the global issues that we need to address to help guide our activities going forward.

As the great Leonardo Da Vinci said: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Future Leaders Advisory Council Update from the chair, Adam Białachowski, CEO, B-Act/Vintage Consulting.

and the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO), including participating as a preliminary judge for the World Engineering Day Hackathon.

It’s been another very busy year for the FIDIC Future Leaders Advisory Council (FLAC), which streamlined its membership during the year to increase diversity and all members are now linked to other senior FIDIC committees to ensure that the voice of future leaders is heard at all levels of the organisation and able to offer support where appropriate. The chair of the FLAC participates in FIDIC board meetings and also chairs each FLAC monthly meeting.

FIDIC Future Leaders have actively participated in a number of activities during the year. These include contributing to the FIDIC State of the World reports and webinars on digital disruption, net zero and building sustainable communities.

Members of the council also took part in World Engineering Day, helping to coordinate the relationship between FIDIC

The FLAC also provided input into a WFEO webinar on “Engineering the future: Ethics in Engineering”, talking about the importance of professional codes of conduct in engineering and the role FIDIC has been actively advocating for by developing integrity management tools. We also took part in another WFEO webinar on “Build Back Wiser – Engineering the Future: An Inspiring and Collective Young Engineering Vision”, where we offered our thoughts on how young engineers can build a successful career path and best practice ways of engaging with young professionals’ groups.

FLAC members also organised and led a very successful FIDIC webinar entitled “Around the world in 90 minutes: changes and future trends in the delivery of consulting engineering services” in which

council members provided an international perspective of what the next generation of consulting engineering professionals consider that are the most important changes and future trends impacting the industry.

FLAC member Rodrigo Juarez took part in the 50th anniversary celebration conference of FEPAC, the Pan-American Federation of Consultants and council members also participated as judges for FIDIC’s Future Leaders award, reviewing each of the applications and taking part in judging panel meetings. Council member Jeshika Ramchund has also actively participated in the FIDIC Future Leaders Management Certificate 2022 programme as a trainer.

September 2022 will see the end of my term as chair of the FLC and Rodrigo Juarez, a consultant at FOA Consulting in Mexico will take over. There will also be a call for new members of the council before the end of the year and I am sure that the next 12 months promise to be just as busy as the last.

Risk, Liability and Quality Committee Update from the chair, Nora Fung, senior counsel, Arup Group.

The risk, liability and quality committee (RLQC) continued to undertake important work on behalf of the industry in developing and disseminating guidance on key risk management issues to the industry. The committee organised a very successful webinar on “Essential requirements for managing contractual risk” in April 2022 where leading risk contractual and insurance experts gave a comprehensive overview of how to improve the management of contractual risk.

The committee met three times during the year and much of its work has been spent developing and drafting three key briefing notes on limitations of liability, fitness for purpose and indemnities. These eagerly

awaited briefing notes are expected to be published very soon and will help consultants to identify and better manage their contractual risks. The briefing notes are set to be even more important in the post-Covid environment and in the light of the hardening insurance market facing the industry.

Looking forward, the committee will continue to look at ways of supporting FIDIC’s member associations support their members to identify and navigate the key risk issues facing the sector. Some of the smaller consultancy firms in the industry in particular have a need to be better informed about key issues and, working with the contracts committee and other relevant FIDIC groups, the

risk, liability and quality committee will look to ensure that FIDIC contracts are a benchmark of what is good practice and fair and reasonable in the marketplace.

In order to refine its focus going forward, the committee is due to change its name to the risk and liability committee from September 2022.

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Integrity Management Committee Update from the chair, Richard Stump, vice president of RS&H in the USA.

the successfully executed $257m transportation and power sector infrastructure programme in Liberia, which was bilaterally executed by the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Coming out of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the consulting engineering and construction sectors have an opportunity to reshape the playing field on the challenges of corruption and the opportunities successful integrity management can bring to the built environment.

The opportunity to re-engage customers, teaming partners, consultants and supply chain providers is a welcome one – at the same time, vigilance is needed to avoid slipping back into old habits.

The FIDIC integrity management committee (IMC) initiated a four-part series of integrity webinars entitled “Integrity in the Americas”. This series highlights integrity issues and anti-corruption initiatives at the IMC level and provides a vehicle for each North American member association (USA, Canada, Mexico).

In addition to the IMC-hosted webinar in April 2022, which focused on the integrity of infrastructure delivery during times of conflict, ACEC-USA hosted its webinar with a focus on

Members of the IMC have also regularly participated in integrity and anti-corruption webinars for several member associations, including Brazil, Canada, and India.

Additional activities have included engagement with the FIDIC contracts committee in addressing clauses in the White Book that are intended to discourage corruption and encourage integrity. The IMC has also engaged the FIDIC Academy on the review and development of integrity training modules.

Sustainable Development Committee Update from the chair, Tracey Ryan, managing director of Aurecon – New Zealand

We are currently in the UN’s decade of action, with climate change and loss of biodiversity seen as the most pressing challenges of the next ten years. With that in mind, the sustainable development committee has continued its focus on the role that the infrastructure and engineering sector plays in providing solutions to these complex issues.

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It has been an extremely busy year, most notably with the development and launch of FIDIC’s Climate Change Charter at COP26 in Glasgow in November. This is a significant piece of work that the committee is rightly immensely proud of.

The charter is a call to action to the one million-strong international engineering body to respond to the urgency of the climate crisis. It sets out clear commitments and actions for reducing

and eventually eliminating carbon and other climate emissions from the sector and has been drawn up with the support of experts from around the world. Creating it has been a truly collaborative effort from the committee and its networks. I hope that readers of this annual report have had the opportunity to review and sign up to the charter and are committed to taking what actions you can to bring it to life.

Whether on a project, in a leadership role, or at industry level, every positive action makes a difference.

We continue to collaborate with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to promote an ecologically sustainable, resilient, and inclusive infrastructure development agenda. Together, we are working to create a ‘playbook’ showcasing best practice in sustainable infrastructure development that ensures ecological

health and biodiversity gain. We hope to launch the playbook together in time for COP27, so do keep an eye out for that.

As I look back on the last two years, I am extremely proud of what the committee has been able to achieve while working remotely and facing the differing challenges of the pandemic in our respective regions and time zones. But nothing beats real connection, so I am really looking forward to the opportunity to meet the committee and the wider FIDIC community in person in Geneva in September.

Directors and Secretaries Advisory Council Update from the chair, Chris Campbell, CEO of Consulting Engineers South Africa.

FIDIC’s directors’ and secretaries’ advisory council (DNSAC) has effectively been in existence for five years since its formal inception in 2017. Volunteers serving on the council have come and gone, some due to time constraints and others owing to their changing roles in their respective associations.

Despite this and with the previous two years of only virtual meetings, we have been able to retain a core of committed members to this council. In the past year we managed to get closer to a relative balance in respect of gender diversity by adding the executive director from our Kenya member association to our team.

The council remains focused on encouraging new volunteers to join, regardless of their specific levels of experience in managing a member association. Managing an MA is encouraged, however volunteers from an MA with a passion for the industry are equally encouraged to join the council.

This is necessary to ensure that we have a healthy level of succession whilst being able to continue to fulfil the advisory mandate required of this council.

Over the past year, the DNSAC chair has been invited to attend FIDIC board meetings to provide an MA perspective as well as give input on discussions related to various FIDIC initiatives being considered and their impact on MAs, which are in fact its main constituency. In addition, we have been able to provide substantial input to the FIDIC conference planning efforts, as well as providing input from our experiences as MA’s to the

planning and improvements on the FIDIC awards process.

Over the past year, the DNSAC has also continued to host specific focused town hall sessions to implement its undertaking at the previous DNS meeting as far back as September 2020. This year’s most significant one being on lessons on best practice communication for MAs, which proved to be topical enough to host additional town hall sessions providing more granular insights on this aspect to assist MAs in being able to demonstrate the benefits of membership to their own members, the perennial vexing existential question all MAs need to deal with.

Unfortunately, the aspiration to start production of an MA Best Practice Guidebook, has not progressed sufficiently enough and we also had to accept that with 2022 presenting the opportunity for a return to normality with the pandemic risks being manageable, many would be focusing on the business of getting their own associations back to levels of functionality, limiting the time available to contribute to this project.

Additional volunteers will be solicited at the next DNS meeting as there are no doubt enthusiastic and knowledgeable persons who may not be currently serving on the DNSAC, who could contribute to this project.

Finally, it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge all the members of the DNSAC as well as the FIDIC staff team, for providing the support to ensure that the council is continuously able to fulfil its role.

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Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council Update from the chair, Dr Michele Kruger, Functional General Manager Water and Environment, SMEC South Africa.

FIDIC’s diversity and inclusion advisory council held a well-attended webinar in March 2022 on International Women’s Day on “Using Design Thinking to drive diversity and inclusion in the engineering industry”. The successful event saw a range of excellent panel speakers focusing on using an integrated design approach and processes to create flexible diversity and inclusion solutions that are both fit for purpose and relevant to local conditions.

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During 2022, the shortened version of the FIDIC Diversity and Inclusion Policy was launched. The shortened version has focus points and recommendations on: • Education and diversity of staff and skills.

• Engagement of diverse groups on the FIDIC board and other committees.

• Employment (salary, training, skills).

• Social return on investment.

• Social behaviour.

In line with the updated policy, the council has developed diversity and inclusion training material and will provide training in partnership with the new FIDIC Academy. Training on the policy will serve as a base line with customised modules added depending on the audience. For example, different regions of the world see diversity in different ways that are closely associated to culture than say gender. Training can also be customised for specific companies that have specific diversity goals that they want to achieve.

key objectives, in addition to helping in agreeing on response strategies and actions to overcome any challenges and issues.

The second important document that the council is updating in line with the shortened policy, looks at recommended key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding diversity and inclusion in the FIDIC community, including definitions, scope of work, calculation methods, frequency, responsible/reporting parties etc. Agreeing on and monitoring a certain set of KPIs will help in demonstrating how effective FIDIC and its partners and stakeholders are progressing in achieving

The council is also reviving its diversity and inclusion survey in order to compare the results pre- and post-Covid, which should make for very interesting reading. We are also working with FIDIC staff to look at how the extensive international research repository of knowledge on all elements of diversity and inclusion, most notably examples of policy successes and failures, can be published in line with FIDIC requirements to provide maximum impact.

The diversity and inclusion council has also continued to interview diversity leaders in the consulting industry to get their views and recommendations, as well as their experiences. Videos of these interviews are posted on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/ groups/8692814/

Membership Committee Update from the chair, Enni Soetanto, Executive Director/senior advisor of Mott MacDonald Indonesia.

FIDIC’s membership committee has set up the task group focusing on reviewing the terms of reference for the committee, especially related to its primary function and strategic priorities. The committee continues to provide strong support to the FIDIC secretariat to update registered member associations, associate members and affiliate members with the aim of retaining, attracting and improving communications with MAs.

The committee has also been identifying trends around membership within similar global associations in order to look at how FIDIC can improve its offer when attracting new membership by focusing on the benefits of joining FIDIC such as provide training, support governments in those countries related to the use of FIDIC guidance, enhancing communications with the international financial institutions, supporting the translation of FIDIC contracts and also advising on all aspects of FIDIC membership across the consulting engineering industry.

The committee is also looking to play a greater role in FIDIC’s liaison with member associations by nominated members liaising with MAs, under secretariate supervision, or members being involved in discussions with FIDIC regional groups and also with the directors and secretaries advisory council to provide a global exchange of ideas, find new ways to open up FIDIC to a wider user group and seek regular engagement with MAs on their specific needs.

Digital Transformation Committee Update from the vice chairs, Stacy Sinclair, partner and head of technology and innovation at Fenwick Elliott (UK) and Yoshihiro Katsuhama, chief specialist at Nippon Koei Co (Japan). suite to aid productivity and user friendliness.

• Explore new technologies, products and services FIDIC could offer its members and the wider sector.

Launched in April 2022, under the chairmanship of Mark Enzer from Mott MacDonald, the new digital transformation committee (DTC) has made great strides in just a matter of months. Comprising 12 members from across the digital and technological landscape, the DTC met three times since its formation to set the direction and development of its initiatives and to discuss and agree the focus and priorities of the committee.

The strategic priorities, as outlined in the terms of reference, include: • Advocate and guide on the use of new and existing technologies across the consulting engineering industry.

• Complete and publish guidance on digital platforms that would be of use to FIDIC members.

• Advise and assist FIDIC in the exploration of digitising and developing the FIDIC contract

The DTC has also established a list of activities aligned with the above strategic priorities and has identified those of high priority to progress at the outset. For example, the DTC is looking forward to developing its vision for digital transformation of the industry.

Looking ahead, the DTC will be forming specific task groups to promote and progress its identified activities and priorities. The DTC is also planning its first webinar for November 2022.

The committee is grateful for Mark Enzer’s time, energy and enthusiasm in leading the DTC and laying the foundation for what is set to be an exciting and productive first year.

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FIDIC Ambassadors The first phase of the new FIDIC Ambassadors programme was launched in May 2022 with the appointment of a number of key individuals from around the world who have been confirmed as FIDIC Ambassadors.

The programme has been created to expand FIDIC’s footprint across the globe and to achieve the organisation’s objectives more efficiently. The programme will provide FIDIC member associations with a list of dedicated professionals working within the engineering, construction and infrastructure industry who will advocate for FIDIC principles and objectives in their own countries and facilitate the development of additional high added-value services to members.

In consultation with the FIDIC president and CEO, the Ambassadors will specifically seek to influence decision-makers in governments, the construction industry, multilateral development banks and contracting authorities with the aim of highlighting, promoting and adopting FIDIC best business practices.

This first stage of the FIDIC Ambassador programme is an important initiative which will help FIDIC to raise its profile further across the global industry. The key FIDIC volunteers appointed as Ambassadors have many years of experience and knowledge of the industry and are very well positioned for their important role.

Other FIDIC Ambassadors may be appointed in the future as FIDIC expands its activities and influence. The list of new FIDIC Ambassadors appointed for the period 2022-2024 are listed below.

Kiran Kapila, India - Kiran is a civil engineer and a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of India as well as a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Kaj Möller, Sweden - Kaj is the head of export for the Sweco Group and has been working in the international engineering consulting industry for the last 20 years Moncef Ziani, Morocco - Moncef is an international independent consultant in project development and international procurement with 40 years’ experience in the engineering sector.

Reyes Juárez, Mexico - Reyes is currently president and CEO of FOA Consulting, a former president of FIDIC’s Mexican member association, CNEC, (2007-2010) and was a member of the executive committee of FIDIC (2016-2020).

Bernd Kordes, Germany - Bernd is principal of Kordes Consulting, a boutique merger and acquisition advisory firm for the German consulting engineering market. He is a former board member and treasurer of FIDIC (2015-2019) and director of the European consultancy federation EFCA (2007-2010).

Aisha Nadar, Sweden - Aisha is a senior consultant specialised in infrastructure procurement and dispute management at Advokatfirman Runeland AB, Stockholm, Sweden. Aisha is a former member of FIDIC’s executive committee and former chair of FIDIC’s procurement policy sub-committee.

Exaud Mushi, Tanzania - Exaud is a civil engineer with over 35 years of experience in infrastructure projects in Africa. He is a past president of FIDIC’s Tanzania member association ACET (2004-2006), president of FIDIC Africa (2007-2009), FIDIC board member (2012-2016) and FIDIC vice president (2015-2016).

Fatma Colasan, Turkey - Fatma is the owner and managing director of mechanical engineering design and consultancy firm GEN-TES Engineering in Ankara, Turkey.

She is a member of the Association of Female Engineers and Architects, Turkey (2018-present) and a current member of the FIDIC business practice committee and the FIDIC diversity and inclusivity committee.

Bayo Adeola, Nigeria - A consulting engineer for 46 years, Bayo is the founder and chairman of Comprehensive Project Management Services, a Lagos-based consulting engineering firm. Bayo is also a past president of ACEN, a former member of the FIDIC executive committee (2003-07) and a past chair of the FIDIC capacity building committee.

Andrew Read, New Zealand - Andrew Read is a director of Pedersen Read, a consulting electrical engineering firm based in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is also chair of FIDIC’s business practice committee and a past president of Engineering New Zealand.

Zoltan Zahonyi, Hungary - Zoltan is a civil engineer who also has a postgraduate degree in law. Widely experienced internationally, he has played an important role in promoting the use and practice of the FIDIC Conditions of Contract in Hungary and was a former chair of the FIDIC contracts committee.

FIDIC starts to live up to its climate charter commitments

The climate challenge is one that no section of society can ignore if we are to achieve a sustainable quality of life. Never before has it been so important that the entire infrastructure sector is engaged in the debate about how we address this issue and tackle it’s significance and scale going forward.

FIDIC has been motivated to outline its leadership response on the behalf of the consulting engineering community because of the urgency of the climate crisis and the scale of the changes required. The FIDIC Climate Change Charter sets out in basic, initial terms, how to address climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience of the built environment in the years and decades to come.

The charter outlines a series of actions to be taken by the following stakeholders: -

• FIDIC itself.

• FIDIC member associations.

• Project teams and schemes.

• Companies.

• Individual professional engineers.

As one of FIDIC’s core principles, sustainability is of course an important element of FIDIC’s 2020-2024 Strategic Plan.

It is vital as an industry that we embed sustainability in our day-to-day delivery, lives and operations and, if done at sufficient scale, it should be possible to normalise.

One of the key items for FIDIC was for it to begin its own journey on monitoring and reporting its own emissions.

After all, you cannot change and adapt if you don’t know where you started from. Specifically, FIDIC has committed to “Annual reporting on implementation of its climate action plan including details of its Scope 1, 2 and selected Scope 3 emissions reductions from 2023 in line with its science-based approach and aspiring towards the ISO 14064-1 standard.”

We are happy to announce that having appointed an independent partner to work with FIDIC, we will publish in 2022 ahead of schedule our first scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. We did not, however, limit our ambition as we will not only be publishing our emissions for 2021 but also 2020 and 2019 to help understand the impact of the Covid pandemic and to help FIDIC to move forward and formulate its own carbon reduction plans.

This is the first time that FIDIC has been on such a journey and we are proud to have taken on this task. We will continue to improve the quality of our data and recording and monitoring of emissions going forward.

The achievement above will also mark another important milestone because, as FIDIC has been on this journey, it can now start to consider how it can help national member associations and even companies to take a similar journey.

Watch this space.

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Update on the FIDIC Strategic Plan 2020-2024

In 2020, FIDIC launched its new and improved Strategic Plan following consultation with stakeholders. Whilst this is not the end of the journey for this Strategic Plan, it is however, important to take stock, consider the past few years, ask if the plan is still fit for purpose and consider the trajectory towards the next iteration.

Structure of the plan

The latest Strategic Plan for the first time placed a greater emphasis on FIDIC’s priorities, with goals and outcomes and their effects on industry, member associations and wider industry all being considered.

To do this FIDIC, following consultation, has developed ten headline areas as follows:

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1. Service delivery 2. Secretariat and regionalisation 3. Integrity 4. Contracts 5. Credentialing 6. FCCE and China 7. Sustainability 8. Technology 9. Quality 10. CEO Club and advocacy Within each of these headline areas, FIDIC has defined five key goals, which are then considered against the following benchmarks:

• The main actors they affect (FIDIC, the industry and member associations) • FIDIC’s main priorities (if goals do not meet our overarching priorities such activity should be reassessed) • Current performance (provides a view on FIDIC’s current activity) • Timeline and targets (outlines timelines and ambitions over the Strategic Plan) As well as the main plan being published, FIDIC also produced several appendices which outline FIDIC’s performance against its last strategic plan, financial projections over the plan period and a detailed explanation of how the goals are affected across the various stakeholders, members and FIDIC itself.

Reflections and moving forward

Having recapped the structure of the plan, it is now important to consider the past two years and the developments that have taken place. At its meeting in Singapore earlier this year, the FIDIC board dedicated a day to discuss the strategic plan and FIDIC’s strategic direction. The meeting considered several vital areas, including industry drivers, strategic intent, three-to-five-year aspirations, challenges, opportunities, the next two years and a review of the current plan.

Are we on track?

It was felt that the strategic plan was on track and that many of the items reported in the plan were developing along the envisaged timescales. There was, however, some discussion about how some activity has had to adapt due to the Covid pandemic, for example the experience of two years of online conferences and webinars. As you will see from this year’s annual report, FIDIC continues to achieve its ambitions within the plan, notwithstanding the challenges of Covid.

What have we achieved / improved?

As part of its two-year journey, FIDIC has made significant improvements in the delivery of its output. The webinar series for Covid was a substantive success and the committee webinars continue to be delivered in 2022. As we transition back towards in-person or hybrid conferences, new systems have been put in place to allow for the internal delivery of all FIDIC events in a far more efficient manner, providing a better user experience for members.

Policy and advocacy has seen the establishment of the Global Leadership Forum, communications and marketing continues to reach a wider audience and the link with Infrastructure Global is providing FIDIC and its members with a significantly wider platform.

The FIDIC contract suite continues to evolve as new contracts and the FIDIC guide are in development in several task groups and translations continue. FIDIC now has its core offering in four of the five key languages.

Training is also a significant area of improvement where new systems have been put in place allowing FIDIC to help capacity building across the sector using both a mix of online and in-person technologies.

Is the plan still relevant?

Overall the plan was considered to still be relevant and an important document in ensuring FIDIC not only undertakes the activity it said it would, but that it also does not stray into new initiatives which could impact on its core performance or purpose. The plan has been robust and flexible enough to withstand a global pandemic and continue to deliver on the vision that was developed in 2020.

Looking ahead

In 2023/2024, FIDIC will need to begin the process of mind-mapping, developing and setting out the roadmap for the development of the next strategic plan. As with the development of the current plan, it will be important to be as consultative and transparent as possible in its conception and direction.

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A further busy year of growth for FIDIC Notwithstanding the 2021-22 year under review being affected by the global pandemic, FIDIC has continued to operate effectively on all fronts and represented the industry and its stakeholders over the past 12 months. The organisation has been busier than ever and continues to grow its influence across the global industry.

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September 2021 got off to a strong start with the launch of the FIDIC Global Leadership Forum, a new influential grouping bringing together industry leaders from across the globe to discuss the key issues facing society and the wider infrastructure sector. The forum will play a key role in helping FIDIC and the industry address key global challenges and the launch was supported by more than 50 CEOs from around the world.

The month also saw the announcement by FIDIC of a major new training collaboration agreement with the Maldives National Association of Construction Industry, which will see the two organisations working more closely together and collaborating on training-related and other matters of mutual interest over the next two years. A special FIDIC climate webinar in October discussed FIDIC’s position on the key issue of climate change and highlighted the soon-to-be-launched FIDIC Climate Change Charter.

Also in September, former chairman of Cardno Group and past president (2003-05) of FIDIC, Dick Kell was awarded the prestigious Louis Prangey Award, the highest recognition for outstanding service to FIDIC and the global industry. The month closed with the launch of the latest FIDIC State of the World report, Building sustainable communities in a post-Covid world, which looked at what sustainable communities will look like in a post-Covid environment.

Towards the end of the month, the World Wildlife Fund and FIDIC signed a landmark three-year memorandum of understanding to support the two organisations’ ambitions to promote approaches to sustainable infrastructure planning, design, development and delivery. October closed with the launch of the fifth FIDIC State of the World report, Net zero – what next?, at a webinar which discussed the kind of ambitions the engineering sector and society should be looking to achieve going forward.

October saw construction professionals from around the globe attending a well-attended webinar organised by FIDIC’s contracts committee to discuss the latest addition to FIDIC’s contract suite, the FIDIC Short Form of Contract (Green Book) 2nd Edition. More than 400 people turned up, keen to hear about the new contract, its features and also the changes from the first edition.

The month began with the launch of the FIDIC Climate Change Charter, a transformative plan of action for the global engineering industry to decarbonise as it sets about turning COP26 climate change ambitions into outcomes on the ground. November also saw King’s Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution deliver the first FIDIC Summer School on FIDIC contracts and their practical use. The intensive course was FIDIC’s first training contract collaboration with a European

university. Also in November, the latest event in FIDIC’s webinar series, organised by the FIDIC international financial institutions committee, discussed how FIDIC, its member associations, stakeholders and the various international financial institutions and the private sector can work better together.

The month also saw FIDIC announce the signing of a major agreement with the Asian Development Bank that will see the international funding organisation adopt the use of six FIDIC standard contracts for the next five years and November closed with the unveiling of the shortlist for the 2021 FIDIC Contract Users’ Awards.

December opened with the Official FIDIC International Contract Users’ Conference 2021 which took place online and was delivered in-house by FIDIC over three days.

The event, targeting the global contract users’ community internationally, gave delegates a unique opportunity to share progress on the application and use of FIDIC contracts internationally and across different regions.

Continuing the contract theme, the much-anticipated 2021 update of the FIDIC Green Book was also launched in December and the month also saw the winners of the FIDIC Contracts Awards 2021 unveiled at a virtual awards ceremony, with winners announced in three categories – Project of the Year, Legal or Professional Services of the Year Award and Trainer of the Year Award.

Closing a busy month, FIDIC Credentialing announced the strengthening of its management board with three new appointments - Luis Villarroya Alonso from Spain, Dan Yang from China and Grace Bema from Zimbabwe – and the year was brought to a close with the publication of the latest issue of the FIDIC Contract Users’ Newsletter.

The year opened with an upbeat New Year message from FIDIC’s CEO in which he expressed the earnest hope that the FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference 2022 would be taking place as an in-person event in Geneva in September and that the planning of the event was going full steam ahead.

January also saw the announcement of the setting up of 16-strong advisory board of international industry and business leaders for the FIDIC Global Leadership Forum to help drive forward the forum’s work.

February saw the unveiling of the first tranche of high-profile speakers lined up to appear at FIDIC’s annual Global Infrastructure Conference in Geneva and the announcement of the conference theme, Building a better tomorrow, by investing today: Sustainable infrastructure development to improve community wellbeing, which will focus on how the industry and society engineers a sustainable future in a way that benefits communities worldwide.

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March opened with the latest event in FIDIC’s annual series of webinars, Using design thinking to increase diversity and inclusion, which was organised to coincide with International Women’s Day and looked at using an integrated design approach and processes to create flexible diversity and inclusion solutions that are both fit for purpose and relevant to local conditions.

The month also saw FIDIC issue a statement on the war in Ukraine, condemning the action as totally contrary to FIDIC’s objectives and values its members stand for and uphold and expressing solidarity with Ukraine’s people and all those who are suffering and calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities.

The month began with the launch of a new FIDIC Digital Transformation Committee to monitor and identify changes in digital technology and techniques to help futureproof FIDIC’s products and services delivery, such as for FIDIC contracts. The new committee will also Identify issues or trends in the digital space that could be potential disruptors to FIDIC and or its members and the wider industry.

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April also saw FIDIC further responding to the situation in Ukraine by urging its stakeholders, where they are able, to support two important appeals - from RedR International and the International Committee of the Red Cross - which are attempting to alleviate the growing humanitarian crisis in the country.

FIDIC’s sixth State of the World report, Digital disruption and the evolution of the infrastructure sector, was also launched in April while another webinar, organised by FIDIC’s integrity management committee, saw more than 400 global construction and infrastructure sector professionals gathering to discuss the topical issue of Integrity in Infrastructure Delivery during Times of Corruption and Conflict.

The month closed with another well-attended webinar, organised by FIDIC’s risk, liability and quality committee, examining the always-topical issue of Essential requirements for managing contractual risk.

May was a particularly busy month for FIDIC’s contracts community. The month began with a webinar from the FIDIC contracts committee on Greening FIDIC’s rainbow contract suite – let’s do it! which looked at integrating net zero clauses and embedding sustainable performance criteria in the FIDIC rainbow contract suites. The month also saw three Official FIDIC Contract Users’ Conferences being held online across three regions – Africa and the Middle East, the Americas and Asia-Pacific – where hundreds of industry professionals shared progress on the application and use of FIDIC contracts around the world.

May also saw FIDIC host an important online briefing session on the risks of the use of forced labour in global supply chains supporting the rise of renewable energy and energy storage. The exclusive event for key stakeholders was attended by the World Bank and discussed the ongoing industry efforts to mitigate those risks to protect workers globally supporting the energy transition.

Also in May, FIDIC hosted an outstanding online event organised by its Future Leaders Advisory Council - Around the world in 90 minutes - changes and future trends in the delivery of consulting engineering services – which offered a unique and revealing glimpse into the future of the consulting engineering industry through the insights of the young professionals that will shape it over the coming years.

The month ended with a webinar organised by the FIDIC business practice leadership committee which offered important and topical insights into some of the ever-evolving practices for the selection of engineering consultants. The event heard from speakers who stressed that correctly selecting an engineering consultant will have a major bearing on the value delivered, quality, whole-life project cost and the timeliness of delivery of projects.

Shortlists for three of FIDIC’s key awards programmes were unveiled in July, with the nominees announced for the FIDIC Projects Awards, MA Excellence Awards and the Future Leaders Awards. July also saw the successful stepping up of the marketing effort for the FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference to be held in Geneva, with all the signs that the event is likely to be sold out or pretty close to it.

Towards the end of the month, FIDIC announced the appointment of Michael Broadley as the first general manager of the FIDIC Academy, the new brand under which FIDIC organises all its training activities to enable better promotion of its courses and training to the wider engineering, construction and infrastructure sector.

The month closed with the launch of the first phase of the new FIDIC Ambassadors programme which saw the appointment of 11 key industry figures from around the world who have been confirmed as the first FIDIC Ambassadors who will help to expand FIDIC’s footprint across the globe and help to achieve the organisation’s objectives more efficiently.

August saw a flurry of activity as the FIDIC team focused on the arrangements for the Geneva Global Infrastructure Conference to ensure that the return to an in-person event is a successful one. Members of the team also had time for a special visit to Geneva Airport, which is where the majority of delegates to the conference will be arriving in September.

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All in all, another busy year for FIDIC that has seen the organisation grow its influence and reach across the global engineering, construction and infrastructure sector.

Update on publications This year, the publications team is delighted to report a number of new initiatives, including a new contract launched (FIDIC Green Book 2021) and a number of strategic licences signed and key translations completed in order to ensure that FIDIC remains the global voice of consulting engineers.

Licences

The Asian Development Bank signed a non-exclusive licence to refer to six major FIDIC contracts for projects they finance in Oct 2021. The multilateral development bank was the eighth MDB to secure such a licence agreement with FIDIC (in addition to UN agency the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the European Investment Bank who signed an MoU in May 2021. Bilateral agencies such as the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the French Development Agency also signed up for extensions to their ongoing licenses to strengthen and continue their partnerships with FIDIC. Longstanding partner, the International Labour Organisation also requested a new licence to continue using FIDIC for their ongoing projects in Lebanon in June 2022.

Pipeline progress

The FIDIC contracts committee and overall contract user community have been as busy this year as ever. The anticipated launch of the FIDIC Green Book 2021 was completed in December 2021, coinciding with the FIDIC International Contract Users’ conference 2021 taking place online. Work continues to finalise the reprint of the FIDIC Rainbow Suite 2017 and the FIDIC Guide to the Rainbow Suite 2017. The launch for these documents is anticipated to take place in London in November 2022 during the FIDIC International Contract Users’ conference.

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The newly established task groups TG9 Sub-contracts, TG18 PPP, TG22 EPCM, TG19 FIDIC Handbook for practitioners and TG15B Golden Principles for Agreements have started their work in 2022 and are keen to present the first drafts for review by the FIDIC contracts committee.

New task groups such as TG4 FIDIC Suite of Agreements 2017 Guide, TG21 Procurement Guide and TG 20 JV for Contractors, have been approved by the FIDIC board and are in process of consolidating their group members. The Guide to the Emerald Book as well as the test edition of the Bronze Book (ODBO type of contract) are also under production to complement the current collection of FIDIC publications.

Translations

Given the wide geographical spread of the market it services, FIDIC recognises the need to accommodate different language requirements, so it tries as much as possible to make its contracts available in different languages. The successful collaboration with the World Bank was extended and translations were completed in March 2022, for the FIDIC Red Book 2017, Yellow Book 2017 and the FIDIC Gold Book 2008 into Portuguese, as well as FIDIC Silver Book 2017 into Spanish. Currently, the translation of the FIDIC Silver Book 2017 into Portuguese is at the final discussion stage with the World Bank.

We are also pleased to report that our partner CERN agreed to translate the latest FIDIC contracts – FIDIC Green Book 2021 and FIDIC White Book 2017 into French due to their engagement and use of FIDIC contracts in their ongoing projects. Both translations are now available to all FIDIC users. As a result, all of the latest FIDIC contracts are now available in the designated key languages, except for Arabic language, which is currently handled by the Jordanian FIDIC member association and will be made available during 2023.

Last but not least, our member associations have also been busy with translations, including the latest Rainbow Suite 2017 editions. FIDIC’s Thai MA completed the FIDIC Rainbow Suite 2017 and FIDIC White Book 2017 and the Ukrainian MA completed the FIDIC Silver Book 2017. FIDIC’s Lithuanian MA also completed their translation of the FIDIC Red Book 2017. A number of licence agreements with different MAs have also been secured which will materialise as translations available throughout 2023.

Overall, FIDIC is trying to improve the delivery of its electronic products to enhance the user experience and meet the demand of the industry. The FIDIC bespoke licence acquisition process has been automated via an online form to aid and expediate the process for the FIDIC users. Also, the FIDIC digital rights management review group has completed the trial of the new FIDIC electronic format, called FIDIC educational version, which will address the need of users willing to view the document for reference and educational purposes at a competitive price for single or multiple users.

Top 10 hardcopy titles - December 2020 to April 2022

Top 10 electronic titles - December 2020 to April 2022

Overview – purchase trends July 2019 to May 2022

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FIDIC contracts community goes from strength to strength Despite Covid challenges, the past 12 months has seen the profile of FIDIC contracts grow, with more opportunities for users to connect than ever before. As the profile of our contracts increases, with more and more clients and funding bodies seeing these industry standard documents as their contract of choice in challenging times, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that FIDIC engages more effectively and closely with its contract users at every level.

FIDIC has looked to respond to the increasing interest in its contracts by ensuring that it took steps to build up its contracts community by providing more opportunities for users to connect and to network. During the pandemic, FIDIC was quick to respond by issuing key guidance to users outlining the provisions in FIDIC’s various general conditions of contract which might be relevant regarding likely scenarios that were arising as a consequence of the challenges raised by the Covid crisis. This guidance was well received and appreciated by users across the global industry.

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Over the past year, FIDIC has also sought to further strengthen its contract community by organising more training and holding a series of regional contract users’ conferences to give users the opportunity to hear about the latest developments from experts in the contracts and legal arena. It was around a year ago that FIDIC took the decision to take the running of its contract users’ conferences in house and the past year has seen Official FIDIC Contract Users’ Conferences being held online across three regions – Africa and the Middle East, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

In addition, an international contract users’ event and the

third FIDIC Contract Users’ Awards was also organised at the end of last year and we are looking forward to hosting an in-person international conference and awards event in London in November 2022.

These important Official FIDIC Contract Users’ Conference events offered attendees a unique opportunity to share progress on the application and use of FIDIC contracts around the world and were attended by a range of stakeholders including MDBs, private sector organisations and clients, government, engineers, contractors, investors, consultants and other stakeholders who have an interest in FIDIC contracts. We are currently examining the feedback received from these conferences to make further improvements and enhancements for future events over the coming year.

We are also grateful for the support of our contract users’ conference sponsors for their input over the past 12 months. Thank you to our headline sponsors international law firm CMS and also our other valued partners - risk mitigation consultants HKA, construction and energy law firm Fenwick Elliott and Changaroth International Consultancy.

Alongside these events, FIDIC has also been building up its Official Contract Users’ LinkedIn group to provide a platform where members can be amongst the first to hear of the latest FIDIC contract users’ news, events, training and offers and to provide a forum where they can compare experiences with other contract users on the most common challenges facing the industry. The group and the contract users’ conferences are also providing a conduit into FIDIC to

help brainstorm ideas, creativity and innovation for the future development of FIDIC contracts.

The past year has also seen the publication of two further editions of the FIDIC Contract Users’ Newsletter, which is circulated widely to industry stakeholders in the contracts arena. The next issue of the newsletter is due to be published to coincide with our Official FIDIC International Contract Users’ Conference in London.

The increasing number of opportunities to connect our contracts community are set to continue into 2022. As Daduna Kokhreidze, FIDIC’s general counsel, says: “We are proud that FIDIC contracts are highly regarded and widely used by the global industry but with that support comes the responsibility to continue to support that community of users further. Next year will see more contract users’ events, more engagement and a stepping up of our activities to ensure that we maintain the position of FIDIC contracts as the documents of choice for the global construction sector.”

All the services that FIDIC provides help to develop the infrastructure to serve people, communities, businesses and governments. These services also address the issues of quality, sustainability and resilience and drive excellence in leadership, project and risk management while condemning bribery and corruption and promoting safety, diversity, equal opportunity and inclusiveness. FIDIC contracts are crucial in underpinning and delivering this agenda and that is why our FIDIC contracts ecosystem is so important, valuable and worth nurturing. It’s also why we will ensure that we continue to strengthen it going forward.

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FIDIC Academy update FIDIC Academy is FIDIC’s new learning and development body which has been established to deliver training in subjects relating to the consulting engineering and infrastructure industry and act as FIDIC’s centre for learning and development and associated activities. The FIDIC Academy’s mission is to be the world’s leading centre for contract and best business practice learning and development knowledge and activities within the consulting engineering industry, delivered on a global basis with FIDIC Academy as its hub.

The deployment of the FIDIC Academy learning management system (LMS) platform during 2021 has seen the number of courses rise and an increase in the number of participants and private or institutional clients. The FIDIC training offer has grown and our catalogue has expanded with new course content. Thanks to the more efficient and professional management of the training events provided by the new platform, the FIDIC training team has been able to offer 75 courses from January 2022 or planned until the end of the year. More than 2,300 participants have attended FIDIC training courses up to August 2022.

In 2022, the attendance for online courses has slightly decreased compared with the previous year, perhaps due to Zoom fatigue, but going forward we expect that the main output from the FIDIC Academy will be an offering based on the ‘massive open online course’ (MOOC) format together with live and recorded instructor-led training (ILT).

Notwithstanding any move back towards in-person courses, we still expect that more than two thirds of training and education will still be online and we will offer short courses in business practices for people around the globe to access.

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Our 2022 training statistics show that FIDIC organised 18 public online courses on the FIDIC Academy platform and nine public in-class courses were organised in collaboration with some of FIDIC’s member associations, from Cyprus, Jordan, Bosnia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, France and Tanzania. In countries where FIDIC has no members, like Fiji, Maldives and Malawi, public courses were provided by FIDIC to the local market.

During 2022, FIDIC also received a growing demand for private courses, with 44 in-house courses provided

to private firms and public institutions, governments or international financial institutions. These include the World Bank (Uzbekistan, South America), USAID (Jordan), IADB (Suriname), ADB (Mongolia), Governments of Marshall Islands, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Nepal, Turkey, Zambia, Jordan, private firms like Ikea, Huawei, MAPNA Group Iran, Othman Egypt, Majed Steel Group Saudi Arabia and EDF Renewables South Africa.

New courses have been proposed online for the first time on the FIDIC Academy platform, including Module 1 Advanced, the Green Book module (upcoming) and the Golden Principles module (upcoming). Training in other languages than English has also been offered on the platform, including a Spanish course on Module 1, several modules in Bulgarian and the first training in Chinese for a private firm.

Future Leaders Management Certificate programme The Future Leaders Management Certificate (FLMC) programme started in April with 46 participants on the FIDIC Academy platform. The new platform allows for automatic test scoring and certificate issuing to successful candidates.

44 students successfully passed the test and received their certificates.

In September, a two-day FLMC meeting was organised in Geneva before the annual conference and a presentation during the Future Leaders symposium at the conference was made by FLMC participants. The seventh FLMC webinar was also organised at the end of August on the FIDIC Academy platform.

FIDIC Academy governance structure FIDIC Academy’s governance, capital and administration is overseen by the FIDIC board. Regulation and oversight of FIDIC Academy’s course content, learning and development activities and operations is undertaken by the FIDIC Academy senate, which reports to the FIDIC board.

All trainers who deliver courses directly for FIDIC Academy need to be registered with FIDIC Academy. They are ordinarily required to obtain a FIDIC Certified Trainers Certification within one year of commencement of training

for FIDIC Academy and are subject to a code of conduct.

Alternatively, trainers can be engaged via a collaboration agreement between FIDIC and the company or organisation for which they work.

Capacity building across FIDIC’s member associations (MAs), undertaken in a commercially viable manner, is also fundamental to achieving FIDIC’s objectives. Hence MAs, universities and other training bodies will also have opportunities to work with FIDIC Academy to independently deliver courses through a franchise agreement or through partnership opportunities.

As of August 2022, approximately 25 FIDIC Academy governance roles have been identified and appointments are being made. The process is expected to be completed in October 2022. Additionally, a full-time Geneva-based FIDIC Academy general manager was appointed in July 2022 with responsibility for the supervision, control and management of the academy’s day-to-day administrative, business, financial and other operational affairs.

New modules and future developments

External training material development is also being considered with renowned course providers and experts in identified subject areas. Current collaboration discussions are progressing with reputable organisations in the field of project finance, risk management and cyber security topics.

These activities have great potential for development and expansion, as FIDIC can engage in as many quality-based collaborations with partners as viable in order to create a valuable synergy and tap into the much wider market of a broad array of business practice topics, in addition to the well-known FIDIC contract courses.

Focus has also been concentrated on business practice topics, such as project finance and risk management.

These topics are being considered to be delivered through collaborations with reputable organisations and their developments will also serve as pilot projects for perfecting the most suitable models of collaboration for joint delivery of topics of interest.

With the remarkably high demand and ever-increasing volume of inquiries from clients for course delivery and the expansion of FIDIC’s portfolio of course offerings, a catalogue of courses has been created, encompassing all currently available courses, which will be updated as new courses are developed and launched. It will also serve as a good source of marketing material for the FIDIC Academy for promotion and sales purposes.

FIDIC certification of past trainers King’s College summer school

For the second time, in June-July 2022, FIDIC provided in conjunction with King’s College London Centre of Construction Law, an intensive one-week summer school covering the FIDIC standard form of contracts in practice.

This year, for the first time, this course was also run in class.

The places were quickly fully booked since the training was limited to 28 participants.

At the beginning of January 2022, the past trainers who were previously invited to go through the fast-track certification process were certified by FCL. This certification recognises the past collaboration with FIDIC trainers and establishes an updated list of FIDIC Certified Trainers that is currently published on the FCL website. See https://fcl.fidic.org/ wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FCT-listing-June-2022-1.pdf FIDIC currently collaborates with 38 international Certified Trainers on its key contracts, 32 on the Silver Book and has ten Chinese Certified Trainers.

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FIDIC Credentialing

FIDIC Credentialing Ltd (FCL) officially launched its commercial operations in 2021 and during the last year has made significant progress. Its product development phase has now been completed, with its five launch programmes thoroughly designed before being officially launched.

The next year’s focus will be on business development, streamlining internal procedures and the preparation for accreditation according to the international standard ISO 17024.

FCL is run by its management and certification boards, whose members met for the first time in person in July 2022, following numerous online working meetings. Members had the opportunity to exchange ideas and strategise in person on the critical issues to help improve the already impressive work being done by the volunteers of the various FCL committees and sub-committees.

The increased interest in FCL programmes is also a result of the great work and commitment of the members of our boards and committees, who ensure through their involvement and subject matter expertise that the programmes are applicable worldwide. To support the committees, the FCL management team has already started the process of further enhancing the membership of the working committees, through the inclusion of new members this year who will be able to contribute further to the development and implementation of FCL certification programmes.

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Since then, 54 legacy adjudicators were re-certified under the programme’s new structure. Apart from being able to prove their adjudication skillset, they have also remained listed on the FIDIC President’s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators. At the same time, the programme opened

up to new candidates who were eager to participate in the rigorous assessment and prove their skills. Following the implementation of ten exam sessions from June 2021 to June 2022, 55 new candidates successfully completed all the programme’s requirements, received their certification and gained the right to be included in the FIDIC President’s List of Approved Dispute Adjudicators. The interest for this programme is still high and another exam session, the last in 2022, is scheduled for Q4 this year.

The FIDIC Certified Consulting Practitioner programme was the second programme launched by FCL in November 2021 and is tailored to early career candidates who come from a broad range of educational backgrounds and are working in, or have experience in, a consulting practice in the engineering and infrastructure industries.

The programme has run three exam sessions so far with the successful participation of 24 professionals, while it is expected to run a further session in December 2022.

The FIDIC Certified Contract Manager is the most popular of all the programmes and candidates are required to participate in a single examination and prove that they possess and can apply their knowledge of FIDIC contracts throughout the project’s lifecycle. The first exams were implemented in December 2021 and so far, through three exam sessions, 47 professionals have celebrated their accomplishments and gained this international certification.

The demand for this programme is so high that a further two exams are expected to run between now and the end of 2022 - one in September and one in December.

The FIDIC Certified Trainer programme is one of the most important programmes for the global FIDIC ecosystem.

The legacy trainers participated in December 2021 in a specifically designed procedure and FCL has already issued 38 certificates in the Fundamental Construction Contracts subcategory and 32 in the Silver Book subcategory. Ten Chinese candidates received their renewed certificate, allowing all of those certified or re-certified by FCL to showcase that they have both the training skills and the technical expertise in their field to deliver the relevant training courses to a high standard. At the same time, the programme for new candidates is ready and expected to run its first exams in Q4 this year.

The FIDIC Certified Consulting Engineer programme is now ready and was officially launched in June 2022. The programme is accepting applications from qualified senior executive professionals who are looking to demonstrate their commercial and business expertise within the engineering and infrastructure consulting environment. The first exams are expected to run in November this year and the programme’s structure and content guarantees the same success, as it has in China during its pilot phase, from which already 731 candidates have received their renewed certification.

Whilst the above progress is obvious, it is worth mentioning that FIDIC certification programmes are highly demanded across the globe. So far, the FCL management team has facilitated the participation of candidates from 72 countries in the exams. Apart from professionals wishing to gain a qualification from a global leader, this success is also a result of FCL’s effective business development and marketing activities.

The FCL management team has participated in informational sessions, conferences and meetings organised by FIDIC member associations and is working to further promote the programmes through active engagement with all FIDIC regions and members. At the same time, the implementation of an organic digital marketing campaign, through the creation of flyers, videos and articles published and shared through FCL’s corporate social media accounts, has contributed a great deal to an increased brand awareness of FCL and its certification programmes.

New functions will be introduced before the end of the year, such as the issuing of digital certificates and badges with enhanced security, verification and authentication attributes, as well as the implementation of exams through an online invigilated environment, which will eliminate time-zone differences and barriers. This will also allow more candidates to participate in the online exams from the comfort of their home or office.

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FIDIC Consulting Services (FCS)

Since its official opening in August 2020, FIDIC Consulting Services (FCS), has been doing its best to overcome the negative impacts of the pandemic in China. In particular, FCS has been performing well by completing a number of major tasks aimed at achieving FIDIC’s strategic objectives in China.

In the reporting period from September 2021 to August 2022, FCS completed the outstanding recertification work of the FCCE graduates who were certified under the pilot programme, for the successful candidates to receive their renewed certificates and their information to be updated on the FIDIC website.

In the last year, FCS held webinars on topics which covered Dispute Resolution under FIDIC Contracts, Promotion of FIDIC Certification Programmes, The World Bank’s Standard Procurement Documents and the Use of DAAB under FIDIC Contracts, Risks and Claims under FIDIC Contract Conditions, etc. More importantly, FCS will be organising the first ever FIDIC Contract Users’ (China) Conference from 17-18 October 2022, with the participation of major stakeholders who will be able to discuss the latest developments in the contract arena.

In recent months, FCS relocated to a new office space.

Following this change, FCS also ensured that all the procedures relating to official administrative bodies, such as the commerce authority, the bank and the tax authority, were completed and subsequently FCS received its updated business licence.

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FCS has translated more than 50 news items from the FIDIC and FCL websites and disseminated this information to the FCCEs and our stakeholders through emails and via posts on the FCS WeChat and website pages. Around 30 FCCEs registered for FIDIC’s Global Infrastructure Conference 2021 and several stakeholders participated in the webinar series and contract users’ conferences. As part of the efforts to promote the FCL certification programmes in China, FCS encouraged Chinese candidates to participate in the adjudicators’ assessment programme. FCS also answered a number of queries in relation to the certification programmes.

FCS completed the annual auditing and compliance requirements for the monthly and quarterly tax reporting as required by the local authorities. In addition, two financial transactions relative to the agreed business commitments were completed following rigorous efforts. Moreover, FCS made proactive efforts to take advantage of the favourable government policies under the Covid-19 stimulus, by securing a substantial RMB120,000 tax return and RMB29,000 on the office rent. Since the publication of the translated FIDIC suite of contracts in China, FCS has sold 748 copies of the new FIDIC contracts during the reporting period.

FCS also drafted an FCCE engagement strategy and put it into action. As is tradition, New Year greetings letters were sent to CNAEC, CAPEC, CHINCA, CAIEC and CECA, additionally, a congratulatory letter was sent to CHINCA following the launch of five subcontracts and CECA’s new chairman also received a congratulatory letter. As part of its stakeholder engagement, FCS visited the five associations, as well as CIATEC, to promote the FIDIC brand and FCL’s programmes. FCS maintained monthly communication with CNAEC and regular communication with other stakeholders.

On the FIDIC side, FCS has assisted with the selection of five C-level candidates to join in the Global Leadership Forum and also assisted with the negotiation process with companies based in China wishing to obtain specialised training in FIDIC contracts for their international staff.

In 2022 and 2023, FCS will continue to expand its business operations. Notably, FCS will continue to promote the FIDIC brand and FCL programmes and assist candidates to participate in the examinations, thus further promoting the existing collaborative ties with all its stakeholders. Further seminars and the FIDIC Contract Users’ Conference will be organised in the future. In addition, FCS will of course continue to maintain compliance with Chinese laws and regulations in terms of its governance structure and business operations.

FIDIC Awards programmes highlight industry excellence Despite the challenges of the pandemic, over the past year FIDIC was still able to showcase and celebrate the engineering and construction sector’s successes through its popular industry awards programmes.

The winners of the FIDIC Contract Users’ Awards 2021 were announced at an online awards ceremony in December which took place as part of the virtual Official FIDIC International Contract Users’ Conference. These awards recognise excellence in the use of FIDIC contract forms for project delivery and showcase examples of good practice through collaboration from across the world. Despite the pandemic, entries were up on the previous year and in fact were the highest number ever, showing the increased interest in FIDIC contracts and the role that they play in the global industry.

The Contract Users’ Project of the Year Award was won for the Supervision for Construction of Çerkezköy-Kapıkule Section of Halkalı Kapıkule RailwayLine Project in Turkey.

The judges were impressed that this significant project demonstrated key aspects of biodiversity and also the use of the FIDIC contract in promoting sustainability, which they thought was an important factor on such a high-profile project.

Manila Water Company Inc in the Philippines won the Contract Users’ Client of the Year Award, impressing the judges by demonstrating their commitment to a wider use of FIDIC contracts in future, including the newer versions. The Consultant of the Year prize went to Setectpi-CSD-Rocksoil (Consortium ORIGIN) and Lombardi-Artelia-Pini (Consortium

LAP), Switzerland, who impressed with their comprehensive use of FIDIC contracts, especially the White Book, on an iconic project with a significant global profile.

UK law firm CMS won the Legal or Professional Services of the Year Award in recognition of their ongoing commitment to FIDIC and proactive commitment to FIDIC contract activities, including conferences and events. The winner of the Trainer of the Year Award was Adriana Spassova from Bulgaria, who impressed the judges with her ability to deliver FIDIC training in multiple languages and her proactive activity within the FIDIC training arena. Adjudicator of the Year went to the UK’s Nicholas Gould while the Golden Principles Award was won by Cagdas Evren Bayrak from Qatar.

Meanwhile the shortlist for the 2022 FIDIC Project Awards includes an impressive 28 high-quality construction and infrastructure projects from across the globe. The projects are an international selection drawn from China, USA, Australia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, France, India, Mongolia, Somalia and Vietnam. Winners will be announced at the annual FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference in Geneva in September.

Geneva will also see the unveiling of the winners of the 2022 FIDIC Member Association Excellence Awards. The awards shortlist includes entries from four FIDIC member associations who will compete for awards across the following categories – Best Advancement of a Cause, Advocacy Campaign or Event, Best Publication or Website and Best Diversity and Inclusion Initiative. The awards reward and highlight the achievements and successes of FIDIC’s international member associations and the work they do representing the global consulting industry.

Notwithstanding the significant difficulties brought about by the global pandemic, FIDIC is delighted to be able to showcase and celebrate the best that the industry has to offer in its various annual awards programmes. As the world returns to in-person events, the expectation is that FIDIC’s awards, in all their guises, will become ever-more popular amongst the global industry.

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Representing the industry all around the world FIDIC’s global efforts are assisted by the activities of a number of regional groupings or organisations with which FIDIC works and collaborates closely to ensure that the consulting engineering industry is well represented in every corner of the globe. The regional updates below highlight some of the key activities and developments that have taken place over the past year in the North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions.

Africa update President of FIDIC Africa, Abe Thela, gives an update on the latest activities of the organisation which represents FIDIC member associations across the African continent.

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The opportunity to host FIDIC Africa’s first in-person post-Covid infrastructure conference in Lagos, Nigeria, was a memorable event after two years of exclusively online engagements with member associations (MAs) across the region. The conference was delivered by ACEN and attended by FIDIC CEO Dr Nelson Ogunshakin. Notwithstanding the fact that we will most likely find ourselves mostly communicating through online meetings, it is our intention to increase the frequency of these, via MA presidents’ meetings and also online committee meetings led by the executive committee members serving as chairs of their respective areas of activity.

To date, our administrative and communications support through the secretariat has grown from strength to strength and we have enjoyed the support of FIDIC in using the Teams platform for all meetings. Furthermore, we are in the final stages of establishing

South Africa as the future permanent location for the FIDIC Africa secretariat and all operational functionality is being put in place to ensure continuity. We must be doing something right in that we now have as many as two people from our region on the FIDIC board!

We have now also embarked on a process of resuscitating our Future Leaders Committee, which unfortunately had become dysfunctional over the last year, but there is no doubt that they too will resume their place in the FIDIC Future Leaders council. We continue to pursue growth in membership, however, attracting the more Francophone countries to join our ranks has proven to be a challenge, but we believe that with more support from FIDIC - and specifically our counterpart MA in France - we would have more success in doing so.

The FIDIC regionalisation strategy has gained momentum and the FIDIC Africa

model is being used to inform the further development of other regional bodies, such as ASIA-Pacific. Furthermore, we are in the process of strengthening the recognition of FIDIC Africa at not only a commercial level with multilateral development banks in keeping with the recognition enjoyed by FIDIC, but we are also working on such relationships at an African Union level, so that governments in our region embrace the MAs in their countries as trusted advisors in their efforts towards developing sustainable infrastructure.

Our region desperately needs such infrastructure for economic development and, equally importantly, needs the partnership between investor countries, their engineering companies and those of the host countries, if we are to ensure that there is a healthy level of sustainable engineering skills developed at local levels, not only for the operation and maintenance of such infrastructure but also for future capital investment.

The Africa region has the human capital with the requisite qualifications, what we need now is the development of the appropriate skills and competencies to support the efforts of our respective governments to grow our economies, eradicate corruption and develop a region dependent on trade and not aid.

Update from Pan-America President of FEPAC, Henrique de Aragão, gives his update on the latest activities of the organisation which represents FIDIC member associations across Pan-America.

In March 2022, FEPAC celebrated 50 continuous years of operation, with a conference and general assembly organised for the occasion in Lima, Peru.

The conference, Future of Engineering Consulting in the World, was held on 25 March, with a select panel of international experts who spoke and reflected in open dialogue with the audience. Importantly, the participation of authorities, ambassadors of the member countries of FEPAC and various players from the world of engineering, allowed the event to deal with key agendas and disseminate plans and best practices in FEPAC. In particular, there were discussions around the participation of member companies on the future infrastructure projects which are most needed for the progress of the region.

Some of the highlights of the conference included: • A keynote from a World Bank representative on the importance of selecting engineering consulting using technical criteria rather than price; • A keynote from the Inter-American Development Bank on the road to a better infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean; • Around 20 presentations that contributed to the achievement of the objectives and success of the event, addressing several topics, including BIM Forum and the FIDIC Future Leaders Advisory Council; • Signing of a technical cooperation agreement with the Latin American Association of Financial Institutions for Development; • Discussion of a collaboration agreement with the WWF, the World Wildlife Fund for Nature; • Key interest from Autodesk on their participation and collaboration with FEPAC on future events; • FEPAC’s 50th Anniversary Awards, in recognition of the

successes and achievements of MA member companies; • Launch of the Glossary of Technical Terms, a book that seeks to standardise expressions in bids and contracts in the region.

The edition of a FEPAC 50th anniversary commemorative book allowed us to remember the efforts of engineering consulting firms in the construction of infrastructure and outstanding ventures in the region.

Another important event also deserves mention and that is that from 22-24 June the third meeting of the FEPAC executive committee was held in the City of San José, Costa Rica, during the first Pan-American seminar on Consulting in Architecture and Engineering, organised by the Chamber of Consultants in Architecture and Engineering of Costa Rica.

Looking ahead to future months, the fourth meeting of the FEPAC executive committee will be held on 27-28 November in Honduras, where we will also hold a seminar with Honduran companies and the national authorities of the country.

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Update from North America American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) director of procurement, advocacy and international affairs, Dan Hilton, gives an overview of the activities of FIDIC in North America. expressed a priority to work closer with international financial institutions.

The leaders of ACEC, ACEC-Canada and FIDIC’s Mexican member association, CNEC, met virtually in August 2021.

The three organisations discussed our priorities and challenges, still dealing with Covid-19 and the forecasted return to work. Members of CNEC joined ACEC virtually at its fall conference, where the international committee hosted a meeting with representatives from the Inter-American Development Bank. During our previous discussions, CNEC had

FIDIC North America began 2022 by supporting a webinar series on Integrity in the Americas. FIDIC integrity management committee chair and past ACEC international committee chair, Richard Stump of RS&H, Inc, presented an opportunity to learn about the recent successful implementation of integrity management on projects funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

MCC funded a $257m programme of road and power investments in Liberia between 2016 and 2021. The Government of Liberia established a partner organisation, Millennium Challenge Account-Liberia (MCA-Liberia), which successfully implemented the programme, including developing and

executing an anti-fraud and corruption action plan and other protocols to support the programme’s integrity. The initial session was hosted by ACEC, with additional sessions hosted by FIDIC and ACEC-Canada.

In May, ACEC hosted its Annual Spring Convention in Washington DC. Attending in person were ACEC-Canada president and CEO John Gamble as well as members of the FIDIC board, Tony Barry and Catherine Karakatsanis along with CEO Dr Nelson Ogunshakin. We met to discuss FIDIC and North American infrastructure activities and hosted a meeting with the US Export Import Bank.

The three associations also continue to discuss formalising sharing education and other resources.

Asia-Pacific update President of FIDIC Asia-Pacific, Sudhir Dhawan, gives his update on the latest activities of the organisation which represents FIDIC member associations across the Asia-Pacific region. as required. We have been kindly assisted by the Consulting Engineers Association of India who have provided secretariat services for our group and the FIDIC board has also enabled funding to help run the group going forward.

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The past year has been one of rebuilding for FIDIC Asia-Pacific as we expanded the board to a full complement of seven members and we have also reformed a number of committees, including events, communication, membership and the editorial board. We also set up the constitutional review committee as we need to amend the constitution to bring on board the Future Leaders Group.

We have organised a number of meetings of the board during the year and the executive committee is also now meeting

The steps we have taken to put the regional group onto a firmer footing and the strengthening of the board have put us in a better position to make progress.

We held our first webinar in June led, by the Vietnamese MA, on the topical issue of digitalisation in the construction industry. The event was addressed by the president and CEO of FIDIC and included industry experts from Vietnam, Thailand and India taking part as speakers. The next webinar will be led by our Chinese MA, CNAEC in October.

We have also relaunched our newsletter, which was issued in May and another

was planned for August. The packed 32-page May issue contained information on a wide range of issues of relevance to our industry including the impact of Covid on the global consulting industry, the importance of government procurement, securing biodiversity and achieving national development goals and GDP growth rates and inflation for Asia-Pacific countries. We welcome news from our MAs, including details of their events, for inclusion in the newsletter.

Future plans include holding our general assembly meeting at the end of September and the integration of our Future Leaders group into the activities of the overall regional group. Our aim is to make FIDIC Asia-Pacific one of the most active regional groups of FIDIC and to do this we will need the active support of all our member associations across the region.

Europe update New director general of the European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA), Sue Arundale, offers an update on some of the latest activities of EFCA and FIDIC Europe on behalf of the engineering consultancy industry in Europe. discussion with DG for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations support group for Ukraine and concluded with the Future Leaders Awards ceremony. The spring 2022 Industry Barometer report was also launched.

During the past year the European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations (EFCA) and FIDIC further strengthened their cooperation and established the FIDIC Europe board, provided for in the current FIDIC-EFCA agreement. At committee level, liaisons were appointed from each organisation to provide mutual support and align actions and coordination between EFCA’s European external action committee and the new FIDIC international financial institutions committee (IFIC) was also stepped up.

Other highlights during the year included a workshop with the DG for international partnerships on the changes to EU-financed external procurement procedures and their impact on the consulting engineering sector.

A Future Leaders’ day included a debate, Digitalisation and Covid-19’s effects on the working environment. EFCA’s General Assembly Meeting, included a virtual

In April, the EFCA board discussed Ukraine with officials from the DG for growth and this followed an EFCA statement earlier in the year on the same subject.

‘critical uncertainties’, to support firms with strategic decisions. Elsewhere, the EFCA digitalisation and BIM committee stepped up collaboration with the EU BIM Task Group and building SMART International. It also submitted a joint letter to the Commission with the Architects’ Council of Europe expressing concern about the practice of software vendors, in particular over licences, data ownership and accessibility.

In February, the first ever EFCA Sector Review was published. Focusing on the sector’s evolving role and capabilities, it included a ranking of the 125 largest engineering consultancies in Europe.

The internal market committee looked at national procurement rules in nine countries and continued promoting the use of EFCA’s ‘MEAT’ guidance on how to draw up appropriate price and quality criteria.

Around 60 participants joined a European International Contractors/EFCA webinar on A Global Connectivity Strategy to Shape EU Infrastructure Investments.

Speakers attended from the European Commission, European Investment Bank and French and German development financing agencies. EFCA and EIC highlighted integrated and high-quality project preparation and implementation which can offer clients and users value for money based on a lifecycle approach.

A statement on COP26 and the climate emergency was also published in November 2021. EFCA joined the European Commission’s High Level Construction Forum, which met in September 2021 and the European external action committee and the European Federation of Management Consultancies Associations responded to the consultation on the financial regulation for indirect and shared management of EU funds.

EFCA’s future trends committee also launched a report describing four future scenarios for the industry, based on

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FIDIC member associations and associates Representing

Albania

40,000

Albanian Association of Consulting Engineers - aace.al

Australia

Czech Republic

Austria

Côte d’Ivoire

Consult Australia consultaustralia.com.au Austrian Consultants Association ACA aca.co.at

Bahrain

Chambre Nationale des Ingénieurs Conseils et Experts du Génie Civil chanie.org

Bangladesh

Foreningen af Rådgivende Ingeniører frinet.dk

Bahrain Society of Engineers mohandis.org Bangladesh Association of Consulting Engineers - bacenetbd.org

Belgium

Organisation des Bureaux d’Ingenieurs-Conseils, d’Ingenierie et de Consultance - ori.be

firms

Denmark Egypt

Egyptian Consulting Engineering Association sherif.wassef@wassefdesigngroup.com

Finland

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Finnish Association of Consulting Firms skolry.fi

Botswana

CINOV/SYNTEC-Ingénierie - cinov.fr syntec-ingenierie.fr

Brazil

Georgian Association of Consulting Engineers - aceg.ge

Kazakhstan National Association of Professional Engineers and Consultants - knapec.kz

Germany

Kenya

Morocco

Ghana

Latvia

Mozambique

Association of Consulting Engineers of Bosnia and Herzegowina - uki.ba Association of Consulting Engineers Botswana - aceb.org.bw Associação Brasileira de Consultores de Engenharia - abceconsultoria.org.br

Bulgaria

Bulgarian Association of Consulting Engineers and Architects bacea-bg.org/

Canada

Association of Consulting Engineering Companies, Canada - acec.ca

China

France

Georgia

Verband Beratender Ingenieure vbi.de Ghana Consulting Engineers Association gcea.org.gh

Greece

Hellenic Association of Consulting Firms - segm.gr

China National Association of Engineering Consultants cnaec.org.cn

Hungary

China, Hong Kong

Iceland

Association of Consulting Engineers of Hong Kong, China - acehk.org.hk

China, Taiwan

Chinese Association of Engineering Consultants caec.org.tw

Colombia

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Czech Association of Consulting Engineer - cace.cz

Cámara Colombiana de la Infraestructura (CCI) infraestructura.org.co

Costa Rica

Cámara de Consultores en Arquitectura e Ingeniería camaraconsultorescr.org Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica cfia.or.cr

Croatia

Association of Hungarian Consulting Engineers and Architects - tmsz.org

Jordan Architects and Consulting Engineers Council - jea.org.jo

Kazakhstan

Association of Consulting Engineers of Kenya - acek.co.ke Latvian Association of Consulting Engineers - lika.lv

Lebanon

Lebanese Association of Consulting Engineers - oea.org.lb

Lithuania

Lithuanian Association of Consulting Companies - lacc.lt

Luxembourg

India

Ordre des Architectes et des Ingénieurs-conseils, d’Ingénierie et de Consultance - oai.lu

Indonesia

Association of Consulting Engineers Malaysia - acem.com.my

Félag Rádgjafarverkfrædinga - frv.is Consulting Engineers Association of India - ceai.org.in

Malaysia

Indonesian National Association of Consultants inkindo-dki.org

Maldives

Ireland

Mali

Islamic Republic of Iran

Mauritius

Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland - acei.ie Iranian Society of Consulting Engineers irsce.org

Israel

Israeli Organization of Consulting Engineers and Architects - iocea.org.il

Association of Consulting Companies in Construction sinisa.radakovic@exstructa.hr

Italy

Cyprus

Japan

Cyprus Association of Civil Engineers (CYACE) spolmik.org

Jordan

INARSIND/OICE inarsind.it/oice.it Engineering and Consulting Firms Association, Japan ecfa.or.jp

Riyan Private Limited riyan.com.mv Ordre Ingenieurs Conseils Du Mali (OICM) - oicm.ml

Fédération Marocaine du Conseil et de l’Ingénierie - fmci.ma Associaçao de Empresas Moçambicanas de Consultoria (AEMC) aemc.org.mz

Nepal

Society of Consulting Architectural and Engineering Firms, Nepal scaef.org.np

Netherlands

NLingenieurs - nlingenieurs.nl

New Zealand

The Association of Consulting and Engineering New Zealand Incorporated acenz.org.nz

Nigeria

Association for Consulting Engineering in Nigeria - acen.org.ng

Norway

Rådgivende Ingeniørers Forening rif.no

Pakistan

Association of Consulting Engineers Pakistan - acep.org.pk

Association of Consulting Engineers, Mauritius sootam.vyyaassconsulting@orange.mu

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

Mexico

Peru

Moldova

Philippines

Cámara Nacional de Empresas de Consultoría de México - cnec.org.mx Association of Consulting Engineers in Republic of Moldova (ARMIC) armic.md

Mongolia

Mongolian Road Association - mra.mn

Engineers Association - paleng.org Asociación Peruana de Consultoría (APC) - apcperu.org Council of Engineering Consultants of the Philippines - cecophil.org

Poland

Stowarzyszenie Inzynierów Doradców i Rzeczoznawców (SIDIR) - sidir.pl

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93

regional groups

members

5

spanning

continents

million engineering professionals

Portugal

Associação Portuguesa de Projectistas e Consultores appconsultores.org.pt

Republic of Korea

Korea Engineering and Consulting Association - kenca.org

Romania

Romanian Association of Consulting Engineers (ARIC) - aric.org.ro

Russian Federation RAEC / NACEC nacec.ru/

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Council of Engineers saudieng.sa

Serbia

Association of Consulting Engineers in Serbia - aces.rs

Singapore

Association of Consulting Engineers Singapore - aces.org.sg

Slovakia

Slovak Association of Consulting Engineers - sace.sk

Slovenia

National Association of Consulting Engineers of Slovenia - gzs.si

South Africa

Switzerland

Spain

Thailand

Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) - cesa.co.za Asociación española de empresas de Ingeniería, Consultoría y Servicios Tecnológicos (TECNIBERIA) tecniberia.es

Union Suisse des Ingénieurs-Conseils usic.ch Consulting Engineers Association of Thailand (CEAT) - ceat.or.th

Trinidad and Tobago

United Kingdom

Association of Consultancy and Engineering - acenet.co.uk

United Republic of Tanzania Association of Consulting Engineers Tanzania - acet.or.tz

United States of America

Sri Lanka

Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry - jcc.org.tt Association of Turkish Consulting Engineers and Architects tmmmb.org.tr

Uzbekistan

Sudan

Uganda

Vietnam

Ukraine

Zambia

United Arab Emirates

Zimbabwe

Association of Consulting Engineers, Sri Lanka - acesl.org Sudanese Engineering and Architecture Consultancy Association siham.mahjoub@newtech-consulting.ae

Suriname

Orde van Raadgevende Ingenieurs in Suriname - sunecon@sr.net

Sweden

Innovationsföretagen - The Federation of Swedish Innovation Companies innovationsforetagen.se

Turkey

Uganda Association of Consulting Engineers - uace.or.ug Association of Engineers-Consultants of Ukraine - aecu.org.ua Society of Engineers - UAE soeuae.ae

American Council of Engineering Companies - acec.org

Association of Consulting Engineers of Uzbekistan - uzace.uz Vietnam Engineering Consultant Association - vecas.org.vn Association of Consulting Engineers of Zambia - acez.co.zm Zimbabwe Association of Consulting Engineers - zace.co.zw

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FIDIC reaps the benefits of going digital

Even before the global pandemic hit, FIDIC had made significant investment in its digital infrastructure to ensure that it was able to organise its activites and communicate and engage effectively with key global stakeholders from across the engineering and construction industry. That investment has certainly paid off over recent years as business has become ever-more digital with technological innovations to the fore.

As well as undertaking a ramping up of its social media output, FIDIC has also invested heavily in digital platforms like the Docebo learning management system which is driving the FIDIC Academy, its Infrastructure Global news and information website, enhanced survey and analysis technology to improve its industry intelligence gathering and also a brand-new online events system powered by the Swoogo event management platform.

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The Swoogo investment is enabling FIDIC to take the organisation and delivery of its events, conferences and webinars onto a whole new level, providing enhanced information and functionality for attendees and speakers alike. The Swoogo platform was used for the first time during the three Official FIDIC Contract Users’ Conferences earlier this year and it is also driving the organisation of FIDIC’s Global Infrastructure Conference taking place in Geneva in September.

The past 12 months has seen an increase in engagement across all FIDIC’s social media platforms, with all key news and announcements, including committee outputs, being shared on LinkedIn, Twitter and where appropriate

Facebook. In the past year, FIDIC Credentialing has also significantly increased its social media presence on LinkedIn and Facebook, leading to many candidates applying to be certified as a result of these postings. In China, FCS (Beijing) is also making good use of the WeChat platform to promote its activities and events.

FIDIC’s Infrastructure Global platform has come on in leaps and bounds over the past year and now averages around 30 articles per month which include news, views and feature articles from across the industry, giving a powerful voice to the companies, organisations, people and personalities that work in the engineering, construction and infrastructure industry.

Using a coordinated and joined up approach across all its activities, FIDIC has seen an increase in its global website portfolio traffic of 2% with organic search being the main driver of website traffic and an increase in referrals from social media of 3%. It’s clear that the use of digital and online platforms will only increase in the new normal that the industry is entering as it navigates a post-Covid environment.

The investment that FIDIC has already made in technology – and will make in the future – can only stand the organisation in good stead to take advantage of the opportunities that will come its way.

With more innovation and new digital initiatives planned which will further improve the effectiveness of FIDIC’s communications, it promises to be an exciting and interesting period ahead over the coming months and indeed years.

FIDIC staff team Italo Goyzueta Federation Operations Director igoyzueta@fidic.org

Graham Pontin Director of Policy, External Affairs and Communications gpontin@fidic.org Barbara Chabloz Head of Conferences and Events bchabloz@fidic.org

Dr Nelson Ogunshakin OBE Chief Executive Officer nogunshakin@fidic.org

Silvia Fossati Training Manager sfossati@fidic.org

Oro Cohen Assistant, Federation Services ocohen@fidic.org

Daduna Kokhreidze General Counsel for Legal and Contracts dkokhreidze@fidic.org

Nadia Van Der Waltova Senior Digital Marketing Executive nvanderwaltova@fidic.org

Maria-Blanca Trabazos Accountant and HR mbtrabazos@fidic.org

Ieva Liaugaude International Client Manager iliaugaude@fidic.org

Ulrike Schiefer Office Manager uschiefer@fidic.org

Chanel Holder Events, Training and Digital Marketing Executive cholder@fidic.org Lee Ann Davis Certification Assistant, FIDIC Credentialing ldavis@fidic.org

Ruijie Zhang FCS General Manager zhangrj@fidic.org

Folake Idowu Senior Corporate Development Executive fidowu@fidic.org

Christophe Sisto Design and Edition Manager csisto@fidic.org

Estelle Trabazos Accountant Assistant etrabazos@fidic.org

Thanos Totsikas General Manager, FIDIC Credentialing TTotsikas@fidic.org

Beatriz Bertomeu Events, Training and Digital Marketing Executive bbertomeu@fidic.org

Michael Broadley General Manager FIDIC Academy mbroadley@fidic.org

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