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How Project Managers deal with sustainability, circular economy and climate change challenges in the execution of Major Projects
With Climate Change driving the increased focus on sustainability and the Circular Economy, managing projects will need to evolve and focus more on sustainability concepts. Project Managers will need to look at partnerships, stakeholders and embrace the tools and trade-offs required to manage sustainable infrastructure. This Webinar will give Project Managers an insight into these concepts and invoke dialogue and discussion that will drive the growth of sustainability concepts in the execution major projects.
After attending this webinar, you will be able to:
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Get an overview and insight of the demand for sustainable infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region;
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Understand how emerging sustainability issues can impact project success;
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Use strategic foresight tools to explore how potential future changes can impact project development;
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Integrate sustainability issues into project management and project delivery;
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Define the perimeters and understand how a green project functions;
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Understand the myth commonly related to green projects;
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Understand approaches to embedding sustainability, circular economy and climate change into projects;
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Take away examples of approaches to embed sustainability concepts into projects in Singapore.
Presentation 1: Opportunities and Challenges in Sustainable Infrastructure (Mr Kow Juan Tiang)
Demand for infrastructure is large and growing rapidly in the Asia Pacific region. This is driven by urbanisation, social and demographic changes. Climate change and technological advancement have also changed the ways we are looking at and developing infrastructure. This has precipitated new approach and modality in the way governments are looking at the implementation of essential infrastructure. To fulfil these requirements, more can be done to address the issues and challenges in the implementation of such projects. These would include building capacity, creating more awareness of the new solutions available and fostering more partnerships between the different stakeholders involved in developing sustainable infrastructure.
Presentation 2: Designing for the Future – Creating Sustainable, Resilient and Adaptable Projects (Mr Wayne McPhee)
Traditional design and development of major projects assumes that the world will look essentially the same at the time the start of the project as it will be throughout the life of the product. But we can clearly see a future with accelerating climate change, environmental damage, regulatory changes, demographic shifts, new technology, and rising social expectations for diversity, ethics and responsible business. Project teams need to revisit their basic design assumptions and methodologies to respond to these challenges. This session will explore the tools and strategies that project teams can use to understand possible future scenarios and create projects that are sustainable, resilient and adaptable.
Presentation 3: Debunking Myths of Managing Green Projects (Ms Farizan d’Avezac de Moran)
As sustainability intensifies, so as the level of project management. The coverage and depth of managing a project that has sustainability attributes greatly relies on the understanding of the trade-offs and managing the process successfully.
With a larger team with diverse focus, it is often a challenge to priorities the priorities. Working through the term ‘Green Value Engineering (GVE)’ provides examples on how and where the interceptions, loopholes are and places great emphasis in de-bunking the myth that greatly associates itself with sustainability.
Presentation 4: Embedding sustainability into infrastructure delivery – a UK perspective (Mr Philip Charles)
This speaker will deliver a UK perspective in embedding sustainability, circular economy and climate change into infrastructure projects, He will also illustrate this this approach at the corporate and project level, with relevant examples
About the Speakers and Panel:
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Speaker 1 Kow Juan Tiang Deputy Executive Director |
Kow Juan Tiang was appointed Deputy Executive Director of Infrastructure Asia with effect from 1 April 2018. Infrastructure Asia supports Asia’s economic and social growth through infrastructure development. The office brings together regional infrastructure stakeholders across the value chain to catalyse projects across Asia. Prior to his current appointment, Juan Tiang was Coordinating Group Director for the Environment and Infrastructure Solutions Group at International Enterprise (IE) Singapore for six years. He was responsible for helping Singapore-based companies in the environment and infrastructure solutions industries with their ventures into strategic high-growth markets such as China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Middle East. His focus sectors include water and waste management, and energy. He also champions the export of urban solutions to markets currently undergoing rapid urbanisation and development. |
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Speaker 2 Senior Sustainability Specialist Author |
Wayne is a sustainability specialist who has worked on major projects in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, and has led international cross-discipline project sustainability programs within global engineering firms. He has worked for over 25 years as a consultant and within corporate teams on environmental and sustainability challenges. Wayne’s new book “Integrating Sustainability into Major Projects: Best Practices and Tools for Project Teams” is the first resource specifically developed for unique challenges managing sustainability on major projects. Wayne’s opinions are his own. |
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Speaker 3
Farizan d’Avezac de Moran Senior Partner |
Farizan has managed green projects both in Asia and East Africa. Both shares similar challenges with a different focus and unique skills set. She will be sharing project management experience related to culture, perception and myths surrounding green projects, with a focus on cost and quality and how her developed Green Value Engineering tool assist in this. With years of experience, she will be sharing her project management model on the trade and tools to reach higher sustainability goals through sustainability-centric project management |
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Speaker 4
Philip Charles Associate Director |
Philip has over 19 years’ experience as an environmental and sustainability professional, providing advice to clients on low and zero carbon strategies in addition to a range of current and emerging sustainability issues. His experience has been developed during the last five years with AECOM as part of the Climate Change and Sustainability team, and previously with CIRIA (the Construction Industry Research and Information Association) and CEEQUAL (the sustainability assessment, rating and awards scheme for civil engineering). He has a proven track record of managing environmental and sustainability projects, engaging with client, design, construction teams and the supply chain to define and implement plans to facilitate effective outcomes. Philip has significant experience in working with clients and multi-disciplinary design teams to define, manage and deliver sustainability plans and projects. He has facilitated sustainability, resource efficiency and carbon reduction workshops, developed sustainability plans and mechanisms to capture identified sustainability opportunities and track implementation for a range of city metro and rail projects. |
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Moderator
Prakash S Ramakrishnan Co-Chair MIIP SIG, |
Mr. Prakash is a Registered Professional Engineer with the Professional Engineer’s Board Singapore and has more than 28 years of experience in all aspects of project development from conceptualisation and planning, design, contract administration, construction and project management for several building and infrastructure projects both in Singapore and Asia. His specialisation is in prefabrication technology and project management of building and infrastructure projects. His career has spanned both the public and private sectors where he has been involved in multiple roles including the review of public sector infrastructure projects, consultancy and the execution of major infrastructure projects. More recently he has been involved in the setup and operation of the Project Management and Governance office for the KL-Singapore High Speed Rail project. |
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Welcome address & Panelist Harihara Subramanian Co-Chair of MIIP-SIG |
Mr. Harihara, is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional and for the past 22 years he has successfully delivered various greenfield & brownfield multimillion-dollar CapEx EPC/ EPCM industrial projects and programs. He has hands-on experience in leading projects in cross-functional global team environment, with multi-disciplinary project design engineering, project management, business development across various industrial sectors, such as hi-tech industries Semicon, photo-voltaic industries, facility infrastructure management, equipment tool hook-up, clean-room environment, pharmaceuticals, environmental pollution abatement, refinery, petrochemical, chemical, and also experienced in manufacturing/operational functions. Currently he is working for Worley as Senior Project Manager. Harihara is a chemical engineer, obtained MBA degree, from Rutgers Business School, USA, and a Master of Science (CIM) from NTU Singapore. He has delivered various keynotes speeches at international conferences & institutions in the context of Project Management excellence and strongly support the project management community. |
Presentation and Discussion Method
Panel discussion and presentation held via Zoom.
Event Particulars
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Time: 7pm - 9pm SGT (Time zone Converter: click here)
Virtual Venue: Zoom
PDUs: 2 Technical (where applicable, PMI ID to be included with registration)
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Event Properties
| Event Date | 09-03-2022 7:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 09-03-2022 9:00 pm |
| Cut off date | 09-03-2022 6:40 pm |
| Registered | 311 |
| Individual Price | Complimentary |
| No. of Business Acumen PDUs | N/A |
| No. of Ways of Working PDUs | 2 |
| No. of Power Skills PDUs | N/A |
| Location | Webinar |