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Keynote Presentations |
Confirmed Lead Speakers |
| Opening |
Welcome and Opening
What factors point to the need for change in the industry,
here and overseas? What needs to be done differently from
past attempts to drive change, if industry wide change
objectives are to be met. What do we need to invest in
to make a difference to clients, end users, designers
and constructors? |
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| Session 1 |
High Performance Teams and Collaborative Working
The Heathrow Terminal 5 project set new benchmarks for
team performance.
What made the difference? How are the lessons learnt being
applied in the UK? How can those lessons be taken from
the project level and applied to firms, and an industry,
to create a new way of working and service delivery to
end users? Can the lessons be translated to Australia?
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| Session 2 |
Project Financing Innovations
Is there a shortage of investment grade development opportunities
in Australian real property asset markets? How do super
funds decide whether to invest in those opportunities,
rather than other asset classes? What role do investment
banks and other intermediaries play in making opportunities
available to the markets generally, and super funds in
particular?
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| Session 3 |
Investing in Social Housing – Opportunities
for the Construction Industry
How does the UK market finance investment in new social
housing projects, and regeneration of existing stock?
Who sets the rules for investment feasibility, and design
standards? How do private sector financiers, designers
and constructors, participate in the market? How is central
government involved?
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| Session 4 |
What’s the point of investing in skills
formation?
Does the industry care, or is it content to poach people
from other industries or overseas?
What do we need to do to make ours an industry of first
choice for school leavers, and keep them growing in the
industry?
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| Session 5 |
Are the Planning and Approval Models Keeping
Up?
Before designers lift a pencil, the planning regulators
and project financiers have determined the fate of most
real property and infrastructure investments. Are the
frameworks of planning approvals and regulation in place
in Australia past their use by dates?
What needs to be done to ensure community standards for
planning are maintained whilst allowing investors, designers
and constructors to eliminate the present levels of wasted
effort and money? |
Peter Verwer
CEO, Property Council of Australia
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| Session 6 |
Project Finance Due Diligence – Over the
Top?
Are project financiers fooling themselves in seeking to
avoid as much patronage and construction risk as they
and their lawyers can manage to anticipate?
Does contemporary drafting of finance agreements really
protect financiers? Who pays if the project falls over
before completion?
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| Leaders Breakfast |
Industry Workload – Is there a Bubble
to Burst?
The latest forecasts from the Construction Forecasting
Committee. What do they tell us about market conditions
for the next 2 years? What do broader economic conditions,
here and overseas, tell us about construction market conditions
over the next 5 years? Who will be investing in the built
environment, and where?
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Chris Murphy
Director, Econtech
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| Session 7 |
Construction – a Smokestack Industry?
What are emissions trading schemes likely to look like,
and how will they impact on design and construction? What
must we do to avoid the risks associated with any schemes?
What opportunities should such schemes present to encourage
adoption and implementation? Where will the costs fall,
and for how long?
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| Session 8 |
Boosting Australian Productivity
How far have government and private sector investors gone
in adopting and implementing the industry KPI’s
launched in November 2007? What is their experience of
designers and constructors embracing the KPI’s?
Will they persist? Can they afford not to? |
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| Session 9 |
The Future of the Industry
- What do our best and brightest young people think needs
to be changed, and how?
- What will they do differently when they lead organisations?
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This area will be updated as speakers are confirmed.
Registration brochures will be available early in 2008, on
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