Plenary Session M5 on Thurday morning 5th of September at 9:00 - 10:00
Bridging the gap between designers and constructors:
- how do we ensure effective ‘transfer’ of design into construction?
The Corporate Associates Presidential Group (CAPG) of ISSMGE initiated a worldwide survey on the state-of-practice and the state-of-the-art in geotechnical engineering. The results of this survey were presented at a workshop at the 19th ICSMGE in 2017. Following on from this survey and workshop, CAPG is now organising a number of workshops at various regional conferences.
There is increasing isolation of contract procurement that lead to contracts being disconnected and delivered in ‘silos’.The risk of misunderstandings or underestimating the importance of various design components when the designs move from the design board to site for execution is becoming higher and higher. We believe that this topic touches a very sensitive and real issues both in the UK and in the wider European Industry. The audience at this plenary session will be encouraged through a lively debate to exchange views and experiences from the different stake holder view points. As a result, we expect to arrive at valuable conclusions and actions for the betterment of our practice as we move on to a very challenging future of increasingly demanding projects and continuously decreasing budgets.
An outline of the CAPG plenary session is as following:
Objective: Future successes of collaboration between practitioners, constructors, academics and best practice
Case study illustrating the importance of communication and understanding between designers, academics and contractor
- Yuli (Chaido) Doulala-Rigby
Case study illustrating the importance of communication and understanding between designers, academics and contractor
- Yuli (Chaido) Doulala-Rigby
Panel discussion with invited panelists.
Audience discussions and Q&A
- Yuli (Chaido) Doulala-Rigby, (Tensar, Corporate Associate)
- Jørgen Steenfelt,(COWI Consult, Corporate Associate)
- Karel Allaert (Jan De Nul, Corporate Associate)
- Lars Anderson (NGI, Corporate Associate)
- Mandy Korff (Deltares, Corporate Associate)
Audience discussions and Q&A