AACE Bulletin
Bulletin Section news for December
AACE International sections from around the world are encouraged to submit write-ups and photos of their monthly section meetings and other activities. For the December Source, submissions were received from the Norway and Seattle Sections.
Norway Section
The Norway Section’s 9th annual conference was conducted the 13th of October
The Norway Section aims to strengthen the skills and knowledge within cost estimation, cost control and planning in Norway. These annual conferences are one of the main pillars in achieving this together with other activities like courses, certification workshops, and other networking events. This year’s topic was “Megaprojects.” The main goal was to improve risk and uncertainty handling and to get insight and experiences from megaprojects.
About 100 participants attended the event in person. The combination of the different speakers from oil and gas, public sector, consultancies, and academia, gave the day interesting perspectives that triggered enthusiasm and engagement.
The board would like to thank everyone who participated and showed interest in the event, all speakers and especially Aker Solutions who assisted with planning and provided the conference facility.
Seattle Section
The Seattle Section ended the year with another successful live in-person event hosted at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel. On December 8th, an interested group of local professionals came to hear speaker Joanna Valencia, who is currently the revenue and capital development manager at SDOT. Joanna and her team are launching a multi-year planning effort for an equitable and resilient transportation system in the City of Seattle that considers all travel needs. Her presentation focused on how effective stakeholder engagement leads to success of the development and implementation effort. How to identify which stakeholders should be included during the projects planning phase, how best to reach them and what tactics are used to engage with them to encourage participation. Over the course of the presentation, Joanna demonstrated SDOTs efforts using interactive websites and activities that engaged the audience. The goal of all this work is to build a safe, efficient, and affordable transportation system that works better for everyone. A special thank you to Joanna, for presenting and helping the Seattle section end the year with a bang!