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Commercial
Management Practices Committee
Terms
of Reference
The Institution recognises two primary disciplines, these being commercial
management and geospatial engineering. Each discipline is supported and promoted
by a core committee with the Chairman of that committee being a member of
Council of Management who also sits on the Executive Advisory Committee to
Council of Management.
Structure
The Commercial Management Practices Committee (CMPC) comprises specialist
panels with the Chairman of each of the panels forming the main committee.
In addition to the panel Chairman there is a sub-editor responsible for publication
liaison, a liaison officer between CMPC and the Education, Training and Membership
committee and the Institution's legal advisers. Beyond this ICES representation,
ICE, by virtue of the agreement between the Institutions, has two seats on
CMPC. Similarly, a reciprocal arrangement applies for ICES representation
on the ICE Management Board.
Objectives
The primary objective of CMPC is to promote excellence within the commercial
management practices membership of ICES.
In addition CMPC has the following complementary objectives:
1. To disseminate knowledge on commercial management matters within ICES membership and more generally throughout the civil engineering industry.
2. To establish standards and, where appropriate, methodology representing industry wide norms.
3. To represent members' interests when and wherever possible provided this objective does not come into conflict with the primary objective.
4. To respond to requests for information from central government or any other organisation legitimately and appropriately seeking such information.
5. To ensure members have imparted to them the latest and most appropriate techniques and methods appropriate to the role of Commercial Managers.
6. To promote and comment on innovation and best practice.
7. To be conscious of and endeavour to protect the natural environment where and whenever possible.
8. To promote links with other appropriate bodies within the civil engineering industry to the mutual benefit of these other bodies and ICES.
9. To promote close links between the regions and the regional committees of ICES and CMPC.
Action
Plan
The chairman and vice chairman of CMPC will produce an action plan on a rolling
five year basis in conjunction with the other members of CMPC. The action
plan will exhibit a relatively high level of detail for its first two year
period. For the remaining three year period it will show sufficient detail
as is necessary allowing flexibility.
Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
Procurement Engineering Panel
Terms
of Reference
1.
To provide advice through reference, articles and publications
on the management of methods of procurement, the associated pricing and contractual
arrangement, to the Civil Engineering Industry at large and particularly to
the members of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.
2. To advise and assist members of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors as to the different methods of procurement and the potential advantages and disadvantages of those methods as compared with each other.
3. The types of procurement methods to be considered by the Panel, including professional, supply and trade/subcontract arrangements will be:
4. To confidentially assist members with their queries concerning procurement and associated estimating problems encountered in their workplace.
5. To liaise with other relevant Panels as necessary on any procurement and pricing disputes referred.
6. To disseminate queries dealt with by the Panel together with their deliberations, in a confidential manner, to the membership of the Institution through the Journal.
7. To establish such respect in the Civil Engineering industry at large such as to become the point of reference on procurement issues.
Project
Management and Planning Panel
Terms
of Reference
The
Project Management and Planning Panel as an integral part of the Commercial
Management Practices Committee intend that the following Terms of Reference
provide an instructional and advisory service to the membership of the Institution.
1. To provide commentary, advice and opinion in a structured manner and format and to ensure that all grades of membership have access to the facilities that are available to, or that progressively become available to, the Panel covering the fields of Project Management and Project Planning.
2. Project Management is viewed as the umbrella discipline encapsulating the following phases:
However, the planning of any Project is a discipline that cannot be treated as merely a phase of the Project Management philosophy because it is a predominant and isolated aspect of the Project from inception through to final completion. With this in mind the panel will endeavour to treat Project Planning as a separate, although parallel, science within the Project Management field.
3. To ensure that such commentary and advice is presented to the membership and other related institutions, associations and technical bodies in a professional manner through articles in the Institution Journal.
4. To assist and advise members on current practice and procedure.
5. To work with other institutions and associations on behalf of the membership to ensure that the most up to date philosophies on Project Management and Planning are made available to members.
6.
To provide the membership of the ICES and the Institution of Civil
Engineers (ICE) with a comprehensive and authoritative Project Management
and Planning service which will reflect the good name that the Institution
of Civil Engineering Surveyors has within the Construction Industry.
Dispute
Avoidance and Resolution Panel
Terms
of Reference
1. To advise and assist Members of the Institution of Civil Engineering
Surveyors on good practice to help avoid disputes on civil engineering and
other construction and engineering projects.
2. To advise and assist Members of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors on methods for speedy and cost-effective but nevertheless high quality resolution of disputes on civil engineering and other construction and engineering projects. In doing this, this Panel will also liaise with the Institution of Civil Engineers' Advisory Panel on Legal Affairs and its Conciliation and Adjudication Panel.
3. To inform Members of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (as part of 2. above) of the developments relating to adjudication under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.
4. To consider and promote (as part of 2. above) the use of the different types of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in the civil engineering industry at large and particularly to members of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.
5. To advise and assist Members of the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors on the different forms of ADR and the potential advantages and disadvantages of them as compared with each other.
The types of dispute resolution that will be considered by the Panel will be:
6. To confidentially assist members with their queries concerning problems encountered in their workplace concerning avoidance and resolution disputes.
7. To seek the advise of other panels as necessary and where practical, when the DAR Panel is requested to assist members concerning problems encountered in their workplace which impinge on the technical aspects of Civil Engineering work covered by those panels.
QS and Construction Economics Panel
Terms
of Reference
The
QS and Construction Economics Panel of the Institution of Civil Engineering
Surveyors CMPC terms of operational reference shall include and usually operate
within the parameters set down below.
1. To monitor and review the QS role required to service current and changing practices in:
2. To provide and deliver a voice to the membership and other appropriate bodies, eg, learning establishments, which identifies the current requirements and trends.
3. To review and comment on the applicability of the Institution's corporate review criteria in the light of the current skill base of young QS's and their Employers' needs.
4. To review or identify, in conjunction with the Procurement Engineering Panel, appropriate contract procurement trends to satisfy both the Client and Contracting viewpoints.
5. To review methods of establishing value earned for various styles of contract.
6. To consider the appropriate usage of subcontract forms associated with various Conditions of Contract.
Members
wishing to raise any questions to the panels can do so by e-mail:
[email protected], or by fax on 0161 972 3118 or by post in the usual way.
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