The Association of Cost Engineers are pleased to announce that they are presenting a two day Annual Conference entitled “Cost – The Bottom Line”, to be held at the Holiday Inn Coventry South, UK on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th October 2010. This prestigious Conference is aimed at specialists in Cost Estimating, Cost/Schedule Control, Project Controllers and Project Managers & Programme Managers.
Day One
Twelve papers will be presented covering the following topics:
– Estimating de-commissioning costs for nuclear power stations
– International project estimating
– Controlling project development costs – lenders perspective
– Review of a new IT system on a high profile capital project
– 10 key considerations when estimating IT projects
– Bottom up estimating
– Integrated project management
– EVMS Cost Control System
– Vocational Qualifications
– A system modelling approach to the evaluation of new tech. cost impacts
– How to estimate cost impacts of obsolescence
– Lean cost engineering in construction
Day Two
Day two is a Learning Event at which delegates will have the opportunity to further explore the speciality of their choice in the following series of workshops (CPD points to be awarded):
– Introduction to risk for cost engineers
– Introduction to earned value management
– Regression analysis
– Introduction to parametric techniques
– Best practise cost modelling in excel
– Uncertainty based cost estimating: a systematic approach
For further information please contact Anne Fairless at Anne@acoste.org.uk Please note 6th Oct evening there is a conference dinner for all the registered delegates.
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