Conference Day Two: Wednesday 25 February 2009

9:00 Opening Remarks From The Chair

Andrew Leicester
Associate Professor of Project Management, Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development
BOND UNIVERSITY

9:10 Strategies For Achieving Successful Stakeholder Engagement

The Brisbane Airport is currently undergoing a $2.5 billion redevelopment that includes the building of a new runway, access roads and expansion of the airport’s terminals. The project commenced in 2006 and is due for completion in 2016. One of the key aspects of this project has been the diverse stakeholders involved, which include airlines, airport businesses, government organisations, residents and commuters. This has provided John Richards, the Brisbane Airport Corporation’s Executive Manager of Major Projects, with significant skills in dealing with multiple stakeholders. He will share his knowledge on:

• Understanding who the key stakeholders are and what they need
• Balancing competing needs of stakeholders
• Developing effective communication and contract techniques to satisfy stakeholders
• Techniques for effectively managing stakeholders in order to successfully deliver large-scale projects

John Richards
Executive Manager, Major Projects
BRISBANE AIRPORT CORPORATION

9:50 Strategic Management Of Project Governance Strategies

• Aligning organisational goals with project goals to establish workable governance frameworks
• Stabilising executive decision making to enable projects to advance
• Implementing strategies to control project governance
• Creating adaptability in governance strategies to adjust to changing circumstances

Carolyn Spencer
Strategic Capability, Performance and Risk
QUEENSLAND FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE

10:30 Morning Tea And Networking

11:00 Building A Business Case For Public Infrastructure Involvement

• Understanding what projects require and how they fit in with your company’s resource availability
• Collaborating with the public sector to understand their needs and vision for the project
• Implementing a planning process that will account for all eventualities and ensure the success of projects in the future
• Realistic analysis of tenders: A comparison of the likely success against the cost of the actual tender
• Identifying and quantifying key benefits for your organisation

Jim Millar
Northern Region Commercial Manager
ABIGROUP CONTRACTORS

11:40 Use Of Public Private Partnerhships (“PPP”) To Successfully Delivery Public Infrastructure

In his role at the Department of Human Services in Victoria, Anthony Lubofsky has been the Project Director on a number of highly successful PPP projects, including the Casey Hospital, Royal Children’s Hospital and new school projects. In this session, Anthony will share his wealth of experience to provide you with the information required to successfully deliver a project within a PPP arrangement. The session covers:

• The use of PPPs as a vehicle for public sector infrastructure delivery
• Managing and engaging stakeholders in a public-private environment
• Overcoming challenges in delivering public infrastructure through PPPs
• The attributes of success for the delivery of public infrastructure within a PPP environment
• Key lessons learnt from the delivery of major projects using PPPs

Anthony Lubofsky
Project Director, New Schools Project
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES (VIC)

1:20 Developing Risk Management Strategies To Enable The Successful Delivery Of Infrastructure Projects: The EastLink Experience

EastLink is Australia’s largest road development, comprising about 39km of freeway-standard road, as well as more than 35km of bicycle and walking paths for local residents. The project was delivered by the private sector under the Victorian Government’s Partnerships Victoria framework. With a construction cost of $2.5 billion, the total project is valued at $3.8 billion, comprising $2.1 billion in bank debt and $1.7 billion in equity funding. Major construction began in early 2005 and the road opened to traffic on 29 June 2008, five months ahead of schedule. John Gardiner, who is the MD of ConnectEast, the consortium who built and operates EastLink, will share his learnings from the successful delivery of this major project, including:

• Key considerations when developing a workable risk management process
• Managing stakeholder expectations and balancing stakeholder needs
• Ensuring risk management strategies streamline risk to the party most able to absorb it
• Structuring contracts for efficient delivery of infrastructure projects and building flexibility for risk events into contract arrangements

John Gardiner
Managing Director
CONNECTEAST GROUP

2:00 Managing Your Contractual Relationships To Optimise Your Risk Management Strategy

• Methods for selecting the right partners
• Building effective and innovative relationships to address market demand issues and improve major project delivery
• Engaging suppliers in the development phase of a project in order to adequately anticipate risk variables
• Strategies for enabling the most efficient transfer of risk to the appropriate party to bear that risk

Kieran Lynch
Director, Infrastructure Risk Management and Insurance, Project Support Services, Major Projects Office
QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF MAIN ROADS

2:40 Afternoon Tea And Networking

3:10 Techniques For Managing Contract Uncertainty, Risk And Change

• How to develop key result areas that minimise the risk of project failure
• Defining and managing risk in the context of major projects
• Understanding how to protect your project from cost and time overruns by utilising good risk management techniques
• Understanding the reality of uncertainty and how to deal with it in a project environment

Andrew Leicester
Associate Professor of Project Management, Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development
BOND UNIVERSITY

3:50 Facilitated Discussion: Addressing Australia’s Evolving Infrastructure Needs: Meeting The Infrastructure Needs Of The Nation

• Understanding the developments occurring in Australia that drive the need for a vast increase in public infrastructure
• What is the scale and timing of the Australia’s infrastructure growth
• An analysis of how the infrastructure needs will be met
• The opportunities that will exist for Australian and international organisation’s to drive Australia’s growth

Facilitated by Andrew Leicester

4:30 Closing Remarks From The Chair

4:40 Close Of Conference

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