Conference Day One: Tuesday 24 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 Delivering Major Infrastructure Projects: The Attributes Of Success

The RiverCity Motorway Group is in charge of the $2 billion project to deliver Queensland’s North-South bypass tunnel. The project, which commenced in 2006, is scheduled for completion in 2010. In this session, RiverCity’s CEO, Flan Cleary, will share his share his experiences with the North-South Bypass and M7 projects and outline the key attributes of delivery success for major projects, including:

• The organisational attributes required to successfully deliver major projects
• Key planning attributes for major projects
• Successfully managing projects to ensure deadlines are met and key roles of parties are clearly prioritised
• Keeping the project on track

Flan Cleary
CEO
RIVERCITY MOTORWAY GROUP

9:50 Managing Complex Projects Through The Public Sector To Achieve Successful Project Delivery: The Chatswood Civic Place Project

The Civic Place Project is a redevelopment of the Chatswood CBD area in Sydney. The project is being run by the Willoughby City Council and is significant for the number of stakeholders impacted by the project. These include 60,000 local residents, hundreds of local businesses, contractors, designers, builders and the local council. In this session, the project’s manager, Linda Cardew, will share information relating to the project, including:

• An overview of The Chatswood Civic Place project
• What makes The Chatswood Civic Place project a “complex” project?
• Challenges faced in implementing the project plan
• Project constraints faced when dealing with the public sector: What additional considerations do the private sector need to consider when working with local government
• Lessons learnt from the initial scoping, planning and work of The Chatswood Civic Place Project

Linda Cardew
Project Manager, The Chatswood Civic Place
WILLOUGHBY CITY COUNCIL

10.30 Morning Tea And Networking

11:00 Refining The Approach To Infrastructure Delivery Through A New PPP Template

The Surat Basin Rail project is currently in planning phase and consists of an open-access, multi-user rail link connecting the coal reserves located in west of Toowoomba with the Port of Gladstone. As a joint venture between Xstrata Coal, Anglo Coal, Queensland Rail (QR), Industry Funds Management and ATEC, the project, which is due for completion in 2012, will offer an opportunity for open access railway for coal and freight within this regional area of Australia. In this session, Surat Basin’s CEO, Graham Dooley, who was formerly the Managing Director of United Utilities, will cover:

• An outline of the Surat Basin Railway development
• Creating a new equity investment and development alternative
• Developing State motivation to gain extra benefit
• Working with a Government utility as an equity investor, co-developer and sub-contractor
• Understanding the rewards to Government, PPP investors and customers

Graham Dooley
CEO
SURAT BASIN RAIL

11:40 Developing Risk Management Techniques To Drive The Successful Delivery Of Infrastructure Projects: A Public Sector Perspective From Queenland MainRoads

• Factors that need to be considered when creating a workable risk management strategy
• Managing stakeholder expectations and balancing stakeholder needs
• Ways of ensuring that risk is streamlined to the most appropriate party
• How to structure contracts for efficient delivery of public sector infrastructure projects
• Building flexibility for risk events into contractual schemes

Alan Tesch
Director-General
MAINROADS QUEENSLAND

1:20 How To Deliver And Demonstrate Client Value Across The Life Of A Major Project

In this session, Mike Zambelli of the Trackstar Alliance, will share his insights on how their alliance project has committed to thinking differently to deliver innovation and achieve breakthrough outcomes that create real client value. You will walk away from this session with solutions for:

• Clearly defining what constitutes client value
• Measuring project success in order to demonstrate value for the client’s dollar
• Communicating the value proposition in the TCE process
• Ensuring value throughout project delivery

Mike Zambelli
Alliance Manager
TRACKSTAR ALLIANCE

2:00 Partnering With The Private Sector To Deliver Education Infrastructure: A Case Study Of The SEQ Schools Project

The SEQ Schools Project is a Public Private Partnership that will deliver up to seven new schools to South Eastern Queensland. As a PPP, the project will involve a working arrangement between the Department of Education and Training and several private sector organisations. This session will cover:

• An overview of the SEQ Schools Project: The goals and status of the project
• Planning and scoping project objectives to ensure the successful delivery of the project
• Strategies for enabling private sector involvement in the delivery of public infrastructure
• The roles of the government and private sector in delivering the project
• Developing a plan for project delivery

Rob Chittenden
Project Director, SEQ Schools Project
QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2:40 Afternoon Tea And Networking

3:10 Best Practice Alliance Contracting: A Case Study Of The Tullamarine-Calder Interchange Project

The Tullamarine-Calder Interchange Project alliance contracting schemes have been so successful that the project was recently awarded with the prize for best alliance contracting arrangement. The key lessons learnt from this project will provide your organisation with the attributes to achieve future success in an alliance contracting arrangement. This session covers:

• An overview of the Tullamarine-Calder Interchange Project
• How alliance contracting was used to facilitate the delivery of this project
• Understanding what constitutes the best alliance model for your project
• How to establish best practice alliance contract structures and processes
• Lessons learnt: Why this project was such a success and how it can be further enhanced

Andrew Stevenson
Alliance Construction Manager
BAULDERSTONE HORNIBROOK

3:50 Facilitated Discussion: Strategies For Measuring The Success Of Major Projects

• The importance of being able to measure the success of major projects
• Techniques for strategic evaluation of project success
• What benchmarks should we be measuring against
• Leveraging measurement methods to drive project improvement and decrease waste

Faciliated by Andrew Leicester

4:30 Closing Remarks From The Chair

4.40 End Of Conference Day One

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