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EFCA GAM
Sofia, 2 June 2016
Sustainable Development Committee
Actions, results, plans
Subjects for debate & questions
Jean Félix, Chair of SD Committee
May 2016
SYNTEC-INGENIERIE
1. Involvement in European sustainability issues
2. Involvement in major international SD events
3. Contributions to international frames of reference
4. Support for implementing sustainability in the
consulting engineering practice
5. Strategy document on sustainable development
6. Subjects for debate & questions
- Challenges and opportunities
- Suggested actions
I. INVOLVEMENT IN EUROPEAN SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES
• European Coordination Group on smart and
sustainable cities standardisation (chaired by
EFCA representative)
• European Committee for Standardisation (CEN)
EFCA liaison status in CEN/TC350 (Sustainability of
construction works)
• Implementation of the 2014 EIA (Environmental
Impact Assessment) Directive
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II. INVOLVEMENT IN MAJOR INTERNATIONAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EVENTS
1. COP 21, the UN 21ST conference on Climate
change, that negotiated the Paris Agreement,
offered the opportunity for EFCA-FIDIC
to launch the statement in support of COP21 (position on
climate change), adopted by the FIDIC EC and endorsed
by the EFCA BoD
to present, jointly with UNEP, the ongoing work on the ABC
for Sustainable Cities
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2. BUSINESS CLIMATE SUMMIT (BCS), a
business-oriented international conference,
offered the opportunity
FIDIC side-event on climate change
business opportunities
FIDIC speakers in the session ‘Business
solutions - CITIES’ and the session ‘Policies:
Building capacity and resilience’
II. INVOLVEMENT IN MAJOR INTERNATIONAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EVENTS
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3. HABITAT III - United Nations Conference on
Housing and Sustainable Urban Development
associated partnership of WUC (the World Urban
Campaign)
membership of the WUC steering committee
(meeting hosted by CACE in Prague)
contributions to the preparation of ‘The City We
Need 2.0’
II. INVOLVEMENT IN MAJOR INTERNATIONAL
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT EVENTS
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III. CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL FRAMES OF REFERENCE
http://www.efcanet.org/Portals/EFCA/EFCA%20files/PDF/ABC%20for%20sustainable%20cities_2016.pdf
Main contributor: Stellan Fryxell (STD)
1. THE ABC FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES
published in March 2016 by UNEP and UN HABITAT and FIDIC co-branding
for joint FIDIC and FIDIC partners promotion and implementation
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III. CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL FRAME OF REFERENCE
2. ISO 37101 - ‘SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RESILIENCE OF CITIES AND
COMMUNITIES - MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS’
under publication; FIDIC contribution (liaison of ISO/TC 268)
guidance for implementation; planned SD COM contributions
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3. ISO STRATEGIC ADVISORY GROUP (SAG) ON SMART CITIES, set up by the
ISO/TMB Technical Management Board, including a FIDIC representative
ISO TMB resolution (March 2016), limiting the risk of a dominant ICT
approach to sustainable cities
World Smart City Forum: day 2 is dedicated to the adoption of principles
for improved cooperation of standards developing organisations and
international bodies
III. CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL FRAME OF REFERENCE
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IV. SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE
CONSULTING ENGINEERING PRACTICE
1. Set of four FIDIC webinars Sustainable Development and the Built Environment, Sustainability Tools, Project
Sustainability Management, Practical Implementation of Sustainability in Project
Design
2. FIDIC training sessions in China (Xi’ang and Beijing): PSM implementation
3. FIDIC-EFCA Sustainability Pack Online support/platform since January 2016: Project Sustainability Logbook
(PSL) (www.ppsl.org)
Update and integration documentation, potential use of rating systems
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V. STRATEGY DOCUMENT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Committee members initiated the review
Feedback is invited from Directors and Secretaries General (their use and the
firms’ interest)
Adaptation by EFCA to take into account specific European needs (use and
relevance)
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Subjects for debate & questionsCHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES OF THE SD MARKET
1. Which major market opportunities and challenges should
EFCA consider: smart versus sustainable cities market
environmental impact of projects, impacts of climate change
...?
2. On which challenges and opportunities, driven by EU law and
policies, should EFCA focus: EIA Directive, green
procurement, LCC methodology, standardisation, ...?
3. Particular European needs to improve the industry’s image of
‘sustainable development’?
4. Which competitors/competition in ‘sustainable development’?
Need for EFCA support?
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• Consistent EFCA-FIDIC position on ‘sustainable
development’; European/international strategy paper?
• Improved lobby towards the EU institutions? How to
anticipate policy trends and competition developments?
• How to leverage the SD COM efforts and the partnerships with
relevant bodies?
• Which joint FIDIC-EFCA actions in support of the industry’s
operational needs: tools, methodology, training, webinars,
documentation ...?
• Which particular actions and promotion for enhancing the
industry’s image in Europe?
• How to strengthen SD COM through the EFCA and FIDIC
networks?
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Subjects for debate & questionsSUGGESTED ACTIONS
Two major questions for an improved lobby towards the EU
as regards business opportunities, competition developments?
• How to strengthen SD COM through the EFCA
networks?
• How to leverage the SD COM efforts with relevant
partnerships?
The Urban Agenda for the EU:
European cities get their say in EU policy making
• On May 30th the Commission endorsed the 'Pact of
Amsterdam‘, which establishes the Urban Agenda for the
EU and lays out its key principles
• At the heart of it: the development of 12 partnerships on
12 identified urban challenges that will involve… NGOs
and business partners
• That will focus on
– a more effective and coherent implementation of existing EU policies
in cities in the fields of, for example, environment, transport …
– easing access to EU funding, promoting combinations of EU funds
and…
Four ongoing pilot partnerships
coordinated by
1. Inclusion of migrants and refugees: the city of
Amsterdam
2. Air quality: the Netherlands
3. Urban poverty: Belgium and France
4. Housing: Slovakia
Eight others partnerships
to be launched between the end of 2016
and the summer of 2017
5. Circular economy;
6. Jobs and skills in the local economy;
7. Climate adaptation;
8. Energy transition
9. Sustainable use of land and Nature-Based solutions;
10. Urban mobility;
11. Digital transition;
12. Innovative and responsible public procurement
All my thanks to the EFCA secretariat and
the Committee members who supported
the SD COM activities in 2015-2016
Jean FELIX
SD COM chair
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