Global Design Group Pushes For Earlier Project Involvement

摘要

Engineers for decades have lamented their modest influence on big development decisions. But with climate change raising the public profile of environmental issues, things are changing. The 1,200 attendees at the International Federation of Consulting Engineers' centennial conference, held earlier this month in Barcelona, want more say in project decisions. Multilateral banks and funds "are considering more and more that sustainability should be introduced from the very early stages of the project," said Pablo Bueno, FIDIC's new president who also is CEO of Madrid design firm TYPSA. But the industry's voice "is not very well heard," he added. "When you invest in thinking before you start spending, [that's] the best way to utilize resources."