UPADI Intermediary Meeting – October 10-14, 2005 - Aruba
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Organizando a Convenção UPADI 2006
A UPADI (União Panamericana de Associações de Engenheiros) acaba de realizar sua reunião intermediária em Oranjestad, transcorrida de 10 a 14 de outubro de 2005, preparatória à Convenção UPADI 2006.
O presidente da UPADI, Cláudio Dall´Acqua, recebeu a delegação norte-americana, para tratar, entre outros assuntos, da Conferência UPADI 2006. Na foto, com os membros das delegações norte-americana e mexicana, como o Eng. Pablo Realpozo (vice-presidente da Convenção UPADI 2004 na Cidade do México), Patrícia Galloway (ex-presidente da ASCE), Daniel Clinton (ex-presidente da NSPE), Luther Graef, George Garcia e Diana Turner (organizadores da UPADI 2006).
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Eng. Cláudio Dall´Acqua conversa com o eng. Denis Mora, representante da Costa Rica no Conselho Consultivo da UPADI.
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A última convenção UPADI foi realizada na Cidade do México, em 2004, com grande sucesso, reunindo mais de 3.500 delegados de vários países. Os engenheiros norte-americanos disponibilizaram suas duas maiores e mais atuantes organizações de Engenharia - a American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) e a National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) - para organizar e promover a XXX Pan American Convention of Engineers - UPADI 2006 (30a Convenção Panamericana de Engenharia). A Convenção UPADI 2006 será realizada na cidade de Atlanta, no estado americano da Georgia, com apoio do Geórgia Tech Global Learning & Conference Center, da Universidade da Georgia (Georgia Institute of Technology), a quinta maior universidade norte-americana na área da Engenharia. O site
www.upadi2006.com apresenta a programação deste evento, incluindo sessões especiais para jovens engenheiros, à semelhança do que foi feito com êxito na capital mexicana.
• Integração Panamericana
A Convenção UPADI 2006 tem por tema a construção de infra-estrutura ambientalmente sustentável para a integração Panamericana, através de educação de ponta em Engenharia e uso de inovações tecnológicas para estimular o desenvolvimento econômico. A chamada de trabalhos técnicos e inscrições para a Convenção UPADI 2006 já podem ser acessados no site citado.
• Retorno do Canadá
Paralelamente à reunião do Conselho Técnico da UPADI, ocorreram as reuniões do Conselho Consultivo, da Academia Panamericana de Engenharia e do Diretório Internacional, reunindo representantes de 27 paises americanos. O Canadá retornou à UPADI, enviando representantes às reuniões do Conselho Consultivo e Conselho Técnico, liderados pelo eng. Dick Fletcher, membro da diretoria do Canadian Council of Professional Engineers.
• Atividades Técnicas
Da dir. p/ a esq.: o presidente do Conselho Técnico da UPADI, eng. Cyro Laurenza; Julio Salgado (representante de Cuba) e Russel Jones (presidente do Comitê de Ensino de Engenharia). Na reunião, os Comitês Técnicos apresentaram os resultados da Convenção UPADI 2004, realizada com sucesso no México. Os presidentes dos Comitês Técnicos apresentaram seus relatório de atividades para o período 2004-2005 e o Plano de Atividades para o período 2005-2006, já considerando a Convenção de Atlanta.
A Academia Panamericana de Engenharia debateu o Planejamento Estratégico da entidade, com vistas ao presente e ao futuro da Engenharia no Continente e suas políticas para valorização do engenheiro e das atividades de engenharia. O Conselho Consultivo e o Diretório Internacional abordaram a adequação dos Estatutos ao momento atual da Engenharia e a questão da sede permanente da UPADI em 2008, entre outros assuntos relevantes.
• PRÊMIO ASCE - International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Program
A ASCE solicitou à UPADI indicações para a premiação do Programa Internacional de Obras Históricas em Engenharia Civil (International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark Program), que premia projetos relevantes de Engenharia Civil, que na data da indicação tenham pelo menos 50 anos de operação. Dentre os projetos já foram premiados destacam-se o Canal do Panamá, a Estátua da Liberdade, a Torre Eiffel, o Canal de Suez, e outras destacadas obras relevantes da engenharia mundial. Como não há obra brasileira premiada pela ASCE, fica o desafio à nossa Engenharia de indicar obras que possam ser qualificadas ao prêmio.
• Congresso da WFEO (World Federation of Engineering Organizations)
Finalizada a reunião em Oranjestad, a delegação brasileira da UPADI dirigiu-se à San Juan, Porto Rico, para participar da Assembléia Geral e Congresso Técnico da WFEO (www.wfeo2005.org). A Assembléia Geral e Congresso Técnico da WFEO em 2008 serão realizados no Brasil.
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PRONOUNCEMENT OF ENG CYRO LAURENZA
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD - UPADI´s Technical Council
Respected friends of Technical Council of UPADI,
I thank you all for your presence, especially those from the highest directory of our UPADI. I confess being happy for meeting you. Unfortunately, due for geographical reasons, and for earlier professional and financial commitments, most of us could not come to this meeting.
For the same reasons, unhappily, this meeting could not be preceded by a larger number of encounters. I believe we are near some technological solutions that will make possible more often and easier meetings. One of them will de disclosed by our President, and the other I will announce later.
I also invited our former President of this Council, Eng. Efrain Echande, to make the traditional initial oration for our works. The Schedule of the meeting is enclosed, and I ask you to examine it carefully.
I invite our former President of this Technical Council, eng. Efrain Echande, to help us with the starting oration; I therefore pass the Word to our friend Efrain.
THANK YOU
I invite the President of the Aruba Engineering Society – SAI to give us his welcome message, eng. FRANSISCUS L. M. de MEY.
THANK YOU
I asked our UPADI President to open the session of this meeting of the Technical Council. I therefore pass the Word to our President Cláudio Amaury Dall'Acqua, to give his contribution and help for this day, opening our Works. Let’s hear our UPADI President.
THANK YOU
Pronouncement of the President of the Technical Council
The second possibility of widening our contact is being provided by our fellow Carlos Stagliorio, President of the Human Development and Environment Committee. With his own resources, he developed digital meeting software in Bahia. This software will allow us to meet digitally, with sound and pictures.
I believe that right here in Aruba we will have a first experience with this software; we have already made the experience in Brazil with success. With this I believe that we will be able to, no more every year, at least every quarter, meet and change ideas, define plans, and give to UPADI a more modern performance and dynamics.
This year we are bringing for all a new work perspective. This year, as announced by our president, we will accomplish meetings with leaders of BID, in the attempt of finding a road of collaboration among our entities.
We found a middle ground, as already put by Cláudio Dall´Acqua, which seemed us quite promising and necessary. The subject of NATURAL DISASTERS, a long time concern of all of States of the American continent, and of the Development Banks, is the middle ground between UPADI and BID.
After our meeting of Aruba, I will be going to Washington, trying to figure out our future collaboration. It will be, without doubts, a work accomplished with the collaboration of the representatives of the members’ countries, participating in the International Directory of UPADI.
We will count with the effective participation of the whole Technical Council. I am sure that each committee of our Council will have a role to carry out in this mission.
WHAT MISSION WILL BE THIS?
Together with all of the member countries we will seek in several ways to make available widely the most recent technical knowledge and information about the theme PREVENTION AND MITIGATION OF NATURAL DISASTERS. We know what is happening all over the world. Hurricanes and great inundations in Northern Hemisphere, hurricanes and inundations in Southern Hemisphere, tsunamis in Asia. In all those places they caused thousands of deaths and material damages at the impacted countries.
WHO MORE WILL PARTICIPATE?
As it is of the knowledge of all, UPADI has a narrow connection with COPIMERA. This entity is presided by our dear friend Eng. Marco Chen, from Panama, today aactive participant of the Committee of Maintenance, no more an active participant due to the intense activities assumed in this new function. Today he would be with us to divide this announcement, but unfortunately he had to be in a Congress in Cuba, in this same day.
COPIMERA and UPADI, concerned with the theme, initially even independently, thought about aiding the governments in the search of a solution, with the collaboration of the intelligence of our engineering.
WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW THE BEST CONDITION WOULD BE.
On our side we were negotiating this support with BID and at the same time, in the extent of COPIMERA, a proposal sent to us was also discussed. Quickly we approved and we joined efforts to implement this Proposal. It is a proposal of mutual cooperation among the two entities for the superation of this problem of natural disasters. We intend to join our efforts on this subject.
The idea, in the proposal to BID, is solving one of their expectations for the year of 2008. On this occasion, in the governors meeting of BID, they intend to render documentation, necessary and enough, with objectives that can mitigate and prevent natural disasters.
Our proposal for BID is the one of developing in all of the member countries of UPADI, with the force and representative ness of the entities of the member countries, a series of Congress, conferences, technical meetings and informs on the theme.
Our initial proposal, that I believe can be enlarged, is to take to the whole America the questions below, and to look for suitable answers for each one of them. They are the following ones:
UPADI-COPIMERA
REDUCTION OF RISKS AND MITIGATION OF NATURAL DISASTERS NETWORK OF SPECIALISTS OBJECTIVE
1. Create among American engineers the capacity to prevent natural disasters, at planning, design, and operational level.
2. To promote the leadership of Pan-American engineers in their community, to enable mitigation of natural disasters.
3. Develop capacity and technologies to build infrastructure less vulnerable to natural disasters.
4. To promote among engineers the ethics of reducing risks in their projects regarding natural disasters, and reduce losses of human lives and infrastructure (public and private).
5. To share information (writing articles, giving conferences and short courses on the theme of natural disasters) to diffuse a culture of prevention.
6. To assist requests for counsel and orientation regarding prevention of risks due to natural disasters.
7. To publish studies in the network, to reduce environmental impacts in their projects.
8. To elaborate general guides to risk reduction and damage minimization, to assist other engineers in America.
9. To urge Engineering Schools and Professional Organizations to include in their Specializations Courses conferences about natural disasters and risk prevention.
10. To promote in engineering professional practice, in all of its specialties, the considerations of risks and impacts of natural disasters.
11. To work in harmony with international organizations, to avoid duplicate efforts, and to reach its objectives more quickly.
12. To promote the start of new small companies of consulting engineering, trading, construction, or manufacturing, to work in the prevention of natural disasters, such as: industrial risk evaluation, fire protection, water supply, irrigation, on site water treatment, portable electricity plants, solar energy, hospital engineering, protection against electrical atmospheric discharges, environmental management, pollution control, industrial safety, inspection and certification by ISO, seismic resistant construction materials, and so on.
13. To promote inside America international alliances between these companies, achieving their development and strengthening.
14. To publish in written media and Internet actions of the Specialists Network, studies, conferences, and courses promoted in America.
INITIAL ACTIONS
To start the creation of this network, UPADI and COPIMERA may nominate three specialized engineers, interested in professional development in these issues. Among the three designated engineers, UPADI and COPIMERA will nominate a Coordinator and a Secretary. These will act as a United Committee of Coordination of the Specialists Network for Risk Reduction and Mitigation of Natural Disasters.
I finish this analysis saying that everything intended to accomplish an effective protection of the investments that BID is making in our continent will be welcome by them. That solution can enable us to have instruments and methodologies to prevent and to mitigate the painful consequences of those natural disasters, which are today happening more frequently than in other times.
It will be without doubt a gigantic challenge for all. I don't have any doubts that the Engineering of America has the necessary capacity and skills to meet the expectations of BID.
We count, me and Cláudio Dall´Acqua, with the most competent participation of all of you.
We will now begin the session today,
Cyro Laurenza
Chairman of the Board - UPADI´s Technical Council
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Pronouncement of Eng. Roberto Kochen
Technical Director / Technical Council
“Natural Disasters and the Integration of American Countries”
The Role of UPADI
Dear Members of the Technical Council of UPADI
It is an honor and a privilege to be here today, gathered with outstanding representatives of the Engineering Profession in America. It is appropriate and useful to emphasize again the importance of the engineering profession to the well being of our countries´ population, as I will address in this pronouncement.
As recent natural disasters have shown, like hurricanes Katrina and Rita in USA, we are now suffering from a deficit in public and private investments in infrastructure. The hazardous effect of a large intensity hurricane over cities like New Orleans was known in advance, but the necessary investments in infrastructure upgrades to avoid them were not done. This happened in the richest country of our planet, showing that investment in infrastructure (with all it’s lateral positive effects in economic activity) is not a priority these days.
Weaker hurricanes often spread destruction in the Caribbean region. Earthquakes often strike cities in México, Central America and the Pacific Coast. Floods and landslides very often strike Brazil and other countries.
All these natural disasters can have their effects minimized by the proper application of engineering techniques already available, saving thousands of lives lost every year, reducing the damages to the economy of American Countries, and improving the well being and standard of living of our people.
The Engineering Profession, and the Engineering Leaders gathered today here, have the possibility (or would I say the duty?) of turning decision makers and leaders in their countries more aware of the need to use Engineering more often and intensively, to minimize natural disasters, reducing their toll of lives, destruction and damages paid yearly. Most of us are heading, after this meeting, to the World Engineering Congress promoted by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (FMOI). This is the place were we will get support for this claim – Engineering must be used more intensively to help Mankind cope better with Natural Disasters.
I would also like to give an example of the positive use of Engineering to improve the well being and economic activity of some American countries. The governments of three South America countries (Brazil, Bolivia and Peru) have joined efforts to create a highway, linking Brazil and Bolivia to the Pacific Coast in Peru. This highway has two branches – Interoceanica Sur and Norte. Its construction has already been awarded to joint ventures of local contractors. This governmental initiative, called IRSA – South America Regional Integration, is being financed by the Development Banks CAF, BID and Brazilian BNDES. It will greatly improve the economic activities in these countries, allowing linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by terrestrial routes, instead of sea routes. It is an example of the use of Engineering to promote economic development, and improve the well being of the population affected.
Last, but not least important, I would like to salute USA UPADI´s representatives, for promoting the XXX PAN AMERICAN CONVENTION OF ENGINEERS – UPADI 2006. UPADI 2006 CONVENTION will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, next year. Its theme is building a sustainable infrastructure through education, technological innovation and economic development. It fits well with the issues I addressed earlier in this talk.
USA has engaged two leading and outstanding Engineering Organizations of America, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), to organize and present the XXX PAN AMERICAN CONVENTION OF ENGINEERS – UPADI 2006. I am sure it will be an outstanding success, and we are all longing to be in Atlanta next year. México has promoted the last Convention, in México City (2004), with great success (more than 3.500 international delegates in attendance). I urge all the Presidents of Technical Committees to help USA promote a successful UPADI 2006 Convention.
I would like now to restart our Technical Council meeting, passing the Word to the Presidents of Technical Committees.
Thank you.
Roberto Kochen ( kochen@geocompany.com.br ) is a Civil Engineer, and Technical Director of UPADI – Pan American Federation of Engineering Organizations, gathering roughly 2,5 millions of engineers in 26 countries of America. UPADI is directed by Engineers Cláudio Amaury Dall’Acqua (President) and Cyro Laurenza (Chairman, Technical Council).
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