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Australian Cost Engineering Society (ACES)
www.costengineer.org.auThe Australian Cost Engineering Society has active chapters in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Members span a wide range of industries including oil & gas, minerals & mining and building. They include project managers, cost controllers, planners, estimators and contract administrators who apply cost engineering skills to support effective cost and schedule control on major projects.
The ACES is committed to providing forums for spreading cost engineering knowledge and techniques between members. All meetings and events are focused on technical issues of interest to members and deliver professional development through these meetings:
- A good level of activity continues in the Melbourne and Perth chapters, including the hosting of regular meetings / technical presentations which have been well attended.
- Sydney and Brisbane Chapters have also been holding meetings during the year with increased activity and member participation.
The ACES web site has been running since 2005 and provides a good communication tool, providing news and information to our diverse and often remote membership. The web site maintains copies of presentation material from ACES technical sessions and conferences.
The ACES “mail order” Technical CD borrowing library has been running in the Melbourne and Perth chapters for over two years and is operated through the web site. The library allows members, particularly those in remote areas, to access technical CD’s and books of interest to members in Cost Engineering.
ACES has an ongoing commitment to education and professional development of engineers in the methodology and application of project controls. In collaboration with Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, ACES continues to deliver a course in project costing at both undergraduate and post graduate levels. The post-graduate course is part of Swinburne’s Master of Construction Management.
The course has operated for nine years at Swinburne’s Hawthorn campus and in 2006 was made available by distance education. The distance learning project costing course has generated much interest and in its first year attracted students from across Australia and overseas.
Keith Webb
Chair
