Preliminary Conference Program

Sustainability in design and construction is becoming more a common aspect of capital projects and their life cycles. This presentation, will discuss the sustainability issues addressed on Masdar City, a carbon neutral city under design and construction from ground up in the United Arab Emirates. Masdar City, being built on six square kilometres of land near the Abu Dhabi Airport will take advantage of sustainable technologies for; generation of electricity, production of potable water, treatment of waste water, innovative transportation and green biological logistics designed for a neutral carbon footprint and zero waste. Review of these sustainable approaches will be followed up with discussion on a few of the engineering and design systems used during the design process.

Mr. Bruce A. Strupp, CPE-Design Technology Director, CH2M HILL

Rob Brawn, Dir Automation Systems Integration, CH2M HILL

In this era of massive capital project spending, how are EPCs leveraging their technology investments to improve effectiveness of delivery, cost competitiveness, and value added to the owners?

Joseph P. Morray, Jr., President, Trinity Technologies Corporation

Raju Hingorani*, Manager, Project Services, Upstream Operations, Jacobs

Alan Smith, WorleyParsons

Rob Brawn, Dir Automation Systems Integration, CH2M HILL

Ashish Shah, CSI-IIE, Project Director, Industrial & Infrastructure Group, Fluor Corporation, Fluor Enterprises

The session will consider the best practices related to technology innovation and how companies can plan investments in these unpredictable times. The presentations will consider the array of issues that impact planning, including achieving repeatable corporate innovation, education and training programs as an ongoing process, and examples of specific implementation approaches which have consistently achieved objectives.

John Leet, Director of Marketing, Skire Inc

Alan Johnston, Open O&M Chair, Open O & M Initiative

Alan Johnston, President, MIMOSA

Nils Sandsmark, General Manager, POSC Caesar

Robin Benjamins, CET Engineering Automation Manager, Bechtel Corporation

Mr. William J. Cooper, Digital Solutions Manager, BP Energy

Mr. Bruce A. Strupp, CPE-Design Technology Director, CH2M HILL

This Open O&M Panel Discussion will take place in Session 5: Successful Information Technology Implementation - at the end of Session 5.

Alan Johnston, President, MIMOSA

Craig S. Schiro Sr., Senior Engineering Associate, Facilities Engineering, ExxonMobil Development Company

Marty King, Staff Engineer - Process Control and Optimization ETC Process Automation, Chevron Energy Technology Company (ETC)

Mike Brooks, Venture Executive, Chevron Technology Ventures

How information technologies are enhancing safe plant operations and business processes related to safety and compliance will be detailed. Key plant activities such as management of change (MOC), HazOps studies, and establishing classification

David Holmes, PR Manager, Process Systems & Solutions, Emerson Process Management

Thiago Sousa de Oliveira, Chemical Engineer, Chemtech - A Siemens Company

Marc de Buyl, Managing Director – VRcontext LLC, VRcontext, LLC

Mr. David Corona, Security Coordinator, Champion Technologies

A broad set of examples and best practices related to project execution and the usage of modern information systems. Topics include globally distributed team collaboration and communications practices, model-centric design strategies, and achieving information input from all project participants, in particular equipment vendors. The session will also discuss the integration of major project systems (purchasing, document management, simulation, design, etc.) for project execution.

David Hoerster, Manager, Systems Technology Solutions, Bayer Business and Technology Services LLC

Ashish Shah, CSI-IIE, Project Director, Industrial & Infrastructure Group, Fluor Corporation, Fluor Enterprises

Roberta Clay, Walker Ridge Project Document Control, Petrobras America, Inc.

Mrs. Kristen M. Taylor, Material Management Specialist, Fluor Enterprises

Mr. Ricardo N. Cabral, Engineering Applications Manager, Chemtech-Siemens

Paul Daynes, Head of EPC Division, Acecad Software Ltd

This session will discuss new plant scanning technologies as well as process industry case studies dealing with the full lifecycle of the imaging process. Survey, capture, analysis, and delivery to three-dimensional models for practical application usage will be addressed in these presentations.

Mr. Tim R. Lemmon, Market Manager Power, Process & Plant Division, Trimble Navigation Limited

Dr. Allan Chasey, Professor, Arizona State University

Amadeus Burger, President, CSA, Inc.

Andrew Guard, Director, IT / CAE, The Shaw Group Inc.

**Workshop will take place at the George R. Brown Convention Center, Room 381 A**

iRINGUserGroup Workshop The iRINGUserGroup is an open online community of users, companies, and organizations who use, are considering using, or are developing or deploying ISO 15926 Part 7, 8, & 9 implementations. This workshop will provide a face to face setting for the discussion of iRINGUserGroup activities and future planning. The topics of iRINGUserGroup vision/strategy, benefits, and guidance, will be presented and discussed.

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