Over the past 25 years, Maas has been responsible for iconic and much-discussed projects such as the Markthal (2014), Crystal Houses (2016), Tainan Spring (2020), Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (2021) and Valley (2021). Maas developed master plans for Paris, Bordeaux and Oslo, among other cities. In the Netherlands, Maas has been the supervisor of Floriade 2022 since 2012 and the supervisor of the city center of Eindhoven since 2017.

Maas is a much sought-after guest speaker and guest professor at various universities, and also leads The Why Factory, a think tank at TU Delft that studies and visualises future cities. In 2011 Maas was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, the highest award of the French government. In 2015, he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion by the Dutch government. He is also an honorary member of architects’ organisations in Scotland, England and America.

Sander Pluijm was the first Dutch Media Crew Member (MCM) in the Volvo Ocean Race, witnessing the tough and long sailing race with Team Delta Lloyd. According to him, a sailing race has many points of contact with the business world. Think about preparation, big data, and cooperation. Under extreme circumstances, you are challenged enormously. It requires the necessary energy, control, and patience. You get to know each other’s weaknesses and strengths at lightning speed. Not only the race crew is important, but also the shore crew and the logistic team. In the preparation you check the assets, the route, and the tactics. You try to control all factors, but despite good preparation, unforeseen things can always happen that are out of your control. Although every team will sooner or later have to deal with setbacks, this does not always have to have a negative effect. Cooperation is crucial for making the right decisions as a team. Acknowledging and respecting each other’s lesser points to really achieve something together is how camaraderie is forged.

He is the founding father of the Shell Project Academy. Finally, he reached the position of Vice President of contracting and procurement for projects. The common theme throughout his career is change management and project management through the involvement of people. In 2007 he was selected for the chair of Management of Engineering Projects at TU Delft (part-time). His inaugural address in 2008 had as title: “Management of Projects: a people process”. End 2014 Hans ended his Shell career to become full-time involved with project management at TU Delft. During the past years, Hans has supervised almost 200 Master’s students in their graduation and has supervised (and is supervising) 12 Ph.D. candidates in the field of project management and contracting.

Topic: “Learning from Projects”
For years projects are known to deliver late, above budget, and not always fulfilling the expectations of all involved. What do we have to do to improve the track record of our projects? The focus should not be on technology only, the focus should also not solely be placed on sticking to the standards. The focus should be placed on working together with all parties together from the earliest possible moment in the lifetime of a project. We should give much more credit to the knowledge and the skills of the people involved in the project and we should be brave enough to put the authority in the hands of the people who are actually working at the forefront. Early involvement and true integration are the keywords to improve the success and predictability of our future projects. What is essential in this approach is that everybody at least knows the basics of project management. In the words of Eisenhower in preparing for D-Day:” A plan is useless, but planning is indispensable”. Solutions should be found in managing the relationship instead of the contact, scaling the activities rather than skipping them, and stressing that the people are key for the realization of the project, today and tomorrow.

She has recently returned to her “roots” in estimating and project controls, at AUI. Alexia has published several technical books, and is on the editorial board for the journal Project Management Research & Practice. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics, master’s degree in Civil (Structural) Engineering, and PhD in Strategy, Project, and Programme Management. Alexia is a Fellow of the RICS, AACE International, ICEC, and the Guild of Project Controls. She was previously Chair of ICEC and President of AACE International.

Topic: BIM for Sustainability

She has directed a multimillion PFI contract for the total renovation of the hospital’s energy production.  

She is an Expert in Economic Engineering (AICE / ICEC certificate – International Cost Engineering Council n. 60). Project Manager of complex procedures for renovations and new hospital constructions, she is certified by CERTing, the National Agency for the Certification of Competence for Engineers, Certificate number MOB-4621-IT21 Advanced – “Expert Building Systems Engineer, specializing in Project Management and Hospital Construction Processes”. 

She is Project Manager certified PMP® by PMI (n. 3200285), ISIPM-base, ISIPM-Av® and AICQ SICEV (Project Manager UNI 11648 n.0403). 

She has served as speaker in many conferences in Italy and abroad. She teaches in many healthcare engineering courses and university masters.  

Co-founder and present President of “Italian Society for Healthcare Engineering and Architecture (S.I.A.I.S.)”, President of IFHE (International Federation of Healthcare Engineering) and Past-President of IFHE-EU. She has been honored with a medal of the Italian Republic Order of Merit. 

Dave is a member of the RICS and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

The ISO 19008 standard provides the specifications for classification of cost, quantities and schedule data associated with the development and operation of oil and gas processing facilities. It is valid for the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industry, where it addresses all upstream, midstream, downstream and petrochemical business categories. It also provides a structure for offshore wind facilities and can be useful for other low carbon/ carbon capture facilities, and an can thereby support the transition towards decarbonization and renewable energy systems.

The standard is designed to provide a uniform coding basis for cost and quantities from a life cycle perspective – from estimate preparation to cost management and collecting/collating related historical data in order to facilitate benchmarking and analysis. The standard is also intended to provide the basis for exchange of cost and quantity data between parties, e.g. between companies or contractors or across projects.”

His career is devoted to Project Management and in 1996 he establishes his consulting firm, Artas Consulting, offering consulting, training and support services related to Project Management, Project Controls, Contract Management.

Since 2000 he is a member of the Directory Board of the AICE and he is currently in charge as President since 2012.