Safety, quality predominate Third Engineers’ Conference

Feb 11, 2013 News

The country’s third Engineering Conference, an annual feature of the Public Works Ministry, was held Thursday to target new technologies and to discuss major concerns.
According to Prime Minister, Sam Hinds, himself an Engineer, the time is ripe for taking stock of the execution of engineering works.
At the gathering at the Guyana International Convention Centre were several Consultants and some of the country’s top Engineers.
The Prime Minister drew reference to the changing face of Engineers working for the government over the years, with a lot of brain drain and subsequent outsourcing of several projects as a result.
The Prime Minister said that there is now a new era of development and that the time has come for the Ministry to adapt a new comprehensive policy that it will execute, using its own Engineers.
The Prime Minister proposed that this new sufficiently comprehensive policy also entails “recognition of the cost that the Ministry would have to incur in being a prime place for training, accumulating experience, for testing and developing new experience.”
Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn, noted that the theme of the conference, “Improving Guyana’s Infrastructure for Future Generations”, was apt, as the work the engineer does in “building and developing Guyana, can only assure a good future for coming generations.”
Minister Benn said that the annual conference itself is crucial to developing the skills of the new crop of Engineers in the country.
He said that it is his hope that the conference will become a two-day annual event, featuring central presentations, with poster sessions “where we have peer review of the work that we do; where we have public scrutiny; where we have open discussions and criticisms and criticisms of how we do our work.”
Minister Benn also outlined some issues of concern that the Engineers must adhere to when building infrastructure around the country including safety, efficiency, quality, planning and the question of money.
“We have to continue to take vigorous steps with respect to ensuring safety in all the things we do and in relation with the national infrastructure building industry and particularly to point out where we still have problems in terms of the culture when we build,” he said.
“We still see high buildings going up and there is no harness, no safety signs and so on,” he said.
He urged that quality be assured in everything and said that poor planning or rushed jobs and uncertainty as to the specific technical and administrative roles that are inherent in the functions of each person responsible for the project, will lead to a well-planned project falling into confusion and doubt.
With regards to the issue of money and funding for the project, Minister Benn said that the Engineers also have the responsibility that the public money given out for projects is utilised for the public good and the public get what it wants with this money.

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