Il premio Kenneth Humphreys 2012 offre a giovani studenti e membri delle associazioni dell'ICEC la possibilità di proporre e divulgare i propri lavori in ambito internazionale. Si tratta di una importante iniziativa dell'ICEC che viene riproposta con cadenza biennale e che ha lo scopo di promuovere e valorizzare i giovani talenti nel campo dell'Ingegneria Economica.

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Dear ICEC Member Associations and Colleagues,
I would like to remind you about the 2012 ICEC Kenneth K Humphreys Awards for the most outstanding cost engineering, project management and quantity surveying papers by students or young members of ICEC member associations. The awards are open to all students or young members of ICEC member associations who are aged 35 years or younger. Details of the award including submission requirements can be found on the ICEC website at http://www.icoste.org/category/awards/

Please note that the papers can either be new papers or papers that have been previously published in industry/academic journals or other publications. For previously published papers the paper must have been published after July 2010 (i.e. since the last ICEC World Congress in Singapore in July 2010) and written permission must be obtained from the publisher. The winning papers will be included in the ICEC International Cost Management Journal (ICMJ) on the ICEC website.

Papers must be submitted to the relevant ICEC member association for review in the first instance. The ICEC member association will then determine whether the paper/s submitted are suitable for submission for the award. The paper/s must then be submitted to the ICEC Secretariat by the ICEC member association. Please note that individuals cannot submit papers directly to the ICEC Secretariat - all papers must be submitted to the relevant member association in the first instance.

The award program is held every two years in conjunction with the biennial ICEC World Congresses. The awards have previously been awarded at the 2008 ICEC World Congress in Toronto, Canada and the 2010 ICEC/PAQS World Congress in Singapore.

The 2012 Award will be presented at the 2012 ICEC World Congress being held in Durban, South Africa from 23-27 June 2012.

Member associations should submit papers to either myself (Email: Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. ) or Anna Pappalardo at the ICEC Secretariat (Email: Questo indirizzo e-mail è protetto dallo spam bot. Abilita Javascript per vederlo. ).

The following dates/deadlines apply for the 2010 award program:

• 31 January 2012 - Opening date for submission of entries to each member association
• 31 March 2012 - Closing date for submission of entries to each member association
• 30 April 2012 – Closing date for member associations to submit their selected paper/s to the ICEC Secretariat

The submitted papers will then be reviewed by the ICEC Awards Panel with the winners announced at the ICEC World Congress in South Africa.  The successful papers will be published in the ICEC International Cost Management Journal (ICMJ) on the ICEC  website and each author will be awarded a plaque.  If the recipient is unable to attend the 2012 Congress or an ICEC Regional meeting soon after, we will ask the relevant member association to arrange for the Award to be presented at a suitable time.

If you have any questions about the program please contact either myself or the ICEC Secretariat (details below). We would also appreciate it if you could inform us whether your association intends to submit a paper/s.

I hope that your association supports this award in recognition of the unsurpassed contribution by Dr Ken Humphreys  to ICEC and its member associations  for well over thirty years. I'd appreciate it if you could forward this email and attached information to the relevant people in your association for consideration.

Yours sincerely

Dr. Peter Smith
ICEC Secretary-General