Ομάδα εργασίας της Αμερικανικής Εταιρείας Πολιτικών (ASCE), εν όψει συνεδρίου για το μέλλον του επαγγέλματος του Πολιτικού Μηχανικού, το οποίο πραγματοποιήθηκε το 2007, συνέταξε εκτενή έκθεση με τίτλο "The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025".
Ποιο θα είναι διεθνώς το περιβάλλον εργασίας των
Πολιτικών Μηχανικών το 2025;
Ομάδα εργασίας της Αμερικανικής Εταιρεία Πολιτικών (ASCE, American Society of Civil
Engineers), εν όψει συνεδρίου για το μέλλον του επαγγέλματος του Πολιτικού Μηχανικού,
το οποίο πραγματοποιήθηκε το 2007, συνέταξε εκτενή έκθεση με τίτλο "The Vision for
Civil Engineering in 2025".Prepared by the ASCE Steering Committee to
Plan a Summit on the Future of the Civil
Engineering Profession in 2025Στην έκθεση αυτή γίνονται αναφορές για τις επερχόμενες και πιθανολογούμενες εξελίξεις
αναφορικά με την παγκοσμιοποίηση, την τεχνολογία και τις διαδικασίες λήψης
αποφάσεων στον τεχνικό τομέα και τις επιπτώσεις τους στο αντικείμενο και τον τρόπο
άσκησης του επαγγέλματος του Πολιτικού Μηχανικού.
Σε παράρτημα της έκθεσης παρατίθενται συνοπτικοί πίνακες των αναμενομένων
εξελίξεων και των επιπτώσεών τους αναφορικά με την Επαγγελματική Πρακτική, τις
Οργανωτικές Υποδομές και το Περιβάλλον Άσκησης του Επαγγέλματος για κάθε μια από
τις τρείς, ως άνω, βασικές παραμέτρους των επερχομένων αλλαγών.
Παρά το γεγονός ότι έχει παρέλθει δεκαετία από την σύνταξη της έκθεσης, οι
επισημάνσεις της παραμένουν επίκαιρες, και μάλιστα έχουν αρχίσει να επαληθεύονται.
Αξίζει να δει κανείς τους πίνακες αυτούς, οι οποίοι παρατίθενται στην συνέχεια στην
Αγγλική.
Και ας ευελπιστούμε ότι το περιβάλλον εργασίας των Πολιτικών Μηχανικών στην Χώρα
θα έχει αποκατασταθεί και εκσυγχρονιστεί (γιατί όχι) μέχρι το 2025 …1/5Ως προς την παγκοσμιοποίηση (Globalization Theme)
Ερώτηση: Τι θα έχει ενδεχομένως αλλάξει στον κόσμο το 2025;
DIMENSION
Professional Practice
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•Global staffing
Global communicatorsInfrastructure
• Smart and green
• Planning and design with blurredTelecommuting and virtual officesprofessional boundariesMore multinational organizations• Automated people and goodsGlobal engineering standards
Global licensure models
High ethics
Concern with terrorism and security
breachestransportationEnvironment
• Burgeoning population
• Balance between economic and
environmental demands• Macro global trends across national
borders• Ability to use new materials with lifecycle costing• Virtual and computational design,
construction, and operation• Equitable access to basic
infrastructure service• Move to global standards
• Need to earn “social license”
• Conflict between government and
non-government organizations
(NGOs)• Sustainability dominates and
standards governΕρώτηση: Ποιος θα είναι ο ρόλος των Πολιτικών Μηχανικών στο νέο αυτό τοπίο;
DIMENSION
Professional Practice
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•Attracting leaders into the profession
Rapid adaptation and innovation
New forms of risk management
Greater investment in research and
development• New methods of financing projectsInfrastructure
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•Master managers
Master connectors
Master professional integrators
Master holistic visionaries
Master communicators
Master leadersEnvironment
• Global civil engineering practice and
professional societies• Leading and managing cross- cultural
and cross-discipline teams• Sustainability-design standard
operating procedure• Niche/boutique firms connect globallyMaster at integrity and ethics2/5Ως προς την τεχνολογία (Technology Theme)
Ερώτηση: Τι θα έχει ενδεχομένως αλλάξει στον κόσμο το 2025;
DIMENSION
Professional Practice
• Standards and codes become
increasingly international and default
to the most stringent and are
performance-basedInfrastructure
• Boundaries (political, geographical,
• Technological literacy of the world
population continues to decrease as
the poverty numbers increase;
concern finding technology workers• More symbiotic relationships between
academia and industrynecessity• Alternate energy sources are the
norm• Natural hazard incidents are more
costly in terms of human Lives lost
and property damage, with or without
global warming, especially in Asia• Technological divide between the
haves and have-nots widens• More interdisciplinary (silo busting)
incorporating technology from
nanotechnology, bioengineering,
remote sensing, etc.• Sustainable, eco- friendly design is acultural, etc.) cease to exist• Innovative financing models permit
the have-nots to participate in basic
infrastructure projectsEnvironment• Competition for limited resources
(natural, money, technologicallytrained people)• Rate of technology innovation results
in the inability of technology users to
efficiently assimilate it• Research and development are more
proactive and more appliedΕρώτηση: Ποιος θα είναι ο ρόλος των Πολιτικών Μηχανικών στο νέο αυτό τοπίο;
DIMENSION
InfrastructureProfessional Practice
• More agile and adventurous in
adopting new technologies• Increasing ability to understand and• New technologies for:
- Disaster reduction and response
- Protection of natural and builtincorporate risk management
use of information technology• Increasing need to become a decision
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• Engineering judgment increasingly
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important
• Technology creates a “smarter” public •
• Technology is the major catalyst in
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becoming the "master integrator” to
lead and manage projects• Better understanding of the
environment using real-time
monitoring and modelingenvironment
- Increased resiliency and capacity
- Inspection and maintenance
- Infrastructure delivery• Greater bandwidth accelerating themaker in determining the needs, that
is, the drivers of technologyEnvironment• Outlaw countries ignoringNew energy sources and uses• Engineering being a catalyst forDesign and internal work processes
Paperless, connected 4-D designenvironmental impacts•New approaches to protection of
coastal areas
building a better world• Involved in setting national research
agendaDesign and construct modular off-site
elements for quick installation• Litigation free zones to support newSupervise larger numbers of less
specialized staffs• Risky applications to advance the• More effective, compelling
communicators to influence change• Apply lessons learned from the
developed world to prevent
deployment of obsolete systems in
the developing worldideas:
state of the art• Tort reform
• More sophisticated public
infrastructure asset management and
accountability•Cheaper and less intrusive ways of
solving environmental problems (e.g.
microbugs)•Biotech agents used wherever
possible•Workplace more automated and
“humanless,” more
decentralized/technology reduces
human challenges•Informing the public and
governments about risk management• Work in permeable (borderless)
environments• Work in more interdisciplinary, multicultural integrated supply chain with
cradle-to-grave teams• Think and work more holistically
about:
- Big picture systems3/5Professional PracticeDIMENSION
Infrastructure
- Higher-value creative systems
- Life cycle costs
- Asset managementEnvironment
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•• Rapidly recognizing, trying, and
applying new research• Modeling existing environments and
systems:
- With more robust data
- To detect defects and deterioration
- To learn from performance• Creating and deploying modular, sitespecific, closed-loop infrastructure
systems• Involved in project ownership and
management enterprises• Working into later age with better
capacity and vitality• Creating more transparent
infrastructure systems (physically and
socially)• Decommissioning, recycling, reusing,
and reprogramming existing systems4/5Taking a systems/ holistic view
Prepared for global impact of rapidly
spreading environmental problem
with incidents anywhere and impacts
everywhere•New engineering applications for
resource exploration and extraction•Addition of a social ethic to the codesΩς προς την λήψη αποφάσεων (Leadership Theme)
Ερώτηση: Τι θα έχει ενδεχομένως αλλάξει στον κόσμο το 2025;
DIMENSION
InfrastructureProfessional Practice
• Social motivators will be different as a•
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demographics
Better appreciation for global impact
of local decisions
Conservation and/ or sustainability
are requirements, not simply morally
desirable
Middle size firms may be challenged.
Small and large firms may be the
future.
Life-long learning needed to keep up
with knowledge changes
Client may not be end user, but the
integrator or privatization leader
Diverse workforce
Universal global standards for design
and professional practice and ethics
Public a more influential partner in
major civil projects• Infrastructure is a social issue
• Infrastructure is significant to making
economics competitive
• Unified licensure or designation
process
• Formation of a national infrastructure
trustEnvironment
• Profession engaged in advance of••
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environmental and sustainability
challenges
International governance of
sustainability and environmental
processes and standards
Clean coal the new technology
Alternative sources of
environmentally- sound fuel
Private sector firm’s social
transparency is recognized for their
commitment
New forms of “doing my job”
decreases the projected urban center
population increase
Substitute materials have significantly
reduced the need to harvest and mine
natural resourcesΕρώτηση: Ποιος θα είναι ο ρόλος των Πολιτικών Μηχανικών στο νέο αυτό τοπίο;
DIMENSION
InfrastructureProfessional Practice
• Public has seat at the table for major• Content experts, ethical conduct,infrastructure decisions• High level of ethics, engineers arehonest brokers, culturally aware• Listeners, system- thinkers, andviewed as trustworthy• Providing integration of all disciplines
having bearings on project
development
• Make-up of engineering firms mirrors
demographics of populations they
serve
• Keeping public safe from major
threats, terror, natural disasters, etc.Environment
• Environmental system is a normal•
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•communicators with public,
interacting with politicians,
and building coalitions
Involved at all levels -local, state,
federal
Actively participating in formulating
public policy
Profession, viewed by the public as
attractive, diverse, visible, and
relevantpart of infrastructure decision process• Profession has clear leadership role•
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••5/5including environmental and
sustainability challenges with other
project elements
Invited early to the table prior to
project identification
Environmental sensitivity not limited
to regulatory issues
Profession approaches developing
countries balancing environmental
and sustainability with public health
and economic needs
Advocacy beyond submitting
documented opinions
Profession leading the emerging
“World Life Quality Society”
Coalition of engineering professions,
with trans- disciplinary stakeholders,
is the go-to source of knowledge for
decision process
Public routinely comments on the skill
of the engineering profession to relate
sensitively to their concerns