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📰 Engineers not politicians will need to sort out climate challenge, FIDIC president tells #Singapore conference FIDIC president Tony Barry gave an upbeat assessment of the engineering, construction and infrastructure industry in an opening address to FIDIC’s Global Infrastructure Conference in Singapore, which opened on 11 September 2023. Barry said that the industry should be proud of the resilience it had shown over recent years as it weathered the Covid crisis and then increasing economic and geopolitical headwinds. “The world faces some significant challenges in the future and chief amongst them is the growing climate crisis,” he said. “With all due respect to the politicians though, it is the engineers at the end of the day who will need to figure things out,” said Barry. 🔽 fidic.org/node/41798 #FIDICGIC23 #infrastructure #engineering

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📰 Engaging and persuading politicians to get positive messages across about the need for infrastructure investment was discussed by industry leaders at a key session of FIDIC’s Global Infrastructure Conference in Singapore on 11 September 2023. The session, Persuading the politicians – getting the industry’s message across, grappled with the thorny question of how construction and infrastructure companies should look to influence politicians, governments and funders on the best routes to take for effective investment that makes a real difference to people’s lives. Keynote speaker Kwasi Amoako-Attah, the minister of roads and highways of the Republic of Ghana and a member of Ghana’s Parliament, gave a frank admission about the importance of construction and infrastructure to the political classes when he said: “As an elected politician, what keeps us in power to a large extent is good and sustainable infrastructure investment. It drives positive change and makes a real difference to our people’s lives.”🔽 fidic.org/node/41802 #FIDICGIC23 #infrastructure #engineering #sustainability