Gas Turbine Transport After The Earthquake

June 3th, 2008. DEC Launches its first Gas Turbine transport with a 3 files hydraulic modular trailer, produced by Hubei Tiandi Heavy duty Industrial Group, after being stopped on its journey by the The Wenchuan Earthquake happened in May 12th, 2008, Sichuan Province, West China.

The Gas Turbine is 13.8m length, 5.8m width, 5.6m height, and 380t weight, costs 270 million RMB. When the "5.12" earthquake happened, It was just on its journey to the Leshan Port, where the ship will take it to Putian, Fujian Province, South East China. After the first worst 8.0 magnitude earthquake finished, the 380t Gas Turbine still tightly sat on the hydraulic modular trailer, since to the trailer's excellent hydraulic platform balance system. Concerning about the road and bridges in front may be destroyed during the earthquake, the Gas Turbine was stopped in the Huaqiao toll station nearby. After finish nearly two weeks' inspecition of 144 bridges and fix 9 hidden troubles of the road and bridges, the 380t Gas Turbine starts its journey again.

DEC is one of the worst hit enterprise in the "5.12" earthquake. Thousands of workers were injoured and dead, Almost all the infrastructures were totally destroyed. The direct ecnomic losses have reached over 5 billion RMB. However, the re-launch of the 380t Gas Turbine shows the world an un-clobbered DEC and also shows DEC's steady confidence of recovery from the disaster.

From: http://www.frontiertransporter.com








Riza Yosia Join Jones LangSalle Indonesia

Good news from PETRAIT program.

Mr. Riza Yosia who studied PETRAIT program is now working in Indonesia as Project Manager of Jones Lang Salle (an International and Global Property Consultant and development). Before he takes this new position, he was the Sustainable Construction Manager of Bovis LendLease Thailand. During his study at AIT, Mr. Riza and his supervisor (Dr. Hadikusumo) published one journal article "Emotional Intelligence in Project Management" (see attached file) in Journal of Management in Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineer (ASCE).

Good Luck Riza!

Professional Master in Project Management Students from Vietnam came to AIT for one month Intership

30 students from Professional Master in Project Management came to AIT Thailand for one month internship and field trip. They stayed at AIT Thailand from 1 to 31 May 2008.

During the internship, the professional master students took three courses on applied project managements, preparing their project report. The three courses are
(i) applied project management in industrial complex which was taught by Mr. Burin K (Country Manager of Bovis Lendlease Thailand)
(ii) Applied Project Management in Oil and Gas Pipeline which was taught by Mr. Michael Sypsomos (Project Director of Chevron Thailand)
(iii) Applied Project Management in Oil Refinery Project which was taught by Mr. Chalermchai U. (Project Director of Bangchak Oil Refinery).

Regards
Hadikusumo

Project Director of Chevron lectured at AIT CEIM













Mr Mike Sypsomos, Project Director of Chevron Thailand gave a 15 hours lecture at AIT CEIM on "Applied Project Management in Oil and Gas Projects" on May 2008.


Day 1-
9:00 to 11:30am – Project description, definition, WBS, PEP, exercise and discussion
11:30am to 12:15pm – extended break for lunch
12:15pm to 4:00pm – Project Controls (Schedule & cost management, resources, estimate, progress, EV), exercise and discussion of Lessons Learned

Day 2-
9:00 to 11:30am – Risk Management (plan and implementation), Contract/ Procurement management and exercise
11:30am to 12:15pm – extended break for lunch
12:15pm to 4:00pm – PMI Project of the Year – Lessons Learned from a “world class” project & exercise. FEL, Project Audit and PM Maturity Model, Team Building, Coaching and other VIPs and best practices