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Leading academics from around the UK will be coming together at the fourth annual APM Education Network Forum on Thursday 8th December at Cranfield University. This unique event, sponsored by BAE Systems, is specifically designed for researchers and lecturers working in project and programme management. It will look to facilitate discussion and debate around the [...]

Project management and the construction industry have always been close acquaintances. Now they will both benefit from a stronger professional relationship between the Association for Project Management (APM) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). The two professional bodies have signed a memorandum of understanding following an announcement by APM chairman Mike Nichols at the [...]

- In a new venture Parallel Project Training and Carnegie Enterprise are combining their expertise to deliver APM PQ training in Scotland during December 2011 – Reading, UK. 31 October 2011: The Association for Project Management Practitioner Qualification (APM PQ) is an internationally recognised project management qualification aimed at project professionals experienced in managing non-complex [...]

All projects succeed. This is the future vision for the Association for Project Management (APM) and the profession as a whole, which was unveiled by Mike Nichols, APM chairman (pictured), at the APM Project Management Awards on Thursday 20th October 2011. The APM Board of Trustees undertook some forward thinking and have developed a vision [...]

Leading project management professionals came together for an evening of celebration at the annual APM Awards dinner on 20 October 2011. The APM Project Management Awards, superbly hosted by award-winning journalist and TV presenter Angela Rippon, is known for being the most glamorous event of the year and has been celebrating achievement in project management [...]

The Association for Project Management are pleased to confirm the final speaker line-up for the APM Project Management Conference in London on Thursday 20th October 2011. David Ackland, head, Programme and Project Management Profession from the Home Office and Julian Foster, Western Campus programme director from BAA, Heathrow Airport, complete the impressive list of senior [...]

Please join us for the fifth annual International Project Management Day with Synergy 2011. This education and networking event will be held on 3 November 2011 in London. You are invited to register at http://www.pmi.org.uk/en/Synergy2011/. Project Management is a profession that is now being recognized for the international strategy it brings, allowing competitive advantage to [...]

Public infrastructure refers to community water and wastewater systems, drainage systems, roads and bridges, railways, electrical utility grids, telecommunications networks, or any other physical structure or service needed for the functional operation of a business, economy or society. In the most basic sense, populations cannot be sustained without adequate infrastructure. In terms of the economy, [...]

On September 23, 2011, the G20 ministerial meeting on development issued a joint communiqué regarding numerous points of action. Among the issues acknowledged in the communiqué, the body suggested that in order to address hampered and depressed growth in Europe, America, and the developing world, investments should be made in infrastructure. They claim that “The [...]

Two of the country’s leading names in construction and engineering, Costain and EC Harris, have extended their commitment to raising standards in project management professionalism by supporting 27 of their leading project professionals in achieving the Association for Project Management’s Registered Project Professional (RPP) standard. Both organisations will be putting through selected employees to achieve [...]