Myanmar Engineering Society MES in Italy, October 2015
Italy – October 2015
STEPP INTERNATIONAL welcomes the delegation of MES in Italy.
- Head of Delegation: U Win Khaing, Engineer, President MES
- Dr. Charlie Than, Engineer, Vice President MES
- Mr. Tin Latt, Engineer, General Secretary MES
- Mr. Saw Htwe Zaw, Engineer, Delegate from MES Geotechnical Division
- Mr. Hla Baw, Engineer, Delegate from MES Water Resources Technical Division
MES Association Profile: MES was formed in 1995 and is the successor of the former “Association of Engineers of Burma”. It consist today of 31850 individual members and 57 corporate members. MES is a highly operative organization and assists the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Energy in their engineering works. MES concluded cooperation agreements with several engineering institutions of the ASEAN states. Due to the only recently (2013) abolished European policy of sanctions towards Myanmar, MES had so far no opportunity to join in collaboration agreements with European institutions & companies. MES will play a guiding role in future engineering/architectural projects supported by the international donor Community (ADB, World Bank, EDF etc) as well as for the modernization of the local engineering sector.
Visiting Program: The MES Delegation will visit Rome, Ancona, Bologna, Venice and Milan, and would like to meet engineering institutions, industrial and construction companies, consulting engineers and higher education facilities of Italy which are interested in cooperation with Myanmar. Particular areas of interest of MES, but not only, are
- Geotechnical engineering; soil investigaton & stabilization
- Modern management underground (tunnel) construction
- Mechatronics Engineering
- Historical site protection and rehabilitation works
- Dams, hydro-power & related environmental impact mitigation
- Offshore oil & gas supporting services
- The Italian high education & vocational education system
These are some images regarding the visit of MES Myanmar, in the Italian companies related to the Polo Tecnologico of Castelfidardo. The MES group visited CBI Europe, GI&E Spa and Fratelli Simonetti.
Those visits was in cooperation with IBEI Srl, with Dr. Aldo Sbraccia, and Mr. Dante Carlini.
Seminar on Construction Project Management
STEPPinternational is very pleased for having successfully initiated and co-organised the technical Seminar on Construction Project Management held under the chairmanship of U Win Khaing, President of MES, on the premises of MES, with contributions from Professor Schmidt and Professor Dauberschmidt, both Munich University of Applied Sciences and Dr. Goetz, STEPPinternational. The topics of discussion were rather diverse, ranging from “challenges of modern construction management” (Schmidt) through “criteria of durable construction under severe exposure conditions” (Dauberschmidt) to “development project cycle management” (Goetz).
Yangon
Yangon 19.02.2014: Meeting of STEPPinternational and University of Munich of Applied Sciences with the Science Department of the Myanmar Ministry of Science & Technology for discussing cooperation activities in the civil engineering field.
Medical assistance for the poor in Sagaing.
Dr.Robin Chan, graduated surgeon, is member of STEPPinternational since 2012 and our antenna in the health sector of Myanmar. Currently his is again back in Myanmar, carrying out surgery at the Monks’ hospital aka Jivida Dana Sangha Hospital of Wachet (Sagaing) for the poor. He is involved in this caritative work already since eight years, thanks to generous, though limited finanical support from private sponsors. Reality is that there is much more to be done for the poor in this very impoverished hospital run by the monks,. Great need there would be for starting an endoscopic project (doing gastro and colonoscopies) to poor and needy patients in the above mentioned Hospital, but not only there.
