AFE July/August 2012 : Page 14////////////////////// COVER STORY ABOVE: The modern high-rise offi ce buildings of Seoul, Republic of Korea's fi nancial district blend into historic small shops and homes that refl ect the growth and transi-tions in the facilities professions. LEFT: At night, the traditional and the modern blend on Seoul's busy, narrow streets. OPPOSITE LEFT: AFE treasurer Steve Sakach, CPE (l) and executive director Wayne Carley (r) discuss the CPE program with KIPEC vice president Dr. Edward J. Jeong. OPPOSITE RIGHT: Carley and AFE Chair Wayne Saya, CPE (r) learn about facilities engineering in Korea from Jae-Heon Lee, president of KIPEC. 30 contracting companies and 7 million workers from over 50 diff erent countries. On a busy day 12,000 people of more than 100 nationalities could be found working on the building. Samsung C&T Corporation’s Engineering & Construction Group, the prime contractor for the construction of Burj Khalifa, is itself a model of international activity in facilities engineer-ing. Samsung C&T Corporation was the original company in the Samsung Group, now a global enterprise of over 60 separate companies, including the electronics division with which almost everyone is familiar. Samsung Group is now a major player in the world economy well beyond its origins in construction; in fact, it generates 13% of the Republic of Korea’s (South Ko-rea) gross domestic product of $1.01 billion. A global presence in the engineering world, the Engineering & Construction Group of Samsung C&T Corpora-tion has completed an impressive array of projects on many continents: the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia; the Taipei Financial Center in Taiwan; and the Incheon Grand Bridge in Korea, one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world at 13.2 miles (21.3 kilometers). AFE in the Global Community With facilities engineering being both a global and globally interconnected fi eld, the community needs a central repository of information, interaction and new ideas. Th e Association for Facilities Engineering is known as the organization that “wrote the book” on facilities engineering. AFE’s Facilities Opera-tions and Engineering Reference: Th e Certifi ed Plant Engineer Reference (1999, now published by John Wiley & Sons) is the standard technical resource for the fi eld and is even used as 14 July | August 2012 ■ Facilities Engineering Journal ■ www.AFE.org Publication List Using a screen reader? Click Here |
