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Newsletter & Backflash
Twice a year the newsletter reports on the General Assemblies, the projects and what comes next.
- December 2025Backflash Autumn / Winter 2025Review of the 92nd General Assembly in Delft — “The Cost of Water” from a Dutch perspective. A first look ahead to the spring meeting in Zadar, and an obituary for Noel H. McDonagh.In EnglishRead this edition →
- July 2025Newsletter Summer 2025The Annual Report 2024 goes online. Takeaways from the spring meeting in Madrid, the next stop in Delft, and the CEEC website now also in Spanish.In EnglishRead this edition →
- April 2025Newsletter Spring 2025Report from Corsica: the seminars and the visit to the Corte Citadel with Pascal Asselin. Plus a projects update — cost models, sustainable renovation, market reports — and PAQS 2025 in Jakarta.In EnglishRead this edition →
- October 2024Newsletter Autumn 2024Frankfurt, “Cost Analysis”: Sergio Vázquez Jiménez elected Vice President, talks by Tabea Wessel (BKI), Marc Grief and Ronan Lyons, and a visit to the European Central Bank.In EnglishRead this edition →
- May 2024Newsletter Spring 2024Looking back on Budapest and on the joint London meeting with RICS and ICMS, CEEC at the PAQS congress in Kuala Lumpur, and the next stop: Frankfurt.In EnglishRead this edition →
CEEC Inside · meet our delegates
In between the newsletters, CEEC Inside carries an interview with one of our delegates — about their work, their career, and what membership of CEEC has meant to them professionally.
March 2026
CEEC Inside: Steven Thompson
I was born in Hove on the Sussex coast (next door to Brighton – for football fans!) and I grew up there, went to school in Hove and started my first job at the age of 19 in a small QS practice in the town.…
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September 2025
CEEC Inside: Gerry O’Sullivan
I was born and raised in the same house in Dublin. When I left school in 1973, I started work as an apprentice quantity surveyor on my father’s advice that it was a good career (he had a very good friend…
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Earlier CEEC Inside editions
- March 2024Kirsi LiljaBased in Helsinki. A talent for maths and curiosity about how things are built led her to civil engineering — without knowing yet where it would lead.In EnglishRead this edition →
- March 2024Sergio Vázquez JiménezCGATE Spain and EOTA. Studied in Seville and at the Technical University of Denmark, and stayed in Denmark after graduating.In EnglishRead this edition →
- March 2024Tim de JongeNVBK, The Netherlands. TU Delft graduate who took his doctorate on the cost-effectiveness of sustainable housing investment.In EnglishRead this edition →