INSIGHTS
Newsletter & Backflash
Twice a year the newsletter reports on the General Assemblies, the projects and what comes next.
December 2025
Backflash Autumn / Winter 2025
Review 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.
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July 2025
Newsletter Summer 2025
The 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.
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April 2025
Newsletter Spring 2025
Report 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.
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October 2024
Newsletter Autumn 2024
Frankfurt, “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.
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May 2024
Newsletter Spring 2024
Looking 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.
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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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February 2025
CEEC Inside: Mary Flynn
I was born in Co. Sligo, often referred to as Yeats’s County named after the poet W. Butler Yeats and his equally famous painter brother Jack Yeats. I had a traditional academic schooling at the Convent of…
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Earlier CEEC Inside editions
March 2024
Kirsi Lilja
Based 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.
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March 2024
Sergio Vázquez Jiménez
CGATE Spain and EOTA. Studied in Seville and at the Technical University of Denmark, and stayed in Denmark after graduating.
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March 2024
Tim de Jonge
NVBK, The Netherlands. TU Delft graduate who took his doctorate on the cost-effectiveness of sustainable housing investment.
In English
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