Chairman's Note
Dear Members,
The new year has begun with a series of activities that will allow us to have many opportunities for meeting and discussion.
First, the ESCL Webinars Committee, which was established for the first time in November 2024, has planned some webinars that will offer us the opportunity to explore important issues in the construction sector.
This is the case of the webinar scheduled for February 19, 2025 at 6.30 pm CET on the subject of As-built critical path and held by Milan Perić and Frank Thomas of the Serbian Society of Construction Law. The topic is immediately particularly interesting, in light of the fact that it will require the analysis of delays in contracts from a retrospective perspective.
To date, there is already a high number of participants, precisely because of the importance of the topic, the quality of the speakers. I remind you that participation is free and open to all by registering at the dedicated link indicated below.
At the beginning of 2025, we then closed the first Call for abstracts of the ESCL: we wanted to open the doors of our Society to everyone and allow them to apply for the next ESCL Conference in Naples. Many applications, excellent themes and stellar speakers.
We were thus able to define the program of the ESCL Conference which will be held in Naples on September 26th. Please see below the entire program.
An unmissable opportunity as we wanted to offer everyone a truly international conference, with contributions from all over the world on a fundamental theme: how to coordinate construction contracts, in all their phases, with the cultural context, with the cultural and ethnic roots that inevitably characterize each place. We often forget to consider the suitability of the new or renovated work to respect the cultural context and it happens to encounter infrastructural works, residential buildings that have nothing to do with the history of a place, of a people.
Naples will then be an incredible setting to spend a few days together: a city of extraordinary beauty, surrounded by Pompeii, Capri and why not by good food and the Italian "bien vivre".
Registrations are open and, since the nineteenth-century villa that hosts us is not an anonymous congress center with infinite spaces, we will have few places: it is important to register immediately and not at the last moment. It will be an opportunity to enjoy a beautiful summer weekend in our beautiful Italy.
Many opportunities for meeting and discussion for our Members and for all those who want to become one.
Best regards,
Roberto Panetta
Chairman of Council, ESCL
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