1. CEM Centers of Excellence on Micropiles
Nomination by IWM
Steering and/or implementation of future R&D of IWM
Local contacts of IWM
Impact to marketing of micropile industry
Easier financing
to R&D
to IWM activities as administration, workshops etc
IWM 2003 Seattle Jouko Lehtonen

2. Why Center of Excellence?
The IWM process has been the network of the leading experts on micropiles.
Improved effectiveness on R&D
Roles of the partners world wide can be defined for further collaboration
Multi pole system advantages
Improved strategy planning
Financing
Every single Center of Excellence can utilize the IWM structure
IWM 2003 Seattle Jouko Lehtonen

3. IWM 2003 Seattle Jouko Lehtonen
CEM When and where?
Centers of Excellence would start latest in 2004
At least one center per continent
USA
Japan
Europe
France ?
Finland ?
IWM 2003 Seattle Jouko Lehtonen

4. FinCEM (A proposal:)The Finnish Center of Excellence on Micropiles
The starting stage under the PRIMA technology program (up to 2005)
Networking
The partners
TUT
Turku Polytechnic
Local micropile industry
IWM 2003 Seattle Jouko Lehtonen

5. IWM 2003 Seattle Jouko Lehtonen
CEM Further actions
Action planning
Targets of each center of excellence
Administration
Nomination by the IWM Steering Committee for 5 years
Websites
Reports in the following IWM meetings
Collaboration between the centers
IWM 2003 Seattle Jouko Lehtonen