More than 120 members and guests attended a talk on "Programming in Construction" by SCL member Anthony Clifford on 21 May 2008 at the Supreme Court Auditorium.

Mr. Clifford, a chartered engineer and principal of International Construction Consultants Pte Ltd, has had over 40 years' experience in civil engineering and in programming in various major projects in Singapore (such as the overall planning of the Changi Water Reclamation Plant) , the United Kingdom, China and the Middle East. He was the project and consortium director of the Da Chang Water Treatment Plant in China, which jointly with the Hong Kong Airport project, won the "Award for the Best Performance by a British Company Anywhere in the World", an annual award by the British Department of Trade and Industry.

Mr. Clifford handed out a well-researched 60-page paper on the subject, and in his presentation, included examples of programming strategies in some of his previous projects, as well as covered the basics and some details of several aspects of programming, such as types and formats of programmes, critical paths, significance of programme approvals, programme monitoring and floats.