The climate emergency is the biggest single crisis affecting all life on this planet that has occurred for centuries. The Symposium is a three-day event comprising Keynote Lectures, Oral Presentations and Special Sessions.
Only one month to submit your entry! Don't miss this opportunity!
Make sure to submit your entry before it's too late! Deadline: 31 March 2024
For many years, IABSE has presented awards to individuals worthy of special recognition and outstanding structural engineering projects worldwide. IABSE National Groups are invited to submit their nominations for IABSE People and Paper Awards using the official submission platform. Please click here.
Companies are invited to submit their entries for the IABSE Project and Technology Awards using the official submission platform only. Please click here.
IABSE Congress San Jose 2024 Beyond Structural Engineering
The Scientific Committee has successfully concluded the abstract review process and has notified authors to proceed with the submission of their full papers. The deadline for submitting Full Papers is set for 15 April 2024.
In the meantime, the organisers are excited and fully engaged in the preparations for the upcoming IABSE Congress in San Jose. If you are considering attending this event, we strongly advise you to start planning your trip early to this enchanting country well in advance, as travel and accommodation costs will rise soon in this tourist destination country. Both the Congress and the host country promise to make your visit worthwhile!
Sponsorship opportunities are now available. For more information, please contact cheryl.cornelio@iabse.org
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SC, OC meeting with IABSE Secretariat
IABSE Symposium Tokyo 2025 Environmentally friendly technologies and structures - Focusing on sustainable approaches.
Call for a Special Session!
Call for Abstracts and Special Session is Open. This Symposium is a 4-day event organised by the Japanese National Group of IABSE from Sunday to Wednesday, May 18 to 21, 2025, hosted at Waseda University and Rihga Royal Hotel, Tokyo, Japan. The symposium theme is "Environmentally Friendly Technologies and Structures: Focusing on Sustainable Approach."
Topics:
• Green Infrastructure
• New energy facilities
• Carbon neutral technologies
• Timber and other natural materials
• Prevention of natural disasters, etc.
Important Dates: Deadline of Special Session Proposal: 31 March 2024
Deadline of Abstracts Submission: 31 July 2024
Notification of Abstracts Acceptance: 15 September 2024
Submission of Full Papers: 15 December 2024
Notification of Full Papers Acceptance: 18 February 2025
Take the opportunity to contribute to this exciting event.
For more information: Click Here.
Commission 1 - First Meeting of the Year!
The first team meeting for C1, chaired by Niels Peter Hoej, and Vice-Chaired by Ana Mandic Ivankovic, with 20 participants took place on 30 January 2024. Task Group Chairs gave an update on their tasks and plans for this year, many proposals were discussed and TG Chairs were asked to update their websites with current goals and timelines. Debra Laefer, Chair of the IABSE Bulletin Board was a special guest and she presented IABSE Bulletins and how the C1 TGs can submit a proposal, during the meeting. To join one of the TGs of C1, or know more about Commission 1,Click Here.
To read more about all six IABSE Commissions as published in SEI February 2024 issue Click Here.
Are you passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and structural engineering? IABSE invites you to be part of our exciting new task group!
Goals:
BIM-Oriented Bridge Design Paper: Collaborate on a comprehensive paper or publication that explores the intersection of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and bridge design.
Bridge BIM Model: Develop a robust Bridge BIM Model adhering to openBIM standards and aligned with the IFC 4.3 schema.
Multilingual BIM Glossary: Create an extensive BIM terminology glossary, available in various languages (English, German, Spanish, and more).
Why Join?
Shape the future of bridge design.
Network with experts in the field.
Contribute to industry knowledge.
How to Participate:
Email your CV to secretariat@iabse.org. Our TG Chair will assess the qualifications, and once approved, you shall receive further instructions. Don’t miss this opportunity! Let’s build bridges together.
Call for International Members for TG 1.11 Design & Construction Techniques of Well (Caisson) Foundations
Mission Statement/Objectives: To increase awareness about the history of the design and construction of Well Foundation for Bridges, Tall Chimneys, Transmission Towers and other structures, to promote improvement in design practices involving historic/existing structures. Chaired by Alok Bhowmick, this TG is especially looking for members from Japan, China, the US and Bangladesh. Please contact us if you are interested and write to bose@iabse.org.
eLearning Board Meeting starts for 2024!
IABSE eLearning Board had its first meeting for 2024, and discussed proposals for webinars. David Knight, Chair of British NG, was invited as a special guest to discuss the British Group's eLearning activities and how more programs can be initiated by the National Group. The eLearning team is looking forward to receiving proposals from IABSE Task Groups and National Groups for 2024 Webinars. Please send them to bose@iabse.org with the proposed webinar title and speakers.
SEI February 2024 got published and hope you have managed to flip through the pages and read the inspiring Editorial by Shunichi Nakamura (Japan), 'IABSE Forever' (Click Here to read). and the papers published based on the topic: ‘Assessment/Maintenance/Performance’, read the introduction here. Chief Reviewers for this special issue were Franziska Schmidt (France) and Pierre van der Spuy (South Africa) from the SEI Editorial Board. Globally, infrastructure is ageing, while budgets allocated to assess and maintain structures are limited. It is, therefore, essential to develop and implement innovative structural assessment methods and procedures. Read more about current research, and papers about recent structures in our current issue of SEI.
Did you know? Once you log into your Members Account, you can get access to all SEI papers published since 1991. You can download the PDFs and read them whenever you want. www.iabse.org
Thanks to CABP Publishers, after almost a year, the Structural Engineering Document SED 19 on 'Seismic Isolation and Response Control' edited by Andreas Lampropoulos, and authored by Eftychia Apostolidi, Stephanos Dritsos, Christos Giarlelis, Jose Jara, Fatih Sutcu, Toru Takeuchi and Joe White, just got translated in Chinese, by CABP Publishers, and is now available in Chinese language.
SED 19, published in 2023, is available for free download (PDF) for IABSE members, and the ePDF and hardcopy are available in Online Shop (Click Here).
IABSE National Groups Activities for 2024
Click Here to get an overview of the activities planned. Do not forget to self-nominate and submit your nomination for the IABSE National Group of the Year Award 2024 by 31 March 2024!
We are also looking forward to receiving nominations from NG Chairs for the IABSE People and Paper Awards.
Colombia
The Colombian NG, chaired by Juan Andrés Oviedo Amézquita, conducted the first two lectures with Bruno Godart, France and Laurent Rus, Spain under the BST program. This Initiative aims to discuss IABSE and its Impact on Educational Transformation in Colombia. The BST initiative stands for “Bridges for Social Transformation”. BST 4 had the Speaker, Bruno Godart on 19 February. The lecture was on the topic: Pathology of Prestressed Concrete Structures, and BST 5's Speaker was Laurent Rus, this lecture took place on 29 January, topic was Bridge Failure Analysis: Shallow and Deep Causes. The videos shall be available soon, stay tuned. Read further about the BST initiative here ...
The Philippines
The Philippines NG has been organising webinars in their mission to spread knowledge and on 18 January the topic was 'Drones: Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for Engineering Investigation Application; you can find further information here: Click Here for further details.
Mexico
Carlos Mendez, represented IABSE and the Latam NGs at the XX11 International Symposium on Civil Engineering, organised by the Jesuit University of Guadalajara (ITESO), and spread the word about IABSE to the attendees and also encouraged them to join the IABSE San Jose Congress 2024. It is important that IABSE members represent the association at global conferences and spread the word about the technical work the association is doing with over 40 Task Groups, and the symposium and congress that take place every year. If you wish to download material about IABSE which you can include in your presentation Click Here. For IABSE National Group Logos, you can find them under individual NGs.
United States
The next technical event will take place on April 29. Mr. Gernot Komar, Dipl-Ing, PE will present the precast and cast-in-place segmental concrete project “Improvement of Al Shindagha Corridor with Infinity Arch Bridge in Dubai”, at the University of California at San Diego, please click here.
China
A delegation from the Chinese NG visited the Executive Director, Chep Uytiepo, at IABSE HQ on 23 January. The team was led by Prof. Quanke Su, who worked as Chief Engineer of the Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge HQ since 2010 and is currently engaged as the Chief Engineer of the Institute of Cross-Sea Engineering and Integrated Transportation, HKUST(GZ), He was accompanied by Prof. Zongxian SU, Dr. Yang YU, and Ms Rui XIN, from Guangzhou.
The JCSS Workshop will only comprise of invited contributions of experts from JCSS-founding associations and JCSS members, and shall take place on 22-23 May 2024 in Prague. Both in-person and online participation will be supported.
The number of in-person participants is limited to 50.
Registration: until 28.02.2024, via email – Miroslav Sykora, miroslav.sykora@cvut.cz