Nov. 28, 2013

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Center

IAC News No. 14
JSCE’s the 100th Anniversary Celebration on Contribution of Infrastructure to Life of Affluence
Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), as Public Interest Incorporated Association,celebrates its 100th anniversary in November 2014. In the past 100 years, theSociety has seen dramatic changes in society as well as civil engineer’s
responsibility to society in the last 100 years. While facing several social issues suchas frequent natural disasters, natural resources, energy relating problems andenvironmental problems, we civil engineers have realized that we have to develop
our antenna to catch diversified needs for us and to continue our best efforts toMakoto KIMURA, Prof.

respond to those needs in order to our contribution to society, holding a broad andChair, Int’l Program Committee,

long-term perspective. As looking back on the past achievements and international

JSCE 100th Anniversary

technical exchange, we would like to examine future civil engineering and its

Celebration Planning Committee

responsibility at an International Symposium under the theme Contribution of Infrastructure to Life of Affluence
to be held during the100th Anniversary Celebration.
We will carry out two international meetings: Roundtable Meeting (RTM: 3rd Asian Board Meeting) in which
experts will be invited from Asian countries on November 19 and 20, and International Panel Discussion (IPD)on the aforesaid theme on 20th.

The RTM will discuss civil engineering contribution to natural disasterprevention and mitigation. The IPD will invite experts in civil engineering and related fields overseas anddiscuss disaster infrastructure maintenance and management, responses to global warming, the realization ofdisaster-resilient society, effective approaches and solutions for issues on infrastructure management, andfarther, each countries’ efforts and future disaster plans. Through the discussions, we will examine andindentify the civil engineering to be in the coming century.
These international meetings will be hold at JP Tower Hall and Conference, which is located across from JR
Tokyo Station. Attendance will be free of charge. Reception will start at 18:00, free of charge as well. We lookforward to meeting many of you.
Please take a look at the tentative projects hosted by International Program Committee (Table-1). The projects
1, 2, 4, 6, and 7 were selected from among the proposals submitted by the public under JSCE’s regional
chapters and committees’ call for project proposals to commemorate 100th Anniversary.
“16th International Summer Symposium” and “Workshop for Asian Young Engineers”, will be offered at 2014
JSCE Annual Meeting to be held at Osaka University in next September. These meetings will be excellent
opportunities for young engineers to present their projects and exchange ideas and views with each other.

Your participations are very welcomed. http://www.jsce-int.org/node/236

Thank you very much.

ASCE 143rd Annual Civil Engineering Conference
ASCE 143rd Annual Civil Engineering Conference 2013 was held in Charlotte,
North Carolina from October 10-12, 2013. JSCE delegation consisted of sevenmembers including Kotaro Hashimoto, JSCE President and Hirofumi Ohnishi, JSCE
Executive Director participated in the conference. The delegates had a meeting todiscuss the matters on cooperation in ASCE 144th Annual Civil Engineering
Conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal and in JSCE’s
100th anniversary celebrating events. Additionally, they had a meeting with persons
in charge of Report Card for America's Infrastructure for creating the Report Card

Hiroshi DOBASHI, Dr.
ICC USA Gr. Leader

which JSCE Committee on Infrastructure Maintenance and Renewal is studying.
They also had a meeting with city officials of Charlotte regarding the role of civilengineers, and so on.
At the opening ceremony on October 10, ASCE President Gregory
DiLoreto reported ASCE’s activities and projects in the past year.
He said that one of the remarkable things was media had reported
11,000 times about ASCE 2013 Report Card in six months after its
release in March. DiLoreto also emphasized that civil engineers
should serve as ‘global leaders’ aiming to improve the quality of life.
Opening Ceremony

In the following key note address, the former anchor on CNN

international, journalist Ali Velshi highly evaluated ASCE Report Card 2013 which also could contribute toimprove cost-effectiveness, not only evaluated the current condition of America’s infrastructure. He said lack ofconcern for these new efforts about infrastructure was a problem. The conference included General Sessions,
Industry Leaders Forum and Business Meeting. In particular, there were many sessions about Report Card
both at federal and state level, following the release of ASCE 2013 Report Card.
On the second day of the conference ―October 11, JSCE delegates
had a meeting with Brian T.Pallasch and Emily Fishkin who wereresponsible for creating ASCE Report Card. They provided very
useful information on specific work procedures and contents ofestablishing assessment committee, collecting data, method ofevaluation, expense, etc., for the launch of JSCE Report Card infuture.
A Meeting with ASCE Report Card staff

Afterwards, Luncheon Meeting was held, and ASCE and JSCE agreed on mutual exchanges for JSCE’s 100thanniversary celebrating events and ASCE 144th Annual Civil Engineering Conference celebrating the 100th

anniversary of the Panama Canal to be held in Panama. JSCE requested ASCE to provide a lecture atInternational Symposium on November 20th, and to participate in JSCE 100th Commemorative Ceremony onNovember 21st, 2014. Mr. Hashimoto, JSCE President handed out the invitation to ASCE to attend the JSCE’s
100th anniversary ceremony. Meanwhile, ASCE 2014 Annual Conference will be held in Republic of Panama
from October 7- 11, 2014. Introducing the historical relationship between Japanese and Panama Canal that Mr.
Aoyama, the 23rd President of JSCE, was involved in the construction of the Panama Canal, JSCE proposed
to provide an anniversary lecture on 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal.
At the closing session, Fred Berger, ASCE 2014 Annual
Conference Chair, introduced The Panama Canal expansion
project using video. 2013 Annual Conference closed with apromise to meet again in Panama and 2014 Annual
Conference Committee took over the role.
I hope many members’ active participation for the success ofASCE President Mr. DiLoreto and his wife (center)with JSCE President Mr. Hashimoto and JSCE
delegates at International Dinner

the anniversary events of ASCE and JSCE to be held next
year. Your support is greatly appreciated.

2013 Koran Society of Civil Engineering (KSCE) Annual Meeting
Koran Society of Civil Engineering (KSCE)’s annual meeting (KSCE 2013 Conference)
was held in High 1 Resort, Gangwon-do, Korea for three days from October 23 to 15.
JSCE delegation of 6 members- Mr. Kotaro Hashimoto, JSCE President, Mr. Asao
Yamakawa, JSCE IAC Director, Dr. Kazuya Egami, JSCE IAC Korea Group Leader, Prof.
Yasushi Sasaki, Emeritus professor, Saitama University, Mr. Takehiko Hatsuku, Shuto
Engineering Co., Ltd, and Mr. Tachibana, IAC staff member, went to participate in theconference.
Kazuya EGAMI, Dr.
ICC Korean Gr. Leader

Day1: We with other international guests went on a technical tour to visit
IPO Weir which was built on a branch of Hangang River as part of theFour Major Rivers Restoration Project by the bus arranged by KSCE. At
the K-WATER maintenance office, staff members explained that project
and the maintenance and operation of the weir, and visited its facilities.
The round part of the weir was copied the image of bird’s egg, in which asluice operation room was placed. As the other ones were designed toIPO Weirrepresent local areas in that project, the IPO Wier was the same, which
provided the local residents with an oasis.

Day 2: We attended the opening ceremony, and then the Civil
Engineering Leader's Network. Later, a bilateral meeting between KSCE
and JSCE was carried out. In the meeting, both parties discussed
JSCE’s 100th Anniversary Celebration International Roundtable Meetingand commemorative ceremony and future collaboration. Prof. Jongsung
Sim the KSCE President kindly accepted our invitation to the 100thanniversary celebration.
Prof. Sasaki delivers a presentation at IRM

At the International Roundtable Meeting, four speakers including Prof. Sasaki delivered presentations under
the theme "Environmental Design Aquatic Plants in Urban Streams." The audience enjoyed their discussions,but at Prof. Sasaki who referred to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, changed their postures andlistened to him attentively. After all four discussions, the audience made many questions and comments andexchanged ideas with those speakers. The meeting closed successfully.
Day 3: We left the hotel at 6:00 a.m. with JSCE Korea Section Presidents
Dr. Kyung-Book Park and Prof. Dong-Uk Lee and headed out to theSoyang Dam the largest rock-fill dam in the East Asian region,
constructed in cooperation with Japan forty year ago. The dam served amulti-purpose dam: flood control, water supply to the Seoul metropolitan
area and hydraulic power generation. According to the K-WATER, thedam which offered nice walking and cycling courses and beautiful views
Look at Soyangho Lake from Soyang Damfor boat-riding attracted over 1 million visitors a year.

Then, we visited Korean Expressway Corp. Chuncheon Office, and learned their road maintenance andprojects such as the Seoul-Chuncheon expressway PPP project and the ongoing 10-km-long tunnel
construction Korea’s longest tunnel. We also gained the information of traffic control system, traffic volume
guarantee systems, and issues on private investment for renovation and maintenance. We traveled 250km in
the morning. It was a long yet worthwhile trip for us. Before leaving for home, we had a lunch meeting withJapanese engineers who were worked in Korea with the support of the Japanese Embassy. We had a pleasantand informative exchange of information and ideas with them.
Meanwhile, we were watching the paths of two typhoons which were approaching Japan and got a little uneasythat we would not get home in time. But our worries were in vain, and we returned home safely with a lot ofgood memories.
Last, but not least, we would like to thank Dr. Park and Prof. Lee for the warm hospitality, kind assistance andsupport. Thank you so much.

2013 JSCE Annual Meeting Int’l Session Presenters per Excellence2013 JSCE Annual Meeting Int’l Session Presenters per Excellence

IAC Current News by Kotaro Hashimoto the 101st JSCE President◆ I attended 2013 ASCE’s and KSCE’s annual meeting

I attended ASCE’s 143rd Annual Civil Engineering Conference held in Charlotte, N.C on October 9 to 12.
During that conference, a meeting between ASCE and JSCE was held. I with the JSCE delegation had adiscussion with ASCE executives including Mr. Gregory E. Di Loreto the 2013 President, Mr. Randall S. Overthe 2014 President, Mr. Andrew W. Herrmann the 2012 President and Mr. Fred Berger the Annual 2014Conference Chair. We handed them an invitation to JSCE’s 100th Anniversary Celebration to be held in nextNovember and also put forward a proposal to deliver a keynote speech on Mr. Akira Aoyama who hadparticipated in the Panama Canal construction project at ASCE’s next annual conference in which the 100th
Anniversary of Panama Canal would be celebrated. That proposal was accepted by them.
Besides participating in the annual conference, we had other purposes, which were to learn about ASCE’s
infrastructure Report Card and about the roles and responsibilities that civil engineers carried out within City ofCharlotte. We were fortunate to the opportunities to meet the persons in charge of the infrastructure report cardand the City of Charlotte. The meetings were very useful and productive, and we came to realize the meaningsof the report card that we intended to produce in order to improve the public’s knowledge and understanding of
the state of Japan’s infrastructure, and to remind ourselves that we should remain neutral and objective incollecting and analyzing data.
Then, on October 23 to 25, I went to KSCE’s 2013 Convention held in High 1 Resport in Gangwon-do in Korea.
We gave a brief idea and invited JSCE’s 100th Anniversary as we did to ASCE, in a KSCE-JSCE meeting.
KSCE accepted the invitation and further discussed future collaborations with JSCE as well.
I visited Korea Expressway Corp Chuncheon Office and Soyanggang Dam
were efficiently operated and maintained, that I saw there.

on the last day of my trip. Both

Last, but not least I would like to thank Prof. Dong-Uk Lee, the JSCE Korea Section president for his kindness,effort and time spent in translating “Special Act for the Safety Control of Public Structures (2011, 2012) intoJapanese, which Dr. Kyoung-Soo Kim CEO of Korea Infrastructure Safety and Technology Corp discussed atthe International Panel Discussion, 2013 JSCE Annual Meeting in this September. I am greatly impressed byhis effort that was spent in completing the translation of such a vast amount of text in a short period of time.
Thank you so much, Prof. Lee. I will use it as a reference for examining issues at Japan’s infrastructure
maintenance and renewal.
Thank you very much.

What’s HappeningDec 23: Korea-Japan Joint Symposium on Road Bridge Maintenance and Management in SeoulUpdates
The summary of feature articles in the JSCE Magazine is available on the JSCE website.
http://www.jsce-int.org/pub/magazineConcrete Committee International Newsletter No. 35
http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/concrete/e/newsletter/Newsletter.htm



Mr. Daisuke Saito of JSCE UK Section was recognized for his presentation on “Double Deck Prestressed
Composite Truss Bridge Design” at IABSE “Future of Design 2013” on Sept. 12.
http://www.iabsekempfod.com/young_engineers.html

Center for Promoting Japan-Vietnam Civil Engineers Collaboration opened@ NUCE, Hanoi
http://vnctimes.com.vn/portal/news/2013/11/7699/

IAC News Subscription
The IAC News is one of the communication tools to share information and ideas with the members. We would
like to invite you, your friends and colleagues to join the communication and to subscribe the IAC News.
Please register online: (http://committees.jsce.or.jp/s_iad/iac_news_e). We look forward to meeting you.
Registration form for IAC News subscription:
・Japanese :（http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/node/31）
・English :（http://www.jsce-int.org/pub/registration/non-international_students）
・English for those who have studied/ graduated from Japanese colleges and universities :（http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/node/30）

Y’s Murmuring
The president and IAC members are busy traveling from one country to another like globe-trotters toattend JSCE’s friends’ societies in this autumn. The president flew for 13 hours to have a meeting with
the ICE President in London just a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to IT-oriented generation, we enjoy
emailing, twittering, smart-phone-talking every day. Cell phones, smart phones, and IPad, thesehigh-tech gizmos are our glorious achievements, and much smarter than users. Then, why do we taketime to go see and talk with our friends face to face? Sharing the same time and place, looking at eachother’s eyes, and listening to each other’s voices, something there more than we talk with the gizmos.
Well, seeing is worth a thousand words, and treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

【Comments and Questions】
Please send us your feedback and comments to help us improve the IAC news. We look forward to hearing fromyou. JSCE IAC: iac-news@jsce.or.jp