JSCE Newsletter No.22, October 2007

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Committee

Newsletter
No. 22, October 2007
2007
President
ISHII, Yumio

The Activities of Japan Society of Civil Engineers
Message from President Ishii

Vice-Presidents
INAMURA, Hajime
KUSAKABE, Osamu
KOTANI, Kenichi
SAKATA, Kenji
TANIGUCHI, Hiroaki
Executive Director
FURUKI, Moriyasu
International Activities
Committee
Chair
KUSAKABE, Osamu
Vice-Chair
KAMIYAMA, Makoto
Secretary General
FUKUMOTO, Katsuji
Committee Member /Secretary
KOHNO, Shigeyuki
SADAMURA, Hirofumi
NODA, Masaru
HORIKOSHI, Kenichi
YAMAGUCHI, Eiki
International Chapter
Taiwan Section
Der-Her Lee
Korea Section
Kook Il Kim
U.K. Section
SOGA, Kenichi
Mongolia Section
Dorjderem Chirchin
Turley Section
Zeki HasgürIndonesia Section
Sutanto Soehodho

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ISHII, Yumio, Dr. Eng.
President

When I took the office as the 95th president of JSCE, I set threeobjectives to pursue during my one-year tenure: to make more contribution
to further development and welfare of nearby Asian countries, to implement
an infrastructure assessment program, and to set up a plan to celebrate the
JSCE 100th anniversary to be held in seven years. Since then, I have been
pursuing these objectives with my JSCE colleagues and feel getting on theright track. Besides working for these objectives, I have also put my efforts
to promote “Speaking out” to improve communication with society.
(1) Contribution to further development and welfare of Asia
Civil engineer’s responsibility is to construct infrastructure such thatthe three conditions- Safety, Convenience and Good Environment are
ensured in people’s daily life.
Our country, building good skills and technologies to deal with its
sever environmental conditions and overcoming the limited knowledge andfinancial resource, accomplished modernization in the late 19th century andthe high economic growth started in the 1950’s. The country owed theseachievements to our senior civil engineers’ dynamic leadership andsignificant efforts.
Meanwhile, there are many people in Asia who have not received
benefits from modernization and economic growth in society yet. Rather, wehave even recalled with a bitter feeling that the Indian Ocean Earthquake andTsunami afflicted the people living in the countries surrounding the ocean
and many of them have been suffered from the aftermath of the disaster still.
Seeing the impact on the people and their lives, we have come tonotice that what we have learned from our successful and unsuccessful
experiences in the past could be shared with the people in the Asian region
to give ideas to improve their knowledge and skills towards further
development of society, and we earnestly hope that. Besides sharing theexperience, we are taking other approaches to contribute to that region:
reinforcing JSCE investigation team’s assistance and support to disasterafflicted areas and countries, establishing International Sections, promoting
the JSCE CPD system to get referred to more widely in the civil engineering
industry, and devising unified technical standards taking into account the

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JSCE Newsletter No.22, October 2007social and physical features of the region.
These steady efforts of ours are yielding fruit
as time goes on.
(2) Infrastructure Assessment and Report
Card
The existing infrastructures that werebuilt in the high economic growth period havecome to or over 50 years old one after another.
In August 2007, a 40-year-old bridge in
Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed. This
incident was very shocking to us. We can’t
leave it just another country’s problem, butshould take it as a warning about the future of
the aging infrastructures in our country.
In order to keep the aging
infrastructures maintained as well as to makethe people realize the importance of having
healthy infrastructures for their safety,
convenience and environment, we will conduct
infrastructure assessments and release theresults to the public(3) Celebration on the JSCE 100th
Anniversary
JSCE, which was established in 1914,
will mark it 100th anniversary in seven years.
Toward the memorable anniversary, we would
like to take this opportunity as a turning pointin the history of the Society and to look backwhat civil engineers have achieved so far andwhat they should do in the future.
During the course of that, we will focus
on reviewing the Society’s mission and aims,
polishing them to more responsive to ourpresent society’s needs, stating the importanceof infrastructures in society with the civilengineers’ remarkable achievements in the past
100 years. And we will examine what we cando, should do as the leaders of civilengineering in the 21st century.
(4) Silence is Not Golden
As we may remember the bridge
collapse in Minneapolis vividly, we would not
like to leave the aging infrastructures as theyare. If we do so, it is no doubt that our society
will follow the example of America- “Japan in
Ruins.”On the other hand, the public andpoliticians hold a misunderstanding about
infrastructure: they assume that the
infrastructures once constructed will standthere for good without diminishing theirperformance. In order to correct themisunderstanding, we have determined to“speak out” in society. Silence is not golden
any longer.
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Since the beginning of the year, wehave held a meeting with mass media once amonth, and also have started up the Editorial
Committee to publicize the opinions
exchanged in the meeting.
Last, as mentioned earlier, we willconduct infrastructure assessments and publish
the results in the form of report card.
Thank you very much.

Greetings from Vice Chair ofInternational Activities Committee

KAMIYAMA, Makoto, Fellow Member
Vice Chair, International Activities Committee
June 2007-May 2009
(Prof. at Tohoku Institute of Technology)

On the occasion of being newly
appointed Vice Chair of the International
Activities Committee (IAC) of JSCE, I would
like to convey my cordial greetings and best
wishes to the friendly JSCE members and tothe members of the JSCE International
Sections in particular.
Though having little experience with
the IAC, I have fully realized the importanceof JSCE’s international activities. It may benecessary for an academic society such as
JSCE to take a long-term strategy and futureoriented manner in order to successfully carryout international activities. From such astandpoint, I have no doubt that younginternational
students
studying
civil
engineering at college in Japan will play animportantrole
inaccelerating
theinternationalization of JSCE and strengthening
the friendly relationship between their country
and Japan.
Nowadays some 120,000 students fromall over the world are studying here in Japan invarious fields including civil engineering. This
number needs to be further expanded for the
benefit of the real internationalism of theJapanese society.
The IAC has set up a task-force team tosupport international students studying in thecivil engineering field, and with the teamalready started various activities.
I would like to extend my efforts intothat task-force team as the IAC’s Vice Chair. I
sincerely hope that the members of the
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International Sections will keep working with
us to enhance the international exchange ofcivil engineering students. In closing, I pray
for the progress and development of each
International Section.

JSCE Taiwan Section
Shield Tunnel Technology Seminar
The seminar on “Shield Tunnel
Technology by Japanese specialist” was heldon June 8th, 2007. The Senior Managing
Director Shuichi Yahagi of Tokyo Metro Co.,
Ltd. and Professor Atsushi Koizumi of Waseda
University were two invited lecturers in theseminar. Director Shuichi Yahagi presented on“Current State of Shield Method in Japan andRequired Direction of New Technological
Development”,
andProfessor
AtsushiKoizumi’s presentation was on “Technologyof Shield Machine and Segment”. Bothpresentations were presented in Kaohsiung at
9:00-12:00 and in Taipei at 15:00-18:00.
This seminar provided a valuable
opportunity for more than 320 participants to
exchange information with one another.

Japanese invited lecturers at the seminar
By KO, Wute
(Secretary General of Taiwan Section, JSCE)

Report of the 4th Civil Engineering
Conference in the Asian Region(4th CECAR)
Introduction
The 4th Civil Engineering Conferencein the Asian Region (4th CECAR) was held in
Taipei from June 25 to 28. There were morethan 1,000 participants from 22 countries, andamong the participants, approximately 130
participants came from Japan. “Working for
Asian Sustainability” was the main theme ofthis conference.
From Japan, Dr. Yumio Ishii, JSCE
President, Mr. Hideo Kayahara, PresidentElect, Prof. Osamu Kusakabe, Vice President
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and Chair of International Activities
Committee, participated in the conference
together with Prof. Masanori Hamada,
Immediate Past President, who was invited as a
special lecturer, and many other former JSCE
presidents.
In terms of the program, since JSCE
was in charge of two special forums and theCommittee on ACECC (Asian Civil
Engineering Coordinating Council) had beenworking on the preparation, coordinating theparticipants, collecting materials and so on,
JSCE made a great contribution to the
management of the 4th CECAR and succeededin showing its active presence. Also, theoutcome of the Presidential Meeting wasannounced as the “Taipei Declaration”, wherea lot of comments made by JSCE were adopted.
In implementing JSCE’s relevant
activities at the 4th CECAR, we were able tocollect contributions offered from 21
companies/organizations. As well, we gained
great cooperation from the Taiwan Section of
JSCE, Chinese Institute of Civil and HydraulicEngineering. I’d like to express my sincere
gratitude for their support and assistance.
1. ACECC related meetings(1) ACECC 15th Executive Committee
Meeting
On June 24, the day before the CECAR,
Planning Committee Meeting and Technical
Coordinating Committee Meeting were held.
JSCE made a report about the TC on Interregional Cooperation for Great Mekong Subregion (Chair: Prof. Osamu Kusakabe, Tokyo
Institute of Technology), and made a proposalof establishing a new TC on Harmonization of
Design Code in the Asian Region (Chair: Prof.
Yusuke Honjo, Gifu University), of which wasapproved.
These items were formallyapproved of at the 15th Executive Committee
Meeting on 25th, which Dr. Yukihiko
Sumiyoshi attended as the JSCE representative
together with other delegates.

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(2) ACECC Presidential Meeting
On the afternoon of 25th, a meeting forthepresidents
of
ACECC
membersocieties/institutions was held, which thepresent and past presidents attended. They
discussed about the content of “Taipei
Declaration”.
(3) Asian Summit, Announcement of“Taipei Declaration”“Taipei Declaration” was announced at
a restaurant on the 85th floor of the Taipei 101,the current world’s highest building, and thenthe agreement signing ceremony was
conducted. It is the declaration of the civilengineers’ commitment to the sustainable
development of Asia with great considerationof the environment, for which Mayor of Cityof Taipei joined in signing it.
“Taipei
Declaration” is posted in the page of “From the
President’s Office” on he JSCE website.

Taipei Declaration and its signees

2. Opening Ceremony, Awarding Ceremony(June 26)
On the morning of 26th, Opening
Ceremony was held and the host society
addressed a welcome speech. In the ceremony,this article’s writer sat as the Chair of theAwarding Subcommittee.
Subsequently,
ACECC
Award
Presentation Ceremony was held. Late Dr.
Fumio Nishino, Professor Emeritus ofUniversity of Tokyo, received ACECC Award
for Achievement posthumously, he being oneof the three awardees, and the Recovery
Project from the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake(JR East, East NEXCO) received ACECCAward for Technology, in which five projects
were awarded.
3. Special Lectures, Special Forums, Student
Essay Presentation, Parallel Sessions
On 26th and 27th, one keynote lecture,nine special lectures, four special forums,
student essay presentation, and parallelsessions were held.
(1) Special Lecture
From JSCE, Prof. Masanori Hamada,
Waseda University, Immediate Past President,
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delivered a special lecture titled “Roles ofCivil Engineers for Disaster Mitigation under
Changes of Natural and Social Environment”.
(2) Special Forum (SF)1) SF1: Sustainable Rural and Urban
Development
Presenter: JSCE President Yumio Ishii;
Title: “Outline of the Water Resources
Policy in Japan”
2) SF2: The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Their damage, lessons and disaster mitigation
Chair: Prof. Fumihiko Imamura, Tohoku
University
Presenters: Prof. Fujima, National Defense
Academy, Prof. Kosa, Kyushu Institute ofTechnology, Prof. Hamada, Waseda
University
Content: Activity Report of the ACECC TC
on the Sumatra Offshore Earthquake and theIndian Ocean Tsunami as well as thediscussion about the future direction. The
SF2 was sponsored by
the JSCE Science
Promotion Foundation.
3)
SF3:
Harmonizationof
Design Codes in the
Asian Region
Chair: Prof. Yusuke
Honjo, Gifu University, Coordinator: Dr.
Kenichi Horikoshi, Secretary General,
Committee on ACECC
Content: The purpose was to discuss thenecessity of design code harmonization in
the Asian region and identify problems.
Discussion was made about the possibilityof the design code harmonization on thecommon recognition that Asian countries
have the similar environmental and physicalconditions and disaster problems.
4) Parallel Sessions
There were 159 oral presentations and 36
poster presentations in the parallel sessions.
Of these presentations, 45 oral and 7 poster
presentations were done by Japaneseengineers.
5) Student Essay Contest
Student Essay presentations were made by
the seven students recommended by
ACECC member societies/institutions.
From Japan, Mr. Yosuke Shinoda, a seniorat Nagoya University, made a speech titled“The Duties of Civil Engineering”.
4. Booth Exhibition
JSCE, together with the supporting
companies, had a booth exhibition introducing
the Japanese civil engineering technology
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centering on the projects which had received
JSCE Technology Award. Five continuous
booths were allocated for JSCE. Since they
were situated by the entrance, we had a lot ofvisitors.

Opening Ceremony of International Exhibition

5. “Getting-Acquainted” meeting (June 26)
A getting-acquainted meeting was held
for the purpose of enhancing exchanges
between the JSCE members of Taiwan Section
and those participating in the conference fromJapan. 52 people including Dr. Ishii, JSCE
President joined this gathering.
6. VIP Breakfast among Taiwan, Korea andJapan (June 27)
Hosted by Prof. Yeong-Bin Yang,
CICHE President, VIPs from the three
countries had a breakfast meeting andexchanged opinions about infrastructuredevelopment. After Prof. Yang’s welcome
greetings and the participants’ introduction, Dr.
Hiroshi Mitani, a JSCE former president, madeapresentation
tointroduce
Japan’s
infrastructure development and advanced
construction technology.
After that, theparticipants had an active discussion andagreed to continue appealing for theimportance of infrastructure. They also agreed
to continue opinion exchanges among the three
countries.

Former President Dr. MITANI at the VIP Breakfast
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7. Closing Ceremony, Gala Dinner (June 27)(1) Closing Ceremony
At the Closing Ceremony, the ACECC
Flag was handed over to Mr. Paul Mitchell,
Engineers Australia, Incoming Chair of
ACECC Executive Committee, from outgoing
Chair, Prof. J. C. Chern.
(2) Gala Dinner
There were the performances of KSCE
Civil Engineers Choir and the Taiwanesenative folkdance. JSCE participants sang
“Sukiyaki Song” and got a big hand.
8. Technical Visits
Four technical visits were offered on
28th:1) Visit to “Taipei 101”, the world’s highest
building, and MRT Shinchung Line Tour.
2) Visit to “Hsuehshan Tunnel”, the longest
road tunnel in Southeast Asia.
3) Visit to Middle Taiwan by Taiwan High
Speed Railway including the 921
Earthquake Museum of Taiwan.
4) Visit to Southern Taiwan (Kaohsiung,“Love River”) by Taiwan High Speed
Railway
At the End
ACECC, founded in 1999 under the
initiative of JSCE, now with nine members,
has been even further expanding its activities
and furthering discussions dynamically. Now
that the 4th CECAR was successfully closed,
we are moving towards the 5th CECAR to beheld in Sydney, Australia, in 2010.
By OKUMURA, Fuminao, Dr. Eng.
(Railway Technical Research Institute,
Chair, Committee on ACECC, JSCE)

EIT-JSCE Joint Seminar on RockEngineering 2007
The joint seminar between theEngineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) and
JSCE, sponsored by the JSCE International
Scientific Exchange Fund, was held in
Bangkok on 17-19 September 2007. This event
consisted of a general seminar, a field trip, anda seminar for students and young engineers. It
was organized by the two co-chairmen Dr.
Noppadol Phienwej, Asian Institute ofTechnology and Prof. Hiroyasu Ohtsu, Kyoto
University.
The general seminar held at Imperial
Queen’s Park Hotel on September 17 beganwith an opening speech by Dr. Noppadol
Phienwej, followed by Dr. Yoshifumi
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Nishiwaki, Chairperson of the Committee ofRock Mechanics, JSCE. More than 70
participants from Thailand and Japan attended
the seminar and actively engaged in
discussions on rock engineering and related
fields. The seminar included 22 oral and poster
presentations on various topics such as rockmechanics, landslide, geo-exploration and soon.
As for the field trip, Japaneseparticipants visited Tha Dan Dam and thelandslide monitoring site Nakhon Nayok on
September 18. The Tha Dan Dam, which wasbuilt to facilitate irrigation, is one of thebiggest roller compacted concrete (RCC) type
dam with a height of 93m and a length of
2,720m. Also the participants visited the slope
monitoring site adjacent to the dam, where
under the leadership of Prof. Hiroyasu Ohtsu,
Kyoto Univ. group members has been
undertaking hydrogeological monitoring incollaboration with Kasesart University

Seminar for students and young engineers
on September 19

The seminar for students and young
engineers was held at the EIT headquarters in
Bangkokon September 19, which was the firsttrial to provide an opportunity of international
collaboration to young generations related torock engineering field. 7 students from thelocal graduate schools-Asian Institute ofTechnology,
Kasesart
University,
andSuranaree University of Technology and 13
Japanese graduate students from Kyoto
University, Kobe University, Yamaguchi
University, and Kansai University joined tomake oral presentations on various topics suchas rock mechanics, landslide and slope failure,and geo-exploration and exchanged theiropinions. It was a good opportunity for thosegraduate students to exchange information
with their counterparts in other universities andin another country. It would be our great
pleasure if what the young engineers gained at
this seminar would encourage them to engage
in international collaboration on civilengineering and to develop their research
activities.
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By OHTSU, Hiroyasu, Dr. Eng.
(Kyoto University,
Committee of Rock Mechanics, JSCE)

The Ninth International Summer
Symposium
The Ninth International Summer
Symposium organized by the International
Activities Committee of JSCE (Chair: Prof.
Osamu Kusakabe, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology) was held at Yokohama National
University, Yokohama, on September 18, 2007.
The symposium is held annually to provide not
only Japanese, but international students andengineers with an opportunity to exchange
information and ideas concerned with various
aspects of civil engineering. The symposium’s
main objective is to promote international
exchange and mutual understanding between
Japanese engineering students and engineers
and their international peers. The symposium
started in 1999, and sincethen it has gained a highreputation as a valuable
meeting for students andengineers to exchange
information in English.
This symposium was
supportedbytheInternational
ScientificExchange Fund, JSCE.
The number ofattendantswas103:
international
students/engineers:
72;
Japanese
students/engineers: 31. This year’s keynote
lectures were given by Dr. Yoshimi Goda,
Professor Emeritus, Yokohama National
University, titled “Call for Engineering
Judgment in Coastal Engineering Research”
and by Prof. Osamu Kusakabe, titled “Towards
sustainable civil engineering”. These lectures
will serve as a reference for the international
students and help them define their vision of
the future.

Keynote Lecture by Prof. Goda

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Moreover, there were a total of 82
presentations in 7 areas in civil engineering: A.
Structural
Mechanics
andEarthquake
Engineering: 20; B. Hydraulic, Coastal andEnvironmental
Engineering:
16;
C.
GeotechnicalEngineering:
18;
D.
Infrastructure Planning and Management: 5; E.
Materials, Concrete Structures and Pavements:
10; F. Construction Management andEngineering: 2; G. Environmental Systems andEngineering: 11.
The symposium was closed with areception in which there were lively exchanges
among the participants. Before the reception,the "Certificate of Excellence" was awarded to
14 speakers for their outstanding papers andpresentations.
The award winners were:Ahmed Kamal (Nagoya Univ.),
Rabin Tuladhar (Saitama Univ.),
Pang-jo Chun (Wayne State Univ.),
Sohail Ahmed (Saitama Univ.),
Napayalage Aruna Kithsiri Nandasena(Saitama Univ.),
Gyeong-Seon Yeom (Nagoya Univ.),
Ruta Ireng Wicaksono (the Univ. of Tokyo),
Olivhal Paghangaan Borda (the Univ. ofTokyo),
Deepagoda Thuduwe Kankanamge Kelum
Chamindu (Saitama Univ.),
Manalo Allan Capilar (Saitama Univ.),
Marish S. Madlangbayan (Tokyo Institute ofTechnology),
Matiko Samson (Yokohama National Univ.),
Sasikala Shanmugasuntharam (Saitama
Univ.),
Kasige Anusha Priyanthi (Saitama Univ.)
At the end of the reception, allparticipants promised to meet again next year.

The award winners with Prof. Kusakabe
By YAMADA, Hitosh, Dr. Eng.
(Yokohama National University,
Chair, Organizing Committee of the Ninth
International Summer Symposium, JSCE)The 2007 JSCE Annual Meeting washeld on September 12-14 at Hiroshima
University, Higashi-Hiroshima Campus.
It is our great pleasure that this year
again the International Activities Committee(IAC) had many international guests from
JSCE’s cooperation agreement societies/
institutions to the two major international
meetings Roundtable Meeting and Panel
Discussion, International Session and social
activities, having many international guests.
These meeting, which the IAC hosts
every year, have been offered as international
functions in the JSCE Annual Meeting, and areopen to any JSCE annual meeting registrants
who are interested in hearing discussions to bemade among international engineering experts.
In addition, the IAC held aninternational symposium in cooperation with
Science Council of Japan and others in
response to the request of the Japan Federationof Engineering Society (JFES) and World
Federation of Engineering Organization(WFEO).
The Roundtable Meeting centeredaround the discussion on “Sustainable
Infrastructure Development and Operation
Now and for the Future” taking into accountthe Presidential Committee’s activities. At themeeting, Dr. Yumio Ishii President and Prof.
Kazuhiro Ohta a member of the aforesaid
committee took the chair and the moderator
respectively.
The chair opened the meeting with a
discussion about the current status of Japanese
infrastructure and infrastructure assessment to
be done with a professional point of view. The
discussion raised so interesting issues that theaudience did not hesitate to make comments
and questions.
Then, the delegates of the agreement
cooperation societies/ institutes delivered apresentation on sustainable development with
their unique viewpoints, approaches, on-goingprojects and suggestions to act on the pledge of“Taipei Declaration”. These presentations led
the audience to explore the subject extensively
and to get themselves engaged deeper in
discussions. The allotted time for the meeting
turned to be not long enough to complete thediscussions.

Report on International Program,2007 JSCE Annual Meeting

After the Roundtable Meeting
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In closing, the moderator summarized
the meeting by stressing that it was importantto achieve higher levels of efficiency andeffectiveness in infrastructure development forthe society. Civil engineers could acquire thepublic’s better understanding and appreciation
for their services and works if they could
expand the benefits and convenience to that the
public has access with their utmost efforts.
At the Panel Discussion, Prof. Kusakabechaired, and five panelists-one delegate from
PII-BKS, KSCE, MACE, ACECC and JSCE
spoke about the theme “International
Cooperation in the Civil Engineering Field”.
Those panelists introduced their unique
viewpoints, focuses and approaches so that theaudience could gain wide-range of knowledge,
and share their ideas with each other.
After the discussions, the international
guests got together with their old and new
friends at a welcome reception on the firstnight. And on the second day, they had theopportunity to meet other participants camefrom around the country at a banquet andgreeted them on the platform prepared in theroom.
All the IAC members were very happy
that the international program yielded more
and richer fruits than last year.
Then they will be working harder tomake the IAC’s program more attractive,
meaningful to anybody in and outside thecountry and get it recognized as “aninternational forum to attend.”
I close the report with my deepest
appreciation and gratitude to all of those who
had worked with us to organize theinternational program. In particular, I
gratefully acknowledge that the 62nd JSCE
Annual Meeting Committee and Steering
Committee, Chugoku Chapter and Hiroshima
Univ.-Higashi-Hiroshima Campus staff madevital contributions to the success of that
program. Thank you very much.

7-8 JSCE-KSCE-CICHE/TCI Joint Seminar on
Recent Progress of Hybrid Structures

By FUKUMOTO, Katsuji(Obayashi Corp.,
Secretary General, the IAC)

Venue: National Taiwan University
Dr. TAKAHASHI, Yutaka will talk about “History andHeritages Conservation of Civil Engineering in Japan.”November
137th

AnnualCivil

Engineering

Venue: Orlando, FL
Theme: Infrastructure for all Generations: Plan,
Design, Build, Manage
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Sarutagawa Bridge

In 2006, KSCE (Korean Society of Civil Engineers)JSCE Joint Seminar on Recent Progress ofConcrete/Steel/FRP Hybrid Structures was held in
Gwangju, Korea, in conjunction with the Annual Meetingof KSCE. Taking this opportunity, JSCE, KSCE, and
CICHE (Chinese Institute of Civil and HydraulicEngineering) together with TCI (Taiwan Concrete
Institute) promised to regularly hold joint seminars on
hybrid structures for further strengthening mutual
collaborations in this hybrid structures’ fields.
Then, the 2nd joint seminar is held as aninternational event of the 7th JSCE Symposium on
Research and Application of Hybrid Structures. Its
objective is to learn about each other’s most current
researches, projects and technology on hybrid structuresof steel-concrete, FRP-concrete and more.

21-24 PICE (Philippine InstituteEngineers) 33rd National Convention

of

Civil

Venue: Cebu International Convention Center
Prof. HAMADA, Masanori will deliver a special
lecture on “Roles of Civil Engineers for Disaster
Management Under Changes of Natural and Social
Environments.”

28 The international workshop on volcanic
engineering
Venue: Earthquake Research Institute, the University ofTokyo

December
6 CICHE-JSCE Joint Seminar on Steel Structures
as a part of International Programs of the 2007 Annual
Conference of CICHE in Taipei
Venue: National Taiwan University

7 Symposium on Taiwan Civil Engineering History
and Heritages Conservation

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Event Calendar
1-3 ASCE
Conference

Venue: JSCE Headquarters, Tokyo

to:

Editorial Board:
Information Subcommittee,
International Activities Committee, JSCE

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