JSCE Newsletter No.21, August 2007

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Committee

Newsletter
No. 21, August 2007

Greetings from Chair ofInternational Activities
Committee, JSCE

including the official term for international
section, in order to establish international
sections throughout the world. Your comments
regarding my proposal as well as the current
Guidelines are very much welcomed.
I wish for each international section tobe successful in developing its activity andlook forward to working with all the membersof international sections in the future.

Dr. Park won the 2006 JSCEInternational Award
KUSAKABE Osamu, Fellow Member
Chair, International Activities Committee,
June 2007-May 2009
(Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology)

As a newly appointed chair ofInternational Activities Committee (IAC) ofJSCE, I would like to send my personal
greetings to JSCE International Sections. It is
my great pleasure, first of all, to inform you ofthe establishment of Indonesia Section thisJune, making six international sections in total
now.
At the first IAC meeting held on July 4,
I proposed the following plans for theCommittee to consider, in order strengthening
the activities of international sections andreinforcing the tie between the JSCE
international sections and Headquarters:(1) Setting up JSCE Library in eachinternational section,(2) Organizing JSCE touring lectures in eachinternational section,(3) Holding a technical meeting annually ineach international section,(4) Reporting the activities of eachinternational section to the Board of Directorsof the JSCE Headquarters regularly, and(5) Appointing the President of eachinternational section to an IAC member.
I also seriously consider revising“Guidelines for Establishing an International
Section of JSCE (revised in January, 2001)”,
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Kyung-Boo ParkInternational Award winner
for the year of 2006
President, Korean DisasterPrevention Association;
Immediate Past President,
Korea Section, JSCE

The JSCE 93rd General Assembly washeld at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont on May 25,
2007. At this event, the International Award
was presented to five civil engineers for theirsignificant contribution to the advancement ofthe Japanese civil engineering science andtechnology. Dr. Kyung-Boo Park, Past
President of Korea Section, JSCE was theonly foreign nationally among the award
winners.

The 2006 Environmental Award
Cheng Gyu Cheon Restration Project
Cheng Gyu Cheon Restoration Projectof the Seoul City was presented the 2006
Environmental Award. Mr. Kil-Dong Park ofthe Seoul Metropolitan Government attended
to receive the award at the JSCE 93rd General
Assembly. The project was given high marks
for the innovate ideas and the latest civilengineering technology developed to carry out
the project.
The project has made it successful torestore the environment of Cheng Gyu Cheon
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River once contaminated and to create a green
zone has been created in the city of Seoul.

Presidential Visit to Mongolia:
MACE Annual Meeting & Seminar,
JSCE Mongolian Section, and MajorPublic Offices
Courtesy visit to the Embassy of Japanin Mongolia on June 6
The JSCE president Dr. Ishii paid acourtesy visit to Mr. Yasukichi Ichihashi,Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
together with Mr. Chirchin Dorjderem
President of the Mongolian Section and Mr.
Kazuaki Notake a Mongolian Section memberin the morning on June 6. In the meeting, Mr.
Ichihashi expressed his expectations towards
JSCE’s future international contributions andrequests to JSCE to induce the Ministry ofTransport, Land and Infrastructure (MLIT) tostrengthen the cooperation with Mongolia inassisting the country for further infrastructuredevelopment.

Discussion with MACE
After the visit to the Embassy of Japan,
the JSCE delegation went to the headquartersof Mongolian Association of Civil Engineers(MACE) to meet with Dr. Ganzorig Erdene,
President.
At the meeting, Prof. Shunji
Kusayanagi of Kochi University ofTechnology and his colleagues, and Mongolian
Section members joined and had discussions
with the MACE members.
The MACE members talked about theincreasing
demandsforinfrastructuredevelopment, and in order to meet the demands,
they were making great effort to improve theirskills and knowledge. To them, that, the JSCE
party suggested to consult the Japanese
government’s strategy for the nation’s
reconstruction after-World War II and thedevelopmentofJapaneseengineering
technology, and that government’s pastassistanceto
Mongolia’s
developing
infrastructure.

MACE Annual Meeting & Seminar
Opening Ceremony
The MACE Annual Meeting &Seminar opened on the 7th with many
international guests at the Japan-Mongolia
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opening ceremony, Dr. Ganzorig Erdene, Mr.
Narantsatsralt
Janlav,
MinisterforConstruction and Urban Development, theGovernment of Mongolia and then Dr. Ishii
delivered a speech respectively.
In his speech, Dr. Ishii talked about thesuccessful reconstruction and development ofJapan owing to mainly the engineering
technologies transferred from overseas, andthat JSCE were ready to cooperate with MACE
for further infrastructure development inMongolia.

Many MACE members gathered at theOpening Ceremony

Visit to Mongolian Association of Road
Engineers (MARE) on June 7
After the opening ceremony, Dr. Ishii
visited the office of Mongolian Association ofRoad Engineers (MARE), which comes under
the Ministry of Road, Transport and Tourism,and discussed with Mr. Gambo Lkhamjav,
Executive Director of MARE and Mr. Onon
Rentsendorj of the Ministry of Road, Transportand Tourism.
Learning that the MARE had a close
relationship with the afore said ministry while
MACE did with the Ministry for Construction
and Urban Development, the JSCE president
proposed an idea of creating an umbrellaorganization to build a bridge between the two
associations for better communication between
them and also with JSCE. The idea wasrecommended to MACE as well.

JSCE-MACE Joint Seminar on June 8Theseminaron“Construction
Management and High-Rise Building Designand Construction was held as a MACE andJSCE joint activity on the second day of theMACE Annual Meeting, sponsored by JSCE International Scientific Exchange Fund.
The seminar was a good opportunity
for more than 200 participants to exchange
information with each other.
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Courtesy Visit to Ministry ofConstruction and Urban Development
While was ongoing the joint seminar,
Prof. Yeong-Bin Yang President of Chinese
Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering(CICHE) and Dr. Ishii made a courtesy call onMr. Narantsatsralt Jalav, Minister forConstruction and Urban Development. In themeeting, Dr. Ishii presented the Society’s
future plans of cooperation with Mongolia, inwhich Mr. Narantsantralt expressed his keeninterest.

International Roundtable Meeting onJune 9
The International Roundtable Meetingon “Continuing Professional Development(CPD) on Civil Engineering” was convened in
the Mongolian unique housing “ger”- a feltcovered, wood-framed, round-shaped tent, put up in the 13th Century National Park, 90
km away from the capital. In the ger, therepresentatives of MACE, CICHE and JSCE
sat next side by side and exchanged their viewsand experience about continuing professionaldevelopment.
The venue for Roundtable Meeting
In the Roundtable Meeting, the JSCE
president emphasized on “Capacity Building”
in relation to the past development of civilengineering discipline and then introduced
JSCE’s CPD system. Next, Prof. Yang of
CICHE discussed about the importance ofmulti-disciplinary study for civil engineers toimprove their knowledge and skills, to whoseviews the JSCE president agreed.
The MACE, CICHE and JSCE
presidents concluded the meeting with apromised to see each other again at the 4th
Civil Engineering Conference in the AsianRegion (CECAR) to be held in Taipei.

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This visit marked as another step
forward to strengthen the MACE and JSCE
relationship, promising future cooperative
activities.
Without the extensive assistance andwarm hospitality rendered by the Mongolia
Section members, the visit would not havebeen successful. To the Section members, theJSCE delegation would like to express a deep
gratitude, at the same time, realized theSection’s remarkable work of liaising between
not only the local and Japanese civilengineering communities but also the twocountries.

JSCE-MACE Joint Seminar
JSCE-MACE Joint Seminar was held
as part of the feature programs of the MACE
Annual Meeting & Seminar on the 8th of June.
The theme was “Construction Management
Systems and Planning/ Design of High-Rise
Concrete Buildings.
On the 8th, the joint seminar wasconvened with the opening messages of Dr.
Ganzorig Erdene, followed by Dr. Ishii.
More than 200 participants gathered forthe joint seminar from home and abroad suchas Taiwan and Japan, and actively shared eachother’s views and opinions on the theme.
The success of the joint seminar
seemed to be encouraging to MACE, for they
were planning another joint seminar with JSCEin the not-far future.
To Dr. Ganzorig, Mr.Gantumur, theMACE staff and members and also theprofessors of Mongolian University of Scienceand Technology, the JSCE delegation greatly
acknowledge their generous assistance andcooperation which made this joint seminarsuccessful, and express its deepest appreciation
to them. Thank you sincerely.

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MACE Annual Meeting & Seminar
Date: June 7-9, 2007
Venues: Chinggis Khaan Hotel, Japan-Mongolia
Center, and the 13th Century National Park

NewsObituary: Prof. Fumio Nishino

The 6th International Section Indonesia Section established
JSCE has just opened the 6thInternational Section -Indonesia Section.
The launching ceremony of theIndonesia Section was held twice, one inJakarta and one in the city of Medan inSumatra, in July. Prof. Hamada the immediate
past president joined the ceremony to celebrate
the new section’s opening.
First, the launching ceremony was heldat the National Indonesia University in Jakarta.
Prof. Dr. Ir. Sutanto Soehodo, Vice Rector ofAcademic, was appointed as the president ofIndonesia Section and Mr. Tomoji Suzuki ofTobishima Corporation, Indonesia Office wasas Secretary General.
After that in Jakarta, the launching
ceremony was held once more in Medan, atUniversity of North Sumatra, because of
JSCE’s respect and friendship with the local
engineers: there were many Japanese membersof JSCE who kept a good relationship with thelocal civil engineers; many local engineers
signed as petitioners requesting theestablishment of a JSCE section in the area. At
the ceremony, Prof. Dr. Ir. Bachria Lubis, MSc.
of the university was officially announced asVice President of the Section.
The new addition of Indonesia Section
indicates JSCE’ entering a new phase ofinternational activity. Working hand-in handwith the Section and the other five together,
the Society will form closer links with wider
areas and lay the foundation on which civilengineers communicate with each otherdynamically.

Dr. Fumio Nishino, Professor Emeritusof the University of Tokyo, passed away on
May 6. He was 71 years old. The farewell
ceremony was held on June 13th at "HeianRoom", Hotel Okura, Tokyo.
In his professional career, Dr. Nishinoaccomplished a remarkable feat and numerous
contributions to the development of civilengineering, specializing in structural andbridgeengineering;hisachievements
represented the advanced Japanese civilengineering technology to the world.
Not only having he served to set up
East Asia-Pacific Conference on StructuralEngineering & Construction (EASEC), but healso endeavored to develop the framework ofAPEC Engineers and to promote Continuing
Professional
Development/
Professional
Engineer qualification internationally as aboard member of The Federation ofEngineering Institution in Southeast Asia andthe Pacific (FEISAP). Moreover, he drew
various programs and plans for engineering
education, public services and the utilization ofprivate-sector funds working with several
public agencies.
As these examples shows, hiscontributions to society are numerous and keep
producing fruits in and outside the country.
He was selected for the JSCE
Achievement Award this year, and hisattendance was wished for at the award
ceremony in the 93rd General Assembly heldon May 25. However, unfortunately it did not
happen.
He is the first awardee of the ACECCAward for Achievement.
Dr. Nishino is one of the civil engineerswho have brought a new phase in the Japanese
civil engineering.
Send your comments, suggestions and contributions
to: iad@jsce.or.jp
JSCE Website: http://www.jsce.or.jp

Prof. Dr. Sutanto Soehdho is accepting theappointment as President of Indonesia Section

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International Activities Committee, JSCE
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