JSCE Newsletter No.26, September 2008

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Committee

Newsletter
No. 26, September 2008
Contents

June 2008- May 2009
President
KAYAHARA Hideo
Vice-Presidents
INAMURA Hajime
OTSUKA Hisanori
KUSAKABE Osamu
TANIGUCHI Hiroaki
HOSHINO Mitsuru

Establishment of Philippines Section ---------p.3
Report of International Activities -------------p.4

Project Report from Dubai ---------------p.7
Information ---------------------------------p.8

Doors of engineers’ interaction and windows of
information always open to our colleagues overseas!

Executive Director
FURUKI Moriyasu
International Activities
Committee
Chair
KUSAKABE Osamu
Vice-Chair
KAMIYAMA Makoto
Secretary General
KOHNO Shigeyuki
Deputy-Secretary
GeneralFUKUDA Atsushi
Committee Member /Secretary
KOBAYAKAWA Satoru
SADAMURA Hirofumi
TAKEDA Shinichi
NODA Masaru
HORIKOSHI Kenichi
MATSUSHIMA Kakuya
YAMAGUCHI Eiki
International Chapter
Taiwan Section
Der-Her Lee
Korea Section
Kook Il Kim
U.K. Section
SOGA Kenichi
Mongolia Section
Dorjderem Chirchin
Turkey Section
Zeki HasgürIndonesia Section
Sutanto Soehodho

KANAI Makoto
Director on International Affairs, JSCEManaging Director, Obayashi Corporation

As is often the case in so many industrial fields, Japanese standards orJapanese common practices in heavy construction fields are quite peculiar or
native from global point of view. Some are baseless or complete nonsense,
but others are related to Japanese natural features such as steep terrain in
rather small country, frequent earthquakes due to jarring plate tectonics,
highly developed and populated cities on very soft alluvial soils, highgroundwater level, and etc.
To those baseless practices we have to learn through international
interactive activities and to re-fix our engineering and construction practiceso that our limited budget for the infrastructural investment should be
effectively and appropriately allocated. On the other hand, Japaneseengineering and technologies developed from its natural and national needs
could be well and reasonably applicable to many other nations under similar
natural features as well as national environments.
Some examples of the latter case in Japanese state-of-the-art shieldtunneling for railway and road construction are shown in figure 1 to 5. These
examples have some keywords in common, which are “soft soils”, “highgroundwater pressure”, “underground development in busy urban area”,“tunnel solution without cut-and-cover procedure”, “large bore”, “longbore”, “deep bore”.

Thailand Section
Samart Ratchapolsitte
Philippines Section
Benit Morelos Pacheco
Yotsuya 1-chome,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
160-0004 JAPAN
Tel: +81-3-3355-3452
Fax: +81-3-5379-2769
http://www.jsce-int.org
iad@jsce.or.jp

Figure 1-1 Large circular shield with excavation diameter of 10m or over

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Because engineering and technologies inheavy construction are developed throughexperiences and thus belong to engineers,
therefore, it is fundamental that humanrelations and interaction should be activatedbeyond national borders, and that proper
liaison engineers should act among theaffiliated societies of civil engineers.
My duty and intension as JSCE Director oninternational affairs is, therefore, to be anaccess window through which those Japanoriginated technological information including
design criteria and specifications applicableoverseas would be transferred to ourcolleagues by the affiliated engineers’interaction, and vice versa.
I am delighted to act as the liaison engineer
so that both Japanese and overseas engineers

could learn mutually enhancing theirengineering capabilities for an ecologically andeconomically effective development of theircountry’s infrastructure. As my experience
related to the duty, the following overseas
activities could be mentioned:
1) Animator of WG 14(Mechanized
Excavation) of International Tunneling
Association from 2000 to 2004
2) Technical Advisor to the Governmentowned Westerschelde Tunnel Corporationof Holland from 2000 to 2002
3) Technical Advisor to the Yangtze River
Crossing Road Plan Evaluation Committeeof Shanghai Government in 2003

Fig.1-2 Large Bore in Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway

Fig.2-1 Non-Circular Shield Application History

Fig.2-2 Non-Circular Shield

Figure 3 Tunnel Solution for Subsurface Connection
and Junction in Roadway and Railway Structures

Figure 4 RC Lining Segment with Rigidity
Controllable One-Pass Joints

Fig.5 Lining Segment of Steel Fiber Reinforced
Plastic Concrete2

I am always at your disposal and do hope
you would feel free to make contact with me
through JSCE. Thank you!

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Inaugural Meeting of the Philippines
Section
Immediate Past President of JSCE
Visited the Philippines

members of Philippines section. The meeting
was wrapped up by the cocktail reception. The
future direction and activities of JSCE
Philippines were discussed during thereception.

Dr. Yumio Ishii, the immediate pastpresident of JSCE, visited the Philippines
together with Professor Osamu Kusakabe, thevice-president of JSCE and the chairperson ofInternational Activity Committee of JSCE, and
Dr. Sasaki, a member of the Task Force ofContribution to Asia in the Special Presidential
Committee
JSCE,
tocelebratetheestablishment of the Philippines Section of
JSCE from 27th to 29th June.

After the meeting, adding about twenty
Japanese civil engineers, Mr. Willy Go, thepresident of PICE, and Mr. Julius Maquiling,
the executive board member of PICE, aninauguration party of JSCE Philippines washeld at Sulo Hotel near University of thePhilippines hosted by Dr. Ishii. Dr. Ishii gave aspeech on the purpose of establishing thesection, in which he said he expected thecollaborative relationship between the civilengineers from both countries. Dr. Pacheco
also expressed his wish to see the collaboration
with Japanese civil engineers in the Philippines
in his celebration speech. Mr. Go addressedthat he also hope to establish the JSCE section
to promote the relationship between PICE andJSCE. Mr. Shirai, the First Secretary ofJapanese Embassy, gave a celebrating speechand said that the section and this party would
provide important opportunities for the civilengineers to interchange each other.

The inaugural meeting of thePhilippines Section was held on 28th June at
the lobby of the department of civilengineering, University of the Philippines,
Quezon City, with 23 participants. PICE
president Mr. Willy Go kindly provided the
ceremony with a big floral decoration. The
ceremony began with the opening remark of
Dr. Sigua, Vice president of the section. Dr.
Benito Pacheco, the president of the section,
declared the establishment of the section. In
the speech, he said that JSCE Philippines
would operate as the nursery for young civilengineers. Dr. Ishii, immediate past president,
gave a congratulatory speech, saying that hehoped that the Philippines Section would play
an important liaison among the civil engineers
in both countries. Prof. Kusakabe and Mr.
Yoshino, the Second Secretary of Japanese
Embassy, also delivered congratulatory
speeches. Dr. Kusakabe underlined the roleand importance of the overseas sections for
JSCE. Mr. Yoshino expressed his wish that thesection to be an important bridge of thePhilippines and Japan.

The Speech of Dr. Ishii at the Inauguration Party

The party
continued
until
night, promoting
the exchange ofthe participants. It
was ended by the"Kanto- IpponDr. Ishii and Mr. Go
Jime" with thePhilippines
members, on the cheerful statement of Mr.
Hamada, JICA expert at DPWH.
This successful inauguration ceremony
indicated the future of this section aspromising.

Dr. Ishii and participants in the Inaugural Meeting

Dr. Ishii presented the flag of thePhilippines Section, and the appointment
letters to the president, the vice president, thesecretary general and the treasurer. Further, Dr.
Ishii handed gifts from JSCE to all the
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by SASAKI Kuniaki, Dr. Eng.
Member, Task Force of Contribution to Asia,
Special Presidential Committee, JSCE
(Associate Professor, University of
Yamanashi)
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First Collaborative Symposium of
Turk-Japan Civil Engineers
The First Collaborative Symposium of
Turk-Japan Civil Engineers was held in Turkey
on June 5, 2008 with the more than 100
participants from Japan Society of Civil
Engineers and Turkish Branch of JSCE, Civil
and Mining Faculties of Istanbul Technical
University and the members of Istanbul Branchof Turkish Civil Engineers Chamber.
Following the opening speeches by Prof. Dr.
Zeki Hasgür, the chairman of Turkish Branchof JSCE and Prof. Dr. Faruk Karadogan, thepresident of Istanbul
Technical University
and Cemal Gökçek, the chairman of Istanbul
Branch of Turkish Civil Engineers Chamber,the morning session was dedicated to thecontributions of Japanese late Professors T.
Hagiwara, S. Omote, H. Umemura, T. Rikitake,
K. Okubo by Emeritus Professors S.
Büyükaşıkoğlu and Muzaffer İpek, Prof. Zeki
Hasgür and Prof. Haluk Eyidoğan and ofJapanese Engineers involved in Hasan Uğurlu
Dam Project in Black Sea Region by Erdoğan
Özoral and Continental Boshorus Bridge
Projects in Istanbul by Yakup Dost. In theafternoon section, Prof. Hamada of Waseda
University, Prof. Tano of Nihon University
Prof. Kiyono of Kyoto University , Prof. ÖmerAydan of Tokai University and Prof. Halil
Kumsar of Pamukkale University and Prof.
Reşat Ulusay presented their talks onearthquake disaster management, applicationsof early warning systems to expressways aswell as joint projects carried out at Denizli
Province and Cappadocia Region of Turkey on
Babadağ landslide, earthquake prediction in
Denizli province, in-situ stress measurements
in Turkey and preservation of antique
Derinkuyu underground city and the
Bosphorus Subsea immersed tunnel project as
a part of Marmaray Project.
A technical excursion was arranged toa retrofitting project site on the European sidepier of the 1st Continental Bosphorus Bridge
and Golden Horn Bridge against Magnitude 8class earthquakes on June 6. The
Ishikawajima-Harima
Company has
implemented the retrofitting project with
Turkish sub-contractors for the Turkish
Roadway Authority.

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Photo 1: Speakers with their trophies

Photo 2. Technical excursion to the European side pier ofthe 1st Continental Bosphorus Bridge on June 6, 2008

By Aydan Omer, Member,
JSCE International Activities Committee(Professor, Tokai University)

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International Cooperation with
Mongolian Association of Civil
Engineers
Under the Cooperation Agreement
between JSCE and MACE, they have been
continuing to send delegations to theconferences and exchange their informationeach other. On June 19, 2008, Dr. Ishii,
Immediate-Past President of JSCE attended
International Round Table in the MACE
Annual Meeting held in the Mongolian Capital,
Ulaanbaatar and the meeting of Mongolian
section of JSCE.
1) Round Table Meetinga) Theme for this year:
Transparency on Civil Engineeringb) Participant Countries (Attendees):
Mongolia(15), Taiwan CICHE(5), Japan(1)c) Presenter:
Mongolia:
Dr.Ganzorig Erdone(President of MACE)
Mr.Tsend-Ayush(Anti-Corruption Agencyof Mongolia),
Mr.Byambajav(Director
Generalof
National Center for Construction, Urban
Development and Public Utilities ofMongolia)
Taiwan:Prof.Yeong-Bin Yang (President of CICHE)Japan:
Dr.Yumio Ishii (Immediate Past President of
JSCE)
Presenters stated that the corruption moneyis estimated as $390 billion ~ $500 billion ~ $1
trillion, of Infrastructure investment and has
been becoming a serious problem. Under thissituation, international financing institutions
and associations of civil engineers in eachcountry have started to work on this problem
seriously.
Dr. Ishii said “Japan is highly ranked at
18th in the transparency surveillance conductedby Transparency International, but we are still
unsatisfied with this rank. Public Clients havebeen working on this problem by thoroughreinforcement of Anti-Corruption by newly
enforced Public Procurement by Quality Act,and JSCE has been focusing on this problem
by establishing Ethics ･ Social Regulation
Committee.”a meeting. Dr. Ishii explained about suchactivities of JSCE headquarters as the newleaderships, support to devastated country bycyclones and earthquakes, infrastructure
census, the global warming countermeasures
etc.
Discussing the support of JSCE forestablishment of the Mongolian National
Structure Code which had been proposed by
Mongolian members, they agreed a joint
workshop about the state-of art of design codeof Japan, in parallel with activities throughdiplomatic channels for legislative andtechnical cooperation on the code systems at
the national level.
Participant: Mongolia section
Ganzorig E., President of MACE
D. Zorig, Mongolia section member(Managing Director of SENZO Construction)
Mrs. Zorig, Staff of SENZO Construction
Onon R. Mongolia section member(Officer, Ministry of Road, Transport andTourism)
Two meetings were proactively held ina ‘Ger’ (Mongolian traditional awning house)
in Chinggis Khaan Tourist Camp located in the
steppe about 20 km away from Ulaanbaatar.

Participants of International Round Table
Front row from right: Dr.Ganzorig(President of MACE),
Second row from left: Prof..Yang(President of CICHE),
Dr.Ishii(Immediate President of JSCE)

by ISHII Yumio, Dr. Eng.
(Immediate Past President of JSCE)

2)

Discussion with Mongolian section of
JSCE
After International Round Table, Dr.Ishii
and the members of the Mongolian section had
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SVR - JSCE Joint Seminar on
Concrete Engineering
The SVR( Swedish Society of Civil and
Structural Engineers) - JSCE Joint Seminar
was held on 10th June, 2008 at Bålsta, Sweden.
The seminar took place as an event in theXXth Symposium on Nordic Concrete
Research & Development, which is research
symposia between the five countries in thenorthern Europe, i.e., Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway and Sweden. More than 130
people had registered for their participation.
The JSCE concrete committee has held
the joint seminars with several Civil Engineers'
Societies of foreign country, with which JSCE
has an agreement for collaboration, including
CICHE (Taiwan), MACE (Mongolia),
VIFCEA (Vietnam) and KSCE ( Korea).
The theme of this seminar was "Future
Perspectives towards the Development ofConcrete Technologies". Based on the theme,
6 recent research topics (each 3 from JSCE andSVR) were presented. The topics from JSCE
were “Standardization for environmental
management” (K. Sakai), “High performancefiber reinforced cement composites withmultiple fine cracks (HPFRCC)” (K. Rokugo)
and “Time-dependent structural analysis” (H.
Nakamura). The topics from SVR were“assessment of structural concrete” (L.
Elfgren), “use of cementitious materials inrock and soil engineering” (H. Stille), and“innovative strengthening systems” (B.
Täljsten). The main keywords of thesepresentations were sustainability and durability
that are the hot topics nowadays. There weremany discussions in each presentation, whichmeans that the joint seminar was successful.

Key members in the seminarby NAKAMURA Hikaru, Secretary
Concrete Committee, JSCE
(Professor, Nagoya University)

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Preliminary Announcement“International Symposium on
Preservation and Development of
the Great Mekong Sub-region andInternational Support”
4-5 December, 2008
In
the
MekongSub-region,international assistances have been continued
for developing infrastructures of the region andthe potential economic growth has promoted
increased overseas investments. On the other
hand, the region possesses significant
biodiversity and cultural heritage. Sustainable
development harmonious with those precious
resources is grouped.
This symposium aims at providing an
opportunity to enhance our understanding of
how the international assistances ought to be
for better development and management of theregion. Lectures and panel discussion by
specialists from the sub-regional countries aswell as Japan will be provided regarding the
topics including preservation of environmentand culture, capacity building and natural
disaster prevention.
1. Date:4 – 5 December, 2008
2. Venue:
Chuo University “Surugadai Memorial Hall”,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
3. Fee:Free
4. Themes of the Symposium-Water resources and international support-World heritage and international support-Capacity building and international support-Basin development and international support-Disaster prevention and international support
5. Pre-Registration
Send your name, affiliation and email
address to the symposium secretary via fax orEmail, if you wish to participate in the
symposium or receive further information.
Symposium Secretary:
Mr. YANAGAWA Hiroyuki
International Affairs Section, JSCE
Tel: 03-3355-3452 Fax: 03-5379-2769
Email: yanagawa@jsce.or.jp*This symposium is partly supported by the River
Fund in charge of the Foundation of River andWatershed Environment Management (FOREM),
Japan.

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First Mass-Transit System in Middle
East, Dubai Metro Project
Dubai is located in the middle of thecoast line of the United Arab Emirates. It has
had astonishing continuous development for
more than 10 years. As a part of theinfrastructure development for this growing
city, a mass-transit system, the Dubai Metro, iscurrently under construction. The approx. 76
km long metro consists of the First Line andSecond Line. (In an innovative move the rights
to naming the lines is on open tender.)Commencement of the revenue phase of the 53
km long First Line and 24 km long Second
Line is expected in September 2009 and early2010 respectively. The metro system will have
44 sets of 5 car trains in the first batch that canbe operated with a maximum operation speedof 90 km/h under a fully automatic control
system.
The Dubai Metro was awarded as asingle full turnkey contract by the Road andTransport Authority to the Dubai Rapid Link
Consortium (DURL) comprising Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Corporation
responsible for Rail Systems and Obayashi
Corporation, Kajima Corporation and Yapi
Merkezi responsible for Civil Works.

Approximately 80 % of Dubai Metro
has been built above ground with U-shaped
viaducts and 37 overground stations. For thesake of reducing the construction period, mostpiers have mono pile. In addition, pier heads
and viaduct spans have been built withprefabricated segments. The viaduct segments
have been erected with Launching Gantries.
The first Dubai Metro trains arrived in
March 2008 and a series of tests have started.
Also, erection of all First Line viaduct spans
was completed August 2008. The constructionof the First Line is now in its final stage.
by YOSHIDA Yoichi(Obayashi Corporation)

Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)

The underground section in the Dubai
Metro is 13.5 km long in total and has 10
underground stations. The underground tunnels
have been constructed by three earth-pressurebalanced tunnel boring machines (TBMs). The
TBMs have a 9.3 meter outer diameter and thetunnel lining is made of pre-cast segments with
a 0.4 meter thickness.
Viaduct Segments erected by a Launching Gantry

the First Linethe Second Line
Dubai Metro Train
Dubai Metro, the First and Second lines

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Information
Event Calendar
International Symposiumon Preservation and Development of theGreat
MekongSub-region
andInternational Support
Date: December 4-5, 2008
Place: Chuo University ”Surugadai Memorial
Hall”, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Publications(From July to September 2008)
Concrete Engineering Series 82
Recommendations for Design andConstruction of High Performance Fiber
Reinforced Cement Composites with Multiple
Fine Cracks (HPFRCC)
July 2008, Pages 191, Price: JPY1,890, ISBN 978-48106-0640-9*For more information: http://www.jsce-int.org/.
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October 2008
12-17 14th World Conference on Earthquake
Engineering
Venue: Beijing Jiuhua International Conference
and Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
URL: http://www.14wcee.org/

27-29 8th International Symposium on Utilizationof High-Strength and High-Performance Concrete
Venue: Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
URL: http://www.jci-web.jp/8HSC-HPC/index.html

November
5-7 ICSE-4 Tokyo 2008( Fourth International
Conference on Scour and Erosion)
Venue: Surugadai Memorial Hall ,Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
URL: http://icse-4.kz.tsukuba.ac.jp/index-e.html
23-25 International Workshop on FrontierTechnologies for Infrastructures Engineering(IWFTIE2008)
Venue: National Taiwan Univ. of Science andTechnology, Taipei, Taiwan
URL: http://www.iwftie2008.com/
19-21 EASEC – 11 (East Asia-Pacific Conferenceon Structural Engineering and Construction)
Venue: National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
URL: http://easec11.easec.org/index.html

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