JSCE Newsletter No. 29, July 2009

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Committee

Newsletter
No. 29, July 2009
Contents

June 2009- May 2010
President
KONDO Toru
Vice-Presidents
ISOBE Masaiko
OTSUKA Hisanori
HAYASHI Yasuo
HOSHINO Mitsuru
MIURA Seiichi
Executive Director
FURUKI Moriyasu
International Activities
Committee
Chair
FURUTA Hitoshi

2009 JSCE Annual Meeting in Fukuoka------p.2
thReport of ICE Brunel Lecture -----------p.4

11 International Summer Symposium ------p.2

Project Report from Turkey --------------p.5

Joint Seminar in 2009 ---------------------------p.2

Information ---------------------------------p.7

Report of ACECC Mekong Symposium -----p.3

Event Calendar ----------------------------p.7

Greetings from President of JSCE

Vice-Chair
GOTO Yoshiaki
Secretary General
KOHNO Shigeyuki
Deputy-Secretary
GeneralFUKUDA Atsushi
Members / Secretary
KOBAYAKAWA Satoru
SAKAI Kensuke
TAKEDA Shinichi
NODA Masaru
MATSUSHIMA Kakuya
YAMAGUCHI Eiki
International Chapter
Taiwan Section
Der-Her Lee
Korea Section
Dong-Uk, Lee
U.K. Section
SOGA Kenichi
Mongolia Section
Enkhtur Shoovdor
Turkey Section
Zeki HasgürIndonesia Section
Sutanto Soehodho
Thailand Section
Samart Ratchapolsitte
Philippines Section
Benito Morelos Pacheco
Yotsuya 1-chome,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
160-0004 JAPANKONDO Toru
President

I was elected in May this year as the president of JSCE for the
2009/2010 term.
I have worked at the sites of rivers, dams, disaster and construction
administration in the Ministry of Construction (currently the Ministry ofLand, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism).
After retirment, I participated in the founding of the Ecology andCivil Engineering Society (ECES), which is a society to advance theinter-discipline sciences across ecology and civil engineering. Now I
support its activities as a vice-president.
Now, I think that civil engineering is used as the generic name fortechnology to enjoy safety and affluent life.
In Japan, we will face many challenges in the society and nature. In
these situations, civil engineers have to clear up their roles and to tell tocivil engineers who are responsible for the next generation, when they
resolve the challenges occurred by nature and society. Through doingthese activities, it will be possible to recognize importance of civilengineering to the people.

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Announce of 2009 JSCE Annual
Meeting in Fukuoka-International ProgramsThe Annual Meeting will feature theinternational programs focusing on current
issues surrounding the civil engineering
profession. All registrants of the Meeting are
cordially invited to the following meetings.
Please take this opportunity to listen to
distinguished professional civil engineers fromhome and abroad.
Venue: Fukuoka University, Nanakuma
Campus,
1. International Roundtable Meeting
Topic: "Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration andTechnological Progress"
Date: Wednesday, 2nd September
Time: 15:00-17:00
Venue: Room 5, 15F, Humanities and Social
Sciences Center
2. WFEO-JFES-JSCE Joint International
Symposium - Disaster Risk Management
Date: Thursday, 3rd September
Time: 9:00-12:00
Organizers: WFEO, JFES, JSCE
Venue: Room 5, 15F, Humanities and Social
Sciences Center
3. International Session
Date: Thursday, 3rd September
Time: 9:00-12:15
Venue: Room 842, Classroom Building 8

Date: September 11, 2009
Venue: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
Registration fee: Participants are charged 2,000
yen for registration.

Joint Seminar in 2009
In this year, Joint Seminars will be held in
Nepal and Greece with support fromInternational Scientific Exchange Fund, JSCE.
JSCE has Agreements of Cooperation(AOC) with 26 counterparts around the world.
Joint seminar is one of collaborative activities
with the AOC counterparts, to exchange
information with them to better serve themembers and civil engineering profession andto contribute to building better infrastructures,a better quality of life for present and future
generations.
International Activities Committee (IAC)
plays a major role to organize joint activities incooperation with committees in Research
Division of JSCE. Since 2004 the IAC has
received support from International ScientificExchange Fund, JSCE.
In this year, the joint seminars are as follows:
1. JSCE-NEA Joint Seminar on Construction
Management
Date: September 21-23, 2009
Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal
2. JSCE-TEE Joint Seminar on ConcreteEngineering
Date: November 20, 2009
Venue: Athens, Greece*For more information:
http://www.jsce-int.org/event/2009/
annual_meeting/international_programs.shtml

Announce of 11th International
Summer Symposium in Tokyo
The International Summer Symposiumprovides a platform for international students
and engineers to present, discuss and exchange
their research interest in English. International
students and engineers are strongly encouraged
to participate in the Symposium. From lasttime, full papers will be reviewed. (Note:
International students and engineers include
Japanese, overseas students and engineers whoare interested in international activities.)
Organizer: The
Committee, JSCE
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International

Phote of Joint Seminar in 2008
*These seminars’ information will be updated.
Please check the latest information at JSCE English
Website: http://www.jsce-int.org

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Report of International Symposiumon Preservation and Developmentof Great Mekong Sub-region
and International Support
An international symposium introducing
the people living around the Great MekongRiver, and his technical, cultural assistances
about the preservation and development ofGreat Mekong Sub-region support was open on
April 9, 2009 at Tokyo JSCE hall.
This Symposium was organized by JSCE,ACECC, and supported by Public Works
Research Institute, University of Yamanashi.
This Symposium covered currently theenvironmental, cultural, and preservation ofThe
Mekongriver hisinternational
activities. And throughthesponsored
by JSCE/ACECC, one aimed at humanresource development, disaster prevention
lecture and discussion through international
cooperation concerning use of the river valleys
and control of better understanding.
Symposium begins with the greetingsgiven by the present President of JSCE Dr.
Kayahara, and invited speaker Prof. Tambo(former JSCE President), entitled "World
Water Resources", and the uneven distributionof water resources of the world was explained
the need for water supply for system aiming at
the century of the current crisis situation, newwater-energy and the resource consumption.
Titled "Capacity building & International
Support", "Valley development, disasterprevention and international support" and 5
name speakers (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia,
Myanmar and Japan) speeches and discussions.
Themes of the Symposium were: Water resources and international support
 World heritage and international support
 Capacity building and international
support Sub-region development and international
support Disaster prevention and international
supportand the Symposium program were as follows,Morning Session (9:00 – 12:05)
・Opening Ceremony
・Special Lecture
Norihito Tanbo, Professor emeritus of
Hokkaido University: Water aquatic
environment
・Session I: Water resources, capacity
building and international support
Hiroshi Ishidaira, Yamanashi Univ.:
Evaluation of the amount of water
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resource in the Mekong Basin with the
distributed hydrological model.
Chhouk Chhay Horng, Institute ofTechnology of Cambodia: Water
Resources and International Supports
Sanda Thant, Mekong Institute: Capacity
Building Programs in the Greater Mekong
Subregion and International Supports.
Afternoon Session (13:30 – 17:40)
・Session II: World heritage and International
SupportShinobu Yamaguchi, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology: Use of information
technology for sustainable development
and management of the heritage town ofLuang Prabang, Lao PDR
Ricardo Favis, UNESCO: Community
Empowerment in Heritage Conservationand Management in the Greater Mekong
Sub-Region
・Session III: Sub-region Development andDisaster prevention and International
SupportTadashi Yamada, Chuo Univ.:
Pornwilai Pumira, Mekong Institute:
Vimane Phoummavong, National
University of Laos: New Lao
infrastracture development plan andcurrent Lao Professional staff
development
Katsuhito MIYAKE & Kazuhiko
Hukami, Public Works ResearchInstitute: ICHARM activities conserning
capacity building on disarster prevention
on a local community scale in the Mekong
river basin.
・ Summary and ACECC TC Report
Osamu Kusakabe, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology
・ Closing adress

Lectures and organizing committee members
by Ellen Wang, Secretary,
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ICE Brunel International Lecture
Series came to JSCE

Mr. Peter Head

The ICE Brunel International Lecture
Series were convened at the JSCE auditorium
on June 15, 2009, co-hosted by ICE and JSCE.
Since 1999, the lecture series have been
held in key cities every year, and leading
British engineers have delivered presentations
on various challenges facing society. The nameof the lecture series was named after the great
19th century engineer Isambard Kingdom
Brunel, who was voted one of the greatest
Britons in 2002.
On that day, one hundred and nine people
assembled in the JSCE auditorium to listen to
Mr. Peter Head, out of which twenty-threewere from ICE. The lecture began with the
opening remarks delivered by Dr. Toru Kondoof the JSCE president, Mr. Gordon Masterton aformer ICE president and Dr. Alan Burden
who gave the background of the Brunel
Lecture and the lecturer Mr. Head respectively.
Mr. Head OBE an ICE Fellow and
Director of Arup presented his unique views
and opinions on the development of
infrastructure, policy, legislation and the roleof engineer to tackle the problems caused by

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the growing threat of climate change andburgeoning world population.
His speech lasted one and a half hours
including a question and answer session in theend. The lecturer addressed to the audience
directly and it listened to him keenly: the twoparties expressed each other’s ideas freely
from the British public’s attitudes toward
nuclear power, how to manage construction
materials such as concrete and steel, theenforcement and influences of City Planning
Law and to the needs for leadership in urban
areas.
After the exchange made between theabove two, Mr. Masaaki Yamamoto a JSCE
board member delivered a closing remarks inwhich he mentioned the past ICE-JSCE
relationship and wished that relationship would
be strengthened in the future.
It was the very end of the event when Mr.
Head and others including JSCE President had
their photos taken.
Last, it should be added that the ICE
visitors and JSCE members had a meeting
before the lecture on that day. The participants
were Mr. Masterton, Dr. Burden, Mr.
Yamamoto, Prof. Teruhito Yoda Chair of Civil
Engineer’s Qualification System Committee,
Mr. Katayama the manager of International
Affairs Section. They talked about JSCE’s
history, activities, international cooperation in
post-disaster
activities,
Continuing
Professional
Development
(CPD)
and
professional code of ethics. Also theparticipants agreed that both ICE and JSCE
members could learn a great deal from eachother because their countries shared similarurban features and problems and promised toincrease their communication.

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Construction of the World Deepest
Immersed Tunnel- Republic of Turkey, Bosporus Crossing
Railroad Tunnel –1. Outline of the Project
The Bosporus Strait is located at
Istanbul City in the Republic of Turkey andseparates the Asian side from the Europeanside. The strait has a length of about 30km andextends from the Black Sea to the Sea ofMarmara.
The road traffic condition of Istanbul
is suffering a chronic traffic jam, which causes
air pollution to the environment, mainly due tothe shortage of the railway network system inthe city. The construction of Bosporus
Crossing Tunnel is intended to reduce the air
pollution by way of the relaxation of the roadtraffic jam by introducing the railroad asalternative transport method. The wholeproject line consists of 11km of the tunnel
section with approximately 1.4km of the
Bosporus section, which is built in an
immersed tunnel method of construction (Fig.
2). The immersed tunnel section is constructedby connecting 11 tube elements to be placed on
the sea bottom and the tube elements are madeof steel reinforced concrete with length (135m)
x width (15.3m) x height (8.6m) and produced
in a dry dock (Fig. 3). The construction site ofsea areas has water current of around 3 knots
in general, which in case of adverse weather
condition reaches to a range of the highest
current of 6 knots. The water flow consists ofthe two-layers having reverse phase in theupper-layer from the lower-layer. In addition,

Fig.1 Location of the Bosporus Straits

Photo.1 Ceremony for success of Immersion andConnection

the deepest location of the element setting isabout 60m under the sea level, which becomes
the world deepest immersed tunnel.
Several new technical developments
were introduced to overcome the difficult
construction conditions in order to lead to thesuccessful completion under such a severcondition, as shown in this report.
2. Immersion and connection success of theworld deepest immersed tunnel
On October 11, 2008, with attendanceof Mr. Erdogan, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Turkey, Mr. Yildirim, Transport
Minister and Mr. Tanaka, Japan
Ambassador, the ceremony incommemoration of immersion
and connection completion of 11
immersed elements (extension

Fig.2 Plan of the Project Line

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Fig.3 Plan/Vertical of the Immersed Tunnel

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1,387m) was performed (photo. 1). The
construction of this Bosphorus undersea tunnel wasa earnest dream of the Turkey nation since a
primary plan was accomplished about 150 years
ago, as the Prime Minister strongly expressed withexcitement and emotion in his speech in the
ceremony. During the ceremony, the Prime
Minister walked through the immersed element at
the depth of 60m under Bosporus Strait with thepress people.

3. The technical challenge that overcame
much difficulty
It goes without saying that the greatestdifficulty of this construction was a continuous
high current and a deep depth under the water.
Listed below are the main items where thetechnical developments were introduced tolead the construction to the successful
completion by overcoming those difficulties.
1) Current Velocity（6 knots at the maximum,
Stratified current）
Development of the Current Forecast
System, Mobilizing of a Placing Barge
specially built for immersion of theelements,

3) Device of works under lack of theconstructionyardforelements
construction
Construction in Dry Docks --- the Lowerpart of the elements
Construction afloat on the sea --- the Upper
part of the elements (Photo. 4)

Photo.3 Underwater Grading Robot

Photo.4 Element Construction on the sea (Floating
Condition)4) Temporary Access Shaft Construction in theseaConstruction of the temporary access shaft(34m) on the first immersed element forventilation and supplying materials (Fig.2,
Photo.5, 6)

Fig.4 Bird’s-Eye View of the Immersed Tunnel

Photo.5 Temporary Access Shaft (Before
Connection)

Photo.2 Placing Barge for Immersion2) The great depth under the water（60m at
the maximum）
Development of the Underwater Grading
Robot（Photo.3）
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will be an international festival providing
opportunity to experience various ceremonies
and entertainment for road & transportationengineering experts as well as participants.
Your kind attention to this conference would
be much appreciated and hope to see you in
Incheon. Registration for the conference is
now available and details are as follows.

Photo.6 Temporary Access Shaft (After
Connection)5) Connection method between Immersed
Tunnel and TBM Tunnel
Development of the direct joining methodof the immersed tunnel and the shieldtunnel Development of the artificial ground(mixture soil mortar)
6) Security of the international navigationand the local traffic
Enforcement and measures through theextended risk management for the shipping
traffic
7) Injection Grout under the Elements
Development of long-distance (1,800m)
hauling method of injection grout materials
4. Closing
We would like to express our greatest
gratitudeforthecooperation
andencouragement rendered from many people forfive years to immersion and joining completionof all 11 elements. In addition, we would liketo announce the technology and know-how,which we obtained from this project, positively
in order to contribute to the further
development of the civil engineering
technology.
KOYAMA, Fumio (Taisei Corporation)

Information from Korea Section
The 13th REAAA(Road Engineering
Association of Asia & Australasia) Conference
will be held at the Songdo Convensia in
Incheon City, Korea from September 23 - 26,
2009.
More than 300 papers from all over theworld are expected to be presented under thetheme of 'Future Roads - Safer, Greener &Smarter'. The conference will offer a great
opportunity to present the results of current
research projects, to learn best practices fromregional experts and to network withinternational delegates. This four-day event
Also available on web: http://www.jsce-int.org/• Title : The 13th REAAA Conference• Theme : Future Roads - Safer, Greener &Smarter• Date : September 23 ~ 26, 2009
• Registration Period- Early Bird : June 30, 2009
- Standard : July 1, 2009 ~ September 11, 2009
- On-site : September 23, 2009 ~ September 26• Registration guide: Refer attached document
or visit website (www.reaaakorea2009.com)• Organizer : Road Engineering Association ofAsia & Australasia, Incheon Metropolitan
City, Korea Road & Transportation
Association• Management : Korea Expressway
Corporation, Incheon Tourism Organization,
Korea Road & Transportation Association,
REAAA Korean Chapter
Registration and Inquires
Organizing Committee of 13th REAAA
Conference & 3rd ROTREX
Tel : 82-2-3490-1004
Fax : 82-2-3490-1090
E-mail : registration@reaaakorea2009.com
Website : www.reaaakorea2009.com

Information
Event Calendar
The 11th International Summer
Symposium, JSCE
Date: Sept 11, 2009
Place:Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo,
Japan*For more information: http://www.jsce-int.org/.
Send your comments and suggestions
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to:Editorial Board:
Information Subcommittee,
International Activities Committee, JSCE
Editor in chief: Dr. KOBAYAKAWA Satoru
Deputy Editor: Mr. YOSHIDA Youichi

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