JSCE Newsletter No.28, January 2009

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Committee

Ne ws let te r
No. 28, January 2009
ContentsJune 2008- May 2009
President
KAYAHARA Hideo
Vice-Presidents
INAMURA Hajime
OTSUKA Hisanori
KUSAKABE Osamu
TANIGUCHI Hiroaki
HOSHINO Mitsuru

KSCE Conference & Civil Expo 2008 -------p.2
Student Network ---------------------------------p.3

Project Report from Uzbekistan ---------p.4
Information ---------------------------------p.5

Let’s expand our friendshipas global civil engineers!

Executive Director
FURUKI Moriyasu
International Activities
Committee
Chair
KUSAKABE Osamu
Vice-Chair
KAMIYAMA Makoto
Secretary General
KOHNO Shigeyuki
Deputy-Secretary
GeneralFUKUDA Atsushi
Members / 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
Enkhtur Shoovdor
Turkey Section
Zeki HasgürIndonesia Section
Sutanto Soehodho
Thailand Section
Samart Ratchapolsitte
Philippines Section
Benito Morelos Pacheco
Vietnam Section
Yotsuya 1-chome,Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
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HORIKOSHI Kenichi, Ph.D.
Chair of Information Subcommittee, JSCE
Secretary of International Activities Committee, JSCE
Chair of JSCE Committee on ACECC
Civil Engineering Research Institute, Taisei Corporation

It’s my great pleasure to have an opportunity to introduce ouractivities as Chair of JSCE Information Subcommittee under theInternational Activities Committee, as well as Chair of JSCE Committee onACECC.
As we have noticed, the fields of civil engineers activities have been
dramatically broadened and varied. This is based on the change of our lives
becoming more and more diverse. Now civil engineers are strongly
requested to have an ability to gather and coordinate interdisciplinary
professional ideas and information without boundaries of engineering fields
and nations. In such a situation, global information has become an essential
source for our activities in order to foster global visions, to promoteinternational cooperation, to develop technologies, to protect valuable
environment, and of course, to create sustainable societies.
If we look into the construction market, a number of international
projects are currently under way. As the Japanese domestic construction
market is shrinking, many of our colleagues have no choice but to workoverseas. In some developing countries, accessible sources of information
are too limited for them to be competitive, and engineers recognize theimportance of having strong human and information networks. How we
extract the necessary and timely information is the key to the success of ourengineering activities.
Although many years have passed since the necessity for us tobecome internationalized was recognized in Japan, I think Japanese civilengineers still need to ma ke continuous efforts to become mor einternational. A huge number of resources for our technologies, such as
design codes, manuals and reports are still written only in Japanese..
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Although many excellent workshops andsymposiums are held in Japan, as most of them
are conducted only in Japanese, the valuable
information is limited to domestic engineers.
Overseas engineers have no opportunity toaccess such information, which can reduce thesize of the market and the competitiveness ofour technologies.
It should also be added that, historically,
we are very much used to dividing ouractivities into two categories, i.e., ‘domestic’and ‘international’. Now it is the time to thinkthat ‘domestic’ is only a part of ‘international’.
That means any domestic activity is only partof international activities, and should beopened to global demand.
Based on the above background, theJSCE International Activity Committee has
decided to organize the Information Subcommittee, which shall accelerate borderless
information exchange.
Currently, the Sub-committee publishes
two types of web-based information, i.e.,
Newsletter, and Civil Engineering. The latest
publication is posted on http://www.jsceint.org/.
As you have already noticed, thefrequency of Newsletter’s publication has been
increased to every two months. The Newsletter
deals with the following timely articles.
1) Opinions and greetings from the JSCE
delegates,
2) Introduction of civil engineering projects,
3) Information on recent disasters,4) Letters from overseas students,
5) Introduction of JSCE activities,6) Other news and information.
The web-based information Civil
Engineering provides more detailed technicalinformation, most of which is extracted fromdomestic JSCE magazines. The articles
considered to be useful to overseas engineers
are chosen from the domestic magazines.
Our Sub-committee is always ready to accept
contributed articles from any of yoursocieties/institutions and countries. Any
opinion or comment is also very welcome toimprove our activities. Let’s expand ourfriendship as global civil engineers!

2The 34th KSCE Conference & Civil
Expo 2008

International Roundtable Meeting participants, Oct 30,
2008

The 34th KSCE Conference & Civil
Expo 2008 was held on October 29 and 30 inDaejeon, Korea. A JSCE delegation consistedof Dr. Kayahara, the president, Prof. Kusakabe
a vice president and the chair of theInternational Activities Committee, Dr. Ishii
the immediate-past president and I participatedin that event.
In the opening ceremony, Dr.
Kayahara delivered a keynote speech titled“Who constructed it?”, followed by the “FromImitation to Generation” by Dr. J. H. Chung ofGwangju Institute of Science and Technology.
Dr. Kayahara discussed the issuepertaining to the invisibility of civil engineers
in society. His discussion interested theaudience and gained their support, who wasaware of the issue underlying in the Korean
civil engineering community. Dr. Chung next
talked about the necessity of increasing
research investment, referring to the positive
relationship between R&D and increased
research funding as a proportion of GNP in thepast R&D in Korea.
After a lunch break, International
Roundtable Meeting themed on “CivilEngineering- The Technology of Fusion andCreation” convened and Prof. Ha-Son Wong ofYonsei University, Chair of International
Affairs Committee of KSCE chaired.
Delegates from Mongolia, Taiwan, UK andJapan attended the meeting and exchanged
views and opinions with each other.
Prof. Kusakabe discussed the necessityof cross-disciplinary researches and multitechnology fusion with an example ofcollaboration
betweengeotechnicalengineering and biology, pointing out thenegative effects of narrowly definedknowledge and research areas. He also
proposed that the above topic should beconsidered in the Asian Civil Engineering
Coordinating Council (ACECC), which was
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approved there. Responding his discussion, theparticipants talked about the importance ofimproving people’s understanding and support
and that of engineers’ recognition of on-site
problem-solving responsibility in order torealize
cross-disciplinary
collaborations.
Because they had been acquainted with eachother for a while, the participants seemed
become more comfortable in having
discussions and exploring further every timethey met.
Next, Roundtable Meeting forInternational Students was held, and fifteeninternational students studying in Korea
participated in the meeting. Currently aroundone hundred and thirty students werereportedly enrolled in civil engineering courses
in higher education institutions in the hostcountry. For those students, cultural andlanguage differences were major challenges as
for international students in Japan.
At the end of the International
Program, a banquet was offered on Thursday
evening, and for the JSCE delegation Dr. Ishii
attended it, who also did the roundtable
meeting for international students. The KSCE
male choir Civil Harmony gave an excellent
performance. International delegates andguests enjoyed the music as well as eachother’s company.
by FURUKI Moriyasu(Executive Director, JSCE)

Student Network-Voice from the StudentsTransportation Infrastructure
Systems: Experience Learned fromJapan

Name: Atit Tippichai
Country: Thailand
School: Nihon University
There are many things regarding totransportation infrastructure systems in Japan
which are my impressions since I have been
studying here more than two years. Therefore,
I would like to take this opportunity to share
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some impressive stories. Due to my campus
locates in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture whereis in the Greater Tokyo Area, the world's mostpopulous metropolitan area, I have many
chances to see how the world’s biggest railway
network works well and realized that how
millions of workers move from suburban to thecentral of Tokyo in the morning. Surprisingly,
I had experienced to see a salary man takes thesame train, sits on the same seat and gets off at
the same station at the same time every day. Itmeans that I also had surprised myself as wellthat how I had made a routine travel exactly.
One of the reasons would be the certainty ofthe train’s time tables that travelers can plan
exactly when and how they can arrive at adestination on time. It also would be the mostimportant reason that most of travelers decideto go by train rather than passenger car.
As I am also a member of the Kanto
Branch JSCE’s Student Chapter, I have joined
several technical visits to see advanced
technologies at the constructing sites, forexample, two huge interchanges; the Ohashi
Junction in Shibuya, Tokyo and the Daishi
Junction in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture;
and a new runway, called D, built on the sea atthe Haneda airport. Due to land availabilitylimitation and environmental problem issues inTokyo Metropolitan Area, the highly advanced
technologies of construction are needed tofulfill travel demand and meet the constraints.
Even such technologies would be high cost
however it would be benefits in long term toserve traffic flows also. Importantly, it isnecessary to planning transportation systems asa whole and let each key connection point in
the network works well with each other.
Moreover, transportation facility in Japan
is very friendly to older and handicappedpersons. As one of society members, they areable to go out to do their activities during day
time themselves by using public transportsystems that is one of the major transportation
system management principles – the equity.
Recently, I had a chance to visit Hakone,
Kanagawa Prefecture. I found that transport
infrastructure systems for recreation in Japanare excellent as well. It was very convenientand exciting due to various transport modes
provided.
When I have seen good transportation
systems in Japan, I always compare toThailand and think back how to apply such
systems to my home country. As transportation
infrastructure systems in our country are underprogress, it is necessary to learn from goodpractices in developed countries like Japan andadapt to Thailand’s conditions.
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Project Report
5 Steel Bridges Construction forUzbekistan Railway
This project is a part of “TashguzarKumkurgan New Railway Project”, which has
the 220km length over two provinces,
Kashkadarya and Surkhandarya in south-east
area of Republic of Uzbekistan.
The purpose of this new railway construction
is to solve inconvenience due to the existing
railway going through the territory ofTurkmenistan since current railway wasconstructed in the Soviet Union age. JBIC
(Japan Bank for International Cooperation)
lends 16.4 billion Yen of the fund for 4
contracts of this project. These 4 contracts
consist of 5 steel bridges construction, signal
communication system and the supply of therail materials.
This project was requested by State Joint Stock
Railway Company “Uzbekistan Temir
Yo’llari”, designed by “Japan Transportation
Consultants” and awarded to Japaneseconsortium, which consists of 3 Japanesecontractors,
Shimizu,
NipponSteelEngineering and Yokogawa Construction. TheConstruction period is 25 months from March2007.
Each bridge has 173 m to 295m of the bridgelength and 10m to 36m of pier height. The typeof main superstructure is 3 span continuous
truss bridge and the type of side span is steel
deck girder. Substructure is constructed byreinforced concrete except No.4 bridge withsteel truss piers. Foundation is spreadfoundation due to sand stone or hard Argillitelayer. The Member of superstructure are madein Japan and Philippine and transported by
Russian railway from Nokhodka to Uzbekistan
after marine transportation.
Current progress, No.2 bridge has been almost
completed, the erection work of superstructure
for No.1 and 3 are going on and thesubstructure works for No.4 and 5 is underconstruction.
Regarding the weather of this area,
temperature of summer time in sunny place
become generally near 50 degree centigrade
and last winter time became less than minus 20
degree, which is due to cold wave since 80years ago. Therefore casting concrete in thoseseasons needed to pay closest attention. Since
erection works of the superstructure reach firstwinter season from now on, especially painting
and high tension bolting works should be done
under strict control.

4Around the middle of next year, train passing
over 5 bridges, which is the symbol for thefriendship between Japan and Uzbekistan will
be able to be seen.
By Tetsuo Oishi (Shimizu Corporation)

Project Site
Picture 1.

Site location

Picture 2.

No.2 Bridge

Picture 3.

No.3 Bridge

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Information
Event Calendar

Call for Paper

JSCE 2009 General Assembly

The 11th International Summer Symposium,
JSCE

Date: May 29, 2009
Place: Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, Tokyo, Japan--------------------------------------------------------------

JSCE 2009 Annual Meeting &64th Annual Conference
Date: September 2-4, 2009
Place: Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

International Program
Day 1: Sep. 2, 2009
1) Roundtable MeetingDay 2: Sep. 3, 2009
2) WFEO-JFES-JSCE Symposium3) International Session--------------------------------------------------------------Conferences
March 200912-14 5th International Symposium on STEELSTRUCTURES (ISSS ’09)
Venue: Hotel Prima, Seoul, Korea
URL: http://www.kssc.or.kr/ISSS'09/
15-19 International Foundation Congress &Equipment Expo ‘09 (IFCEE09)
Venue: Buena Vista Palace Hotel & Spa, Lake
Buena Vista, Florida, USA
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Date: September 11, 2009
Place: Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Important Dates:-Paper Submission: June 1, 2009
-Notification of Acceptance to Authors:
Early July, 2009
-Submission Modified Paper:
Early August, 2009*For more detail will be announced at website:
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JSCE 2009 Annual Meeting &64th Annual Conference
International Session
Place: Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
Date: September 2-4, 2009
Important Dates-Paper Submission: April 10, 2009
*More detail will be announced at website:
URL: http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/zenkoku/h21/index.html--------------------------------------------------------------

The 11th International Conference on
Asphalt Pavements (ISAP NAGOYA 2010)
Date: August 1 -6, 2010
Place: Nagoya Congress Center, Nagoya, Japan
Important Dates:
Submission of Abstracts May 31, 2009
Notification of Authors July 31, 2009
Submission of Draft Papers December 10, 2009
Acceptance of Draft Papers February 28, 2010
Acceptance of Final Papers May 31, 2010
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Date: September 14-16, 2009
Place: Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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