Nov 2, 2012

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Center

IAC News No. 5“The IAC at Work to Develop Int’l Activities”◆ A Suggestion for Effective IAC’s Operation and Activity
International Activities Center began to work in April 2012. As globalization isincreasing in economic and social activities, JSCE is aware of its responsibility
for assisting the internationalization of construction industry by facilitating anacademic-public-private partnership. In order to fulfill the responsibility, I would
like to propose the actions:
1. Strengthening an academic-public-private partnership in developing
international activities (the partnership among the construction andconsulting industries, universities, and the ministry)
2. Establishing and stabilizing a “doing-oriented” approach to IAC activity
3. Improving the international communication and collaboration and visibility of
JSCE committees’ activities

Kotaro Hashimoto
JSCE President-Elect

4. Upgrading the cooperation and collaboration between JSCE and its Asian, U.S. and U.K. counterparts,
with focus on ACECC activity
5. Enhancing JSCE’s Int’l Sections activities and communication with/among overseas members andinternational student members in Japan
6. Building an Asia-wide network among civil engineering professionals and expanding it worldwide
I would encourage civil engineers and particularly JSCE members to motivate themselves to acquireinternational perspectives and practical skills to participate in an international community or in communication.

【International Communication and Collaboration Group】◆ FY 2012 Goal- Establishing a stable and sustainable basis ofIAC for strengthening
collaborationinternational

cooperation

andJSCE has 9 Sections overseas, which were established by the effort andcommitment of my senior colleagues in the Int’l Chapter. Many of the JSCE
members might not know about these sections because you have little access orinformation given by the Int’l Chapter. Also JSCE has signed the Agreement ofCooperation (AOC) with as many as 26 civil engineering societies overseas.
On the basis of these linkages, the Int’l Communication and Collaboration Group
has set a goal for FY 2012: establishing a stable and sustainable basis of IAC for

Asao Yamakawa
IAC Director & Int’l
Communication &Collaboration G. Leader

strengthening JSCE’s international cooperation and collaboration, and has moved into high gear its effort toachieve the goal, making good use of the conventional management and operation.
The IAC has set communication channels as below, and together with each group making activity plans. It istrying to keep up its effort. Because of understaffing, it may rely on your support and assistance. Your help andcooperation would be deeply appreciated.
【Major Activities】
・Participating in the AOC* societies’ annual meetings
・Organizing/ holding int’l symposiums , seminars, workshops
and others※1. AOC: Agreement of Cooperation※2.MOU: Memorandum of Understanding※3. Int’l C & C G: Int’l Communication &Collaboration Group<JSCE IAC and the AOC societies>

26 AOC Societies

JSCE IAC(Ref. attachment)
Int’ C&C G※3

Int’l Sections
Close Cooperation

Taiwan G

Taiwan Section

CICHEKorea G

Korea Section

KSCE, KDPA

Vietnam G

Vietnam Section

VFCEA, VASECT, VIBRA

UK G

UK Section

ICE

Mongolia G

Mongolia Section

MACE

Turkey G

Turkey Section

TCCE

Indonesia G

Indonesia Section

PII

Thailand G

Thailand Section

EIT

Philippines G

Philippines Section

PICE

USA G

ASCE

Industry-Academia-Public Partnership in each region and country※The above groups are composed of experts in industry, academia and public sectors⇒ IAC is looking for members to join the above groups◆ 【Report 1: EIT-JSCE Seminar on Design, Maintenance and Strengthening of Bridges inThailand and Japan】
EIT-JSCE Seminar on Design, Maintenance and Strengthening ofBridges in Thailand and Japan was held in Bangkok, Thailand on
August 23 and co-hosted by Structural Engineering Committee,
JSCE and Subcommittee on Bridge and Structural, Engineering
Institute of Thailand under H. M. King’s Patronage (EIT).
Almost 170 participants shared their views and ideas, and the EITJSCE seminar ended on a high note.
For more details, please visit:
Prof. Mutsuyoshi, the Vice Chair of theCommittee at his presentation (Saitamahttp://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/node/32.
nd◆ 【Report 2: ASCE 142

Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Montreal, Canada,

Oct 18-20】
American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 142nd Annual
Civil Engineering Conference was held in Montreal, Canada on
October 18 to 20, and a JSCE delegation headed by Dr. Hirofumi
Ohnishi, JSCE Executive Director participated in the meeting.
The JSCE delegation had a meeting to discuss donation
programs and student member recruitment with the Director ofInternational Relations of ASCE. Also the delegation invited
ASCE to JSCE’s 100th Anniversary Celebration andcommemorative events to be held in 2014. For more details,
please visit: http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/node/35.

JSCE and ASCE singed an AOC Renewal※Total No. of participants: approx. 560
Total participating countries: 18 except USA (Canada, Nigeria, Congo, Ghana, South Africa, Lebanon,Panama, Costa Rica, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Korea, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines,
Mongolia and Japan)◆ 【Report 3: 2012 KSCE Annual Conference and Civil Exposition, Gwangju, Oct 24-25】
2012 KSCE Annual Conference and Civil Exposition
was held at Chonnam National University in
Gwangju on October 24-25, 2012, and the JSCE
delegation headed by Mr. Kotaro Hashimoto thePresident-Elect was participated in the meeting.
During the annual conference, KSCE and JSCE had
the meeting to discuss mutual cooperation and joint
projects. Last year these two parties decided tohave a bilateral meeting regularly and to discuss along-term cooperation.
This year again KSCE and JSCE headed by Prof.
Jongsung Sim the 2013 KSCE President and Mr.
Hashimoto respectively sat together around a tableand frankly exchanged and shared ideas and views.
For more details, please visit:
http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/node/33.

KSCE Int’l Roundtable Meeting Participants

KSCE I-JSCE Meeting

A Message from Int’l Section
Please find out about the new steel bridge design method using sandwich slab technology in the constructionof “Awa-Shirasagi Ohashi Bridge,” which is introduced on “The Structural Engineer.” Mr. Daisuke Saito of
the UK Section, as we introduced his paper in the IAC News No. 3, provides us another interesting discussionon that bridge. The beautiful photo of the bridge is published on the cover of the magazine.
（http://www.istructe.org/journal/volumes/volume-90/issues/issue-8）

What’s Happening
・Nov. 22 ：Int’l Construction Management Series 4/5 (http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/management2012)
・Dec 15 ：Int’l Construction Management Series 5/5(http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/management2012)

A Message from IAC
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President’s Mumbling
We had a Roundtable Meeting on the theme “Multilateral Cooperation/ Collaboration in Developing
Disaster-Resilient Infrastructures as part of Int’l Program during 2012 JSCE Annual Meeting held atNagoya University, September 5 and 6. Prof. Masahiko Isobe (the Univ. of Tokyo) conducted theroundtable meeting skillfully, and about 20 participants from 18 countries (Bangladesh, Hong Kong,Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam) actively engaged indiscussions.
At the discussion on the 5th、not only AOC representatives but also decision-makers for natural disastermitigation and management policies exchanged information, ideas and views on earthquake, tsunami,
flood, land slide, cyclone typhoons and others. They continued their discussion on the next day andconsidered disaster information collection and dissemination, disaster mitigation measures, systems,regulations and international cooperation, and reached an agreement to establish “Asian Board” so as tofurther their discussions every year. I was convinced that the discussion provided us with one
opportunity for building multilateral cooperation in developing a disaster-resilient society. I look forward
to seeing many Japanese civil engineers work for realization of such a society.

2012 JSCE Annual Meeting RTM

2012 RTM Participants

Staff’s Mumbling
Deep autumn now. Are you enjoying a clean, crisp air? The IAC staff has been caught up in preparing andparticipating in the annual meetings of AOC societies, needless to say traveling around, in October andNovember. We may be busy but feel productive. We will update you with those annual meetings and ourstories. (O)【Comments and Questions】
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