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Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Center

IAC News No.53
Introduction of ECCE

We are pleased to introduce European Council of Civil Engineers (ECCE) in the JSCE IAC News No. 53.
Japan Society of Civil Engineers signed an agreement with ECCE in London in January 1995, where theirsecreatriat was located in those days. Since then, ECCE and JSCE has built friendly relations over 20 years. In
the spring 2013, Dr. Takehiko Ono, the 100th President of JSCE, participated in the ECCE General Meeting
held in Lisbon, Portugal and invited ECCE members to attend JSCE's 100th Anniversary Commemorative
Ceremony and meetings to be held in November 2014.
Initially ECCE invited us to contribute an essay to their newsletter “e-Journal” in August 2016. In responding
to it, we did it, which is published “e-Journal 12”: http://www.ecceengineers.eu/newsletter/Files/ECCE-Ejournal12.pdf, and also invited ECCE to contribute their essay to our newsletter in return.
As of 2016, among the 23 civil engineering organizations that are members, the ECCE accounts for about 70%of the member countries of the European Union, and it is exactly an association of civil engineeringorganizations in Europe.

European Council of Civil Engineers
The European Council of Civil Engineers (ECCE) was createdin 1985 out of the common concern of the professional bodies
for Civil Engineers in Europe that the Civil Engineers working
together across Europe could offer much more to assist Europe
advance its built Environment and protect the naturalenvironment.
At the European Union level, ECCE aims to promote thehighest technical and ethical standards, to provide a source of
impartial advice, and promote co-operation with other panEuropean organisations in the construction industry. ECCE
also advises and influences individual governments andprofessional institutions, formulates standards and achieves amutual compatibility of different regulations controlling theprofession, and formulates standards for a European Code of
Conduct of the Civil Engineering Profession and disciplinary
ECCE’s HP (as of Feb 27, 2017)

procedures applicable throughout the Union.
1ECCE formulates guidelines to maintain and raise standards of civil engineering education, training andprofessionals competence, as well as assisting in achieving mutual compatibility of Euro codes, standards andregulations in the related industry and encouraging and improving levels of safety and quality in the industry.
ECCE is active in such areas as the environment, research and development, education and training, ethics,continuing professional development, transportation and liability, as well as organising workshops andconferences. The slogan of ECCE is as follows:“Civil Engineers at the Heart of Society Building Life Quality and a Sustainable Environment”.
For more information about the European Council of Civil Engineers, you can visit the websitewww.ecceengineers.eu
Additionally, if you are interested in the history of ECCE you can download the “30 Years of ECCE History”
book at the link http://www.ecceengineers.eu/papers/files/ECCE_History_book_by_page.pdf

The 4th Joint Company Information Session in Civil Engineering forInternational Students 2016
The IAC International Student Network Group hosted a joint company information session for international
students at the JSCE headquarters on Saturday, December 17th, 2016, with the aim of providing international
students studying in Japan with an opportunity to learn about Japanese civil engineering and related companies
and obtain employment information. It is the fourth session since the Joint Company Information Session startedin 2013.
Seven companies participated and delivered presentations in the session. Each company handed out its brochures
and talked about the outline of its business to the students at its booth. Thirty-five students attended the session,
mainly from universities in the Kanto region.
【Participating companies】
Toda Corporation, Dai Nippon Construction, Eight-Japan Engineering Consultants Inc., Obayashi Corporation,
Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd., Nippon Koei Co., Ltd., and Katahira & Engineers International
The Joint Company Information Session wascomposed of three sessions. All presentations
were made in English. At the first session, Mr.
Kazuhisa Fujii, Director for Overseas Project,
Overseas Project Division, Policy Bureau,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport andTourism (MLIT), discussed the ministry’s
expansion of overseas activities as a special
lecture. Next, Mr. Kim, Jeongho, a former
international student who works for the Japanese
A company rep explains its works to the participants

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every participating company made a 10-minutepresentation on its business operations, overseas
projects, strong points, and recruitment of foreign
students. The presentations were made by midcareer and young foreign staff studied in JapanandJapanesestaffexperienced

intheinternational arena. The students intently listened
to the briefings and collected information about

Individual consultations at the company booths

Japanese construction-related companies. At the third session, the students visited the booths of those companies
and asked intently about their businesses and job opportunities.
The participating companies in the session gave us the impression that they were willing to continue attending
the session in the next year and later. There seemed to be a lot of international students attended the one last year.
I again realized the demand for such kind of events. Nowadays the importance of overseas expansion of Japaneseconstruction industry have come to be recognized widely. Therefore, it is desirable that we would continue oureffort to offer information about Japanese companies and the opportunities in which international students wouldfind a place to take an active role, pursuing their goals.
Although we may not see increasing job opportunities for international students, we continue to plan and offer
the opportunity to link between international students and the Japanese business sector through these events.
【Reported by Prof. Masato Saitoh (Saitama University), Group Leader, International Student Network Group, IAC】

Report on CICHE 2016 Annual Convention
On November 18 and 19, 2016, Annual Convention of Chinese Institute ofCivil and Hydraulic Engineering (CICHE) took place in Taichung city,Taiwan. On November 18, participants visited two sites in the morning andhad International Forum in the afternoon. On November 19, they joined theAnnual Meeting in the morning and had educational workshops in theafternoon.
The first site we visited was a station of MRT project, which is still underconstruction. Its construction seems to have been managed, taking quality,safety and environment into consideration. The second site was National
Taichung Theater completed recently. A local contractor elaborately worked onMr. Ichiro Ishizuka(Kajima Corporation)

various curved concrete structures, embodying intentions of the designer, ToyoIto.
At the International Forum, not only Taiwan, a host country, but also Hong Kong, Korea and Japan presented
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cases describing how they overcame difficulties in overseas projects such as Jakarta MRT, Bangkok MRT, ThirdBosphorus Bridge and Taiwan Kaohsiung MRT and exchanged their opinions from technical perspective. The
writer presented a case of JV management between Taiwanese and Japanese contractors at Kaohsiung MRT.
At the Annual Meeting, Prof. Liang-Jenq Leu,
President of CICHE, gave an opening speech andMr. Hong-Mo Wo, Executive Yuan of Minister ofPublic Construction Commission, gave a speech
about the issues of public projects in Taiwan. Inaddition, an awards ceremony took place.
At the educational workshops, participants wereallowed to attend two out of six workshops whose
topics were Sustainability of Water Resources,Engineering

EducationI,

Underground

Excavation,Procurement

Law,Engineering

National Taichung Theater designed by Toyo Ito

Education II and Labor Safety and Health. The
writer attended Underground Excavation andLabor Safety and Health, and leaned recentsituations of Taiwan.
As having being engaged in Kaohsiung MRT
project from 2002 to 2010 as well as activities at
Japan Society of Civil Engineers Taiwan Section
from 2008 to 2010, the writer is acquainted withsome people in Taiwan including Assistant Prof.
Wu-Te Ko at Cheng Shiu University (TaiwanSection Secretary General). I also met some newpeople who had acquaintances in common. It wasParticipants of International Forum(The writer is 4th from right in the front row.)

significant to have a relationship with CICHE,
Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE) andAsian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council(ACECC). I would like to maintain a good
relationship with people I know and keepexchanging messages.

At the one of Educational Workshops(Underground Excavation)

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Updates◆The summary of feature articles in the March 2017 issue of the JSCE Magazine is available on the JSCE
website.
http://www.jsce-int.org/pub/magazine◆Five projects introduced in the booklet “TRANSFER OF CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY INSERVICE” issued at the time of the 100th year anniversary of JSCE can be viewed on the JSCE Website.
http://www.jsce.or.jp/e/archive◆Journal of JSCE
The Journal of JSCE is the collection of research papers which can be viewed on the JSCE website.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/journalofjsce◆Concrete Committee International Newsletter No. 48
http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/concrete/e/newsletter/newsletter48/index.html◆Disaster Fact Sheet
http://committees.jsce.or.jp/disaster/◆IAC Students and Alumni Network
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