************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.8
20 Dec. 2006************************************************************++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contents ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year
2. Renewal of the IISEE Newsletter back numbers page
3. Establishment of CIB/W114 and report of the first meeting
4. JICA short-term expert in Romania for soil test5. Risk Reduction Symposium in Bucharest, Romania++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++==================================================================[1] Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New YearHow was this year? Year 2006 was good for the IISEE, because 1) the IISEE could
award the first Master's Degrees to the 2005-2006 course participants and 2) the new"Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Course" was created (see Newsletter No.6). We wish Year2007 will be a better year than 2006 for you. Please vist our new Newsletter page on ourwebsite introduced in the next news, and you will find our recent group photo on theweb version of the Newsletter.
Nobuo HURUKAWA & all IISEE staff members

Staff members as of December 20-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[2] Renewal of the IISEE Newsletter back numbers page
We have added the link on the top page of the IISEE website for the IISEE Newsletterback numbers page. You can easily visit the back numbers page by clicking on the linkof the top page of the IISEE website (http://iisee.kenken.go.jp). Some photographs
relating to the articles have been added in this page. Please visit our back numbers
page (http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/newsletter.htm), too.
Nobuo HURUKAWA
Director, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] Establishment of CIB/W114 and report of the first meeting
As one of the working commissions in CIB (International Council for Research andInnovation in Building and Construction), W114: Earthquake Engineering andBuildings was established in November 2006. The present coordinator is Dr. Taiki
SAITO, BRI. This WC aims to promote communication among researchers andengineers to make a harmonized design guideline for sustainable buildings against
earthquakes. The first three years activities of the WC put focus on buildings withresponse control devices.
CIB Web site: http://www.cibworld.nl/website/
The first CIB/W114 meeting entitled "International Workshop on Response Control andSeismic Isolation of Buildings" was held in Guangzhou, China on 27 November, 2006.
The workshop invited more than forty scholars from Japan and China and exchanged
information on the latest developments of seismic isolation system and applications.
Taiki SAITO
Chief Research Engineer, IISEEGroup photo of the first CIB/W114 meeting-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[4] JICA short-term expert in Romania for soil test
Dr. Tamura, staff of IISEE, went to Romania as a JICA short-term expert during 22
October to 5 November, 2006. Mission of this dispatch is to advise Romaniancounterparts in "JICA Project on the Seismic Risk Reduction for Buildings in Romania(2002-2007)" for soil tests.
http://www.utcb.ro/cnrrs_en/cnrrs.html
http://project.jica.go.jp/romania/7241011E0/english/index.html
Masahito TAMURA
Chief Research Engineer, IISEE------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[5] Risk Reduction Symposium in Bucharest, RomaniaA call for papers has been issued for the International Symposium on Seismic Risk
Reduction to be held in Bucharest, Romania, April 26-27, 2007. The symposium will
gather specialists from research, education, and industry. The first day will be devoted
to the presentation of the results of the technical cooperation project (now in its fifthyear) between Romania National Center for Seismic Risk Reduction and the Japan
International Cooperation Agency entitled Seismic Risk Reduction for Buildings andStructures. The second day will have presentations from contributors. On both days,
keynote lectures will be given by leading international specialists. Abstracts areencouraged on all issues related to seismic risk, such as ground motion, groundconditions, seismic evaluation, seismic rehabilitation, and education. Submissions notexceeding one page must be e-mailed to issrr2007@utcb.ro by January 15, 2007. For
more information, visit http://cnrrs.utcb.ro//issrr2007/issrr2007.html.
Alexandru Aldea
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