2018. 7. 2

Japan Society of Civil Engineers
International Activities Center

IAC News No.69“The Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC)
34th Executive Committee Meeting in Hanoi”
Committee on ACECC, Japan Society of Civil Engineers

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Overview

The Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council(ACECC) 34th Executive Committee Meeting was heldfrom April 12 through 14, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The
main proceedings of the plenary meeting were asfollows.
2.

Activity report of ACECC Technical Committee

The activities of all nine committees that are currently
under way were reported, and the contents of the reportwere approved. Among those activities, a report on T16(Technical Committee concerning ITS for resolving

All participants of Executive Committee Meeting

urban city traffic problems) and TC21 (TechnicalCommittee concerning disaster reduction/prevention), in
which Japan plays a leading role, was delivered. With
regard to TC21 in particular, Chairman Kuniyoshi
Takeuchi attended the committee to present an overview
of the activities so far.
In the 34th Executive Committee Meeting, the Philippine
Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE) made a proposal on
the establishment of the new Technical Committee “TC24: Technical Committee on Gender and Development

In the courtyard of the venue Hanoi Daewoo Hotelin Infrastructure”, and the proposal was approved.
On the final day of the Meeting, TC14 “Sustainable Infrastructure” and the above-mentioned TC21 jointly held
an international symposium, where local engineers and participants from ACECC member countries engaged inlively discussion and exchanged information.
3.

CECAR8 in Tokyo Progress Report(1) Progress1

In the Executive Committee Meeting, Chairman Sato (Chair of Academic Program Committee, Local
Organizing Committee for CECAR8) of the Committee on Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council
reported on the progress of preparations toward CECAR8 to be held in Japan from April 16 through 19, 2019.
Matters to be reported are as follows.
–Approximately 300 abstracts have been posted.

–The Presidential Meeting of presidents of ACECC member organizations will be held on April 16.

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The Future Leader Forum of young engineers will be held.

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Simultaneous interpretation will be provided for the Keynote Lecture–

Young engineers and female engineers will be welcome.

–The ACECC Executive Committee Meeting will be held on the day before CECAR8Many engineers from Japan are also expected to participate in CECAR8.
(2) Tokyo Protocol
CECAR8 will be held in 2019, which marks the 20th year since the establishment of ACECC. In CECAR8, theTokyo Protocol will be stated in the name of all the presidents of ACECC member organizations, considering
the changes in the world situation and our experience in disasters during those years. A draft was presented atthe 34th Executive Committee Meeting, and will be finalized at the next Meeting after reflecting the commentsof each academic society.
4.

The way forward for the organization of ACECCThe previous 33rd Executive Committee Meeting in Ulan Bator approved “the accession of more than one
society/institution from an economy* is approved, while only one vote from an economy is approved.”
Discussions on the biannual ECM, which will be held in the selected countries, and the Membership Meeting(MM), in which all member countries participated, are being made.
In the 34th Executive Committee Meeting, the time of the transition to the new framework was discussed, andit was decided by majority vote that the transition will be carried out when the number of participatingorganizations exceeds 20. The decision-making process of ACECC, whose organization will become bigger, isexpected to be smoother if the new framework is introduced.
5.

Future Leader Forum

The Future Leader Forum (FLF) is an event that was proposed and approved in the 31st Executive Committee
Meeting. Young engineers of member academic societies/institutions around the age of 30 are invited to attend
the Forum. Its purpose is to provide the opportunity to freely discuss new ideas such as the way forward for civilengineering. It was not held in the 34th Executive Committee Meeting, but the future policies were discussed.
The following policies were approved:–FLF will be held once every 12 to 18 months.

–Travel expenses of participants of FLF will be borne by each member society/institution, andaccommodation fees by the host society. In principle, ACECC will not bear those expenses.
FLF is planned for CECAR8, which is held at the same time as the 36th Executive Committee Meeting.
Therefore, FLF will be not held in the next ECM in Melbourne.
6.

CECAR9The Institution of Civil Engineers, India (ICE, India) is running to serve as the host organization of CECAR9,
which will be held in 2022. A presentation on its content was made at the Executive Committee Meeting and2was approved.

As a result, it has been decided that CECAR9 will be held in Goa, India. After CECAE8, ICE,

India will take over the role of the ACECC administration from JSCE.
7.

Conclusion

This was the third Executive Committee Meeting since the ACECC administrative organization changed to JSCE.
During the meeting, discussions were held on how ACECC should be led by JSCE so that ACECC can conduct
its activities more effectively, and reforms are steadily being carried out. Less than one year remains until
CECAR8 in 2019, and JSCE is in charge of administration only for a year. It is expected that the reforms led by
JSCE will be smoothly taken over by the ICE, India, which is the next administrative organization.
The next Executive Committee Meeting will be held in Melbourne, Australia in October.
Note – Economy: general term for countries and regions【Reported by Committee on ACECC, Japan Society of Civil Engineers】

Report of ACECC TC21 Field Survey and Symposium in VietnamThe 21st Technical Committee (TC21) of ACECC, with the Co-chairs Dr. Kuniyoshi
Takeuchi and Mr. Romeo S. Momo, has been aiming for building disaster-resilient
society under the initiative from Japanese Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE). On
April 2018, in parallel with the ACECC Executive Committee Meeting (ECM) heldin Hanoi, the TC21 activities took place in Vietnam: a field survey, committee
meetings, and an International Symposium.
At the field survey in the Nam Dinh Province with severe coastal erosion (see Photo1), the current condition of damages was identified, and then there was a discussion
with the local government regarding disaster mitigation (see Photo 2). In Vietnam
with its long coastline, there is the severe problem of rapid coastal erosion due to theYoshihiro Katsuhama
Secretariat of ACECC
TC21 Support
Committee, JSCE

reduction of sediment supply from rivers and the construction of inadequate
structures along the coast. In addition, negative impacts on the utilization of coasts for tourism and an everyday
life due to the coastal erosion have been expanding because of a vertically segmented administrative system,
and a lack of basic knowledge and regulations regarding coastal management. Therefore, the implementation ofdrastic problem-solving measures are needed.

Photo 1: A Church Ruined by Coastal Erosion andTyphoon, Hay li, the Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam

Photo 2: Discussion with Officials at AgriculturalDepartment, the Nam Dinh Province

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In Hanoi, committee meetings were held by TC21
members from ACECC member states, and it wasagreed to create deliverables toward CECAR8
based on each state’s case studies. Also, the third
TC21 International Symposium (see Photo 3) was
held inviting the ECM members and localparticipants, following the first symposium inDavao, the Philippines in 2016, and the second
symposium in Katmandu, Nepal in 2017.
Following

anopeningaddressbytherepresentative of Vietnam Federation of Civil

Photo 3: Major Participants of TC21 Third
International Symposium

Engineering Associations (VFCEA), and an
opening address by the Director General of the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority, there were presentation
sessions to introduce disaster management practices from Vietnam (the first session) and transdisciplinary
approach (TDA) case studies form TC21 member states: Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nepal, Japan,Bangladesh, and Taiwan (the second session). Then, an active discussion, chaired by Dr. Takeuchi, the TC21
Co-Chair, was conducted, and it was confirmed as the outcome of TC21 activities for two and a half years that
TDA for disaster prevention and mitigation is effective and indispensable.
A financial support from ACECC was utilized for the TC21 activities in Vietnam. Also, the activities of JSCE
TC21 members were supported by subsidy from JSCE International Scientific Exchange Fund (ISEF).
Moreover, the TC21 activities in Vietnam were held with strong support from Dr. Pham Hoang Kien and Dr.
Mai Quang Huy, TC21 members and faculties from the University of Transport and Communications. I would
like to express my gratitude for all the people who supported the activities.
【Reported by Yoshihiro Katsuhama, Secretariat of ACECC TC21 Support Committee, JSCE】【Alumni of DOBOKU Series】“Expansion of Academic Network in Japan into Indonesia”
Ibrahim Djamaluddin,
Public Servant and Lecturer at the Department of Environmental
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hasanuddin University
It is my great honor and pleasure to be nominated as the writer of Alumni of Doboku.
I came to Japan for the first time in 2001 as a research student, and studied about thecurrent conditions of geo-environmental issues at the laboratory of Environmental
Geotechnology of Kyushu University. In 2002, I entered a master’s course at samelaboratory, and I conducted the fundamental research on the development innovative
methodology for three-dimensional prediction of ground subsidence due tounderground resource development. The challenge was how to establish acomputational program of prediction system using the technology of GeographicalInformation System (GIS). As we know that in Indonesia, there are many vast
underground natural resources such as coal mine in Kalimantan, gold mine in Papua,
4Ibrahim DJAMALUDDIN
Hasanuddin University

nickel mine in Sulawesi that causes severe environmental issues which needs a powerful prediction tool. It wasa very interesting research theme and this issue is challenging me to study in Japan. In the doctoral course, I
accomplished the advanced research on the development of integrated supporting system within GIS throughout
a collaboration work between the GIS research group and geoenvironmental research group in Kyushu
University. To gain a deeper understanding about GIS, I got an opportunity as an internship for 3 months at theEnvironmental System Research Institute (ESRI) in Redlands, California to discover the latest GIS technology.
After I studied and expanded the research network with ESRI, I was able to do the innovative development
system and obtained fruitful results, and finally I received my PhD degree in 2007. Having a doctoral degree, Icontinued to study as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Kyushu University and contributed to the global
research projects on the environmental conservation issues of underground coal mines in China, Vietnam,Indonesia and Japan.
From 2009, I was awarded an assistant professor
of Global Center of Excellence (GCOE)
program of Kyushu University, and I also
worked as an International researcher on theecological conservation project in Asia. I
participated in the development of research
network

withgovernmental

theuniversities,organizationsnon(NGO),governmental organizations inside Japan andother Countries.

Participation in the AP-BON(AsianBiodiversity

PacificObservation

Network) is an example of one exciting time that
I spent as the person in charge for geospatial

Photo 1: Members of AP-BON

information database and earth observation remote sensing study (Photo 1). After finishing the GCOE programin 2014, I decided to return country because my hometown university has already invited me to join thealmamater.
Industry-Government-University collaboration work
Since 2007, JICA (Japan International Cooperation
Agency) has implemented the development project of
the Faculty of Engineering of Hasanuddin University.
Faculty of Engineering has improved much andproduces a better quality of educational and research
environment as well as new building of Centre ofTechnology (COT).In 2015, I and some researchers whoobtained doctoral degree in Japan was able to initiate thejoint research which uses the Japanese network to setup
the collaboration model between industry, government,and university in Hasanuddin University. In cooperation
with the local Ministry of Public Works and local
industries as well as Japanese company, we did a Photo 2: Experimental test of Japanese concrete product bysuitability research for Japanese technological products

industry government-university research schemein order to promote the acceleration of water
infrastructure development in Indonesia. It was the first time in my research in Hasanuddin University. Under
the supervision from Professors of Civil Engineering of Kyushu University, our joint research activity smoothly
5can be conducted. Precast concrete products which carried from Japan were examined
successfully in our laboratory (Photo 2). International seminar was held to publish our research results, and toshare our findings about the importance of accurate design and construction suitable for future civil engineering
industry in Indonesia. Local governments and industries in Indonesia have gained much interest in Japaneseprecast concrete products.
Coordinator for International Undergraduate Program of Civil Engineering
Since 2017, the International Undergraduate Program of Civil Engineering was established in HasanuddinUniversity with the aim of promoting global education and establishing base facilities for collaboration activities
between industry and university. It is initiated to take a collaboration research and international lectures at theDepartment of Civil Engineering, Kyushu University where the agreement letter has been signed. I was elected
to be coordinator for this program where the fourth year of undergraduate students of Hasanuddin University
will conduct an International lecture courses as well as join the research activity at Kyushu University for 6months.
Contribution to urban planning and management by GIS utilization
Problems of urban drainage management during the rainy season is very important in Makassar City due to lackof flood control for complex spatial system. Since I had learned at Kyushu University how to improve the local
government skills and knowledge in the utilization of spatial technology, thus I planned the initiative programof capacity building to city government staff for the use of GIS to drainage management. In 2017, I presented
my framework idea in front of Mayor of Makassar City to propose the high utilization of geospatial data inparticular urban planning and management and demonstrated the use of GIS covers studies on various topics inthe field of urban development in Japan. In collaboration with Japanese company who has a GIS technology,
city government already stimulated the GIS project to the central government for budget approval.
In the last word, I hope to keep broadening networks and exchanges with researchers and engineers on civilengineering in Japan, so I can contribute as a bridge linking Indonesia and Japan.
Profile: Born in 1975 in Indonesia. He returned back to Indonesia in 2014 after receiving a doctoral degree in 2007 and working
as an assistant professor at Kyushu University until 2014. Since 2015, he has worked as a public servant and lecturer at Hasanuddin
University, Makassar, Indonesia.

《Column》Yasuhiro MITANI, Professor, Kyushu University
Dr. Ibrahim has been a good research fellow and has
worked together for more than 10 years from the timeof his research student until he returned to his own
country in 2014. After his doctoral degree graduation,
he has been a great support to our research groups inlaboratory. Furthermore, Professor of Esaki trusted himto carry out a lot of research findings. After going backto his own country, he continues to do collaborative research works with ouruniversity. He has recommended many international students from Indonesia.
He is working hard with good at Japanese skills which can dominate theWith colleagues in his doctoral degree
graduation (Dr. Ibrahim at upper line
second from the left)

excellence young researchers. In our laboratory, the students usually called him by nickname of "Ibe-san". We hope that Dr.
Ibrahim to be able to make a great success as a bridge between Japanese and Indonesian engineers.

※Alumni of DOBOKU Series is in collaboration with Editorial Committee of JSCE Magazine.
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Dobohaku, Online Museum of Civil Engineering
The Japan Society of Civil Engineering launched Dobohaku, an online museumof civil engineering (http://www.dobohaku.com), on August 8, 2016.

This is a

new type of museum that exists only on the internet, and it is the first museum inJapan that covers all fields of civil engineering.
Over 500,000 PVs and 3,000 Facebook shares in the 18 months since the launchof the site indicate that many visitors have visited Dobohaku. The English version
launched on February 8, 2018.
Originally, the Japan Society of Civil Engineering envisaged the construction of an

Daijiro Kitagawa
Chair of "DOBOHAKU"
Sub-Committee

actual museum where exhibitions related to civil engineering
would be held. However, civil engineering constructions are sobig that no museum could hold them. Moreover, such structures
are attractive in the grandeur of nature and the hustle and bustleof the city where people come and go. That’s why, with thecatch phrase “A journey to find ‘great capabilities’ of Tokyo”,
we decided to consider the Earth as a museum of civilengineering, using our original video works, valuableillustrations, and intriguing maps that visualize the real site.
The major characteristics of Dobohaku include the pursuit of anew playful perspective and expression that stimulate theintellectual curiosity and imagination of visitors.
Currently Dobohaku is holding three exhibitions. In Tokyo“DOBOHAKU” website top page

Infrastructure Anatomy and Shikoku Infrastructure Anatomy,
we selected 88 important infrastructures that support the Tokyo and Shikoku regions, and introduce their roles
and attractions by likening them to human organs. In Civil Engineering and Civilization, the history ofcivilization of Japan is explained in a clear and detailed way from the perspective of civil engineering, using
many valuable illustrations.
Among them, only Tokyo Infrastructure Anatomy and videos related to each exhibition(http://www.dobohaku.com/en/movie/) are offered in English at the moment. However, the contents of theEnglish site will be enhanced. Please check the Facebook page of Dobohaku(https://www.facebook.com/dobohaku), too, as the latest news of Dobohaku will be posted on it.
【Reported by Daijiro Kitagawa, Chair of "DOBOHAKU" Sub-Committee】

7Updates◆Japanese Civil Engineers the Global Leaders Symposium Series No.12, July 19, 2018
http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/node/129◆Online Museum of Civil Engineering “DOBOHAKU –Tokyo Infrastructure Anatomy –” (English ver.)
http://www.dobohaku.com/tokyo/en/◆CECAR8 Online Registration (Early Bird: June 1 – Jan 31, 2019)http://www.cecar8.jp/◆2018 JSCE Annual Meeting International Program in Hokkaido, August 29 and 30, 2018
http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/
The 20th International Summer Symposium:“When a Mega Disaster Strikes... - How would you respond if you were a mayor? -”http://www.jsce-int.org/node/538◆Online Museum of Civil Engineering “DOBOHAKU –Tokyo Infrastructure Anatomy –” (English ver.)
http://www.dobohaku.com/tokyo/en/◆The International Infrastructure Archives– A Compilation of Japan’s Greatest Projects in Transfer of Civil Engineering Technology in Service –http://www.jsce.or.jp/e/archive/◆Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) International Newsletter archives
http://www.acecc-world.org/newsletter.html◆IAC “News Pick Up!!” on the JSCE Japanese website
http://committees.jsce.or.jp/kokusai/node/118◆Summary of feature articles in JSCE Magazine Vol. 103, No. 7, July 2018 on the JSCE website
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