In this issue:

• Early registration for 2012 fib Symposium
• Registration for Bond in Concrete symposium
• Latin American Precast Seminar: 14 March 2012
• fib-news March 2012 issue
• New National Member Groups in fib
• 2013 fib Symposium in Tel-Aviv

Early registration for 2012 fib Symposium

Reminder: Early bird registration fees for the 2012 fib Symposium, taking place at the Royal Institute of Technology (“KTH”) in Stockholm, Sweden, on 11-14 June, are available until 31 March 2012. For more information about registration, accommodations and the symposium programme, visit http://www.fibstockholm2012.se.

Registration for Bond in Concrete symposium

Registration is open for the Fourth International Symposium on Bond in Concrete, which will be held in Brescia, Italy, on 17-20 June 2012. The principal aim the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners to review the advances in understanding and application of all aspects of bond in concrete achieved over the last decade, and to help identify the challenges and priorities to be addressed in the next. Early bird registration fees are available until 31 March 2012. For more information, visit http://www.bondinconcrete2012.org.

Latin American Precast Seminar: 14 March 2012

fib Commission 6 and the Brazilian Association of Industrialized Concrete Construction have organized the Latin American Seminar on Conceptual Design and Applications of Precast Concrete, taking place in Rio de Janeiro on 14 March 2012. Important experiences in project development and applications will be shared among designers, precasting companies, consultants, institutions and suppliers. The official language of the event is English, with simultaneous translation into Portuguese and Spanish. For further information: http://www.abcic.org.br/latinamericaseminar/.

fib-news March 2012 issue

The March 2012 issue of fib-news announces the calls for papers for next year’s fib symposium in Tel Aviv (April 2013) and the first International Conference on Concrete Sustainability (Tokyo, May 2013). It reports on the ICI-fib workshop held in New Delhi, and on the recent activities of Commission 8. Notable birthdays of two prominent fib members are also highlighted.

The PDF file is now available for downloading from the fib website.

New National Member Groups in fib

fib is pleased to welcome two new National Member Groups as of 2012: South Africa and South Korea, bringing fib‘s national members to a total of 41.

The National Member Groups (NMG), and the General Assembly of delegates who represent them, play an essential role in the functioning and governance of fib, making such important decisions as the election of officers and the approval of statutes, resolutions, Model Codes, voting rights, and budgets. NMGs also serve as a contact point for fib in their respective countries, so that their local community of engineers can have regular access to information about the association’s publications and events, as well as a channel for national views to be fed back to fib for discussion and further development.

For further information, visit the fib website: www.fib-international.org, or contact the secretariat at fib@epfl.ch.

2013 fib Symposium in Tel-Aviv

Next year’s fib Symposium will take place from 22 to 24 April 2013, in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the theme “Engineering a Concrete Future: Technology, Modeling and Construction”. Submission of abstracts of up to 200 words are currently being accepted until 2 April 2012; for further information, visit the symposium website: www.fib2013tel-aviv.co.il

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The header photo is used by kind permission of Fabian Sigler, STUDIOSIGLER.