Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to send you the third issue of the fib e-newsletter for 2015. Please feel free to forward it to any interested parties.

Best regards,

The fib Secretariat

In this issue:

fib Medal of Merit winners and Honorary Life Members announced
fib 2015 Symposium – Copenhagen
Early bird registration for ICCRRR 2015
ICCS16 Call for Papers
fib Cape Town Symposium 2016 — Deadline approaching for abstracts
fib Bulletin 74:  Planning and design handbook on precast building structures

fib Medal of Merit winners and Honorary Life Members announced

At the 2015 Symposium in Copenhagen last week (see next article) the fib announced the recipients of the 2015 fib Medal of Merit and Honorary Life Members.   The fib Medal of Merit, which recognizes significant personal contributions to structural concrete and to the fib, was awarded to Mikael Braestrup of Rambøll, to Koji Sakai of the Japan Sustainability Institute, and to Tamon Ueda of Hokkaido University.  Honorary Life Membership, which recognizes significant personal contribution to the fib, was conferred upon Steinar Helland of Skanska Norge AS and Luc Taerwe of Ghent University.

fib 2015 Symposium – Copenhagen

Close to 400 participants, speakers, representatives of the fib’s National Member Groups and exhibitors attended the 2015 symposium in Copenhagen, which was held from 18-20 May at the Tivoli Congress Center.  The symposium was officially opened with presentations by Organising Committee Chair Kaare B. Dahl of Rambøll and fib President Harald S. Müller of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.   Keynote presentations were given by Ulf Jönsson, Construction Manager at Femern A/S in the field of civil works, by Thomas Juul Andersen of the Danish Technological Institute in the field of new materials and structures, by Michael D. Lepech of Stanford University in the field of life cycle design and by Christian Munch-Peterson of EMCON on large Danish infrastructure projects.

Early bird registration for ICCRRR 2015

There is still time to take advantage of the early bird registration fees for the 4th International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting.  The discounted registration fees are applicable until 31 May 2015.  The conference will be held in Leipzig, Germany from 5-7 October 2015. Please visit the conference website for more information and registration details.

ICCS16 Call for Papers

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts for the International Conference on Concrete Sustainability, ICCS16, which will be held in Madrid in June 2016.  Abstracts should be submitted no later than 30 June 2015.  Please visit the conference website for conference topics and submission information and requirements.

fib Cape Town symposium 2016 – Deadline approaching for abstracts

Interested authors are reminded to submit abstracts no later than 31 May 2015 for the fib’s 2016 symposium, which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 21-23 November 2016.  Please visit the symposium website for submission details and requirements.

fib Bulletin 74: Planning and design handbook on precast building structures

fib Bulletin 74: Planning and design handbook on precast building structures is now available for sale on the fib website. In 1994 fib Commission 6: Prefabrication edited a successful Planning and Design Handbook that ran to approximately 45,000 copies and was published in Spanish and German. Nearly 20 years later Bulletin 74 brings that first publication up to date. It offers a synthesis of the latest structural design knowledge about precast building structures against the background of 21st century technological innovations in materials, production and construction.

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