In this issue:

• New National Member Group in fib
• Structural Concrete – June 2013
• fib-news, June 2013
• ICIMART’14: 1st Int. Conf. on Infrastructure Management, Assessment and Rehabilitation Techniques
• Third International Workshop on Concrete Spalling
• CONSEC13: Registration open

New National Member Group in fib

fib is pleased to welcome Lebanon as a new National Member Group in fib, with the secretariat held by the Lebanese Concrete Society. This latest addition brings fib‘s national members to a total of 42.

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. 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: http://www.fib-international.org or contact the secrtariat at fib@epfl.ch.

Structural Concrete – June 2013

The June 2013 issue of the Structural Concrete Journal is now available to fib members via the Wiley Online Library: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/suco.v14.2/issuetoc.

This issue continues the “Focus: fib Model Code for Concrete Structures 2010″ series, with articles on sound engineering practices through conceptual design according to MC2010 and design for SLS according to MC2010. Other articles deal with comprehensive basic tensile and bending creep behaviours, crack healing of cemetitious materials, a mix design methodology for high-performance geopolymer mortars, design for punching of prestressed concrete slabs, and the impact of hard projectiles on concrete targets.

fib-news, June 2013

The June 2013 issue of fib-news reports on the recent fib symposium in Tel Aviv and the fib Medal of Merit, Honorary Membership and Achievement Award for Young Engineers that were awarded there; an fibUK technical meeting on the added value of fib resources to structural projects; and the first international ACCTA conference (“Advances in Cement and Concrete Technology in Africa”) that took place in South Africa earlier this year. A report from the Norwegian National Member Group in fib launches a new occasional series on the organization and activities of these groups.

fib-news, June 2013

ICIMART’14: 1st Int. Conf. on Infrastructure Management, Assessment and Rehabilitation Techniques

The First International Conference on Infrastructure management, Assessment and Rehabilitation Techniques (ICIMART’14), taking place in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, from 4 to 6 March 2014, will provide a forum for scientists and academics to convene and present their latest scholarly work on these topics. In addition, diverse tutorial sessions by leading experts will be held on 11 March 2014.

For further information, visit https://www2.aus.edu/conferences/icimart14/index.html

Third International Workshop on Concrete Spalling

The Third International Workshop on Concrete Spalling due to Fire Exposure will take place in Paris from 25 to 27 September 2013. The workshop will be a forum for presenting and exchanging experiences and developments in the field of spalling of concrete due to fire exposure. This third edition of the event follows the successful workshops held in Leipzig in 2009 and Delft in 2011.

For registration and further information, visit http://www.firespalling2013.fr/.

CONSEC13: Registration open

Registration is now open for the Seventh International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions – Environment and Loading (CONSEC13) taking place in Nanjing, China, from Sept. 23-25, 2013. Early bird registration rates are available until 31 July.

The objective of the CONSEC Conferences is to focus on the issues of concrete infrastructures and private buildings, either subjected to severe environment or severe loading, or any combination of severe conditions. Experience from the performance of existing concrete structures, and especially under severe environmental conditions.

For more information visit http://www.consec13.com.

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