OWICS 2010 ANNOUNCEMENT

The BACK TO BACK AFFAIR

JOIN US 25 – 28 AUGUST 2010 in SINGAPORE

The 35^th CORAL Conference on

OUR WORLD IN

CONCRETE & STRUCTURES

Challenge of the Low Carbon Age

The Conference shall be dedicated to

Dr Gary K C Ong

Associate Professor and Deputy Head (Infrastructure & Resources), Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore

5^th International Symposium on

NOTEWORTHY DEVELOPMENTS IN PPibsP

Incorporating

-precast concrete and precasting

-prestressed & prestressing

-building systems 

(industrialised, integrated and intelligent)

-prefabrication

(steel and concrete and others)

celebrating the 25^th Anniversary of

Precast & Prestressed Concrete Society

We invite original papers of relevance to this theme and the other traditional topics:

– Concrete design & analysis for buildings & structures

– Concrete mix design, quality control and production

– Concrete technology, ready-mix, SCC, RCC

– Concrete prefabrication

– Concrete plant, equipment and machinery

– Concrete repairs and rehabilitation

– Concrete materials, composites

– Concrete construction and safety

– Concrete application in roads, bridges, tall buildings, tunnels,

underwater, underground, etc

– SPECIAL SESSIONS on selected and special topics

Conference Awards:

–The W R GRACE Young Concrete Researcher Award for an outstanding paper that will be presented at the Conference by a researcher below the age of 35 as on 24 August 2010.

–Special Theme Award with a cash grant,

The Holcim Sustainability Award

Highly Commendable Concrete Awards

– the SIKA Green Concrete Award, JCI Award, BAUCHEMIE Award, BASF Award, ACI-SC Award, STUP Award, RMCAS Award, KEN FRANCIS Award, T JAVOR Award, ELKEM Award and the CORAL anniversary Award.

Abstracts (about 300 words) are invited Themes will include, but not exhaustive:

-research in prestressing, precasting, prefabrication technologies.

-building systems, eg intelligent, integrated and industrialized systems advances

-planning, design and analysis

-applications areas

-materials, recycle, concrete,

-composites

-considerations in seismic, stability, jointing and water proofing conditions

-repair and strengthening techniques

-construction methods and techniques, special methods

-production processes and techniques, quality

-erection techniques, transportation and storage facilities

-equipment and machinery

-architectural concepts.

Special sessions in sustainable construction, repair and strengthening, inspection, inspection, rehabilitation and testing, health monitoring systems

Last date to receive abstracts 15 Apr 2010

Notification of acceptance 01 May 2010

Full text in required format 15 Jun 2010

Conference Dates: 25-27 Aug 2010

Last date to receive abstracts 15 May 2010

Notification of acceptance 01 June 2010

Full text in required format 15 July 2010

Conference Dates: 27-28 August 2010

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS!

Local Industry Dialogue Round Table The Challenge of Low Carbon Age Concrete Industry Dinner and Concrete Quiz,

Concrete Awards and Young Concrete Researcher Award paper presentation Appointments to the OWICS steering advisory council Anniversary Receptions.

Secretariat:

CI-Premier Pte Ltd, 150 Orchard Road #07-14, Orchard Plaza, Singapore 238841. Republic of Singapore

Tel: +65 6733 2922 Fax: 65-6235-3530 Email: cipremie@singnet.com.sg web: www.cipremier.com