International Conferences & Conventions Sub‐Committee AGENDA 7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Monday, October 22, 2012 Sheraton Centre – Gingersnap, 4th floor Toronto, Ontario

Mission: To plan, develop and implement programs for International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops in support of the International Committee’s goals.

MEMBERS

Ramon L. Carrasquillo, Chair, USA H.S. Lew, USA Mario A. Chiorino, Italy Robert C. Lewis, United Kingdom Cesar A. Constantino, USA Mario E. Rodriguez, Mexico Marwan A. Daye, Saudi Arabia Shunsuke Sugano, Japan Augusto Holmberg, Chile Waon‐ho Yi, Korea Jose M. Izquierdo‐Encarnacion, USA Renée J. Lewis, Staff Liaison

1.0 Call to Order

2.0 Welcome and Introductions

3.0 Approval of Spring 2012 Meeting Minutes The minutes from the spring 2012 meeting in Dallas are attached as Exhibit A.

4.0 Approval of Agenda, Additions, Deletions

5.0 International Lunch 5.1 Fall 2012 – Toronto, ON (Sunday, October 21, 2012, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm) ~ Forming Our Future Professor will give a presentation on Modern Trends in Bridge Design in Europe during the International Lunch in Toronto. Currently there are 77 people registered for the lunch. It is expected that this number will increase.

5.2 Spring 2013 – Minneapolis, MN (Sunday, April 14, 2013) ~ Responsibility in Concrete Construction Peter Richner, President of RILEM, has been confirmed as the speaker for the International Lunch during the Spring 2013 Convention.

5.3 Fall 2013 – Phoenix, AZ (Sunday, October 20, 2013) ~ Innovation in Conservation Cesar Constantino planned to contact the former Chief Engineer of Construction and now head of Administration for the Panama Canal to make a presentation on the Panama Canal Expansion. He will provide an update.

5.4 Spring 2014 – Reno, NV (Sunday, March 23, 2014) Chair Carrasquillo was requesting Marwan Daye identify topics and potential speakers for the lunch to be held at the spring 2014 convention.

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5.5 Fall 2014 – Washington DC (Sunday, October 26, 2014) H.S. Lew has volunteered to identify ideas and a speaker for the International luncheon.

For future lunches the following committee members will identify speakers: Robert Lewis indicated that he may be able to obtain a speaker to talk about infrastructure in the UK. Cesar Constantino will identify a speaker from Egypt. Ramon Carrasquillo will to try to obtain a speaker from Morocco.

6.0 International Sessions 6.1 Fall 2013 The next International Workshop for Structural Concrete in the Americas and Beyond will be held prior to the Fall 2013 Convention in Phoenix, AZ. It was thought this would be a good location to hold sessions, but the committee preferred that one two‐hour session from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. be held.

The convention theme is Innovation in Conservation. Sessions around the theme “uses of concrete as a means to conserve resources” will be developed. A possible session title may be Concrete Construction: Conservation Management of Resources. Dr. Cesar Constantino is coordinating these sessions and will provide an update.

7.0 International Conferences 7.1 ACI Co‐sponsored Conferences An international conference is planned for 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference is a successor to the CANMET‐ACI conference. Mohan Malhotra has historically coordinated these conferences and would like ACI and the International Conferences/Conventions Committee to take over this effort. If the committee wished to consider this proposal, a financial impact statement could be developed and request approval from the International Advisory Committee and Board of Direction. Mohan Malhotra is putting together a transition plan which will be forwarded to the committee. Staff will provide an update.

7.2 Additional Industry Conferences Upcoming industry conferences are listed below. This item is for information only.

10th Intl October 28‐31, 2012 Committee for Prague, Czech Republic Yes Superplasticizers & Organization of

Chemical Admixtures International Conf Recent Adv in Concrete October 31‐November 2, Committee for Prague, Czech Republic Yes Technolog & 2012 Organization of

Sustainability International Conf 1st Intl Conf for PhD November 4‐7, 2012 American Concrete Cluj‐Napoca, Romania Yes

students in Concrete Institute Advance Concrete November 6‐7, 2012 RILEM Islamabad, Pakistan Yes

Technology ‐ ACTA 2012 5th Bridges Middle East November 11‐13, 2012 American Concrete Doha, Dubai Yes

co‐located w/ Tunnels Institute

Construct Info November 17, 2012 American Concrete Cluj‐Napoca, Romania Institute 3rd International November 20‐21, 2012 American Concrete Doha, Qatar Conference on Future Institute

Concrete Third Ibero‐Aericam December 3‐4, 2012 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Yes

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Congress on SCC Valencia, Spain

ACCTA 2013 January 28‐30, 2013 SPIN Johannesburg, South Africa

FraMCoS‐8 March 10‐14, 2013 IA‐FraMCoS Toledo, Spain 14th Intl Congress on April 17‐20, 2013 RILEM Shanghai, China Yes

Polymers in Concrete International IABSE May 6‐8, 2013 IABSE Dutch Group Rotterdam, The Yes

Spring Conference 2013 Netherlands ICCS13 Intl Congress on May 27‐29, 2013 Japan Concrete Institute Tokyo, Japan Yes

Concrete Sustainability 3rd International Conf on August 18‐22, 2013 Conventry University‐UK Shimogyo‐ku Kyoto,

Sustainable Construction Japan

6th CECAR August 20‐22, 2013 The Asian Civil Jakarta, INDONESIA Engineering Coordinating Council

1st R N Raikar Memorial December 20‐21, 2013 American Concrete Mumbai, India

International Conference Institute 5th International September 1‐3, 2014 Concrete Solutions Belfast, UK Yes Conference on Concrete

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7.3 Future Conferences The Panama Chapter is interested in a joint event with ACI for their 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal.

Additionally the Indian Concrete Institute has expressed interest in holding a conference co‐sponsored by ACI.

8.0 New Business

9.0 Adjourn

10.0 Next Meeting The committee will meet Monday, April 15, 2013 during the Spring 2013 Convention in Minneapolis, MN.

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International Conferences & Conventions Sub‐Committee MINUTES 7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Monday, March 19, 2012 Hyatt Regency Dallas – Reverchon A Dallas, TX

Mission: To plan, develop and implement programs for International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops in support of the International Committee’s goals.

MEMBERS

Ramon L. Carrasquillo, Chair, USA Robert C. Lewis, United Kingdom Mario A. Chiorino, Italy Mario E. Rodriguez, Mexico Cesar A. Constantino, USA Shunsuke Sugano, Japan (absent) Marwan A. Daye, Saudi Arabia (excused) Waon‐ho Yi, Korea (absent) Jose M. Izquierdo‐Encarnacion, USA (absent) Renée J. Lewis, Staff Liaison H.S. Lew, USA

GUESTS John Glumb Gajanan Sabnis

1.0 Call to Order Chair Carrasquillo called the meeting to order at 7:32 a.m.

2.0 Welcome and Introductions

3.0 Approval of Fall 2011 Meeting Minutes The minutes from the fall 2011 meeting in Cincinnati were approved as distributed and are attached as Exhibit A.

4.0 Approval of Agenda/Additions, Deletions There were no additions or changes to the agenda.

5.0 Review of Committee Membership Chair Carrasquillo previously requested committee members to identify individuals who may be good additions to the committee. Cesar Constantino will talk with Augusto Holmberg about his participation in the committee. H.S. Lew will provide the names of three possible members from China, Korea and Japan within the next few months.

6.0 International Lunch 6.1 Spring 2012 – Dallas, TX (Sunday, March 18, 2012, 12 pm – 2 pm) ~ Art of Concrete Mario Chiorino gave an excellent presentation entitled, The Art and Science of Concrete, which focused on the Exhibition that will be touring the United States. A description of the presentation is shown as Exhibit B. Mario wished to thank ACI and specifically Rex Donahey, Editor‐in‐Chief of Concrete

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International, for dedicating the March issue to the exhibition. Additionally he thanked the PLN Foundation in Europe for their support.

The room was filled to capacity with about 90 in attendance. In the future a larger room with two screens is needed.

The committee determined that they would like to continue creating and distributing a one page flyer. Additionally they would like to send an e‐mail blast further in advance so that attendees can make their flight arrangements accordingly. Also they would like to identify ACI committees that might be interested in the topic and send them an invitation to attend.

6.2 Fall 2012 – Toronto, ON (Sunday, October 21, 2012, 12 pm – 2 pm) ~ Forming Our Future Professor Michel Virlogeux has been invited to be the speaker at the International Lunch in Toronto. He will give a presentation Modern Trends in Bridge Design in Europe. He is the foremost designer of bridges and in Europe. His most famous work was the Normandy Bridge. Staff will contact his assistant to reconfirm he will be attending. A copy of the invitation letter is attached as Exhibit C.

6.3 Spring 2013 – Minneapolis, MN (Sunday, April 14, 2013) ~ Responsibility in Concrete Construction President Ken Hover suggested Peter Richner, President of RILEM, as the for the International Lunch during the Spring 2013 Convention. Mr. Richner has been confirmed.

6.4 Fall 2013 – Phoenix, AZ (Sunday, October 20, 2013) ~ Innovation in Conservation Cesar Constantino will be contacting the former Chief Engineer of Construction and now head of Administration for the Panama Canal to make a presentation on the Panama Canal Expansion.

6.5 Spring 2014 – Reno, NV (Sunday, March 23, 2014) Chair Carrasquillo has requested Marwan Daye identify topics and potential speakers for the lunch.

6.6 Fall 2014 – Washington DC (Sunday, October 26, 2014) H.S. Lew has volunteered to identify ideas and a speaker for the International luncheon.

For future lunches the following committee members will identify speakers: Robert Lewis indicated that he may be able to obtain a speaker to talk about infrastructure in the UK. Cesar Constantino will identify a speaker from Egypt. Carrasquillo to try to obtain a speaker from Morocco.

7.0 International Sessions 7.1 Spring 2012 The committee reviewed the Structural Concrete: An Art Form sessions held during the Dallas convention. There was good attendance. The presentation titles and descriptions are shown as Exhibit D.

7.2 Fall 2013 The next International Workshop for Concrete in the Americas and Beyond will be held prior to the Fall 2013 Convention in Phoenix, AZ. It was thought this would be a good location to hold sessions, but the committee preferred that one two‐hour session from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. be held.

The convention theme is Innovation in Conservation. Sessions around the theme “uses of concrete as a means to conserve resources” will be developed. A possible session title may be Concrete Construction: Conservation Management of Resources.

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Dr. Cesar Constantino has accepted to be the coordinator for the International Sessions in the Fall 2013 Convention.

8.0 International Conferences 8.1 ACI Co‐sponsored Conferences An international conference is planned for 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference is a successor to the CANMET‐ACI conference. John Glumb provided an update. Mohan Malhotra has historically coordinated these conferences and would like ACI and the International Conferences/Conventions Committee to take over this effort. If the committee wished to consider this proposal, a financial impact statement could be developed and request approval from the International Advisory Committee and Board of Direction. Mohan Malhotra is putting together a transition plan which will be forwarded to the committee.

8.2 Additional Industry Conferences Upcoming industry conferences are listed below. This item is for information only. Conference Name Date Sponsor Location 9th International Concrete Conference April 23‐25, 2012 Bahrain Society of Manama, Bahrain Engineers/ACI Bahrain Chapter Global Thinking in Structural Engineering May 7‐9, 2012 ABSE Cairo, Egypt ACI‐KC 3rd International Conference May 8‐10, 2012 ACI Kuwait Kuwait, Kuwait NICOM4 May 20‐22, 2012 Democritus University of Crete, Greece Thrace Agios Nikolaos SSCS 2012 May 29‐June 1, 2012 Democritus University of Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Thrace Greece Fib Symposium 2012 June 11‐14, 2012 Swedish Cement and Stockholm, Sweden Concrete Research Institute CICE 2012 June 13‐5, 2012 Sapeinza Universita di Rome, Italy Roma Bond in Concrete 2012 June 17‐20, 2012 ACI, fib Brescia, Italy 1st International Congress on Durability of June 18‐21, 2012 International Congress on Trondheim, Norway Concrete Durability of Concrete Co‐sponsored by ACI 7th International RILEM Conference on June 20‐22, 2012 RILEM Technical Delft, The Netherlands Cracking Committee 210 RILEM Conference on Cracking on June 20‐22, 2012 RILEM Technical Delft, The Netherlands Pavements Committee 210 ICFF 2012 June 27‐29, 2012 ISFF Bath, England, UK Bridge Maintenance, Safety and July 8‐12, 2012 IABMAS Cernobbio Lake Como, Italy Management Concrete in the Low Carbon Era July 9‐11, 2012 University of Dundee Dundee, UK 9th fib International PhD Symposium in Civil July 22‐25, 2012 Karlsruhe Institute of Karlsruhe, Engineering Technology (KIT) International Conference on July 22‐28, 2012 ICCE‐NANO Beijing, China Composites/Nan Engineering

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8th RILEM Symposium on Fibre Reinforeced September 19‐20, 2012 University of Minho and Guimaraes, Concrete ISISE Co‐sponsored by ACI BEFIB 2012 September 19‐21, 2012 University of Minho Guimaraes, Portugal 10th International Superplasticizers & October 28‐31, 2012 Committee for Prague, Czech Republic Chemical Admixtures Organization of International Conference Recent Advancements in Concrete October 31‐November 2, Committee for Prague, Czech Republic Technology & Sustainability 2012 Organization of International Conference Third Ibero‐Americam Congress on SCC December 3‐4, 2012 Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Valencia Co‐sponsored by ACI ACCTA 2013 January 28‐30, 2013 SPIN Johannesburg, South Africa International IABSE Spring Conference 2013 May 6‐8, 2013 American Concrete Rotterdam, The Institute Netherlands

9.0 New Business The Panama Chapter is interested in a joint event with ACI for their 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal.

Additionally the Indian Concrete Institute is interested in holding a conference co‐sponsored by ACI.

10.0 Adjourn The meeting adjourned at 8:28 a.m.

11.0 Next Meeting The committee will meet Monday, October 22, 2012 during the Fall 2012 Convention in Toronto, ON.

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He has been expert for the Moosou bridge in Ivory Coast and the Edea bridge in Cameroon, consultant for the Evripos bridge in Greece and many important bridges in , specially on the A75 Motorway, such as the Truyère Viaduct at Garabit, the Piou and Rioulong viaducts, the bridge over the river Lot at la Mothe, and took part in the preliminary design of the Tanus viaduct over the river Viaur.

With his team he also controlled the execution design of several important bridges in addition to those of which he developed the project : the bridge over the river Marne and the Neuilly Plaisance viaducts and later the Ru de Maubuée viaduct for the Marne-la-Vallée line of the Paris Mass Transit System, the viaducts over the Gouet and Gouedic at Saint-Brieuc, the Fontenoy viaduct over the river Moselle, the Meylan and Illhof pedestrian cable-stayed bridges, the Tricastin bridge over the Donzère-Mondragon canal and the experimental bridges at La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, Cognac, Arbois and Charolles.

He contributed to some technical evolutions, such as for external prestressing, cable-stayed bridges and composite structures.

Between January, 1994, and January, 1995, he worked as consultant for the Highways Direction at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Since February, 1995 he works as a private consultant. As such he developed the conceptual design of the Avignon viaducts for the French Railways (for the High Speed Train) and was later Michel VIRLOGEUX consultant of the French railways for its erection, and he leaded the control of the design of the Vasco de Gama Bridge for the Portuguese administration (GATTEL). He made the preliminary Michel Virlogeux graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1967 (promotion 1965), and from design of the Verrières Viaduct. He developed the Millau Bridge project with Sir Norman Foster, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1970. He became Docteur Ingénieur of the Pierre et Europe Etudes Gecti, SERF and Sogelerg, and later has been consultant of the Eiffage Group for the Marie Curie University (Paris) in 1973. In 2009 he became Doctor in Technology Honoris Causa erection of this major bridge. He developed for GTM the concept of the continuous, completely of the Loughborough University. suspended deck of the Rion-Antirion bridge. He has been expert for the replacement of the suspension of the Tancarville bridge and for the analysis of cable vibrations in the Saint-Nazaire He became Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées of the French Civil Service in 1970, and Ingénieur bridge. He was consultant for Freyssinet in the call for tenders for the replacement of the suspension en Chef in 1984. of the Aquitaine bridge (not selected). He has been also consultant for the Japan Highway Public Corporation for the design and construction of the Ibi and Kiso river bridges. He had some Between 1970 and 1994, he worked as civil servant, during three years in , and between participation as consultant in the Stonecutters Bridge project in Hong Kong, and prepared a 1974 and 1994 in the S.E.T.R.A., the technical service of the Highways Administration. In 1980, proposal for the Chacao Bridge in Chile (two main suspension spans about 1100 metres long each). he became head of the concrete bridge division, and in 1987 head of the large bridge division, He has been a member of the Panel of Advisers for the Sutong bridge in China. He also won several steel and concrete. design competitions : the Avignon Viaducts, the Sarreguemines pedestrian bridge (a suspension bridge), the bridges on the river Charente at Jarnac, the Givet cable-stayed bridge over the river He designed many bridges, among which the Ottmarsheim bridge over the Alsace Canal, the Meuse, the mobile bridge over the river Seine at Rouen, the bridge over the river Hérault at Gignac, Abbeville and la Flèche bridges, the Moulin sur Escaut rail bridge, the Seyssel cable-stayed the bridge over the River Vienne at Limoge, the Altiani Bridge over the Tavignano in Corsica, the bridge over the river Rhone, the Ré Island Bridge, the Cheviré Bridge over the river Loire, the Saône Bridge at Macon and the mobile Bridge over the River Garonne at Bordeaux. He designed Auray viaduct, the Chateaubriand arch bridge over the river Rance, the Burgundy cable-stayed with the SETRA the Térénez curved cable-stayed bridge and is now consultant for the owner during bridge at Chalon-sur Saône, the Bouran viaduct at Rodez, the overpasses at Antrenas and Le construction. Truc de la Fare or the A75 Motorway, the Morbihan arch bridge at La Roche Bernard over the river Vilaine, the Kerkinstensalmi cable-stayed bridge in Finland, the Grand-Tressan pedestrian He received the I.A.B.S.E. Price in 1983, for its first attribution, the Guerite Silver Medal of the bridge at Bordeaux, the bridges over La Rivière des Pluies and La Rivière Saint-Denis in La British Section of the Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France in 1985, the Practical Construction Réunion island and of course the Normandy Bridge. He also developed the preliminary design of Award of the American Concrete Institute in 1992, the Reed and Mallik Medal of the Institution of the . Civil Engineers in 1994, and the George S. Richardson Medal of the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania in 1995. In France, he received the silver-gilt medal of the Société d’Encouragement de la Légion d’Honneur in November 2005. au Progrès in 1993, and one of the five « Vinci de la Construction » which have been attributed in 1994 by the Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale. In February, 1995, he received the Award of Excellence from the Engineering News Record, given for the first time outside America. In February, 1997, he received the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers, and, in May, the Silver Medal of the French Académie d’Architecture. Also in 1997 he received the Leadership Award of the American Segmental Bridge Institute; in 1999 the Price for its first attribution, and the Gustave Magnel Gold Medal. In 2002 he received the Award of the Italian Prefabrication Industry (CTE), in 2003 the Turner Medal of the American Concrete Institute, the International Award of Merit of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, and the Bridge Design Award of the Bridge Engineering Association (USA). In 2004 he was elected the Engineer of the Year by the French engineering associations, and in 2005 he received the Hills Millenium Award of the Institution of Engineering Designers and the Gold Metal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. In 2006 he received the Freyssinet Medal od the Fédération Internationale du Béton and the Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award of Institution of Civil Engineers, and in 2007 the Albert Caquot Medal of the Association Française de Génie Civil. In 2008 he received the Icarus Award of the la Coruña University.

Several of the bridges which he designed, or for which he has been consultant, have received architectural awards : the Seyssel bridge in 1988 received an Award of the Steel Construction Industry, and the Antrenas bridge was nominated in 1994. At the "Rubans d'or de la Route", the Michel Virlogeux Consultant SARL Cheviré, Chateaubriand – over the river Rance - and Bouran bridges received an award in 1991 ; the 24, RUE DE LA DIVISION LECLERC Truyère viaduct at Garabit in 1993; the Antrenas overpass and the Normandie Bridge in 1995, 78830 BONNELLES with a special award for the latter ; the Morbihan Bridge at la Roche Bernard in 1997, the Tanus Mobile : 06 14 24 35 90 Viaduct in 1999 and the Verrières viaduct in 2002. In 1998, the Normandie Bridge received a FIP Fax : 01 30 88 43 44 Outstanding Structure Award. The Millau Viaduct received several awards, and the Gustave

Flaubert Bridge an Award of the Steel Construction Industry.

He has been Professor of Structural Analysis at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées from 1978 to 1994, of Bridge Design at the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics from 1973 to 1993, and of stability of concrete structures at the Centre des Hautes Etudes de la Construction from 1985 to 2006. In 2008 he became Professor of Bridge Design and Construction at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

He has been Secretary, Secretary General and Executive Vice-President of the Association Française Pour la Construction during more than twenty years (1974-1997), and President of the Fédération Internationale de la Précontrainte since September, 1996 until the merger with the Comité Euro-international du Béton in May, 1998 to constitute the Fédération Internationale du Béton, fib, of which he has been elected President ; he became Honorary President of fib at the end of his term in September, 2000. He was a member of the Comité des Applications de l’Académie des Sciences until the transformation of the CADAS into the new Académie des Technologies in 2000, of which he became member ; he is Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, of the Institution Civil Engineers and of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He has been elected President of the European Construction Institute in 2008.

He has been nominated expert at the Paris Appeal Court from 2003 to 2007, and at the Versailles Appeal Court since January, 2009.

He was made "Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite" in 1989, "Officier" in 2000 and Chevalier