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Organised around the theme “Concrete:21st Centural Superhero”, the 2009 fibsymposium was held in London, UK, from22 to 24 June 2009. This was the 11thsuch symposium since fib's creation in1998. With 370 delegates in attendancerepresenting 49 countries, and 288accepted papers, the event was a clearsuccess despite the current worldwidefinancial crisis.

At the opening ceremony on Mondaymorning delegates were greeted by SteveDenton, head of the fib National MemberGroup in the UK. He expressed theorganisers’ pleasure at the number ofregistered delegates, especially consideringthe continuing economic troubles aroundthe globe. He thanked the event’s co-organiser Japanese Concrete Institute (JCI)

and extended a special welcome to themany engineers and experts from Japan,including keynote speaker Koji Sakai. Heremarked that despite these uncertaintimes, the theme of the symposium wasstill relevant, and indeed the solutions tolong-term challenges are often engi-neering solutions.

Gordon Clark, co-chair of the TechnicalCommittee, commented on the impor-tance of concrete in the world today:concrete is used more than any other man-made material, and the only other materialused more than concrete is water. He alsopointed out that this material could beresponsible for over 10% of all humanCO2 emissions. The field of concreteconstruction is facing a number ofchallenges, including sustainability and

durability in particular, both of which wereaddressed during the London symposium.

Nick Raynsford, member of Parliament andchairman of the Strategic Forum forConstruction in the UK, then took thepodium and highlighted a number ofimportant development projects in the UK,including the Crossrail project, the ThamesTideway tunnel, transformation of thecountry’s school infrastructure, and theconstruction of sites for the 2012 Olympicgames, which involves the transformationand rehabilitation of an environmentallydegraded deserted industrial site into oneof the largest parks in Europe.

He was followed by Doug Oakervee, whopresented the Crossrail project, of whichhe is the former chairman. This ambitiousrailway project will stretch from Maiden-head and Heathrow in the west toShenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. Itwill link Heathrow Airport, the West End,the City of London and Canary Wharf, andwill add 10% capacity to the UK transpor-tation system. A tunnelling academy willbe established in the UK to fill the currentlack of tunnelling specialists which will beneeded for this project.

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fib-news is produced as an integral part of the fibJournal Structural Concrete. Larger quantities ofoffprints are made available to National MembersGroups on request.

September 2009

IN THIS ISSUE

2009 fib Symposium 153

fib Medals of Merit 155

2009 fib Diploma for 157Research and Practice

Honorary doctorate toJoost Walraven 158

Obituaries 158

Short notes 159

Congresses and symposia 160

doi: 10.1680/stco.2009.10.3.153

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Michael Fardis gave the fib President’sWelcome address, in which he stressed thespecial historical relationship between fiband London: the city has long been aninternational centre of know-how andexpertise, and was the venue for severalCEB plenary sessions and FIP congressesand symposia over the past decades.

He then had the pleasure of presenting acertificate of Honorary Membership toformer fib Secretary General RüdigerTewes, and Medals of Merit to MarcoMenegotto and Eduardo C. Carvalho (seefull report on page 155).

The morning’s keynote presentations weregiven by Dr. Ahmad Rahimian, Dr. KojiSakai, and Prof. Odd E. Gjørv. Dr.Rahimian’s presentation on the “Nahkeelsuper tall tower” focused on the designchallenges of this record-breaking towerunder construction in Dubai, which willreach a height of over 1 km. Dr. Sakaidiscussed the need for an environmentalrevolution in concrete technology, stressingin particular the CO2 emissions fromconcrete production, and scenarios toreduce these emissions. Prof. Gjørv’sspeech addressed durability and servicelife, particularly how they relate to

construction issues and quality control.

Over 30 technical sessions were then heldin parallel throughout the three-day event,on the themes of sustainability, durability,materials, structure and construction, anddesign andanalysis. The pro-ceedings, inclu-ding all papers infull as well as thekeynote presen-tations, will beavailable for pur-chase from theConcrete Society,on behalf of the the fib UK Group; formore information contact Richard Day,[email protected].

Also taking place during the symposiumwas the award ceremony for the fibDiplomas to Younger Engineers, awardedthis year to Dr. Ana Maria Ruiz-Teran andMr. Chris Hendy (see page 157).

Social events and networking oppor-tunities were an integral part of the event.The welcome reception at the BarbicanCentre, the festive symposium banquet onTuesday evening, and the centrally locatedexhibition area gave delegates ampleoccasions to meet, network and socialisewith old and new friends and colleagues.

The symposium concluded with a keynotepresentation by Joost Walraven, fibHonoray President, FIP medallist and SAG5 Chairman (and honorary doctor; seepage 158), on the role of engineers today.He focused in particular on the importanceof finding new, “out of the box” solutionsto today’s sustainability problems.

Technical Council meetingand General Assembly As usual fib’s administrative bodies metprior to the symposium on 20 June.Among the other usual topics, theTechnical Council discussed and approved

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The 2009 fib Medals of Merit wererecently awarded to Eduardo C. Carvalho,Portugal, and Marco Menegotto, Italy, inrecognition of their outstanding contri-butions to the field of structural concrete,and to fib. The medals were presented tothe two awardees on 22 June 2009 by fibPresident Michael N. Fardis, during theopening session of the recent fibsymposium held in London, UK.

Born in 1951, EEdduuaarrddoo CC.. CCaarrvvaallhhoo hasplayed an important role in the work ofCEB and fib for over two decades,particularly in the area of seismic design.He was part of the CEB Task Group that

drafted the Model Code for SeismicDesign of Concrete Structures in the early1980s, which was published as CEBBulletin 165 and was a precursor toEurocode 8, “Design of Structures forEarthquake Resistance”. As Secretary ofCEN/TC250/SC8 from the outset until2005 he played a central role in thedevelopment of Eurocode 8 (EC8) as aprovisional Standard (ENV) and than as aEuropean Standard (EN). As the Chairmanof CEN/TC250/SC8 since 2005, he over-sees the implementation of Eurocode 8and leads its maintenance and the workfor its future development.

2009 fib Medals of Merit presented in London

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a proposal to make PDF files of fibBulletins published five or more years agoavailable for free to the National MemberGroups. The activities of Special ActivityGroup 2 on short courses are in theprocess of being developed andexpanded; a report on these new courseswill be published in the December issue offib-news. A new Special Activity Group(SAG) on assessment of concretestructures was approved; it is planned toinitiate it with a workshop this autumn.

During the General Assembly, newmember Cyprus and returning memberAustralia were welcomed. HonoraryMembership for Rüdiger Tewes andHonorary Presidency for Hans RudolfGanz were unanimously approved.

Furthermore, a number of fibCommissions held meetings in andaround London before, during and afterthe symposium. SAG 5 "New ModelCode" had an important meeting tofinalise the draft that will be submitted tothe fib General Assembly for approval in2010. Commission 6 and PCI heldanother successful joint workshop inwhich they continued the comparison oftheir respective methods. The results ofthis comparison are to be presented nextyear at the fib Congress.

Persons interested in getting involved inthe work of any fib Commission, SAG orTask Group are welcome to contact thefib secretariat ([email protected]).

The next major event on the fib calendaris the Third International fib Congress andExhibition, incorporating the PCI AnnualConvention & Bridge Conference, whichwill take place in Washington DC from 29May to 2 June 2010. For registration andfurther information, visit the congresswebsite: www.fib2010washington.com.



He has been a member of several CEB andfib administrative bodies, and is currentlymember of the fib Technical Council, Headof the Portuguese National Delegation,and member of fib Commission 7, Seismicdesign, and of Task Group 7.6, Criticalcomparison of major seismic design codesfor buildings.

Dr. Carvalho is the former Head of Centrefor Earthquake Engineering at theLaboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil(LNEC), and has been a partner in theconsulting office GAPRES (Gabinete deProjectos, Engenharia e Serviços) SA since1981. Through this consultancy he beeninvolved in the design and construction ofa many structures in Portugal, such as theExhibition Pavilions for EXPO 98 in Lisbonand a number of hotels as well asresidential and commercial buildlings.

It is noteworthy that the first edition of thefib Diplomas for Younger Engineerssponsored was by the Portuguese nationalgroup and presented by Eduardo Carvalhoin 2001. The second edition of the awardin 2003 was then sponsored by AICAP

(Associazione Italiana Calcestruzzo Armatoe Precompresso) and presented by theItalian delegation, including MarcoMenegotto. This bienniel traditioncontinues, with the fifth edition of theaward presented this year during theLondon symposium (see page 157).

Born in 1940, MMaarrccoo MMeenneeggoottttoo isProfessor of Structural Engineering atUniversita di Roma la Sapienza since 1980.He has been strongly involved in both thetechnical and administrative work CEB, FIPand fib for over 30 years. He has worked ina number of CEB and fib Commissions andTask Groups, including “Structural Analy-sis”, “Design by testing”, and “Bucklingand instability” which produced CEBBulletin 155.

Among his many notable achievements,Prof. Menegotto is particularly well knownfor his contribution to the modelling ofreinforcing steel under cyclic loading, firstpublished in 1973 in the conferenceproceedings of the IABSE Lisbonsymposium, and still widely used today.

He has also carried out assessment, repair,and upgrading work for a number ofimportant structures in Italy and aroundthe world, and was a UNESCO consultantfor the stability assessment of heritageconstructions.

Furthermore he has been involved in thedesign and construction of a number ofstructures around the world, particularlyprecast, including the church built over theruins of the house of Saint Peter inCapernaum, Israel, as well as a number ofbridges and residential buildings.

Currently he chairs fib Commission 6,Prefabrication, is a member of SpecialActivity Group 5, New Model Code,member of the Technical Council, andHead of the Italian National Delegation. Inaddition he is Vice President of the ItalianAssociation for Structural Concrete and ofthe Italian Association for Consolidation

and Upgrading of Constructions.

Both Prof. Menegotto and Dr. Carvalhoremarked on their honour and surprise atbeing selected as an fib medallist, andgraciously noted that they felt they havereceived much more from the fib commu-nity than they have contributed to it.

The next fib Medals of Merit will beawarded in 2011 in Prague. In 2010 theFreyssinet Medal will be presented to oneor two individuals during the WashingtonDC Congress, in recognition of theiroutstanding technical contributions in thefield of structural concrete.

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Honorary membership

On 20 June 2009 the General Assembly offib unanimously approved honorary lifemembership for the former SecretaryGeneral of fib, Rüdiger Tewes. This honourwas given in recognition of his out-standing contributions to fib and CEB, asCEB Technical Director from 1982 to1985, and then as Secretary General ofCEB and fib from 1989 to 2009. Hispersonal dedication to the work of thetwo associations has played an essentialrole in the successful achievement of theirmissions during the past two decades.

On Tuesday 23 June, during an afternoonsession of the London Symposium, the2009 fib Diplomas to Younger Engineerswere presented. These diplomas areawarded every two years to engineersunder 40 years old who have carried outexceptional work in one of two categories:rreesseeaarrcchh and ddeessiiggnn && ccoonnssttrruuccttiioonn.The selected winners are invited to presenttheir work during a technical session of thesymposium, and receive a printed diplomafrom fib, free participation in the sympo-sium at which the award was presented,and a cash prize.

The 2009 edition of the fib Diplomas,including €2000 prize money, wassponsored by ACHE (Asociación Científico-técnica del Hormigón Estructural) andTorroja Ingenieria, in memory of the lateEduardo Torroja y Miret (1899 -1961). Thefollowing jury of 10 international expertswas chaired by Prof. Hugo Corres PeirettiETS de Ingenieros de Caminos, Madrid):• György L. Balázs (Budapest University of

Technology and Economics), • João Almeida (Instituto Superior Tec-

nico, Lisboa),• Jaime Fernández Gómez (Intemac),• Steinar Helland (Skanska Norge AS,

Oslo),• Milan Kalný (Pontex s.r.o. Prague),

• Giuseppe Mancini (Politecnico Torino),• Aurelio Muttoni (EPF Lausanne),• Mike Schlaich (TU Berlin),• José A. Torroja Cavanillas (Torroja inge-

nieros, Professor emeritus),• Joost Walraven (Delft University of Tech-

nology),• Jun Yamazaki (Nihon University).

21 candidates were proposed by theNational Member Groups of 13 fibmember countries. The candidates wereevaluated on the following criteria: • technical or scientific level,• importance,• innovation or scientifically new results,• overall impression.

In the end the following two winners wereselected: Ana Maria Ruiz-Teran (Spain,research category), and Chris Hendy(United Kingdom, design & constructioncategory).

The diplomas were presented by Prof.Corres Peiretti and José Antonio Torroja.Mr. Torroja is the son of Eduardo Torrojaand gave a presentation on this renownedand innovative designer, which includedfascinating insights into his design processand approaches to problem solving.

Following Mr. Torroja’s presentation, DrRuiz-Teran, who is currently a principallecturer in structural engineering at theUniversity of East London, presented asummary of her Ph.D. thesis, “Uncon-ventional cable-stayed bridges: structuralbehaviour and design criteria”. Mr. Hendy,Head of Bridge Design and Technology forAtkins, UK, presented his recent work on“The design of the Dubai metro light railviaducts”.

The next edition of the fib Diploma Awardwill take place in 2011; candidateapplications from National MemberGroups will be accepted in autumn 2010.



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On 2nd July 2009 the Faculty ofEngineering of the University of Kasselawarded an honorary doctorate to JoostWalraven of TU Delft, The Netherlands.The doctorate was presented by Prof.Michael Schmidt, Dean of the Faculty ofCivil Engineering, in recognition of hisoutstanding contributions to the state ofresearch and knowledge in the area ofconcrete construction, and to thepromotion of concrete as one of today’sinnovative high-performance materials.

The ceremony included a welcomeaddress by fib Secretary General AnnaBösche Martius, a celebratory lecture byMarco di Prisco of the Politecnico diMilano, and a laudation by Prof. Schmidtand by Prof. Ekkehard Fehling. Manycolleagues, friends and family members ofProf. Walraven were present, including his92-year-old mother.

Prof. Walraven has long been andcontinues to be key figure in fib. He isHonorary fib President, FIP Medallist, Headof the Dutch National Member Group,and chairs Special Activity Group 5, whichis developing the new fib Model Code.



Heinz Isler, structural engineer andFreyssinet medalist, passed away on 20 June 2009 at the age of 82.

Born in 1926 in Zollikon, near Zurich,Heinz Isler founded his own engineeringoffice soon after earning a degree in civilengineering from the ETH Zurich in 1950.He specialised in the development ofexperimental methods and modellingtechniques to design and create shellstructures with “free” geometry; at thefirst congress of the InternationalAssociation for Shell Structures (IASS) in1959 he presented his methods in a shortpaper entitled “New shapes for shells”.

During the next decades he used hismethods to design and build numerousconcrete shell structures, includingparking structures, industrial facilities,garden centres, petrol stations and anopen-air theatre. Over the years Heinz Islerbuilt over 1400 shell structures and wasgenerally involved in all phases of theirdesign and construction, including thedefinition of the geometrical shape, modeltesting, structural dimensioning, construc-tion methods, site supervision, andinspection and monitoring of the shells’performance during service life.

Isler’s work has been widely recognized bythe engineering community. He wasawarded various prizes and distinctions,among them an honorary doctorate fromthe ETH Zurich. He lectured at a numberof universities, including Darmstadt,Karlsruhe, Berlin and Princeton. The

Obituary

Heinz Isler 1926-2009

Honorary Doctorate toJoost Walraven

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Universities of Princeton and Stuttgartorganized traveling exhibitions of his workaimed at students, practicing engineersand architects. Professor Billington’s “Artof Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy”made his concrete shells and the drivingforces behind them accessible to a wideraudience.

In 2006 fib awarded him the Freyssinetmedal, in recognition of his outstandingtechnical contributions in the field ofstructural concrete.

The work of Heinz Isler is part of thelegacy of the great Swiss engineers likeGrubenmann, Köchlin, Ammann, Maillartand Menn. Like them, he regardedstructures as a whole with respect to theirscientific, social and symbolic compo-nents. And like the old master builders,who were simultaneously specialists andgeneralists, he oversaw the conceptualdesign, form-finding process, model tests,structural analysis, detailing, constructionprocedure, site supervision and long-termmonitoring of serviceability.

Isler’s concrete shells stand out asremarkable examples of structural art. Hisapproach to structures assumed anunderstanding of form according to itsorigin, essence, features and scope, inrelation to science and art, nature andmind, space and time. A true tribute to hiswork, beyond admiring and exhibiting hismagnificent shell structures, will be tounderstand his ideals, pass them on to ourengineering students, and apply them tothe built environment.

Hans Rudolf GanzAurelio MuttoniPeter Ritz

We thank Pietro Brenni and Luis Cancio Mar-tins, authors of “Heinz Isler and his work: ashort portrait”, published in Structural Concretein Switzerland, 2006, for their contributions tothis text.

concrete in tension, compression andshear to masonry structures, steel fibrereinforced concrete, shell structures, andconstruction history. Prof. Marti’s teachingactivities focus on structural analysis,structural concrete and structural design.

Peter Marti also plays an active role inprofessional associations and technicalcommittees, including the ACI-ASCE JointCommittee on "Shear and Torsion", theSwiss structural concrete code committeeSIA 162, and the Swiss Society ofEngineers and Architects (SIA). In fib hewas chair of Commission 4 "Modelling ofStructural Behaviour and Design" andmember of the fib Steering Committeefrom 1998 to 2006, and is currentlymember of the Technical Council.

Furthermore he was one of foundermembers and the first president of theSwiss Society for the Art of CivilEngineering, dedicated to conserving thelegacy of structural engineering andpromoting the engineering profession.

We cordially congratulate Peter Marti onhis 60th birthday and wish him continuedsuccess, further challenges, as well assome (more) time for leisure.

Viktor SigristWalter Kaufmann



Álvaro García Meseguer, long-time andhighly valued member of fib and itspredecessor CEB, passed away on 27 June2009.

His involvement in CEB began in 1961,when, upon the death of Eduardo Torroja,he became Head of the Spanish Group.Shortly thereafter, in 1964, one of hismajor contributions to CEB was releasedwhen the first edition of CEB Recommen-dations was published under his direction.

In the 1970s he was Chairman of theCommission on Notation-Terminology, andunder his chairmanship the new CEB-ACIInternational Unified Notation system wasapproved. During this time he was alsoChairman of the CEB-CIB-FIP-RILEMWorking Group on statistical verification ofconcrete quality, an active member of theWorking Group which authored themanual on “Bending and Compression”,and co-Technical Director of CEB in thearea of “Deformation – instability –plasticity”. In 1977 he played a major rolein the organisation of the 19th CEBGeneral Assembly in Granada, duringwhich the first CEB-FIP Model Code wasapproved.

His strong involvement in the associationcontinued into the 80s and 90s asChairman of the working groupresponsible for several CEB Bulletins onquality control and quality assurance ofconcrete structures, and then as memberof the CEB Administrative Council and theCEB Advisory Committee for several terms.

In addition, he continued as Head of theSpanish National Group until the CEB-FIPmerger in 1998, especially contributing tothe merging process of the Spanishbranches of CEB and FIP, giving birth tothe Spanish Association of StructuralConcrete (ACHE), of which he was vice-president in 1998 and 1999.

Honorary fib membership for ÁlvaroGarcía Meseguer was unanimouslyapproved by the fib General Assembly in2008, in recognition of these invaluablecontributions to the work of CEB and fib.

Álvaro was an uncommon engineer.Author of several books on linguistics, hehad a particularly clear and humanisticvision of engineering and society, payingspecial attention to language as, concep-tually, both a vehicle and a bridge whichconnect technicians and users. He will liveon in the hearts of all who knew him.

Javier León GonzalezHugo Corres Peiretti

Short notes

Obituary

Álvaro GarcíaMeseguer 1934-2009

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On July 22nd Prof. Peter Marti celebratedhis 60th birthday.

Born in Glarus, Switzerland, Peter Martistudied and earned his doctorate at theETH Zurich. From 1982 to 1987 he wasassociate professor of structuralengineering at the University of Toronto;in 1987 he became executive vice-president of VSL International AG andchief technical officer of the VSL Group.

In 1990 he was appointed professor ofstructural engineering at ETH Zurich,where he established a wide range ofresearch activities, including cracking anddeformation behaviour of structural

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