ECCS 2007 annual meeting

ECCS 2007 European Steel Design Awards

Inauguration of the school Tevfik Seno Arda in Izmit, Turkey

School home page : http://www.tevfiksenoardalisesi.org
Architecture Steel Stahl Acier n° 24 "Tevfik Seno Arda School, Izmit, Turkey"

In their European tour of investigation, the delegation of the China Steel Construction Society (CSCS) stopped in Brussels and paid ECCS a visit on 16 May.
The Chinese Steel Construction Society (CSCS), founded in 1984, is a national professional body made of near 2000 group members, which are organizations of design, research, manufacture, erection, iron and steel works etc.
After the presentation of ECCS and CSCS, the Chairman of the PMB explained the ECCS issues as for the steel promotion. Mr. Jean-Luc Delplancke Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) expert was invited to attend the meeting. He introduced to the Chinese team the RFCS and its implication in the European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP).
The Chinese delegation contemplated a membership to the ECCS as International Member. The ECCS would be delighted to have the Chinese Association among its members creating in this way, with the other Associated Members, a kind of platform between Europe and the other continent.

The 2006 Charles Massonnet Award has been made to Professor Manfred Hirt, from EPFL, Switzerland.
Professor Hirt is member of the following ECCS Technical Committees: TC 2- Aluminium, TC 6-Fatigue & Fracture, TC 10-Connections. He wrote more than 130 publications as author or co-author (http://icom.epfl.ch/puoblications/).
Director of the Steel Structures Laboratory (ICOM) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Prof. Hirt is known on the international scene for his expertise in the field of fatigue and fracture mechanics of steel structures, loads and action on structures, structural safety and serviceability and steel-concrete composite construction. In August 2003, he had been elected President of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE). Congratulations!

ECCS is pleased to announce thewinners of the 2005 European Steel Design Awards, in recognition to outstanding design in steel constructions emphasizing the many advantages of steel in construction, production, economy and architecture. The awards are made to the projects which best fitted the jury panel's criteria, i.e.
- To have an international recognised standard; .
- To disseminate the knowledge of steel and its many-sides uses and to draw attention to its development
- To bring focus on the many advantages of steel, thereby giving the material a good image
- To interest clients, architects and engineers in using more steel within the entire building sector, thereby making the steel industry competitive
- To be outstanding in its construction
- To emphasise the advantages of steel in construction, production, economy and architecture
- To improve the image of steel. Among our 22 European National Associations, 20 presented a project. All the entries were awarded. Here are the winners:
• Austria: Air traffic control tower Airport Vienna, Vienna International Airport
• Belgium: Three bridges over the hoofdvaart Haarlemmermeer, Haarlemmermeer
• Czech Republic : Project: Sazka Arena, Location: Prague
• Denmark: Flintholm Station, VanlOse
• Finland: TKP Finnmap Offices, Helsinki
• France: Viaduc de Millau, Millau
• Germany: Munich Airport International Terminal 2, Munich
• Italy: Olympic Stadium "OAKA", Athens
• Luxembourg: Salle de concert Grande-Duchesse Josephine-Charlotte, Luxembourg
• The Netherlands: Hoge Bridge, Maastricht
• Norway: V- House, Nesya
• Portugal: ESTADIO DO DRAGAO - Rooftop, Porto
• Romania: Charles de Gaulle Plaza Building, Bucharest
• Slovakia: Bridge Kosicka, Bratislava
• Slovenia: TZC PORTOVAL - Amusement, Commercial and Business Centre, Novo Mesto
• Spain: Campis Elisis footbridge on the Segre river, Lleida
• Sweden: Mjardevi Center, Linköping
• Switzerland: Immeuble commercial "La Ferreira", Locarno
• Turkey: Dolapdere campus second building of Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul
• United Kingdom: The Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

Congratulations to the winners.
All the projects nominated for awards will be invited to make presentation at the Award Ceremony to take place on Wednesday 21 September 2005, at the “Palais de la Méditerranée”, as part of the ECCS Annual Conference. The winners will, then, be presented with their awards. The next issue of the ECCS Newsletter will report on this event.

4th International Workshop Structures in Fire held on 10 to 12 May, 2006, in the University of Aveiro, Portugal
The 4th International Workshop Structures in Fire - SiF'06 was held from 10th to 12th May 2006, in the University of Aveiro. It was organized by the Department of Civil Engineering under the auspice of the SiF - International Movement Structures in Fire.
A total of 134 delegates from 24 countries attended the Workshop, distributed by the following countries: Australia (3), Austria (2), Belgium (3), Brazil (5), Canada (3), China (3), Czech Republic (2), Finland (2), France (8), Germany (6), Iceland (1), Italy (4), Japan (4), Lithuania (1), Luxembourg (2), New Zealand (3), Portugal (19), Singapore (1), Spain (3), Sweden (6), Switzerland (2), The Netherlands (2), United States of America (13) and United Kingdom (36).

Papers were accepted on the basis of their quality and originality. Answering to the call-for-papers, 133 abstracts were received, from which 111 were selected by the Scientific Committee for possible presentation at the Workshop. These abstracts led to 91 technical papers published in the proceedings and were grouped in the following topics:

" Steel, Stainless Steel and Aluminium Structural Members (25 papers)
" Steel Connections (6 papers)
" Composite Structures (8 papers)
" Structural Behaviour (13 papers)
" Concrete Structures (21 papers)
" Timber Structures(9 papers)
" Fire Safety Engineering (5 papers)
" Other topics (4 papers)

Most of the papers were on the field of Steel and Composite structures. The Proceedings of the Workshop was edited by Paulo Vila Real (University of Aveiro), Jean-Marc Franssen (University of Liege) and Nuno Lopes (University of Aveiro), ISBN 972-789-190-X, and copies may be obtained on request from Professor Paulo Vila Real (email: pvreal@civil.ua.pt) or downloaded from the web page www.civil.ua.pt.
At the 4th Workshop, it was decided that the responsibility to lead the SiF Movement in the future will be shared by four members of the steering committee that has been formed, namely Prof. Jean-Marc Franssen, Prof. Andy Buchanan, Prof. Venkatesh Kodur and Prof. Paulo Vila Real.

The Institute of Metal Constructions organised in June 2005 the 7th Slovenian Steel Construction Days. During this event, projects were presented for the Award of the Best Steel Structure in Slovenia. They all proved that steel remains the most suitable material for buildings combining versatility and functionality, which gives free way to the imagination.
The Award was presented to the project "Multicinema TUŠ", in Novo Mesto. The main features of this project are the two floating halls that hang on the steel structure above the free ground floor of the entering foyer. The project was designed by the project planning company ELEA iC d.o.o. and manufactured and assembled by Trimo d.d. The architect was Janez Koželj, professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. Several interesting nominated projects were presented, among them was the new steel "Cerkvenik" Bridge, in Škocjanske jame, and the steel canopies of the international border crossing Obrežje, between Slovenia and Croatia.
Besides the presentation of the Award, two professional lectures were delivered. They were devoted to the rules of mechanical resistance, stability of buildings, and the presentation of standard OSIST prEN 1090:2004 Steel and Aluminium structural components.

Steel Structures: Culture & Sustainability 2010

The best papers (4 scientific papers and 4 technical papers) of SSCS 2010, selected by the following board of editors will be published at the September issue of “Steel Construction – Design and Research”.

Board of editors for this special issue consists of Prof. Nesrin YARDIMCI, Prof. Harun BATIRBAYGIL, Prof. Luis da SILVA, Prof. Milan VELJKOVIC and Prof. Cavidan YORGUN.

Although 110 abstracts have been submitted to the symposium, considering the importance of the above mentioned attracting news for participants, organisers of the international symposium “Steel Structures: Culture & Sustainability 2010” have decided to grant a final extension for deadline of abstract submissions for all Authors who are still interested in contributing a paper to the Symposium. If you have not yet submitted an abstract, you are urged to do so as soon as possible, and by the new deadline of 18 January 2010 at the latest.

Key dates of SSCS 2010 have been revised as follows:

Download the pdf call for paper file
For details, please refer to the Symposium website:
www.sscs2010.org

Berna AYDONER, Symposium Secretary
Address: Altunizade, Bayramaga Street, No: 16/A 34662 Uskudar Istanbul / Turkey

Phone:	+90 216 474 3135
Fax:	+90 216 474 3388
E-Mails:	berna@tucsa.org sscs2010@tucsa.org tucsa@tucsa.org

New Members

New positions

Secretary General : Mrs Véronique BAES-DEHAN
Chairman of the Board : Dr. Volkmar Bergmann
Chairman TMB : Prof. Luis da Silva
Chairman PMB : Mr Bertrand Lemoine
Chairman Joint Commission : Dr. Volkmar Bergmann

TC 3

• Jesus De la Quintana, E-mail: jq@labein.es
• José Antonio Chica, E-mail: jachica@labein.es

Portugal has also a new representative in the TC 3:
• Prof. Joao Paulo Rodrigues, E-mail: jpaulocr@dec.uc.pt

TC 7

TC 10

Liaison Committee meeting

ASCEM - Change in the management

The Spanish association ASCEM underwent a change in its management board. Mr. Miguel Angel Lopez Colillas, who assumed previously the function of Managing Director, left the association to dedicate himself to his company CEF, S.L.
From now on, Mrs Susana Busquets will take over the management of the association whose new address is as follows:
Calle Aribau, 168, 1° 1a
08036 Barcelona, Spain
Tel.: 0+34-93/390 71 13; Fax: +34-93/390 71 08
E-mail: info@ascem.org
The ECCS thanks Mr Lopez Colillas for his dedication and for having given us his valuable time. Many thanks also to his team for their collaboration.

MC 3: - Jean-Pierre Epinoux (France) will
retire end of 2006 and is replaced by Robert Dubois
- Ivan Balaz (Slovakia) joined the
Committee as Full Member;
- Uto Kamalies (Finland) became
Corresponding Member;
- Robert Biel (Luxembourg) replaces
Marc Hever who left.
• TC 2: - François Frey (Switzerland) retired and left the Committee.

In order to serve better the members of the Constructional Steelworks Department, Agoria recruited Mr. Philippe Callewaert who will take over Félix Van Eyken's duties in this sector. Félix Van Eyken will, then, from now on be able to concentrate his tasks on the "Heating" Department.
M. Philippe Callewaert
Agoria, Diamant Building
Boulevard A. Reyers 80
B-1030 Bruxelles
Tel + 32 2 706 79 59
Fax + 32 2 706 79 66
E-mail philippe.callewaert@agoria.be

TUCSA is organising the "PROSteel-2006" International Steel Design Competition for Students under the auspices of ECCS. TUCSA has been organising regularly steel design competitions for students every year since 2000 together with Istanbul Technical University (ITU) or Borusan Mannesman Boru Inc, the main supporter of PROSteel.

The main objectives of this competition are:

• to encourage architecture and engineering students to work together within joint teams;
• to introduce the advantages of steel to the large number of students;
• to develop European identity and mutual understanding among European students;
• to increase their international experiences;
• to exchange knowledge and culture among different countries and education systems;
• to encourage the individual participants to establish multinational combine teams besides single nation teams.

The winners will be awarded the following prizes:
- 1st Degree prize € 3.000,-
- 2nd Degree Prize € 2.000,-
- 3rd Degree Prize € 1.250,-
- Special Prize by Borusan € 2.500,- (*)
- Combine team special prize € 1.000,- (*)

(*) may be received together with a degree prize

Entries have to be sent not later than 20 January 2006. The Award Ceremony and Exhibition will take place late April 2006.

For further details, please contact TUCSA:

H. Yener Gur'es
Secretary General TUCSA
e-mail: yenergures@gmail.com or GenSek@tucsa.org

Further to the Annual Meetings held in Nice, France, on 22-23 September 2005, the Members appointed Prof. Dan Dubina (Romania) as the ECCS President, and Mr J.B. Schleich (Luxembourg) as Vice President for the year 2005-2006:
The Chairman of the Technical Meeting for 2006 will be Prof. Gerhard Sedlacek (DE), and Bertrand Lemoine will chair the Market Development and Promotion Session.

It is with great sadness that the SCMF regrets to announce that Mr. Jean Roret passed away in Nice, on 09 August 2005, at the age of 80. He was past Deputy President and treasurer of SCMF.
Mr Roret chaired during various years the "Commission Promotion", and represented the French Steel Constructional industry in various French and international bodies, among them the ECCS.

Drees Brunt, who was Director SNS, notified his resignation to the board due to a change of position. His successor has not yet been appointed.

Further to its AGM held on 14 July 2005, BCSA made new appointments for the forthcoming year. Donald McCormack, Managing Director of Terence McCormack Ltd, based in Newry, Co down, was elected President, and Richard Barrett, Managing Director of Barrett Steel Buildings Ltd., based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, was elected Deputy President.

This year, the laureate is Professor Giulio Ballio Rector of the University of Milano, “Politecnico di Milano”, in Italy, whose application has been entered by the Italian National Association for Constructional Steelwork, “Associazione Fra I Costruttori in Acciaio Italiani (ACAI)”. Professor Ballio has been selected for this Award in recognition of the quality and importance of the work he has carried out as prominent scientist and researcher.

Professor G. Sedlacek has been appointed Chairman of the TMB by the Annual General Meeting of September 2004. He is keen on Eurocodes, and would like to make it a challenge for the future works of the TMB, especially in view of its implementation due in 2005.
Indeed, he is one of the most active people in the European steel construction research as well as in the European codification field. He plays an outstanding role in the international development and establishing of the Eurocodes or steel structures.
Professor Sedlacek served in the ECCS Technical Committees: TC 1- Safety & Actions, TC 6 –
Fatigue & Fracture, TC 10 – Connections, TC 13- Seismic for a long time
Congratulations Professor.