Meetings and Workshops

TOKYO, JAPAN, April 1994

The Committee held a one day workshop in Tokyo in April 1994 to conclude the first stage of its investigation and discuss its future task. Nearly 100 participants which included local and international members took part in the workshop. A framework for the model code was drawn up.

BANGKOK, THAILAND, December 1994

The second workshop was held at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand in December 1994 which was organized by the Engineering Institute of Thailand. During the workshop, the concepts for the code were discussed and the following 3 working groups (WG) were set up:

WG1 Design
WG2 Materials and construction
WG3 Maintenance & management

Each working group consists of members from both the International and Local Committees. The groups were asked to revise the proposed framework and contents of the model code for presentation at the next meeting.

TOKYO, JAPANMarch 1995

The third workshop was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan University in March 1995 at which future tasks of the Committee and the time frame for drafting and implementing of the model code were discussed and agreed upon.

EASEC-5, Gold Coast, AUSTRALIA, July 1995

The Fifth East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-5) was organized by Griffith University Gold Coast Campus. At the conference, a special session was assigned to the Committee in which six papers concerning its activities and the current situation of concrete codes in Asia were presented. At the Committee meeting the committee discussed the WG reports and the necessity to involve national engineering organizations of each member country and region in the committee work.

Due to the ability of the conference series to attract wide participation from many Asian countries, it was agreed that the Committee would request future EASEC hosts to organize special sessions on the model code, and provide venues to hold the International Committee meetings.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA, March 1996

At the Jakarta workshop organized by the Indonesian Society of Civil & Structural Engineers committee members were requested to present papers relating to the Great Hanshin Earthquake Disaster and its damage to buildings, SRC buildings and bridges. Other presentations covered high-rise buildings in the Asian countries and durability of civil engineering structures. The first drafts of the model code components were presented by respective coordinators of the 3 working groups.

DALIAN, CHINA,   October 1996

The Dalian workshop was organized by Dalian University of Technology in October 1996. Besides presenting papers on the recent research activities on concrete engineering in civil engineering in their respective countries, committee members discussed the Revised Draft I of the model code presented by the 3 working group coordinators. The Committee also reiterated the importance of involving national engineering institutions in the committee work.

HYDERABAD, INDIA, March 1997

The seventh workshop was organized by Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University to coincide with an International Conference on Maintenance and Durability of Concrete Structures, March 4-6, 1997 in Hyderabad. A special session was held in which the Committee chairman introduced the activities and future tasks of the Committee. Progress reports on the drafting of the model code were presented by the 3 WG coordinators.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA, August 1997

The eighth workshop was organized by the Indonesian Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (HAKI) held in conjunction with an international conference on structural engineering. The main business undertaken was to put forward the main contents of the Level 1 and Level 2 code documents that had been drafted. The discussion led to the decision on the publication of the first draft of the code at the 9th workshop in Taipei.

TAIPEI, January 1998

As was done during the 5th East Asia-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-5) in Gold Coast, a special session was assigned to the Committee during EASEC-6 organized by the National Taiwan University. Six papers concerning the Committee activities and the current situation of concrete codes in Asia were presented. The Committee meeting was held at the Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University. The content of the first draft of the code was discussed. Necessary revisions would be completed prior to and finalized at the 10th workshop in Singapore.

PHUKET, THAILAND, 19 March 1999

The eleventh meeting was held in Phuket, Thailand following an IABSE Colloquium on Concrete Model Code for Asia.    Report on the open meeting held the day before was made.  The Committee discussed  briefly on how to promote/publicize the 2nd Draft both within Asia and outside.   Decision on the constitution and permanent secretariat was deferred till next meeting to be held during EASEC-7, 27-29 August 1999 in Kochi, Japan.

SINGAPORE, August 1998

The tenth workshop was held at the National University of Singapore.  Revisions to the first draft of the code were discussed leading to the agreement on the content of the second draft and the publication schedule.   The Thai Group who is currently organizing the IABSE Colloquium on Concrete Model Code for Asia (Phuket, March 1999) will handle the reproduction.  Decision on administrative issues namely the location of the permanent secretariat,  revenue generation, etc. will be made during the Phuket meeting.

SAPPORO, JAPAN, 6-7 July 2001

WG meetings were  held at Sapporo Prince Hotel on 6 while the full committee at the Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University on 7 July.

At the full meeting members reviewed the proposed program for a seminar on Concrete Code of Practice in Malaysia after 2006・which is being organized by Monash University Malaysia where ICCMC expects to use as a venue to introduce ACMC 2001 to Malaysian engineers.  It also discussed a revision of the constitution with regard to election of Chairman and Vice Chairmen.

It was reported that 10 Japanese companies joined the committee as corporate members.  

The next meeting will be held at Monash University, Malaysia on 3-4 December 2001.

KUALA LUMPUR,MALAYSIA,   3-4 December 2001

The meeting was held at the Faculty of Engineering, Monash University Sunway Campus following a one day seminar on "Concrete Code of Practice in Malaysia after 2006" held on 1 December.  Invited lecturers included  Prof Uomoto, Prof Loo and Dr Ueda who made a presentation on ICCMC activities and ACMC 2001.  

The constitution was amended to make way for collection of membership fees for all member categories.  The number of meeting per year is reduced from 2 to 1.

The committee noted that election of Executive Council members would start in April to provide sufficient time to recruit new members.

ACMC 2001 Vietnamese version has been published by IBST.

The next meeting to coincide with the 2nd Asian Concrete Forum will be held in Seoul in November 2002.  

Prof Byun who was elected chairman replacing Prof Uomoto chaired the meeting which was held at Faculty of Engineering, Yonsei University.  

A Task Force to deal with ISO/TC71 has been set up to work out a plan to introduce ACMC as one of  ISO umbrella codes.  The TF will meet again in between an International Seminaron Performance Based Design and ACMC 2001 to be held in Manila and Angeles on 19 and 21 February 2003.

The next meeting will be held in December 2003 during EASEC-9 in Bali.

The meeting was held in conjunction with EASEC-9.

The meeting was held in Hokkaido University in conjunction with the COE Workshop "Micro Structure and Durability to Predict Service Life of Concrete Structures"

The meeting was held in Qingdao Technological University in conjunction with the workshop "Durability of Reinforced Concrete under Combined Mechanical and Climatic Loads".

Prof Ueda chaired the meeting which was held at Melia Bali Hotel.  

Please click here for the minutes of the meeting.

The next meeting will be held in June 2007 during 4th CECAR in Taipei.

Prof Ueda chaired the meeting which was held at NCREE (National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering).  

Please click here for the minutes of the meeting.

The next meeting will be held in September 2008 during 3rd ACF in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Last update:   27 Oct 2008