International Conferences & Conventions Sub-Committee AGENDA 7:15 8:30 a.m. Monday, April 4, 2011 Tuscan - Westin Tampa, FL MEMBERS Mario E. Rodriguez, Chair, Mexico Ramon L. Carrasquillo, USA Mario A. Chiorino, Italy Marwan A. Daye, Saudi Arabia Augusto Holmberg, Chile H.S. Lew, USA Robert Lewis, United Kingdom Jon I. Mullarky, USA Shunsuke Sugano, Japan Waon-Ho Yi, Korea Min-Hong Zhang, Singapore Renee J. Lewis, Staff Liaison 1.0 Call to Order 2.0 Welcome and Introductions 3.0 Approval of Fall 2010 Meeting Minutes A copy of the minutes from the fall 2010 meeting in Pittsburgh are attached as Exhibit A. 4.0 Approval of Agenda/Additions, Deletions 5.0 International Lunch 5.1 2011 Spring Tampa, FL Dr. Jenn-Chuan Chern will present the strategies and reconstruction efforts for re-development of disaster areas impacted by the 2009 Typhoon Morakot in Taiwain. H.S. Lew will provide follow up on the presentation and lunch. 5.2 Fall 2011 Cincinnati, OH The theme of the convention is Bridging Theory and Practice. Topic ideas include: BIM in practice, Dr. Alan O Connor about bridging theory and practice, someone from fib or ISO. The committee will determine a topic and speaker at the spring convention in Tampa. 5.3 Spring 2012 Dallas, TX The Art of Concrete is the theme for the spring 2012 convention. Chiorino has volunteered to speak about the Pier Luigi Nervi Exhibition that will be touring the United States either at that time or soon after. A description of the presentation is shown as Exhibit B. 5.5 Procedure for confirming lunch speakers Currently a member of the committee contacts potential speakers to gauge their interest. Once confirmed that they are able to participate, a letter of invitation is drafted by staff under the ACI Executive Vice President s signature and sent to the individual. Additionally the lunch speaker is provided with a complimentary convention registration and lunch ticket. 6.0 International Session 6.1 Spring 2012 An International Session has been requested for Monday, March 19, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The second choice for the time is 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The title has been 1
changed to Structural Concrete: An Art Form. A copy of the session program is attached as Exhibit B. 7.0 International Conferences 7.1 ACI Co-sponsored Conferences The committee previously approved ACI s co-sponsorship without financial obligation for the Advanced Course on Creep and Shrinkage Effects in Concrete Structures. This will take place at CISM May 23-27, 2011 in Udine, Italy. This conference will be sponsored by ACI. An international conference is planned for 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference is a successor to the CANMET-ACI conference. This event is co-sponsored by ACI. These items are for information only. 7.2 Additional Industry Conferences Additional industry conferences for the remainder of 2011 are listed below. This item is for information only. Structural Engineering World Congress SEWC Concrete Pavement Design, Construction, and Rehabi NORDIC CONCRETE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT April 4, 2011 to April 6, 2011 April 18, 2011 to April 20, 2011 May 30, 2011 to June 1, 2011 2011 fib Symposium June 8, 2011 to June 10, 2011 Int''l Conference on Composites/Nano Engineering ICCE-19 Composites and Nano Engineering Symposium on High Performance Concrete Coninfra 2011 6th International Symposium on Sprayed Concrete 4th International Conference on Concrete Repair Concrete 2011 International Concrete Fiber Organization Future Concrete 2011 Structural Composites for Infrastructure 6th Middle East Symposium on Structural Composites July 24, 2011 to July 30, 2011 July 24, 2011 to July 30, 2011 August 8, 2011 to August 12, 2011 August 10, 2011 to August 12, 2011 September 12, 2011 to September 15, 2011 September 26, 2011 to September 28, 2011 October 12, 2011 to October 14, 2011 October 27, 2011 to October 29, 2011 December 12, 2011 to December 14, 2011 December 16, 2011 to December 19, 2011 December 16, 2011 to December 19, 2011 SEWC Chang''an University Concrete Association of Finland fib N/A ICCE New Zealand Concrete Society ANDIT-Brasil Tekna Concrete Solutions Concrete Institute of Australia Como, Italy Xi''an, Shaanxi Province, China Hämeenlinna, Finland Prague, Czech Republic Shanghai, China Shanghai, China Christchurch, New Zealand Sao Paulo, Brasil Tromso, Norway Dresden, Germany Perth, Australia www.concretefiber.org Istanbul, Turkey ACTS Egyptian Society of Engineers and Ain Shams Univ. Egypt Chapter ACI DUBAI, UAE Luxor, Egypt Luxor, Egypt 8.0 New Business 2
9.0 Outgoing Committee Members Chair Rodriguez s term will expire following the Tampa convention. Ramon Carrasquillo will then become the Chair of the International Conferences & Conventions Sub-Committee. 10.0 Meeting/Adjournment The committee will meet during the Fall 2011 Convention on Monday, October 17, 2011 in Cincinnati, Ohio. 3
MEMBERS PRESENT International Conferences & Conventions Sub-Committee MINUTES 7:15 8:30 a.m. Monday, October 25, 2010 Washington Westin Convention Center Hotel Pittsburgh, PA Mario E. Rodriguez, Chair Ramon L. Carrasquillo Mario A. Chiorino, Italy Marwan A. Daye, Saudi Arabia Renee Lewis, ACI Staff Luke Snell P.A. Muhammed Basheer VISITORS Augusto Holmberg, Chile H.S. Lew, USA Jon I. Mullarky, USA (excused) John C. Glumb, Staff Liaison 1.0 Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 7:26 a.m. 2.0 Welcome and Introductions All those in attendance introduced themselves. 3.0 Approval of Spring 2010 Meeting Minutes A copy of the minutes from the spring 2010 meeting in Chicago were approved as distributed and are attached as Exhibit A. 4.0 Approval of Agenda/Additions, Deletions Additional item 7.1 - Chiorino to make announcement about additional conferences. 5.0 International Lunch 5.1 2010 Fall Pittsburgh, PA The lunch was held on Sunday, October 24, 2010 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. The speaker was Xuehui An, Professor from Tsinghua University, presented China, the world s largest concrete market, is tackling sustainability issues. There were 49 registrants. 5.2 2011 Spring Tampa, FL The ACI Florida Suncoast Chapter has ideas regarding speakers on hurricane resistant buildings, but they have yet to contact H.S. Lew as requested. H.S. Lew will contact them again during this convention. Previously the committee discussed topics including Hurricane Resistant Concrete Buildings, the economic and aesthetical aspects of concrete buildings, and infrastructure developments in India and Vietnam. Alternative speakers include Ken Bondy, Pepe Izquierdo or contact John Nehasil to see if he knows someone on the National Association of Home Builders that would be an interesting speaker. 5.3 Fall 2011 Cincinnati, OH 1
The theme of the convention is Bridging Theory and Practice. Topic ideas include: BIM in practice, Dr. Alan O Connor about bridging theory and practice, someone from fib or ISO. The committee is to think about ideas so that a decision may be made at the spring convention in Tampa. 5.4 Spring 2012 The Art of Concrete is the theme for the spring 2012 convention. A speaker about the Pier Luigi Nervi Exhibition that will be touring the United States either at that time or soon after may be appropriate. The exhibition is co-sponsored by ACI. Chiorino may be willing to volunteer to be the speaker. 5.5 Price of International Lunch The International Lunch is currently subsidized to a price of $30. This subsidized price was implemented to determine whether lowering the price would increase attendance. A history of attendance is listed below. The subsidized price began at the San Antonio convention. Luncheon Attendance History: Fall 2007 (Puerto Rico, Wednesday) 81 Spring 2008 (Los Angeles, Wednesday) 99 Fall 2008 (St Louis, Sunday) 58 Spring 2009 (San Antonio, Wednesday) 50 Fall 2009 (New Orleans, Wednesday) - 80 Spring 2010 (Chicago, Wednesday) 55 Fall 2010 (Pittsburgh, Sunday) 53 It was determined at the spring convention that topic and the day of the week seems to impact those attending more so than the actual price. The committee determined the subsidy should be continued going forward.. 5.6 Procedure for confirming speakers With the last minute cancellation of the lunch speaker for Pittsburgh, Chair Rodriguez would like to discuss and develop a procedure for confirming participation of lunch speakers. 5.7 Day of International Lunch The committee determined that the International Lunch should be held on Sunday going forward, but will periodically review this item. 6.0 International Session 6.1 Changes to Spring Conventions Beginning in 2013 Staff member, Renee Lewis, reviewed the convention changes that will go into effect beginning in the spring 2012 Sessions will become two hours in length. The session schedule will be: Sunday 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Monday 8:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 1 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Tuesday 8:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 1 p.m. 2
1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Wednesday 8:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 11 a.m. 1 p.m. This item was for information only. 6.2 Spring 2012 An International Session will be requested for Monday, March 19, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The second choice for the time is 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The working title is Daring Concrete Structures. Structures and Architecture, dedicated to the memory of Pier Luigi Nervi, intended to illustrate a state-of-the-art of present research and developments on the merging of architecture and structural engineering in concrete construction has been suggested by Chiorino. This session might be thought as an alternative or a sequence with a possible one semester delay. The committee will discuss topic and speakers. 7.0 International Conferences Luke Snell suggested future Chapter Roundtable meetings be tied to a conference. This is being done at the Chapter Roundtable meeting in Doha, Qatar November 3&4, 2010. The Roundtable will bring people from the Middle East and Africa together. Currently the Roundtable has 15-20 people that will be attending. This event is in conjunction with another conference on sustainability. This ítem is for information only. 7.1 Additional Conferences There will be symposium organized by the ACI Italy Chapter April 4-6, 2011 in Como, Italy. The committee approved ACI s co-sponsorship without financial obligation for the Advanced Course on Creep and Shrinkage Effects in Concrete Structures to take place at CISM in May 23-27, 2011 in Udine, Italy. Professor Mario Chiorino provided information about the conference. This conference will be sponsored by ACI. Committee members were asked to help promote this event. An international conference is planned for 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic. This conference is a successor to the CANMET-ACI conference. This event is co-sponsored by ACI. A listing of ACI and industry events may be found at http://www.concrete.org/events/calsrch.asp. These items are for information only. 8.0 Next Meeting/Adjournment The committee will meet during the Spring 2011 Convention on Monday, April 4, 2011 in Tampa, FL. The meeting adjourned at 8:30 a.m. 3
2010-11-04 Structural Concrete: An Art Form Sponsored by the ACI International Committee Sunday, March 18, 2012 9:00 am 11:30 am Session Co-Moderators: Mario A. Chiorino Emeritus Professor of Structural Analysis Politecnico di Torino Turin, Italy Ramón L. Carrasquillo President Carrasquillo Associates, LTD Austin, TX Tying into the Convention theme, this Session intends to review the work of some eminent pioneers and present protagonists of the art of concrete construction as a premise to the discussion of recent trends in the merging of architecture and structural engineering and with a specific look to new visions and instruments in the domains of morphogenesis and computational optimization of structures. The Session is tied also with the International Lunch lecture devoted to the presentation of the work of Pier Luigi Nervi. Tying into the Convention theme, this Session intends to review the work of eminent pioneers and present protagonists of the art of concrete construction as a premise to the discussion of recent trends in the merging of architecture and structural engineering and of new visions and instruments in the domains of morphogenesis and computational optimization of structures. The Session is tied also with the International Lunch lecture devoted to the presentation of the work of Pier Luigi Nervi. Félix Candela: Strength and Elegance in Structural Engineering (To be confirmed) 9:00 a.m Maria E. Moreyra Garlock, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University. Princeton, NJ Santiago Calatrava's Poetic Marriage of Structure and Form José M. Izquierdo-Encarnación, ACI Past-President, PORTICUS, San Juan, PR 9:30 a.m A Review of Recent Projects of Concrete Structural Architecture in North America (tentative title) 10:00 a.m Engineer/Architect TBD, Dallas Form-finding and Computational Optimization in Structural Engineering and Architecture Mario Sassone, Assistant Professor, Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Discussion 10:30 a.m 11:00 a.m
2010-11-04 International Lunch Sponsored by the ACI International Committee Sunday, March 18, 2012 12:00 pm 2:00 pm Speaker: Topic: Mario A. Chiorino Emeritus Professor of Structural Analysis Politecnico di Torino Turin, Italy Art and Science of Building in Concrete: the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi Pier Luigi Nervi is one of the greatest and most inventive structural engineers of the 20th Century. With his masterpieces, scattered the world over, Nervi contributed to create a glorious period for structural architecture. Nikolaus Pevsner described him as the most brilliant artist in reinforced concrete of our time. When, with his profound knowledge of construction techniques, Nervi discusses the answer to the fundamental question Science or art of building? that titles his most famous book published in 1945, far from underestimating the importance of the mechanics of structural systems, he undoubtedly emphasizes the priority of the intuitive moment in the conception of structural architecture. In this vision that he shares with other masters of structural architecture of the 20 th century like, to cite just a few, Eduardo Torroja, Félix Candela and Heinz Isler Nervi fears that the forced need to use analytical models for the reliability assessment of structures might limit a designer s inventiveness. He believes that structural imagination frequently transcends the possibilities at the times confined by the lack of modern computerized structural analyses of analytically rigorous verification. This struggle for a design freedom was also the principal justification for his keen interest for experimental research on mechanical scale models. The true art of Nervi, and of these other eminent protagonists, is the ability of composing the fracture between art and techniques in spaces that border poetry, without renouncing, in the conversion of the inspiration into a design and of the design into a construction, to the modus operandi of the engineers, but rather emphasizing it with original and innovative contributions. The lecture will review some of Nervi s major works, with a special attention to those that he realized in North America, like, among others, St. Mary Cathedral in San Francisco, the George Washington Bus Station in New York, Place Victoria Tower in Montreal, and will contain a preview of the international exhibition Pier Luigi Nervi : Architecture as Challenge, co-patronized by ACI, expected to tour in North America in 2012-2013.