ECCE NEWS AUTUMN WINTER 2001
The European Council of Civil Engineers (ECCE) was founded in 1985 and seeks to promote the highest technical and ethical standards for the profession throughout Europe.
A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR GREETING
from ECCE President Professor António Adão da Fonseca
Dear friends,
I
am sending you greetings on behalf of my family and myself to wish you
every joy and happiness at this Christmas season.
It
has been a very busy year for me both professionally and in my involvement
with ECCE. It was a great
pleasure to host the 33rd ECCE meeting in Oporto this May and
to let our members see the exciting projects and the challenges which face
engineers in my country.
Our
recent visit to Ljubljana was a fascinating one.
As a bridge engineer myself, I
particularly enjoyed learning about and visiting some of Slovenia’s
historic bridges. There was a
great deal to absorb and to enjoy in our all-too-brief visit.
We are all grateful to Gorazd Humar and his colleagues in Slovenia
for the work which went in to organising not only the technical but the
accompanying social events which made the visit a memorable one for us
all.
There
are many new challenges for ECCE in the year ahead – and we can achieve
much if we work together, both within ECCE and as professionals working in
Europe. I hope that we will
hear from you all in the coming weeks as you respond to our requests for
your continuing involvement and support for ECCE activities.
In
the meanwhile, we wish you good health and happiness in the year ahead,
Antonio Adao da Fonseca,
Oporto, December 2001
