The 34^th meeting of ECCE was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia’s historic capital and the location of more than one of Slovenia’s most important bridges.

Slovenia, with a population of 2 million and a surface area of 20,000 km2 is located at the heart of Europe.  It is a predominantly hilly country which boasts a large number of bridges, a number of which are of global importance.

The ECCE meeting was hosted by Inzenirska Zbornica  Slovenije, the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers.  They have superceded the Slovenian Association of Civil Engineers (ZDGITS)  as the Slovenian member organisation of ECCE following a merger of ZDGITS with the IZS. 

The Chamber takes responsibility for the professional development of building, design and town planning and their general working conditions.  Major tasks of the Chamber include adopting rules of good practice in building design, town planning and other rules relating to members’ work, it adopts the rules on technical content of competitions that guarantee a level playing field for members’ participation in competitions.  The Chamber is also publicly authorised to set up and maintain a register of design enterprises and a register of licensed engineers and to be responsible for the organisation of certification examinations.

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