Prague, September 17th - 20th September 2003

The 20th Czech and Slovak National Conference STEEL  STRUCTURES  AND  BRIDGES  2003 will be held in the capital of the Czech Republic.  The Conference will have international participation with International Participation; some sessions will be in English.  Amongst the conference sponsors are the Czech Institution of Structural and Civil Engineers, and the Czech Chamber of Civil Engineers.  Further details are to be found on: http://www.fsv.cvut.cz/OK2003/English_page.htm

Kuopio, Finland 1st-3rd December 2003

ECCE is a scientific sponsor of the Integrated Lifetime Engineering of Buildings and Civil Infrastructures for which ECCE member organisation RIL is one of the main sponsors.  The symposium these will include ownership planning and management of investments, integrated life-cycle design, lifetime management systems, integration and design of management process, norms, standards and guidelines and best practice.  Details are set out in English on the following web pages: http://www.ril.fi/Resource.phx/seminaari/semi-ilcdes/index.htx  

ECCE news has appeared on-line since 1998.  In 2002 we expanded our web-site to make Task Force activity and information, as well as major technical briefings, available not only to our members but also to all those who are interested in the built environment sector.  We are still in the process of developing our on-line activity and hope you find our information useful to you.

Web-site up- dating  is undertaken by Matthew Easton of Elgin, Morayshire who may be contacted through the ECCE Secretariat.

About our Executive Committee

President of ECCE from 2002 is Yrjoe Matikainen of Finland.

Introducing our new President:

After graduating MSc in civil engineering in 1966, Mr Matikainen commenced his career as a railways engineer, spending 14 years designing and building bridges and structures.   In 1980 he was invited to take up the post of Managing Director of the Association of Finnish Civil Engineers “RIL”.  After 20 years service as RIL MD, he changed post to become Managing Director of the RIL Foundation.  Mr Matikainen has been active in many international societies in the engineering field such as IABSE, ISCCSE and IACORDS.

Professor Carsten Ahrens of Germany is Senior Vice-President  and  Vasillis Economopoulos of Greece is the Honorary Treasurer.  Immediate Past-President is Professor Antonio Adao da Fonseca of  Portugal.   Other Executive Committee members are Professor Iacint Manoliu of Romania, Georges Pilot of France and Secretary General,  Diana Maxwell. Hermann Sturm of the Deutsche Sektion des ECCE is an Honorary Vice-President. 

ECCE comprises national organisations which represent the interests of professional civil engineers.  Only one organisation may represent each country which is a member of ECCE.  At present our membership at present comprises:

Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,  Ireland, Italy, Lithuania,  Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,  Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom.