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IABSE Congress Ghent 2021
Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs
Ghent, Belgium, September 22-24, 2021
www.iabse.org/Ghent2021
Final Invitation
IABSE Congress Ghent 2021
ICC Ghent
Ghent, Belgium
Contents
Message from the President
Message from the President
Invitation from the Organising The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) is a
Committee scientific/technical Association comprising members almost 100 countries and
Invitation from the Scientific counting 58 National Groups. The aim of the Association is to exchange knowledge
Committee and to advance the practice of structural engineering worldwide in the service of
Scientific Committee the profession and society. Founded in 1929, IABSE hosted a series of Congresses
Keynote Speakers every four years from 1932 to 2016 and every year from 2019 onwards. The IABSE
Congress 2021 will be held in Ghent, Belgium, from 22 to 24 September 2021, as a
Technical Visits
classical in-person event with the opportunity to join online for those who wish.
The Congress
The City The theme of the Congress is “Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs”,
Accompanying Persons Programme comprising building and maintaining safe and reliable buildings and infrastructures
Post-event Tour under the effects of climate change in a world with scarcer resources and the
Getting Here ambition to reduce mankind’s CO2 footprint. Future Societal Needs can be divided
Online Platform into three parts, Structural Safety and Reliability with Respect to Climate Change,
Registration Information Circularity, Re-use and Sustainability of Structures and Emission Free Building of
Exhibition and Sponsorship Structures.
Annual Meetings
About IABSE This IABSE Congress is organised by the Belgian and Dutch Groups of IABSE in co-
operation with Ghent University. Both National Groups are among the earliest
IABSE Groups and are very active and productive. This Congress will be,
respectively, the first and eighth international IABSE event hosted in the BENELUX
since the successful IABSE Conference 2013 in Rotterdam and the third IABSE
Congress 1948 in Liege. I wish to express my special thanks and compliment the
Organising Committee and the Scientific Committee, for excellently mastering the
preparations of this promising event under the difficult circumstances of the past
year and months.
Besides exchanging experience and latest knowledge in structural engineering, I am
curious to discover with you the city of Ghent “Europe’s best kept secret”, said to
be “the most authentic historic city in the World“.
I look forward to meeting you our members, and welcoming new friends in Ghent,
Belgium.
Yaojun Ge
President of IABSE
Yaojun Ge
About the Organising
Committee
Invitation from the
The Organising Committee is chaired by
prof. H. De Backer, Ghent University,
Organising Committee
Belgium. The full committee consists of
The Organising Committee is pleased to confirm that the IABSE Congress Ghent
following members:
2021 will be held from 22 to 24 September 2021. The Congress is organised by the
Hans De Backer (Chair)
Belgian and Dutch Groups of IABSE in co-operation with Ghent University. This
Ane de Boer
congress will be the first international IABSE event hosted in the BENELUX since the
Bart De Pauw
successful IABSE Conference 2013 in Rotterdam. The Congress will be held in the
Alain Dumortier
buildings of ICC Ghent. The International Convention Centre is a highly facilitated
Bernard Espion
Congress venue where durability is of great importance.
Bert Hesselink (Vice-Chair)
Pierre Mengeot
The past year, everybody worldwide has been faced with the Covid-19 pandemic
Rudi Roijakkers
and has had to adapt accordingly. These have been terrible times, requiring
Bert Snijder
everybody to change their ways. However, the troubles of conference organisers
Sven Somers
are actually quite minor to what most people have had to endure. Still, things are
Aad van der Horst
looking up with the arrival of vaccines, so the organisers feels sure that the IABSE
Gilles Van Staen (Secretary)
Congress Ghent will be the first large on-site event after the pandemic.
To contact the Organising Committee
(OC), please send an email to: During this difficult period, as organisers of the IABSE Congress Ghent 2021, we
OC@Ghent2021.org have decided to follow the unofficial motto of our city, which goes somewhat like
“Do not complain, never give up”. So, we decided to stick to our original conference
dates and to guarantee to all of our participants that the Congress will take
place. Since not everybody will be able to travel yet, we will organise a hybrid
format, allowing participants, unable to travel to Ghent, to attend from home and
interact in all on site events.
The organisation has had to continuously adapt to the situation, but we now hope
that our Congress will be a festive conclusion of this difficult period and the start of
a new period of IABSE events, where we are once again able to
participate, network, meet other people in person.
Hans De Backer
We invite all of you to the heart of Europe to experience another great IABSE event.
Hans De Backer, Organising Committee Chair, Belgium
Bert Hesselink, Organising Committee Vice-Chair, The Netherlands
Bert Hesselink
About the Scientific
Committee
Invitation from the
The Scientific Committee (SC) is
chaired by Prof. H.H. Snijder, Vice
Scientific Committee
President of IABSE, Eindhoven The Scientific Committee invites the structural engineering community to attend
University of Technology, The the IABSE Congress Ghent 2021 to discuss and contribute to the theme ‘Structural
Netherlands. The Vice-Chair is Prof. Engineering for Future Societal Needs’. Future societal needs comprise building and
Bart De Pauw, Ghent University and maintaining safe and reliable buildings and infrastructures while coping with the
Tuc Rail, Belgium. The SC consists of effects of climate change in a world with scarcer resources and satisfying the
more than 70 expert members from ambition to reduce mankind’s CO2 footprint. Anticipated sub-themes are therefore
all over the world and is elected by the amongst others:
Technical Committee of IABSE.
• Structural safety and reliability with respect to climate change;
To contact the Scientific Committee
• Circularity, re-use and sustainability of structures;
(SC), please send an email
• Emission free building of structures.
to: SC@Ghent2021.org
Our call for sub-themes resulted in four interesting special sub-themes connected
to the main congress theme:
• Enhancing resilience of civil infrastructure to hurricane and thunderstorm
hazards under changing climate;
• Structural bearings and anti-seismic devices: innovation, standards and
testing requirements;
• Towards extending the service life of existing concrete infrastructure
through advanced assessment methods;
• Concepts and methods for the performance assessment of existing
structures.
Bert H.H. Snijder
Bart De Pauw
Online Scientific Committee Core Group meeting
Congress Proceedings
The Congress proceedings will be The Congress will take place irrespective of the situation with the Covid-19
available in electronic format (ePDF pandemic. To guarantee this, the Congress is developed in a hybrid form, meaning
via link) at the beginning of the with some parts onsite and some parts online, depending on the situation at the
Congress. Authors must register to time of the Congress in September 2021. All written papers submitted are peer-
the Congress in order to have their reviewed by the Scientific Committee. All papers are presented orally. This can be
paper presented during the in a presentation which is onsite as usual, or online and live, or online and pre-
Congress and published in the recorded. The online pre-recorded presentations are meant for those participants
proceedings. IABSE Conference staying at home and who have to cope with a substantial time difference with
Reports are abstracted and indexed Ghent, Belgium. It is the intention to have live streaming of all sessions. Apart from
under Scopus. We are delighted to normal parallel sessions, we will have a Pecha Kucha session and special sessions.
have received about 250 paper To accommodate all sessions and speakers, parallel sessions run simultaneously
submissions. All those that register online and onsite in 5 to 6 breakout rooms on the three main congress days.
for the virtual event will have access Keynote Speakers introduce relevant topics to the congress theme and/or give a
to the full proceedings. state-of-the-art overview on these topics.
We are pleased to announce that four esteemed Keynote Speakers have confirmed
Traditional sub-themes to contribute to our congress:
• All types of bridges
• Large span structures • Jaqueline Cramer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Light-weight structures The transition to sustainable concrete in the Netherlands through network
• High-rise buildings governance;
• All structural materials • Mike Cook, Bureau Happold, Bath and Imperial College London, UK
• Structural health monitoring Urgent Steps to Achieve a Net-Zero Carbon Construction Industry: Lessons from
• Design for earthquakes the IABSE (UK) Henderson Colloquium 2020
• Case studies • Junho Song, Seoul National University, S. Korea
• Failures and forensic engineering Risk intelligence of structural systems: concepts and recent developments
• Strengthening and retrofitting • Luc Hellemans, Lantis, Antwerp, Belgium
• Dynamics of structures Oosterweel – from an underground and even underwater road infrastructure
• Innovative structures plan to an urban transformation project.
• Fatigue and fracture
• Structural analysis and The technical programme has attracted all those involved and interested in the
optimisation state of the art and the future of bridge and structural engineering. We received
• Parametric design just over 400 abstracts. We invite you to contribute to this IABSE Congress and join
• Structural behaviour under fire us in Ghent in September 2021 or online!
conditions
• Soil-structure Interaction Bert H.H. Snijder, Scientific Committee Chair, The Netherlands
• Exceptional loads on structures Bart De Pauw, Scientific Committee Vice-Chair, Belgium
• Safety, reliability and risk
• Architecture of structures
• Additive manufacturing
Scientific Committee Bert H. Snijder, Netherlands (Chair) Bruno Godart, France Fabrizio Palmisano, Italy Bart De Pauw, Belgium (Vice-Chair) Rade Hajdin, Switzerland José Oliveira Pedro, Portugal Sander van Alphen, NL (Secretary) Bert Hesselink, Netherlands Marion Rauch, Germany Pierre Mengeot, Belgium (Secretary) Stephen J. Hicks, UK António Reis, Portugal Anthony Abu, New Zealand Niels Peter Hoj, Switzerland Jose Romo Martin, Spain Mitsuyoshi Akiyama, Japan Dongzhou Huang, USA Laurent Rus Jenni, Spain Charles-Darwin Annan, Canada Naeem Hussain, Hong Kong Kristian Schellenberg, Switzerland Mourad Bakhoum, Egypt Svein Erik Jakobsen, Norway Mike Schlaich, Germany Michael Bartlett, Canada Vesa Järvinen, Finland Ann Schumacher, Switzerland Corneliu Bob, Romania Konstantinos Kalfas, Greece Peter Seitz, Germany Stathis Bousias, Greece Igor Kavrakov, Germany Reda Snaiki, Canada Mikael W. Braestrup, Denmark Ho-Kyung Kim, Korea Hélder Sousa, Portugal Bruno Briseghella, China Markus Knobloch, Germany Alfred Strauss, Austria Eugen Brühwiler, Switzerland Hyun-Moo Koh, Korea Richard Stroetmann, Germany Marcin Bulkowski, Germany Ulrike Kuhlmann, Germany Harshavardhan Subbarao, India Elsa Caetano, Portugal Andreas Lampropoulos, UK Karel Terwel, Netherlands José Campos E Matos, Portugal Eva Lantsoght, Netherlands Joseph F. Tortorella, USA Alp Caner, Turkey Guy L. Larose, Canada Ourania Tsioulou, UK Colin Caprani, Australia Roberto Leon, USA Brian Uy, Australia Robby Caspeele, Belgium Heikki Lilja, Finland Matias A. Valenzuela, Chile Peter Collin, Sweden Geert Lombaert , Belgium Philippe Van Bogaert, Belgium Christian Cremona, France Jose Antonio Lozano Galant, Spain Tina Vejrum, Denmark Hans De Backer, Belgium Adam Lubell, Canada Rob Vergoossen, Netherlands Ane de Boer, Netherlands Fernando Madrazo-Aguirre, UK Thomas Vogel, Switzerland Hervé Degée, Belgium Sébastien Maheux, Canada Jan Wium, South Africa Vincent de Ville de Goyet, Belgium Ana Mandić Ivanković, Croatia Teng Wu, USA Salvatore Di Bernardo, USA Ainhoa Marin Camero, Spain Ye Xia, China Stephanos Dritsos, Greece Agostino Marioni, Taiwan Takashi Yamaguchi, Japan Eleftheria (Elina) Efthymiou, USA Philippe Menétrey, Switzerland Yuguang Yang, Netherlands Luigi Fenu, Italy Serge Montens, France Daia Zwicky, Switzerland Ian Firth, UK Monica Nicoreac, Netherlands Yozo Fujino, Japan Alain Nussbaumer, Switzerland Markus Gabler, Germany Luís Oliveira-Santos, Portugal J. Ramon Gaxiola-Camacho, Mexico André Orcesi, France Yaojun Ge, China Pedro Pacheco, Portugal Christos Giarlelis, Greece Alessandro Palermo, New Zealand
Keynote Speakers
Jacqueline Cramer, Utrecht University (NL)
Title: The transition to sustainable concrete in the Netherlands through
network governance
Jacqueline Cramer is professor of sustainable innovation at Utrecht University and
member of the Amsterdam Economic Board, particularly in charge of the circular
economy. Before she was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
in The Netherlands (2007–2010). Her background is primarily related to industry,
working for many years with more than 200 companies on the implementation of
corporate social responsibility and circular economy. She was and still is member of
numerous international and national non-executive boards of the government,
industry and non-profit organisations, among which Chair of the Dutch Concrete
Agreement and chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Plastic Soup Foundation.
Jacqueline Cramer
Michael J. Cook, Buro Happold (UK) and Imperial
College (UK)
Title: Urgent Steps to Achieve a Net-Zero Carbon Construction Industry:
Lessons from the IABSE (UK) Henderson Colloquium 2020
Michael Cook was a Partner of Buro Happold from 1994 to 2020 and the Chairman
from 2011 to 2017. Having retired from the partnership in 2020 he is now employed
as a consultant. He is also Professor of Creative Design in the Department of Civil
Engineering at Imperial College, London. He is well known for his contribution to
designing innovative and award-winning buildings around the world. In 2019 he
initiated the Engineers Declaration of Climate Emergency in the UK and he leads the
Institution of Structural Engineer’s Climate Emergency Task Group which is setting out
the skills required by future generations of engineers. In recognition of his contribution
to sustainable engineering design over the past 20 years, he was awarded the IABSE
Milne Medal in 2009, Fellowship of the Academy of Engineering in 2010, an honorary
Michael J. Cook Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Bath in 2017 and the Gold Medal of
the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2020.
Junho Song, Seoul National University (S. Korea)
Title: Risk intelligence of structural systems: concepts and recent developments
Junho Song received his BSc. and MSc. in Civil Engineering from Seoul National
University, Korea and his PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University
of California at Berkeley, USA in 2004. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at UC
Berkeley (2004-2005) and a senior vulnerability engineer at Risk Management Solutions,
Inc. (2005), he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. In 2014, Dr.
Song joined the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Seoul National
University (SNU) as a Young Scholar for the Next Generation. At SNU, Dr. Song is
currently serving as Professor, and Associate Director of Education and Research
Program of InfraSPHERE. Dr. Song has research interests in structural & system reliability
analysis, reliability-based design/topology optimization and decision-making, risk,
reliability and resilience analysis of urban communities and networks, earthquake
engineering & random vibrations, and statistical/machine learning for urban
infrastructure systems under uncertainties. Dr. Song has presented his research
outcomes through 89 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. His
technological innovations in the area of System Reliability and Optimization were
recognized by awards including the IASSAR Research Prize (the 10th ICOSSAR
conference, 2009). Prof. Song has been serving as a member of the Probabilistic
Junho Song
Methods Committee of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division, five editorial boards
of international journals (including Structural Safety, and Reliability Engineering &
System Safety), SC3 subcommittee of the International Association for Structural Safety
and Reliability, Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS), and the Board of Directors
of the International Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (CERRA). Dr. Song
is currently the President of CERRA and the Chairman of the IFIP Working Group 7.5 on
Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems.
Luc Hellemans, Lantis (BE)
Title: Oosterweel – from an underground and even underwater road
infrastructure plan to an urban transformation project
With over 25 years of professional experience in engineering, Luc Hellemans has spent
more than half of it at Arcadis. He held several functions and was the CEO of Arcadis
Belgium (2012-2015) and also of Italy, France and Spain as CEO of Europe South (2015-
2017). Yet three distinguished threads run through his career and come together in his
role as CEO of Lantis: public infrastructure, large, complex projects, and his hometown
area Antwerp (Belgium). With the Oosterweel project, Luc is facing Belgium’s biggest
and most challenging infrastructure project of the century, matching industrial and
economic needs with enhanced quality of life, spatial planning, and environmental
benefits.
Luc Hellemans
Technical Visits
Project Melopee (Ghent)
The requested design programme for the building, being a combination of a primary
school, after school care centre, a nursery and sport facilities for the school and its
neighbourhood is diverse and extensive. In order to combine the variety of the
functions, with its outside space needs on a relatively small site, the architects
assembled all indoor functions in one compact volume of 40 by 31m. The remaining,
equally large area is used to stack different playgrounds and sports fields. Designed as
steel portal frames with composite steel-concrete floors, this slender structure offers
Project Melopee views on the square, the street, the quay and the park.
Project new Locks at Terneuzen (The Netherlands)
The first ship will pass the New Lock (Nieuwe Sluis), in Terneuzen at the end of 2022.
This lock will be one of the largest in the world, with the same size of lock chamber as
the Panama Canal locks. The lock complex at Terneuzen connects the Ghent-
Terneuzen Canal (BE) to the Western Scheldt River (NL/BE). The Ghent-Terneuzen
Canal is the main waterway to and from the Port of Ghent (BE) and is part of the
Rotterdam-Paris inland waterway route. The new lock will make it possible to transport
goods by barges rather than trucks. The new lock is being built to accommodate the
increasing shipping traffic and ever-larger ships and is intended to enhance
accessibility for seagoing vessels and barges and to support economic growth in the
New Locks Terneuzen region. Constructing the lock within an existing lock complex is no mean feat.
Construction space is limited, the lock has to be built in the water, and shipping and
transportation must continue as usual.
Project Toots Subway Station (Brussels)
The project creates an essential connection between the existing metro stations
Anneessens and Brussels-Midi. It comprises approximatively 300m new tunnel and a
new metro station Toots Thielemans with a length of 233m, located under the Avenue
de Stalingrad. These large-scale geotechnical works are executed in a dense urban
context. The structural design is conditioned as well by the size of the tunnels and their
up to 20m depth, as by the presence of the ground water table near the ground surface
and the close interaction with existing structures and buildings. This results in the use
of numerous foundation techniques, such as slurry walls, jet grouting and soil freezing.
To reduce the impact of the construction works on the city traffic above ground, the
cut and cover method is used with the top-down method. Part of the trajectory of the
tunnel passes underneath a 19th century listed building which requires advanced
Thielemans Subway Station
monitoring of settlements throughout the execution.
Project Oosterweel (Antwerp)
The existing Antwerp ring road R1 is part of the TEN-T core network. At present the R1
is not completely closed: in the north-west a part is missing. Due to insufficient
capacity, the R1 faces structural congestions. As a result of its layout and the diversity
of road users (transit and urban traffic, freight and passenger transport, etc.), the R1
is confronted with structural safety issues.
At present the Antwerp region has two motorway connections between the river
Scheldt left and right bank: the Kennedy tunnel and the Liefkenshoek tunnel.
Tunnel entrance Oosterweel In order to solve the bottlenecks and mobility problems in the Antwerp region, a third
connection, the Oosterweel link, is of vital importance. The Oosterweel link extends
over a length of approximately 15 km. By means of a new tunnel under the river
Scheldt, the Oosterweel link will connect the E17 (Ghent) and the E34/N49 (Bruges) on
the left bank with the E19/A12 motorways towards the Netherlands and E34/E313
towards Liège, Germany and Luxembourg. The Oosterweel link has been conceived for
heavy truck traffic and will shift important traffic streams of the southern axis, to a
more northern, shorter trajectory through the port. To minimise impact, the
Oosterweel link has been designed largely, as an underground infrastructure. This
Simulation of Oosterweel junction approach will result in a functional road link, giving optimal access to the port and the
surrounding industrial and economic clusters, while respecting the demands of an
urban region in terms of the environment, quality of life and spatial planning.
New Station (Mechelen)
Mechelen Station is being given a complete makeover which includes not only a new
double-track rail bypass and two new platforms, the renewal of the station’s platforms,
the construction of two underpasses, the demolition of the station building and the
creation of a new public open space, but also a renewal and optimisation of the
complete railway infrastructure and track configuration and the renovation of the four
existing double-track Vierendeel Bridges located at the entries of the station. The track
alignment is highly determined by the presence of these bridges.
The two Vierendeel Bridges carrying the Brussels - Antwerp railway line (line 27) and
Dendermonde - Leuven railway line (line 53) are renovated. These bridges have been
constructed in the 1950s and are listed as industrial heritage. The renovation of the
Renovated Vierendeel bridge first bridge has been completed at the end of 2020. The renovation works of the
second bridge start at the end of 2021.
The renovation of the bridges consists of a complete make-over giving the bridges
further decades of operation. This means a surface treatment by grit blast cleaning, an
inspection of the steel structure and replacement of all heavily corroded, broken or
missing parts, the application of a new full painting system and the installation of a
new type of slab track and track fastening that allows for the application of long welded
rails on the bridge without the presence of expansion devices on both sides of the
bridge.
New station Mechelen
This technical visit gives you the opportunity to visit the works at Mechelen Station
and a visit to the first renovated Vierendeel Bridge.Preliminary Programme
MONDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2021
IABSE Annual Meetings
TUESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2021
IABSE Annual Meetings
WEDNESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2021
Congress Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speakers and parallel sessions
Welcome Reception
Young Engineers Event
The Congress
THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2021 The IABSE Congress Ghent 2021 is a large international structural engineering
Keynote Speakers and parallel sessions conference bringing together scientists, students, designers, contractors, owners
Congress Dinner and experts from international organisations around the world. The Congress
serves as an important event for stimulating industry discussion, exchange of
FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2021 cutting-edge knowledge and networking. IABSE’s aim as a technical society is to
Keynote Speakers and parallel sessions promote the advancement of structural engineering practice while taking into
Congress Closing Ceremony account technical, economic, environmental, aesthetic and social aspects. IABSE
Congresses are annual events held each September and hosted in all parts of the
world. The 3-day format of the technical Congress follows 2-days of the
association’s Annual Meetings. In recent years the number of delegates to the
technical Congress has ranged between 550 and 1000.
The City
It can’t be a coincidence that Ghent, the capital of East Flanders, was given several
pretty names: medieval Manhattan, historical heart of Flanders, a city of all times,
one of the most beautiful historical cities in Europe. According to National
Geographic Traveller, Ghent is “the most authentic historic city in the World“. And
Ghent City Hall Lonely Planet called Ghent “Europe’s best kept secret”. The city combines an
impressive past with a vivid present. You will hardly ever find such a diversity of
architectural styles and treasures of which most are protected as national heritage
by UNESCO. Strolling through Ghent often coincides with an adventurous travel
through history. But above all, Ghent is alive! Here pounds the young heart of a
dazzling city of culture with music, theatre, film and visual arts. A city where cultural
perspectives are constantly renewed and enlarged, where culture is a feast and
where feasting is a form of culture. Not only art lovers but nearly everyone can find
something here to suit his taste. Ghent offers over 500 restaurants, numerous pubs,
pleasant shopping streets and an exciting nightlife.
“Cuberdon” Typical sweets fromAccommodation
All accommodation supported by the City
Accompanying Persons Programme
of Ghent are summarised on:
http://boek.gent-hotels.eu Half-Day Tour Bruges Historic Centre
When clicking on the tab ‘BOEK EEN Thursday Sept 23nd ( 08:30 AM – 1:00 PM) – Included in Fee
HOTEL’, you are redirected to an
Bruges is the best-known tourist hot spot of Belgium. Its success is overwhelming
overview site of all available
and during the season it may be crowded. This is due to one single 19th century
accommodations for your preferred novel: ‘Bruges la Morte’. Discover the reason of the attraction, the atmosphere of
period. past and present and why not the chocolate shops.
Travel by train from Gent Sint-Pietersstation (near the conference venue) to Bruges
Visa Regulation and walk through the Minnewater park, the silence of the old Beguinage, the Old
Belgium is part of the European Schengen Saint-John hospital from XIth century (no entrance), Market place with belfry, town
zone and its regulations towards Visa hall, the view that made Bruges the tourist place it is today and walk back to the
applications. More information can be train. Those who want to stay longer can do so, since the train ticket is individual.
found on:
https://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/servic
es/travel_to_belgium/visa_for_belgium
The IABSE OC can provide documents
with proof of participation or an
invitation letter once registration is
succeeded.
Bruges : Market place and belfry Rose hat quay
Includes: walk with licensed guide with headphone comment, 1 coffee at a cosy
place, individual return train ticket.
Not included: lunch, entrance to buildings (no interior visits), other food or
beverages, insurance.
Requires: easy walking shoes, rain coat.
Evening Walk Historic Centre of Ghent
Tuesday Sept 21nd (08:00 PM – 10:00 PM) and Friday Sept 24th (7:00 PM-9:00 PM) –
Included in Fee
Ghent City Hall
A 2 hour walk, starting at the annual meeting’s venue ‘Het Pand’. We will admire
the city through time, from its medieval and belle époque time to its present and
future. We see the first university building, pass through small shopping streets
and see the cathedral, the belfry, town hall with its dual character, Friday Market
place and the bell tower, the castle of counts and how a new born Ghentian is
announced, the old harbour and the view on the Three Towers of Ghent.
Includes: walk with licensed guide.
Not included: entrance to buildings or monuments, drinks or food, insurance.
Requires: easy walking shoes, rain coat
Three Towers Ghent
The Programme also includes participation to the Welcome Reception, Opening
Ceremony and Closing Ceremony. Total Fee: €100,-Young Engineers
Post-event Tour
Programme
All participants born in or after 1987 will Day tour Antwerp historic centre
benefit from a reduction in their registration
Saturday 25th of September 2021 (9 am – 4.35 pm) - €50,- pp.
fee. In addition, any main author born in or
after 1987, who personally presents his or Antwerp is a vibrant and cosmopolitan harbour city of 0.6 million people with an
her own paper at the Congress, will be eventful history and open mind. The harbour was of capital importance to
considered for additional recognition. An Napoleon and during liberation days of 1944. Today it is known as the world
independent jury will select two leading place of diamond trade.
contributions from young authors - oral or
poster - and each will receive a prize of 2,000 Travel by train from Ghent Sint-Pietersstation (near the conference venue) to
CHF. The prizes are offered by the IABSE Antwerp diamond district and admire the renewed railway station (in 2014
Fellows and the Organising Committee and chosen as most beautiful railway station in the world). Travel by tram to city
will be presented at the Closing Ceremony of historic centre and walk-through narrow streets to have a sandwich lunch near
the Congress. the pedestrian tunnel below river Scheldt. Then visit the market place and 16th
On September 22, 2021, an evening
century town hall, cathedral (no entrance), and river embankment. Return by
networking event will be organised to
Groenplaats, and tram and train to Ghent.
promote the interaction of Young Engineers
with IABSE Fellows and Congress attendees Includes: individual return train and tram tickets, sandwich lunch, coffee break
and licensed tour guide.
Social Events Not included: entrance to buildings (no interior visits), other food or beverages,
insurance.
A Welcome Reception will be organised on
Requires: easy walking shoes, rain coat.
the first day of the congress. This reception
will take place at the congress venue ICC
from 6 pm until 8 pm.
The Congress Dinner is organised on
Thursday 23 September. The venue is the
‘Oude Vismijn’, which is in the middle of the
old city centre. The venue gives view on the
most touristic places such as ‘de Graslei’ and
‘het Gravensteen’.
Antwerp Central station Cathedral
Must-see’s in Ghent
• Science Museum GUM (close to Congress hall)
• Modern Art Museum SMAK (Next to Congress hall)
• Art Museum MSK (Next to Congress hall)
• Visit ‘het Gravensteen’ (terrific Audio Guides)
• The St.-Bavo cathedral with the famous painting of Van Eyck: ‘the
Ghent Alterpiece’
Ghent Alterpiece or ‘The Adoration of the • Ask the OC for tips, we’ll give professional advice
Mystic Lamb’About the Venue
Gent ICC, Ghent’s convention centre, was
Getting Here
built in the 1970s by the famous Ghent Ghent is centrally located in Europe, at the crossroads of highways between
architect Bontinck. Even back then, it was Amsterdam, Paris, London, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. The city is easily
already one of the largest purpose-built accessible by car, by train and by air.
convention centres in Belgium, thanks to the
conference rooms that provided seating for
By car
Ghent is situated at the intersection of two major European highways, the E17
975 visitors as well as 4 breakout rooms.
connects Northern Europe with the Southern countries, and the E40 goes from
Nowadays, the centre has 15 rooms, good the North Sea up to Eastern Europe.
for more than 15 000 m² of meeting space. It
is located just outside the historic city centre By train
Ghent is easily accessible from all Belgian and European cities and only half
and next to the famous museum S.M.A.K. All
an hour away from Brussels Midi Station. Thanks to the high-speed trains,
these elements make ICC Gent an excellent
Eurostar, Thalys and ICE, Ghent is only two hours away from Paris and less
location to host the IABSE Congress Ghent
than three hours from London, Amsterdam and Cologne.
2021.
The congress venue is in regulation with the By air
Ghent is only 45 minutes away from Brussels Airport, which has flights from
latest COVID-19 measures in Belgium. An
over 70 international destinations, operated by more than 140 international
overview of these measures can be found
and regional airline companies. The other Belgian airports (Ostend, Antwerp,
on: https://www.info-coronavirus.be/en/
Liège and Charleroi) serve several European destinations and have easy and
direct connections to Ghent.Online Platform ‘OnAir’
The Platform
The Congress will be broadcasted with OnAIR platform. OnAIR is our virtual
event platform of choice providing a powerful environment for integrating
virtual presentations, breakout sessions, networking/social functions, 1:1
meetings and interactivity. Attendees are provided a seamless secure user
experience from initial contact throughout the live event. Attendees can
access all sessions from one place, connect with each other, presenters and
Presentations Gallery exhibitors. The platform was successfully used during the IABSE Congress
The Presentation Gallery displays all paper Christchurch 2020.
presentations in a searchable grid.
Attendees can watch pre-recorded videos on Key features of the OnAIR Platform
demand or access handouts for each • The Timeline
presentation, view presentation information Once logged into the platform attendees see the event timeline. From
and presentation times. During dedicated here they can access all sessions, breakout meetings, the meeting hub,
Q&A Session attendees can interact with and live support.
presenters. • Live Q&A and Live Polling
Delegates can ask questions of presenters through the Live Q&A
function, and moderators or speakers can ask questions of attendees
with the Live Poll function.
• Live Support
Throughout the event the C&E team is online to provide support to
attendees via live chat or video call.
• The Meeting Hub
This feature lets your virtual attendees engage in real-time connections
with other attendees. Users of Meeting Hub can search for other
participants, request meetings, and when accepted engage in a video
conversation, just like a live event! Attendees can send direct messages
and exchange contacts.
• Gamification
By ‘gamifying’ the virtual conference experience delegates can win
Virtual Networking points by accomplishing a variety of goals throughout the event. Points
Opportunities and prizes are a great way for attendees to engage and interact!
Conversation groups – attendees can join
small conversation groups of up to 4 Presentations
people selected at random with video and Keynotes, panel discussions, breakouts and any other sessions will be
mics enabled. Pre-set groups – attendees delivered as live or pre-recorded presentations. Attendees will access the
can be assigned to pre-set groups based on sessions via the OnAir platform. Sessions will be interactive and allow all
topic areas. A great way to get like- attendees to participate and engage. Attendees access the session via the
minded attendees together. 1:1 meetings event timeline and can interact with presenters via the Live Q&A and Live
– through the Meeting Hub attendees can Polling features. Handouts, links, or resources can be made available for
connect with one another via live chat, participants to access and download if required.
messaging, or video call.Important Dates
March 1, 2021 Final Invitation and
Registration information
registration opens Register at: www.iabse.org/Ghent2021
April 30, 2021 Notification of
acceptance of full Early Bird registration (Price in €)
papers and Onsite Participation Online Participation
announcement of IABSE Member 750,- 600,-
presentation types Non-Member 880,- 730,-
June 15, 2021 Registration Non-Member PLUS 900,- 750,-
deadline for all Young Engineer* 375,- 300,-
presenting authors
June 15, 2021 Deadline for early- Regular registration (Price in €):
bird registration Onsite Participation Online Participation
September 20-21, 2021 IABSE Annual IABSE Member 850,- 700,-
Meetings Non-Member 980,- 830,-
Non-Member PLUS 1000,- 850,-
September 22-24, 2021 IABSE Congress
Young Engineer* 425,- 350,-
Ghent 2021
*Participants born in or after 1987
Additional registration options:
Registration includes access to the Opening and Closing Ceremony, all parallel
Price (€)
sessions, Congress Proceedings, Welcome Reception and Registration for the
Gala Dinner 100,-
onsite Congress includes access to the online platform. A Non-Member Plus
Technical Visit 25,- registration and a Young Engineer registration includes an one year IABSE
Accompanying Membership. All prices are tax included. We understand that circumstances can
100,-
Persons Programme change. At any point prior to the event you are welcome to contact us in writing
Post-congress Tour 50,- to nominate a substitute delegate at no extra charge. A full refund less a €100
service fee will be issued if the event is cancelled. Changes of the registration type
are possible till 4 weeks before the event, for a 100€ service fee. Non-payment
does not constitute cancellation.
Het GravensteenPlatinum Sponsor
Exhibition & Sponsorship
A commercial exhibition is planned at the Congress venue. This offers a unique
opportunity for companies to display their projects, products and services.
Companies interested in exhibiting can find information on the Congress
website and are invited to contact the noted link as soon as possible to confirm
current availability of exhibition space.
Gold Sponsor Sponsorship opportunities will also be offered to companies who wish to have
greater exposure during the congress .
The Congress is organised such that corporate partners can interact and
engage with the Congress delegates and the engineering community. For more
information please visit www.iabse.org/Ghent2021 or contact
IABSE@Ghent2021.org.
Exhibition plan
Silver Sponsor
Congress Bag Sponsor Coffee Break SponsorAnnual Meetings
The schedule is as of March 1, 2021, all
information may be subject to change. The September 20, 2021 (Monday)
Annual Meetings will mainly be held 20-21
September preceding the Congress. They Technical Committee
will take place in the culture and 08:00 – 12:00
SEI Editorial Board
convention centre ‘Het Pand’, in the middle
of the historic centrum of Ghent. Please SEI Correspondents
refer to the IABSE website for latest
information on the Annual Meetings: Bulletin Editorial Board
www.iabse.org/Ghent2021-AM 13:00 – 17:00
Task Groups (according to room availability)*
Foundation Council
Commissions 1-6
18:00 – 20:30 Reception of the President of IABSE
September 21, 2021 (Tuesday)
Executive Committee
E-Learning Board
Chairs National Groups
08:00–12:00 Award Committee
IABSE Ambassadors
Bulletin Editorial Board
Task Groups (according to room availability)*
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch of the President of IABSE
14:00 – 17:00 Permanent Committee
18:00 – 20:00 Reception of the Belgian and Dutch Groups of IABSE
September 22 (Wednesday)
13:30 – 15:00 Current and future SCs + OCs
* Task Groups are not required to meet
September 23 (Thursday)
during the Annual Meetings. Rooms will
be given according to availability. 12:00– 13:30 YEP BoardContact
Contact the IABSE Congress Ghent: About IABSE
Hans De Backer The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) is
Chair Organising Committee a scientific / technical Association comprising members in almost 100
IABSE@Ghent2021.org countries and counting 58 National Groups worldwide. Founded in 1929 it
has its seat in Zurich, Switzerland. The President of IABSE (2019-2023) is
Yaojun Ge, China.
IABSE deals with all aspects of structural engineering: the science and art of
planning, design, construction, operation, monitoring and inspection,
maintenance, rehabilitation and preservation, demolition and dismantling of
structures, taking into consideration technical, economic, environmental,
aesthetic and social aspects. The term 'Structures' includes bridges, buildings
and all types of civil engineering structures, composed of any structural
material.
Mission
The aim of the Association is to exchange knowledge and to advance the
practice of structural engineering worldwide in the service of the profession
and society.
IABSE has the following objectives:
• to promote cooperation and understanding among all those
concerned with structural engineering and related fields by
worldwide exchange of knowledge and experience;
• to encourage awareness and responsibility of structural engineers
towards the needs of society;
• to encourage actions necessary for progress in structural
engineering;
• to improve and foster cooperation and understanding between
organisations having similar objectives.
For this purpose, the Association:
• organises conferences worldwide;
• publishes the high quality journal SEI;
• publishes books reflecting the work of its Technical Groups;
• creates technical groups, as required by new needs and
technological progress;
• offers the possibility to join activities within National Groups of
IABSE;
• offers a programme for Young Engineers;
• presents Annual Awards.
Adress: IABSE - Jungholzstrasse 288050, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
phone: +41-43-443 97 65 e-mail: secretariat@iabse.org
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