IABSE Symposium: Towards a Resilient Built Environment - Risk and Asset Management

The IABSE Symposium is organised by the Portuguese Group of IABSE (Associação Portuguesa de Engenharia de Estruturas - APEE) in co-operation with the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE), and the University of Minho, Portugal. 

The Symposium aims to provide an international forum for the debate on, among others, such important issues as the sustainability of the built environment, risk assessment and asset management in infrastructures. It will focus on cutting-edge issues, such as Novel Management Tools for the Built Environment, Lifecycle Quality Control of New and Existing Infrastructures, and Advanced Frameworks for a Sustainable Built Environment and Risk Analysis Procedures. 

Objectives:

• Place the topic of Sustainability of the Built Environment in an International Discussion Forum;
• Offer a Worldwide discussion in risk assessment and infrastructure asset management with a share of knowledge from different stakeholders;
• Discuss Performance and Costs of built environment assets, with a focus on “Zero Maintenance”;
• Provide the adaptation of Young Engineers to the topics of Risk, Construction, Quality, Resilience and Management.

Important dates:

Submission of Abstracts opens: September 1, 2017
Deadline for submissions of Abstracts: February 28, 2018
Notifications to Authors (accept/reject): April 30, 2018
Deadline for submissions of full papers: July 15, 2018
Notifications to Authors (accept/reject): October 30, 2018