It is RILEM’s objective to gather together the most eminent specialists throughout the world in the fields of building materials and structures. Aiming for excellence in all its activities, RILEM awards the following recognised distinctions annually:

RILEM Honorary Members

RILEM distinguishes Honorary Members. These are persons having rendered exceptional services to the association — for example, having successfully chaired the work of several TCs, or having contributed to giving a new orientation to the association.

RILEM Fellows

Created in 1993 by the General Council, the honorary title of RILEM Fellow is bestowed upon RILEM Senior members having made exceptional contributions to RILEM in their capacities as research scientist, engineer, technical leader or educator.

Robert L'Hermite Medalists

In 1967 when RILEM celebrated its 20th anniversary, it was decided to create a RILEM Medal which would be granted each year to a research scientist. As an example, and to mark the high level of merit which was required of the medal holders, the first RILEM Medal was bestowed upon Prof. Ferdinand Campus, one of the founders of RILEM.  In 1981, the Medal was renamed the Robert L’Hermite Medal, in honour of the President-Founder of RILEM.

Since then, each year, the Robert L’Hermite Medal is awarded to a researcher of less than 40 years, who has made an exceptional scientific contribution to the field of construction materials and structures. (How to apply)

Gustavo Colonnetti Medalists

Starting in 2016, each year, up to two Gustavo Colonnetti Medals are awarded to researchers of less than 35 years, who have made an outstanding scientific contribution to the field of construction materials and structures. (How to apply)

RILEM Best Student Poster Award

Implemented in 2017, the RILEM Best Student Poster Award is to be given at every RILEM Annual Week conference. The award is given at the conference to a student who has a poster and is at the conference to present/explain the work. The selection is made by a jury chosen by the RILEM Honorary President. The awardee receives a diploma/certificate from the TAC Chair at the conference. 

Materials and Structures is the flagship publication of RILEM. The journal is dedicated to the publication of high quality papers examining the fundamental properties of building materials, their characterization and processing techniques, modeling, standardization of test methods, and the application of research results in building and civil engineering.

Materials and Structures: Outstanding Papers

Each year, up to nine papers are selected by Materials and Structures board of editors and published as open access papers. These papers, which cover all fields of RILEM activities, exemplify the highest standards in our scientific community.

Materials and Structures: Best Reviewer Awards

The best reviewer awards are given annually and are meant to commend the top reviewers of our journal for their outstanding peer review efforts over the past year. Recipients are chosen by the board of editors from scores of nominations provided by the associate editors of the journal.

RILEM Honorary Members

• Prof. Mark ALEXANDER (2016)
• Prof. Eduard AMSTUTZ (1972)
• Dr. Carmen ANDRADE PERDRIX (2015)
• Prof. Dr. Zdenek P. BAZANT (2015)
  
• Dr. Stanislav BECHYNE
• Prof. Arnon BENTUR (2009)
• Prof. Sven Gabriel BERGSTRÖM (1981)
• Prof. Luigia BINDA (2009)
• Prof. Ferdinand CAMPUS
• Prof. Fernando Luiz Lobo Barboza CARNEIRO (1983)
• Prof. Gustavo COLONNETTI
• Prof. Simon DELPECH (1973)
• Prof. Fritz EGGIMANN (2002)
• Prof. Theodor H. ERISMANN
• M. Maurice FICKELSON (1992)
• Mr. Hermann W. FRITZ (2001)
• Prof. Elio GIANGRECO (1994)
• Prof. Hjalmar GRANHOLM
• Prof. Julije HAHAMOVIC
• Dr. Arnost HÖNIG
• Prof. Hanoch JAEGERMANN (1993)
• Prof. Pekka JAUHO (1985)
• Prof. P. C. KREIJGER (1982)
• Dr. Frederick LEA
• Prof. C. A. LOBRY DE BRUYN
• Prof. Inge LYSE (1971)
• Dr. Sidney MINDESS (2011)
• Prof. Paul MLOSCH
• Mr. Poul NERENST
• Prof. Lars-Olof NILSSON (2017)
• Prof. Yoshihiko OHAMA (2016)
• Prof. Waclaw OLSZAK (1980)
• Prof. Manfred PARTL (2017)

• Mr.  Niels Munk PLUM

• Dr. C D POMEROY
• Prof. Dr.- Hans W. REINHARDT (2009)
• Prof. J RICALDONI (1981)
• Prof. Manuel Coelho Mendes da ROCHA
• Prof. Mirko ROS
• Prof. Hubert RÜSCH
• Prof. Surendra SHAH (2010)
• Prof. Rahel SHALON (1973)
• Dr. Åke SKARENDAHL (2009)
• Prof. Dr. Theodosios P. TASSIOS (1989)
• Dr. Roberto TORRENT (2016)
• Prof. Eduardo TORROJA
• Prof. WÄSTLUND (1971)
• Prof. Edouard WEGELIUS (1971)
• Prof. Dr. Ing. Karlhans WESCHE (1982)
• Prof. Folker H. WITTMANN (2004)
• Dr. James R. WRIGHT (1985)

RILEM Fellows

• 2018 - Prof. Denys BREYSSE
• 2018 - Mr. Joost GULIKERS
• 2018 - Prof. Viktor MECHTCHERINE
• 2017 – Prof. Dubravka BJEGOVIC
• 2017 – Prof. Hervé DI BENEDETTO
• 2017 - Dr. Espéranza MENENDEZ MENDEZ
• 2017 - Prof. Hirozo MIHASHI
• 2017 - Dr. Mohammed SONEBI
• 2017 - Prof. Enric VAZQUEZ
• 2016 - Prof. Caijun SHI
• 2015 - Prof. Nele DE BELIE
• 2015 - Prof. Geert DE SCHUTTER
• 2015 - Prof. Doug HOOTON
• 2015 - Prof. Kamal KAYAT
• 2015 - Prof. Luis LIMA
• 2015 - Dr. Maria Rosa VALLUZZI
• 2015 - Prof. Jason WEISS
• 2014 - Prof. Klaas VAN BREUGEL
• 2013 - Dr. Arlindo GONÇALVES
• 2012 - Dr. Ravindra GETTU
• 2012 - Prof. Raoul FRANCOIS
• 2012 - Prof. Lars-Olof NILSSON
• 2012 - Dr. Nicolas ROUSSEL
• 2011 - Prof. Christopher LEUNG
• 2011 - Prof. Øystein VENNESLAND
• 2011 - Dr. Ólafur WALLEVIK
• 2010 - Prof. Wolfgang BRAMESHUBER
• 2010 - Prof. Vyatcheslav R. FALIKMAN
• 2009 - Prof. Mark G. ALEXANDER
• 2009 - Prof. Ole Mejlhede JENSEN
• 2007 - Dr. Ian SIMS
• 2007 - Dr. Peter RICHNER
• 2007 - Dr. Philip NIXON
• 2007 - Mr. Johan VYNCKE
• 2006 - Dr. Rafael ASTUDILLO PASTOR
• 2006 - Prof. Andrzej M. BRANDT
• 2006 - Prof. Jacques MARCHAND
• 2006 - Prof. Karen SCRIVENER
• 2006 - Prof. Konstantin KOVLER
• 2006 - Prof. Dr. Jan G. M. van MIER
• 2006 - Prof. Dr. Peter J. M. BARTOS
• 2003 - Dr. Dan J. NAUS
• 2003 - Dr. Manfred N. PARTL
• 2003 - Dr. Roberto J. TORRENT
• 2002 - Prof. Asko SARJA
• 2002 - Prof. Moema RIBAS SILVA
• 2002 - Prof. Dr. Max J. SETZER
• 2002 - Prof Ulrich SCHNEIDER
• 2001 - Prof. David W. S. HO
• 2000 - Dr. Sylva MODRY
• 2000 - Mr. James H. PIELERT
• 2000 - Prof. Dr.- Jörg KROPP
• 1998 - Mr. Ahmed HAKIMI
• 1998 - Prof. Arnon BENTUR
• 1998 - Prof. Fritz EGGIMANN
• 1998 - Prof. José Manuel GÁLLIGO ESTEVEZ
• 1997 - Dr. Aldo CASTOLDI
• 1997 - Dr. Jacques BARON
• 1997 - Dr. Sidney MINDESS
• 1997 - Mr. Hermann W. FRITZ
• 1997 - Prof. Yves MALIER
• 1996 - Dr. Åke SKARENDAHL
• 1996 - Prof. Luigia BINDA
• 1996 - Prof. Raymundo RIVERA-VILLARREAL
• 1996 - Prof. Dr. Zdenek P. BAZANT
• 1996 - Prof. Dr.- Hans W. REINHARDT
• 1995 - Dr. Carmen ANDRADE
• 1995 - Dr. Louis FRANCKEN
• 1995 - Prof. Ario CECCOTTI
• 1995 - Prof. Dr. Tibor JAVOR
• 1995 - Prof. Dr. Yoshihiko OHAMA
• 1994 - Prof. Alpo RANTA-MAUNUS
• 1994 - Prof. Dr. Surendra P. SHAH
• 1994 - Prof. Dr.- Peter SCHIESSL

Robert L'Hermite Medalists

Gustavo Colonnetti Medalists 

• 2019 - Dr. Bahman GHIASSI
• 2019 - Dr. Claire E. WHITE
• 2018 - Dr. Sergio H. P. CAVALARO -  Article, Video of his lecture
• 2018 - Dr. Didier SNOECK - Article, Video of his lecture
• 2017 - Prof. Gaurav SANT - Article, Video of his lecture
• 2017 - Prof. Enrico SASSONI - Article,  video of his lecture
• 2016 - Dr. Susan BERNAL LOPEZ - Article, video of her lecture
• 2016 - Dr. Ruben SNELLINGS - Article, video of his lecture

RILEM Best Student Poster Award

• 2018 - Ms. Alice Titus Bakera for her work on "Durability Properties of Concrete Containing Metakaolin”
• 2017 - Ms. Sripriya Rengaraju for her work on "Challenges in Determining the Chloride Threshold of Steel Embedded in Cementitious Systems"

Materials and Structures: Outstanding Papers

• 2018
  • A microstructural insight into the hygro-mechanical behaviour of a stabilised hypercompacted earth by Bruno, A.W., Perlot, C., Mendes, J. et al.
  • A simplified model for the combined wicking and evaporation of a NaCl solution in limestone by Pel, L., Pishkari, R. & Casti, M.
  • A methodology for quantifying the impact of casting procedure on anisotropy in fiber-reinforced concrete using X-ray CT by Oesch, T., Landis, E. & Kuchma, D.
  • A thermo-mechanical model for SFRC beams or slabs at elevated temperatures by Heek, P., Tkocz, J. & Mark, P.
  • Evaluation of surface cracks of bending concrete using a fully non-contact air-coupled nonlinear ultrasonic technique by Chen, J., Yang, C. & Guo, Q.
  • Numerical evaluation of test setups for determining the shear strength of masonry by Zhang, S., Richart, N. & Beyer, K.
  • Modelling the poroplastic damageable behaviour of earthen materials by Xu, L., Wong, H., Fabbri, A. et al.
  • Long-term pozzolanic reaction of fly ash in hardened cement-based paste internally activated by natural injection of saturated Ca(OH)2 solution by Bui, P.T., Ogawa, Y. & Kawai, K.
  • Experimental study of bitumen emulsion–cement mortars: mechanical behaviour and relation to mixtures by Mignini, C., Cardone, F. & Graziani, A.
  • Statistical filtering of useful concrete creep data from imperfect laboratory tests by Rasoolinejad, M., Rahimi-Aghdam, S. & Bažant, Z.P.

• 2017

  • Application of ultrasonic pulse velocity for assessment of thermal expansion coefficient of concrete at early age by Zhutovsky, S. and Kovler, K.

  • Incremental-iterative model for time-variant analysis of SFRC subjected to flexural fatigue by Heek, P., Ahrens, M.A. and Mark, P.

  • Irreversible desiccation shrinkage of cement paste caused by cement grain dissolution and hydrate precipitation by Li, X., Grasley, Z.C., Bullard, J.W. and Garboczi, E.J.

  • An inverse approach to determine complex modulus gradient of field-aged asphalt mixtures by Ling, M., Luo, X., Gu, F. and Lytton, R.L.

  • The impact of intrinsic anhydrite in an experimental calcium sulfoaluminate cement from a novel, carbon-minimized production process by Jen, G., Skalamprinos, S., Whittaker, M., Galan, I., Imbabi, M.S. and Glasser, F.P

  • Carbonation front in cement paste detected by T 2 NMR measurements using a low field unilateral magnet by Cano-Barrita, P.D.J., Balcom, B.J. and Castellanos, F.

  • The oxidation of bitumen witnessed in-situ by infrared spectroscopy by Makowska, M., Hartikainen, A. and Pellinen, T.

  • Determination of transfer stress from ruptured pre-load galvanised tendons in tanks and bund walls by O’Flaherty, F., Lambert, P., Mangat, P. and Starinieri, V.

  • Analysis of shear transfer and gap opening in timber–concrete composite members with notched connections by Boccadoro, L., Steiger, R., Zweidler, S. and Frangi, A.

  • Effect of temperature on the sorption curves of earthen materials by Fabbri, A., McGregor, F., Costa, I. and Faria, P.

• 2016
  • Dam and wet-screened concrete creep in compression: in situ experimental results and creep strains prediction using model B3 and composite models by C. Serra, A. L. Batista, N. Monteiro Azevedo
  • Changes in rheology of self-consolidating concrete induced by pumping  by Dimitri Feys, Geert De Schutter, Kamal H. Khayat, Ronny Verhoeven
  • Anhydrite/aerogel composites for thermal insulation  by D. Sanz-Pont, D. Sanz-Arauz, C. Bedoya-Frutos, R. J. Flatt, S. López-Andrés
  • 3Dim experimental investigation of linear viscoelastic properties of bituminous mixtures by Daniel Perraton, Hervé Di Benedetto, Cédric Sauzéat, Bernhard Hofko, Andrea Graziani, Quang Tuan Nguyen, Simon Pouget, Lily D. Poulikakos, Nouffou Tapsoba, James Grenfell
  • The pore solution of blended cements: a review  by Anya Vollpracht, Barbara Lothenbach, Ruben Snellings, Johannes Haufe
  • Ingress of NaCl in concrete with alkali reactive aggregate: effect on silicon solubility by Anne Heisig, Liudvikas Urbonas, Robin E. Beddoe, Detlef Heinz
  • Investigation on the effect of supplementary cementitious materials on the critical chloride threshold of steel in concrete by Federica Lollini, Elena Redaelli, Luca Bertolini
  • Strätlingite: compatibility with sulfate and carbonate cement phases  by M. U. Okoronkwo, F. P. Glasser
  • Creep and drying shrinkage of a blended slag and low calcium fly ash geopolymer Concrete by A. Castel, S. J. Foster, T. Ng, J. G. Sanjayan, R. I. Gilbert
  • Fast solidification kinetics of parts of bituminous binders by Hartmut R. Fischer, Bert Dillingh, Bastiaan Ingenhut
• 2015
  • An image analysis procedure to quantify the air void system of mortar and concrete by P. C. Fonseca, G. W. Scherer
    
  • Ag/AgCl ion-selective electrodes in neutral and alkaline environments containing interfering ions by Yurena Seguí Femenias, Ueli Angst, Francesco Caruso, Bernhard Elsener
    
  • Comparative testing of crack formation in strain-hardening cement-based composites (SHCC) by Gideon P. A. G. van Zijl, Volker Slowik, Romildo D. Toledo Filho, Folker H. Wittmann, Hirozo Mihashi
    
  • Effects of strain reversal on elastic and viscoelastic properties of early age cement paste beams by Christopher Galitz, Zachary Grasley
    
  • Structural built-up of cement-based materials used for 3D-printing extrusion techniques by A. Perrot, D. Rangeard, A. Pierre
    
  • Extrapolation of short-time drying shrinkage tests based on measured diffusion size effect: concept and reality by Zdeněk P. Bažant, Abdullah Donmez
    
  • Quantitative evaluation of carbonation in concrete using nonlinear ultrasound by Gun Kim, Jin-Yeon Kim, Kimberly E. Kurtis, Laurence J. Jacobs, Yann Le Pape, Maria Guimaraes
    
  • The bitumen microstructure: a fluorescent approach by Florian Handle, Josef Füssl, Susanna Neudl, Daniel Grossegger, Lukas Eberhardsteiner, Bernhard Hofko, Markus Hospodka, Ronald Blab, Hinrich Grothe
    
  • Anm: a geometrical model for the composite structure of mortar and concrete using real-shape particles by Z. Qian, E. J. Garboczi, G. Ye, E. Schlangen
    
  • A new 3D damage model for concrete under monotonic, cyclic and dynamic loadings by Jacky Mazars, François Hamon, Stéphane Grange
    

Materials and Structures: Best Reviewer Awards

• 2017
  • Gian Piero LIGNOLA
  • Andreas LEEMANN
  • Kendra A. ERK
  • Christopher HALL
  • Maria Adelaide PARISI
  • Rob B. POLDER
  • Haoliang HUANG

•  2016

  • Pietro CARRARA

  • Farshad RAJABIPOUR

  • George W. SCHERER

  • Xiaohu LU

  • Antonio MARI

  • Dirk LOWKE

•  2015
  • Ralejs TEPFERS
  • Hannelore DERLUYN
  • Catherine PAPANICOLAU
  • Burkan ISGOR
  • Alexander MICHEL
  • Bernhard HOFKO
  • Geert DE SCHUTTER

•  2014
  • Matteo PANIZZA
  • Stefano DAL PONT
  • Christof SCHROFL
  • Michele GRIFFA
  • Rebecca MCDANIEL
  • Jean Pascale PLANCHE
  • Mohammad POUR-GHAZ
  • Martin HOFKO
  • James GRENFELL
  • Paulo PILOTO
  • Mateusz WYRZYKOWSKI
  • Hans-Wolf REINHARDT
  • Stefan JACOBSEN
  • Aaron SAKULICH
  • Dimitri FEYS

• 2013
  • Narayanan NEITHALATH
  • Antonio MARI
  • Christophe PETIT
  • Arnaud PERROT
  • Gian Piero LIGNOLA
  • Ippei MARUYAMA
  • John PROVIS
  • Liberato FERRARA
  • Maria JUENGER