Another remarkable year has passed by. What happened in the last 12 months?
RILEM celebrated the 2021 Strategy Workshop “in” Paris, France, in April this year, in conjunction with the
4th RILEM Spring Convention. The last workshop was organised back in 2014. Thanks to the participation and suggestions of our members, we planted the seeds for the way forward of our Association.
The
75th RILEM Annual week was a hybrid event in Merida, Mexico, successfully organised and conducted by our
LatRILEM friends.
The initiatives launched in 2020 have flourished through 2021 and proved to be very rewarding. The
ROC&TOK webinar series, organised by EAC, have broadcasted 10 high-quality webinars given by internationally recognised experts. The recordings of the webinars have been viewed by thousands of people on our
YouTube Channel. The
RILEM Youth Council has been very busy in promoting the activities of RILEM amongst the community of young researchers around the world, encouraging many of these bright minds to become active members in our Technical Committees.
GLOBE has attracted hundreds of supporters. You can see the recent press release in December 2021
here.
Our two journals,
Materials and Structures and
RILEM Technical Letters, have continued to publish outstanding papers authored by our members and the wider scientific community. Despite the pandemic, many other publications have been produced in the last 12 months, like conference proceedings and State-of-the-Art reports.
The 75
th RILEM Anniversary booklet edited by our former president Mark Alexander was officially presented in April at the Convention in Paris this year and it is available
here.
We thanked
Johan Vyncke that completed his 9 years in the RILEM Presidency this year, and we welcomed Nele De Belie as new
RILEM Vice-President.
The next RILEM appointment is the
5th RILEM Spring Convention, “in” France from 14
th to 19
th March 2022. In addition to the usual standing committee’s meetings, an online event will celebrate 75 years of research, publications, and advancement in the knowledge of construction materials, but also 75 years of collaboration and friendship. Keynote presentations will be organized in 3 sessions
: 1) Construction materials & research; 2) Sustainability & future of construction; and 3) Strategy & perspective of RILEM.
The event will take place together with the
International Conference on Earthen Construction: Fundamentals and Applications for a Circular Economy. Save the date and join us online on the 17th of March 2022! We will continue to pursue
the mission of the Association also in 2022, with more technical activities, more publications, and events. We look forward to seeing you and working with you!