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ECCE Standing Committee Knowledge
TechnologyWORKING PROGRAM 2008-2009Draft 2

• Chairman
• Prof. Dr. Asko Sarja

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Objectives of SC-KT

• To promote RTD (Research Technology Development
  in CE Community
• To inform the CE community about recent
  developments concerning the profession
• To reflect RTD needs of the profession to the
  decision making bodies

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Activities of SC KT

• To encourage and promote research and innovative
  technology development in the European civil
  engineering community
• To follow the developments in civil engineering
  research and practice over the entire world by
  going through the related literature
• To inform the ECCE members and the European civil
  engineering community about the recently
  developed innovative technologies concerning
  issues such as
• Design and construction methods
• Maintenance, repair and strengthening techniques
• Monitoring and control methodologies (employing
  information/communication technologies) for civil
  engineering systems and structures
• Current engineering problems etc.

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Activities of SC KT - continued

• To gather and disseminate information about
  ongoing civil engineering research and innovative
  technology development activities over the world
• To gather and disseminate information concerning
  research and innovative technology development
  supporting organisations (especially FP7)
• and their funding conditions, rules and
  requirements
• To reflect research needs and requirements of the
  profession
• stemming from the civil engineering practice to
  the research performers such as universities and
  research institutes and to the research funding
  and guiding agencies
• To participate in the activities of the European
  associations such as ECCREDI, ECTP etc.
• concerning civil engineering research and
  innovative technology development.

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Available Tools

• 1. Towards informing the European civil
  engineering community
• The ECCE web page
• ECCE publications
• Symposia, workshops and seminars
• A one-day technical seminar day preceding the
  two-day ECCE General Assembly meetings.
• A symposium can be organised to discuss an
  important theme including a few sub-themes, which
  are included in the Task Forces of the ongoing
  Working Program of SC KT.
• A workshop or a short course can be organised to
  discuss a specific subject
• with the civil engineers of the hosting country
  or
• a few international experts to inform them about
  an interesting development in the civil
  engineering area.
• ECCE can contribute as co-organiser in symposia,
  which are related to the actual task forces or
  general interest of ECCE community.

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Available Tools

• 2. Towards reflecting the RTD needs of the
  profession to the decision making bodies
• Surveys / questionnaires / interviews
• sending out questionnaires through the internet.
• communication is the use of the ECCE web
• to collect information on research needs
• from the institutions and
• some leading civil engineers themselves.
• Investigation concerning the extent of
  implementation of Eurocodes and difficulties
  encountered in their application.
• Position papers
• Reports to be sent to research performing
  agencies and research funding organisations or
• Position papers to be presented to the decision
  making bodies ( an example of these would be the
  result of Task Force 2 Condition survey of
  European infrastructure, which is presented
  below).
• Lobbying

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Possible Task Forces 2008-2009

• Task Force 1
• Investigation and follow up of the development
  of European knowledge and technology in civil
  engineering
• Subtask 1.1 Survey on RD at European level
• Task Force 2
• Survey on new technologies on advanced civil
  engineering materials
• Task Force 3
• Condition Survey of European infrastructure
• Task Force 4.
• Technologies and Concepts of Low Energy
  Buildings
• Task Force 5.
• Earthquake Engineering

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Remarks on proposed Task Forces

• The number of task forces listed above is high
• We must consider carefully, how many of these we
  can handle parallel in the tears 2008-2009.
• The final selection of the task forces to be
  included in the Working Program 2008-2009 will be
  made on the base of
• discussions in the SC KT and Executive Committee
  of ECCE in Athens on 19.-20. October, 2007, and
• after having the results of the invitation of
  members and supporting organisations at the end
  of the year 2007.

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An Important Notice

• All members of SC KT and ECCE Executive Board
  are kindly asked
• to consider participating personally in the Task
  Forces, which are relevant to each expertise
• to contact colleagues in universities, research
  institutes and practice, inviting them to members
  or chairs of the Task Forces
• to contact the National Associations of Civil
  Engineers, asking them to identify active
  participants and serving other support in form
  of information, financial resources etc. for
  these Task Forces

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Task Force 1 Investigation and follow up of the
development of European knowledge and technology
in civil engineering

• Task 1.1 Survey on RD at European level
• Chair Dr. Georges Pilot, France
• Members To be identified and elected basing on
  general invitation and nominations of ECCE member
  organisations
• Dr. Pilot will have a presentation on this in
  this meeting
• Results of the Task Force 1
• The results on a specific Internet Website of SC
  KT
• Reports in International ECCE Symposium 2009
  "EUROINFRA Current State and Challenges for
  Sustainable Development of the European
  Infrastructure

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Task Force 2 Survey on new technologies on
advanced civil engineering materials

• Chair To be identified and elected
• Members To be identified and elected basing on
  general
• invitation and nominations of ECCE member
  organisations
• Status of Task Force 2
• Chair and interest in memberships to be
  identified

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Task Force 3 Condition Survey of European
Infrastructure

• Possible objects to be investigated and graded
• Bridges, Roads Transit
• Railways
• Dams Levees
• Aviation
• Inland Waterways
• Schools
• Buildings Offices, commercial centres, apartment
  buildings
• Case studies of failing infrastructure

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Task Force 3 Condition Survey of European
Infrastructure

• Results of the Task Force 3
• Condition Report Cards, which include
• a grading and description of general condition of
  different types of infrastructures, and
• an estimate of financing, which is needed for
  repair and rehabilitation of the systems and
  facilities.
• For politicians and administrative organisations
  and other relevant groups will be give
  recommendations
• on the capacity of our infrastructure to support
  the national economies and European co-operation
• the age and residual service life of the systems
  and
• possible methods to finance improvements in
  different types of infrastructures.

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Task Force 3 Condition Survey of European
Infrastructure

• Tasks of Task Force 3
• Define the detailed organisation and working
  program of the Task Force
• Define the co-operation between national Civil
  Engineering Associations for carrying out the
  surveys in each participating country
• Define the systematic methodology and structure
  of the survey
• Define the systematic way of reporting the
  results (Condition Grading Cards and Conclusions)
• nationally in each country
• for entire EU
• Define the procedures for informing on results
• nationally in each country
• for entire EU
• Carry out the co-ordinated work in the
  participating countries under leadership of each
  national Association Civil Engineers.
• Collect the national results and make conclusions
  on the current condition of buildings and
  infrastructures in EU, as well as evaluations and
  predictions on funding needs for repair and
  rehabilitation works in long term.

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Task Force 3 Condition Survey of European
Infrastructure

• Organisation of Task Force 3
• Time schedule
• Tasks 1-5 years 2007-2008
• Tasks 6-7 year 2009
• Working Group
• Chair To be elected by RIL (Finnish Association
  of Civil Engineers), Finland
• Members To be identified and elected basing on
  general invitation and nominations of ECCE member
  organisations
• Task Groups The work can be divided to a number
  of task groups
• in each country under leadership of each national
  Association of Civil Engineers and
• in each type of infrastructure

• Status of Task Force 2
• Responsible organisation RIL (Finnish
  Association of Civil Engineers) OK
• RIL, in co-operation with SC KT will continue
  the development of this Task Force

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Task Force 4 Technologies and Concepts of Low
Energy Buildings Background

• Heating and cooling of buildings builds a major
  share (around 30 ) of the total energy
  consumption in Europe.
• This means also about the same share of CO2
  production.
• The potential is highest and most economic in
  case of new buildings
• Applied concepts for renovation of old buildings
• There is a huge gap between the requirements of
  lifetime energy economy of current norms and
  standards and the techno-economic optimum of
  energy economy.
• There have been developed already during last 15
  years really economic low energy building
  concepts, with the increase of construction costs
  with 2 to 4 only, although the constructed
  buildings have been quite few and thus some kinds
  of prototypes. This means that the pay-back time
  is already with current energy prices between 4
  and 10 years.
• This existing technology is scattered in several
  countries of Europe
• Effective efforts are needed for collecting this
  knowledge, a for distributing this knowledge and
  technology into everyday practice of civil
  engineers.
• This is a field, where ECCE can do important
  contribution.

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Task Force 4 Technologies and Concepts of Low
Energy Buildings Background

• Objectives of Task Force 4
• To collect European technologies, knowledge, and
  experiences of low energy building concepts with
  high lifetime economy, and
• To develop on this base European Guidelines for
  design and construction of economic Low Energy
  Buildings.
• These Guidelines would be first used in
  voluntary principle, but later introduced into
  EU-codes and CEN-standards.

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Task Force 4 Technologies and Concepts of Low
Energy Buildings Background

• Tasks of the Task Force 4
• Define detailed work program
• Collect existing knowledge on low energy
  buildings (building concepts, experimental
  buildings, existing low energy buildings in use)
• Systemise and classify the grades of energy
  consumption (e. g. classes A to D) on the low
  energy level, which means the annual consumption
  between 20 and 50 of current standard level.
• Select suited building concepts for multi-storey
  apartment buildings and one family houses
• Describe central design and techno-economic
  calculation methods for the use of the designers
  and contractors.
• Create European Guidelines for Low Energy
  Buildings, including some different solutions for
  different areas of Europe.
• Inform national and EU bodies on these Guidelines
  in specific national and European seminars and in
  ordinary international conferences.
• Participate in organising an International ECCE
  Symposium 2009 "EUROINFRA Current State and
  Challenges for Sustainable Development of the
  European Infrastructure".

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Task Force 4 Technologies and Concepts of Low
Energy Buildings Background

• Results of the Task Force 4
• European Guidelines for Low Energy Buildings,
  including
• functional specifications for energy consumption
• descriptions of building concepts
• Building concept is a repeatable and documented
  way of design and construction, which can result
  in individual buildings with an optimised and
  classified lifetime quality.
• energy technical specifications for the
  structural modules and components of building
  envelop
• technical specifications for related building
  service systems ventilation, heat recovery
• Reports in International ECCE Symposium 2009
  "EUROINFRA Current State and Challenges for
  Sustainable Development of the European
  Infrastructure"

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Task Force 4 Technologies and Concepts of Low
Energy Buildings Background

• Organisation of the Task Force 4
• Time schedule
• Tasks 15 in the years 2007-2008
• Tasks 6 - 8 in the year 2009
• Organisation
• Working group, consisting of
• Chairman To be identified and elected
• Members To be elected basing on general
  invitation and nominations of ECCE member
  organisations
• Task groups, which will be defined in the
  detailed work program

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Task Force 5 Life Cycle Design and Condition
Management of Buildings and Infrastructures

• The lifetime design and management can also be
  called with a unified term Life Cycle
  Engineering or Lifetime Engineering.
• Main phases of the life cycle are
• Lifetime revenue and investment planning
• Lifetime design
• Lifetime procurement and construction
• Lifetime management, maintenance, retrofitting
  and modernisation
• End-of-Life Management selective demolition,
  reuse, recycling, wasting

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Task Force 5 Life Cycle Design and Condition
Management of Buildings and Infrastructures

• Moving into lifetime technology means that
• all processes must be renewed
• new methodologies and calculation methods must be
  adopted, e.g., from mathematics, physics, systems
  engineering, environmental science/engineering
  and other natural and engineering sciences.
• The European Sixth Framework Program of GROWTH
  included as an objective the development of
  lifetime engineering.
• The proposer of this Task Force, Prof. Asko
  Sarja, was co-ordinating three actions in this
  field
• The research Project Life Cycle Management of
  Concrete Infrastructures and
• the Thematic Network Lifetime Engineering, and
  
• the Project Cluster Lifetime Engineering.
• Results of these works can be found on the
  websites http//lifetime.vtt.fi/index.htm and
  http//lifecon.vtt.fi/ these results can serve
  as a starting point of this task force.

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Task Force 5 Life Cycle Design and Condition
Management of Buildings and Infrastructures

• Objectives of the Task Force 5
• to promote the development and practical
  applications of lifetime engineering as a tool
  towards sustainable building and civil
  engineering.
• Collecting and systemising current knowledge on
• the principles,
• processes,
• methodologies,
• methods and practical examples of all phases of
  lifetime engineering
• from European and worldwide RD results, norms
  and standards and practices.

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Task Force 5 Life Cycle Design and Condition
Management of Buildings and Infrastructures

• Tasks of the Task Force 5
• Collecting the members and supporting
  organisations of the task force with the help of
  SC KT and European national Associations of
  Civil Engineers. Detailed definition and planning
  of the work
• Survey on current state of the art knowledge on
  lifetime engineering in research and practice,
  using results of the Sixth Framework Program
  GROWTH of EU as a base
• Collecting additional information, knowledge and
  practical applications on lifetime engineering
  from the members of this task force, and from
  supporting organisations of ECCE
• A report on state of the art and future visions
  of lifetime engineering in Europe and worldwide
• Informing the results in each Annual Meeting of
  ECCE
• Participating in planning and contributing in a
  conference in this issue in co-operation with
  IALCCE- International Association of Life Cycle
  Engineering http//www.ialcce08.org/IALCCE-Assoc
  iation.html
• Participating in planning and contributing the
  International ECCE Symposium 2009 "EUROINFRA
  Current State and Challenges for Sustainable
  Development of the European Infrastructure"

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Task Force 5 Life Cycle Design and Condition
Management of Buildings and Infrastructures

• Results of the Task Force 5
• Annual reports in ECCE Executive Board Meetings
• Conference reports and articles in international
  professional magazines
• Updated information on the work and results on
  ECCE Website
• Final Report State of the art and future
  visions of lifetime engineering in Europe and
  worldwide
• Reports in International ECCE Symposium 2009
  "EUROINFRA Current State and Challenges for
  Sustainable Development of the European
  Infrastructure"
• Organisation of the Task Force 5
• Chair Prof. Asko Sarja, Finland
• Members To be identified and elected basing on
  general invitation and nominations of ECCE member
  organisations

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Task Force 6ECCE Symposium 2009 "EUROINFRA
Current State and Challenges for Sustainable
Development of the European Infrastructure"

• Joint Symposium of Task Forces 1. - 5.
• to be organised in 2009 in Finland, in
  co-operation between Task Forces 1-4 and under
  co-ordination of ECCE SC Knowledge and
  Technology.
• Themes of the symposium
• Condition survey of European infrastructure
• Life Cycle Design and Condition Management of
  buildings and infrastructures
• Technologies and concepts of Low Energy Buildings

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Task Force 7 Earthquake Engineering

• Earthquake is a critical issue in southern
  Europe.
• Civil engineering is the most effective component
  of earthquake risk mitigation.
• Informing the civil engineering community about
  the recent advances in seismic design, assessment
  and strengthening technologies is an appropriate
  field of activity for the SC-Knowledge
  Technology.
• Objectives of the Task Force 7
• Within the scope of the informing the CE
  community about recent developments concerning
  the profession objective of the SC-Knowledge
  Technology,
• this task force will organise a joint conference
  on Earthquake Tsunami in collaboration with
  the World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE) and
  the Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers (TCCE).

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Task Force 7 Earthquake Engineering

• Tasks of the Task Force 7
• The main duty of the task force is to contribute
  to the organisation of the conference titled
• Earthquake Tsunami - Civil Engineering
  Disaster Mitigation Activities Implementing
  Millennium Development Goals
• to be held on 22-24 June 2009 in Istanbul,
  Turkey.
• Detailed information is given in the First
  Circular attached.
• Results of the Task Force 7
• Successful realisation of the conference
• Organisation of the Task Force 7
• Chair Tugrul Tankut, Turkey
• Members Gulay Ozdemir, Turkey, Ibrahim Helvaci,
  Turkey
• ECCE Representative in the International Advisory
  Board (to be identified)

• Status of Task Force 7
• Plan is OK
• Will be started immediately

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Summary of the Task Forces

• Task Force 1 Investigation and follow up of the
  development of European knowledge and technology
  in civil engineering
  OK!
• Already ongoing-first results existing-slides to
  be on CD-ROM
• Task Force 2 Survey on New Technologies on
  Advanced Civil Engineering Materials !!!
• Chair and interest to be identified Time table
  to be identified
• Task Force 3 Condition Survey of European
  Infrastructure
  OK!
• RIL accepted to co-ordinate- Chair and members to
  be identified
• Work plan to be developed in o-operation SC KT
  and RIL
• Task Force 4 Technologies and Concepts of Low
  Energy Buildings
• Interest, Chair and members to be identified
• Timetable to be defined
• Task Force 5 Life Cycle Design and Condition
  Management of Buildings and Infrastructures !!
• Chair Asko Sarja
• Interest and participants to be identified
• Timetable to be defined