About the Organisers

The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) was founded in 1929. Today, IABSE has around 4000 members in over 100 countries. The mission of IABSE is to promote the exchange of knowledge and to advance the practice of structural engineering worldwide in the service of the profession and society. To accomplish its mission, IABSE organises conferences and publishes the quarterly journal Structural Engineering International (SEI), as well as reports and other monographs. IABSE also presents annual awards for outstanding achievements in research and practice that advance the profession of structural engineering. Membership is open to individual engineers and organisations having technical or scientific interest related to Structural Engineering.

The International Federation for Structural Concrete fib (fédération internationale du béton) was created in 1998 by the merger of the former CEB and FIP. Its mission is to promote, at the international level, the study of scientific and practical aspects related to concrete construction in order to advance its technical, economic, aesthetic and environmental performance. Membership is open to every engineer. fib publishes so-called “Bulletins”, which continuously influence, in a pre-normative way, the development of national and regional codes, and also a scientific journal ‘Structural Concrete’. Its national member groups organise every year international symposia and once every four years a comprehensive international congress covering all aspects of structural concrete.

The Local Organisers
 
Croatian Group of IABSE represented by CSSE - Croatian Society of Structural Engineers
CSSE is a professional association bringing together structural engineers and other civil engineers to promote the ethics of engineering vocation and advance the development of research in civil engineering. It will celebrate its 57th anniversary in 2010. Today the Society has approximately 1’000 members. More information about CSSE can be found at www.grad.hr/hdgk/.

IGH – Civil Engineering Institute of Croatia
IGH was founded in 1949, and has grown from a simple civil engineering laboratory to the present-day public shareholding company for research and development in civil engineering. IGH is mainly involved with the design of motorways, bridges, tunnels and various purpose building structures, design control, site supervision, material testing and certification, structural load testing, research and consulting. It has 20 accredited laboratory facilities with a total of 350 test methods. Today the Institute has over 880 full time employees of which 456 are engineers. More information about Institute can be found at www.igh.hr.

SECON - Structural Engineering Conferences
SECON was established under the auspices of the Croatian Society of Structural Engineers and has been responsible for the organisation of conferences, courses and workshops. Since the year 2005 SECON supports the Eurocode national implementation by organizing at least one main conference and a number of courses throughout Croatia dealing with topics of interest for structural engineers. Further information on SECON can be found at www.secon.hr.

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Civil Engineering
The Technical College established in Zagreb in 1919 integrated with the University of Zagreb as the Technical Faculty in 1926. Today the Faculty consists of 9 departments: Geotechnical Engineering, Materials, Water Research, Structures, Mathematics, Construction Management, Transportation Engineering, Engineering Mechanics and Buildings. Research is being carried out within the framework of numerous scientific projects. Most of them are financed by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the rest by public enterprises. More information about the Faculty can be found at www.grad.hr.