2026

IABSE Connect - Crash Course: A series of lectures about collapses, failure mechanisms and lessons learned on structural safety.

More info to be found here.

On February 12, IABSE Netherlands will host its annual seminar, at the office of Haskoning, Mining Street 120, 2628 RX Delft, from 3:30 - 8:00 PM, at Connect, about collapses, failure mechanisms, and what we can learn from them for structural safety. 

This course is intended for registered structural designers, designers, architects, supervisors and construction experts.

Registered designers and registered structural designers receive one point for continuing education or knowledge units for assessment for entry into the structural engineers register: one KE/PE point. Architects can record their participation hours as WAT hours.

Contents

The program is packed with leading speakers from the field and academia, who will share their insights on collapses, failure mechanisms, and what we can learn from them for structural safety. From current topics such as hydrogen embrittlement, fatigue, and timber degradation to high-profile (inter)national cases—and how structural choices sometimes even have repercussions in court .

In short: a meeting you won't want to miss if you, as a structural engineer, want to (continue to) design safely and responsibly. As a bonus, participants will receive the book " Learning from Collapses" (F. van Herwijnen).

Program

3:00 PM Reception

3:30 PM Introduction/keynote Dick Hordijk (Hageman)

4:00 PM Hydrogen embrittlement Rob Vergoossen (Haskoning)

4:30 PM Cracking steel structures Maarten Rikken (APMT)

5:00 PM Research for OVV, AZ/Nieuwegein Erik Middelkoop (Haskoning)

5:30 PM Buffet

6:30 PM Atlantic City parking garage collapse and EEM in court Max Hendriks (TU Delft)

7:00 PM Research into the aging of wooden poles Giorgio Pagella (TUDelft)

7:30 PM Rounding off and drinks

Participation costs

Free for IABSE members. For non-members, it's €90 excluding VAT.

NOTE! Please indicate on your registration whether you are an IABSE member (including your membership number).

Contact

+31(0) 88 353 12 12; info@bouwenmetstaal.nl

2023

Young Engineers Colloquium in Europe, 24-25 November 2023
Proceedings can be downloaded from here.

On the 24 and 25^th of November 2023, the Belgian and Dutch National Groups of IABSE jointly organized their third Young Engineers Colloquium 2023 (YEC2023) at the Aula of Ghent University in Ghent in Belgium. YEC2023 is especially meant for young engineers to exchange knowledge internationally, with  focus on Belgium and the Netherlands. This Colloquium offered young engineers the opportunity to present their interesting research, engineering or construction projects to an audience of fellow engineers from the structural engineering sector. The event was sponsored by 8 Belgian and Dutch sponsors and attended by 68 participants.  The Proceedings can be downloaded from IABSE Members Area. Below are some photos from the YEC 2023 event. The Keynote Lecture was delivered by Prof. José Campos e Matos (ISISE, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal) on the subject “Case study for a KPI-based Quality Control system of roadway bridges”. The Technical Excursion took place visiting several bridges under construction in Ghent and visiting the construction site of the Oosterweel tunnel project in Zeebruges under the guidance in Ghent of prof. em. dr. ir. Philippe Van Bogaert and under the guidance of technical specialists of the contractor TM COTU on site in Zeebruges. Full report will be published in SEI February 2024 issue.

Click Here to view the photos.