-> 25 Sept.

Summary   Room A   Room B   Room C   Room D   Room E

9:20 - 10:50

Session 27: "High Performance Concrete"

Chairmen: Boothby, de Silva

Testing eccentrically loaded externally reinforced high strength concrete columns
M.N.S. Hadi

Biaxially loaded high strength concrete columns for strength design
I. Patnaikuni, A.S. Bajaj & P.Mendis

Time series modeling of high performance concrete column shortening due to creep and shrinkage
C.Y. Wong & K.S.P. de Silva

An experimental study of basic creep of high strength concrete
J. Anaton, S. Setunge & I. Patnaikuni

Double-tee prestressed unit made from high strength concrete
E. Dolara & G. Di Niro

Efficiency of repair of HSC beams subjected to combined forces by GFRP sheets
H.A. Anwar & W. El-Kafrawy

Helically reinforced High Strength concrete beams
M.N.S. Hadi


11:20 - 12:50

Session 23: "Sustainaible Engineering"

Chairmen: Dolara, Baba

Production of artificial fly ash lightweight aggregates for sustainable concrete construction
C. Videla & P. Martínez

Sustainable buildings with the infra+ space floor
G.C.M. van der Zanden

Necessity of study on countermeasure for climate change to avoid possible disasters
K. Baba

Fly ashes thermal modification and their utilization in concrete
R. Hela, J. Marsalova & L. Bodnarova

Recycled aggregate concrete for structural purposes: ten years of research 1993-2003
E. Dolara & G. Di Niro

Sustainable bearing structures for (office) buildings
M.J.P. Arets & A.A.J.F. van den Dobbelsteen


14:30 - 16:00

Session 5: "Human Factor, Social-Economic Constraints on the Design Process"

Chairmen: Jannadi, Chen Yen-Po

Organizational culture of the Chinese construction companies: towards a C-E model
A.M.M. Liu & S.B. Zhang

Highest and best use of people
W.L. Kelly

Barriers to constructability in Saudi Arabian construction industry
S. Assaf, O. Jannadi & F. Al-Yousif

Environment friendly design of residential buildings in hot-dry climate
R. Ahuja & V.M. Rao

Engineering the World Trade Center disaster recovery
D.A. Cuoco

A practical code for seismic risk mitigation of historical centers: the case of Umbria (Central Italy)
F. Maroldi

How soccer results effects concrete cracking
S.P.G. Moonen


16:30 - 18:00

Session 25: "New Didactical Strategies and Methods in Higher Technical Education"

Chairmen: Lewis, Bucciarelli-Ducci

Architects and structures: how much structure is (not) enough for an architect?
D. Simic

Teaching creativity to undergraduate civil engineers
T.M. Lewis

A WWW-based learning framework for construction mediation
T.W. Yiu, S.O. Cheung, K.W. Cheung & C.H. Suen

Moving the university to the industry - a successful case study
C. Cosma, Z.J. Herbsman & J.D. Mitrani

InfoBase: a multimedia learning environment to support group work and discourse
R. Stouffs, B. Tunçer & I.S. Sariyildiz