3rd International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions of Environment and Loading (CONSEC'01) Vancouver, BC, June 18-20, 2001

摘要

Significant challenges confront us today with regards to our built environment. These include a deteriorating infrastructure, discrepant ways of design, unresolved environmental issues, a fragmented research environment and lack of timely transfer of technology. Addressing these issues requires innovative, interdisciplinary and sometimes unconventional thinking along with an effective partnership between the academia and the industry. We need an extensive interaction between the four seemingly isolated sectors of design, construction, maintenance and repair and to produce cross-fertilization of ideas aimed at developing multidisciplinary, rational and 'holistic' solutions.With these goals in mind, the Third International Conference on Concrete under Severe Conditions Environment and Loading (CONSEC'0l) was held in Vancouver, BC, from June 18 to 20, 2001. Since its inception in Japan in 1995, and the continuing success in Norway in 1998, CONSEC conferences have now become a cherished tradition in all prominent 'concrete' circles. These are an effective forum for exchange of ideas, transfer of technology, launch of new concepts, diffusion of research discoveries, and a rapid advancement in our state-of-the-art.