3^rd Announcement 

The First International Symposium on Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability for Belt and Road Countries

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 19-21, 2019

Xiamen, Fujian, China

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Host

Huaqiao University

Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology

 

Organizer

College of Civil Engineering, Huaqiao University

 

Co-Organizer

Key Laboratory for Intelligent Infrastructure and Monitoring of Fujian Province

Key Laboratory for Structural Engineering and Disaster Prevention of Fujian Province

Key Laboratory for Structural Engineering and Seismic Resistance of MOE of China

Fujian Province Higher-Educational Engineering Research Centre for Intelligence and Automation in Construction

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

The great initiative of co-building the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI) provides new opportunities to strengthen the international collaboration on infrastructure resilience and sustainability study.

Huaqiao University (HQU) is a unique university in China having one campus in Xiamen, a critical node on the ancient marine Silk Road, and another one in Quanzhou, the starting point of the ancient Maritime Silk Road. Xiamen city, as one of the earliest established Special Economic Zones in 1980s, is a beautiful, livable, lovable costal city. Bearing the mission of the new BTI era, Xiamen has focused on the new goals of the BRI to face international collaboration with a more confident attitude and to facilitate the construction of an important hub city on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Accompanying with the relocation of the College of Civil Engineering of HQU from Quanzhou to Xiamen, the development of the college entered a new era. Now the college has modern experimental study laboratories equipped with high performance test facilities. Two provincial key laboratories have been approved by the government, which provides valuable platforms to carry out high quality research and to train graduate students. In recent years, more new faculty members joined HQU and brought more power to the college.

Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT) is located in the well-known historical and cultural city of Xi’an, China, which is the eastern starting point of the Land Silk Road and one of the four great ancient capital cities with a history of over 3,100 years. The history of the XAUAT can be traced back to the Tianjin Beiyang School of Western Learning (Beiyang University) established in 1895. It has been known as one of the famous old eight universities in architecture and a leading higher education and research center in civil engineering and architecture in Northwestern China. XAUAT is also the home of the Key Laboratory for Structural Engineering and Seismic Resistance of Ministry of Education of China.

BRI is producing vast, often multilateral, infrastructure projects, creating huge demand for long-term resilient and sustainable infrastructure and BRI must be green and environment friendly for the purpose of protecting the common home we live in. The resilience and sustainability of infrastructures for BRI countries and other countries play key roles in supporting the transformation and upgrading of economic construction and development. Meanwhile, it plays key roles in avoiding structural, environmental, social and governance risks associated with the lifespan of each infrastructure project and achieving resource efficiencies, reducing environmental footprint, international collaboration, and getting long-term risk-adjusted returns from infrastructure developments.

It is critical to work with international thought leaders in the way of international collaboration without borders and to propose timely solutions to critical challenging tasks in realizing resilient and sustainable infrastructures under multi-hazards and harsh environment. In order to take advantage of the new opportunities coming with the BRI and to enhance international collaboration on infrastructure resilience and sustainability research, the College of Civil Engineering of HQU and the College of Civil Engineering of XAUAT decided to initiate an International Symposium on Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability on Dec. 19-21, 2019. The two hosts of the symposium intend to establish a series symposium to be held in Xiamen and Xi’an alternately.

 

Scope and Topics

The topics of this symposium shall include but are not limited to:

⟡  Multi-hazards and their effects on infrastructures

⟡  Sustainable environment and smart city

⟡  Advanced sensing and nondestructive evaluation for infrastructures

⟡  Advanced experimental and simulation technology for infrastructures

⟡  Smart and high performance materials for infrastructures under harsh environments

⟡  Infrastructure retrofitting and rehabilitation

⟡  Big data and artificial intelligence for intelligent infrastructures

⟡  Environmental, social and governance risks associated with the lifespan of infrastructure

 

Symposium Advisors

Jinguang Teng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Xilin Lu, Tongji University, China

Zhishen Wu, Southeast University, China

Hanbin Ge, Meijo University, Japan

 

International Academic Committee

Chair: Xilin Lu, Tongji University, China

Member:

Lorenzo Cantini, University of Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Jianfei Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Yuli Dong, Huaqiao University, China

Zixiong Guo, Huaqiao University, China

Hemant B Kaushik, IIT Guwahati, India

Ying Lei, Xiamen University, China

Qiusheng Li, City University of Hong Kong, China

Yuri Petryna, Technical University Berlin, Germany

Arno Pronk, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland

Weixin Ren, Hefei University of Technology, China           

Bahram M. Shahrooz, University of Cincinnati, USA

Jie Shan, Purdue University, USA

Qingxuan Shi, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China

Hoon Sohn, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Gangbing Song, University of Houston, USA

Bin Xu, Huaqiao University, China

Yao Yao, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China

Tao Yu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Bing Zeng, China Metallurgical Construction Research Institute, China

Ying Zhou, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China

(To be updated)

 

Organizing Committee

Chair: Zixiong Guo, Huaqiao University, China

Co-Chair: Bin Xu, Huaqiao University, China

Qingxuan Shi, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China

Member: Deng Zhang, Baoling Yuan, Yang Liu, Jingsi Huo, Chen Wang, Yaobing Zhao,

Xizhan Ning, Wei Hou, Man Li, Yong Ye, Fei Gao, Wei Chen

 

 

Preliminary Program

Language

The official language of this symposium is English. PPT file for presentations will be collected at the registration.

 

Fees

Registration fee is free.

 

Symposium Avenue

The symposium will be held at Xiamen Campus of HQU

 

 

Hotel

Howard Johnson by Wyndham Jimei Lake Plaza Xiamen

Address: 121 Ligong Road, Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian 361024 China

Tel: 0592-6208888