bauma 2007

The 28th International trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, mining machines, construction vehicles and construction equipment - bauma 2007, will be held from April 23 - 29, 2007 at Munich, Germany.

This year, the fair comes with more hall space of about 540,000 m2 accomodating more than 3,000 exhibitors. The range of products and services include construction vehicles, construction machines, lifting and conveying equipment, construction equipment, tools and special systems, formwork and scaffolding, mining machines, manufacture of cement, lime and gypsum compounds for building materials, machines and systems for producing concrete, concrete products and pre-fabricated parts, asphalt, pre-mixed dry mortar, plaster, building products using power plant residue (fly ash, slag, etc.), handling of building materials (in a plant), to name a few. This time the focus region is the Arabian peninsula. Additionally, the bauma FORUM conference with more than fifty panel discussions will provide deep insight into current trends and themes of the mining industry, tunnel construction and materials preparation technology

For more details, please contact:

Messe München GmbH
Messegelände
D-81823 München
Germany
Tel: (+49 89) 949 11348
Fax: (+49 89) 949 11349
E-mail: info@bauma.de
Website: www.bauma.de

China Building 2007

The 12th China International Exhibition for Building Materials, Building System, Construction Machinery & Architecture' and 'The Beijing International Green Building Materials Exhibition', will be held from May 10 - 13, 2007 at Beijing, China.

The combined exhibition always follows the principle of supplying high quality building materials and products to design and construction units. It is a communication and display platform for building material enterprises. The exhibition attracts many domestic and overseas companies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, U.S., Germany, South Korea, Canada, Spain, Italy, Finland, United Arab Emirates, etc.

The products that will be covered are sanitary and kitchenware, metallic fittings, stone products, interior decoration and flooring materials, doors, windows and hardware, curtain wall and intelligent housing products, heating equipment and ventilation systems, new building materials and steel constructions, paint, light decoration and lighting equipment, building engineering, architecture design and layout, gym and stadium fittings, construction machinery, civil transportation and garden equipment.

For more details, please contact:

Ms. Syndey
China Building Materials Industries Association
No. 11, San Li He Road
Beijing 100831, China
Tel: +86 10 8836 5652
Fax: +86 10 8836 5655
Website: www.chinabuilding.org
Email: syndey80@163.com

Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction 2007: Urban_Trans_Formation

The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction promotes innovative approaches to sustainable construction mainly through Awards competitions and an international Forum.

The objective of the Holcim Foundation is to encourage sustainable responses to the technological, environmental, socio-economic and cultural issues affecting building and construction, regionally as well as globally.

More than 200 international experts will meet in China at the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction to be held from April 19 to 21, 2007. With urban growth predicted to surge in the 21st century, the symposium will advance concepts for the sustainable development of cities. The forum is being hosted by Tongji University in Shanghai. Attendance is limited; registration is now open.

Speakers at the Holcim Forum 2007 include Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia; Brenda Boardman, Head of the Lower Carbon Futures Team at the University of Oxford, UK; Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory government of Delhi, India; Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, USA/UK; Klaus Töpfer, former United Nations Undersecretary-General and former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Germany; and Yung Ho Chang, Head of the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.

The three-day conference will bring together international experts from architecture, civil engineering, urban planning, and natural and social sciences, as well as representatives from business, politics, administration and civil society. Workshops will examine position papers from over 50 international specialists on the topics of normative urbanism (between convention and differentiation), informal urbanism (between sanctioned and shadow orders), green urbanism (between ecology and economy), touristic urbanism (between local and global), and temporary urbanism (between the permanent and transitory).

The discussions at the symposium will be complemented by a full-day excursion in the Shanghai region. The program offers a choice of three themes: conceptual (visit to Chongning Eco-Island / Dongtan Eco-City), architectural (examining the combination of traditional construction and experimental architecture in the Qingpu district), and infrastructure (visit to the world's largest deep-water port at Yangshang).

The Holcim Forum 2007 will be held at Tongji University in Shanghai, China - one of five partner universities of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. In addition to hosting the Holcim Forum, the partner universities define the evaluation criteria used in the Holcim Awards competition and bring together the juries to judge the competitions. The other partner universities of the Holcim Foundation are the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA; Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico City, Mexico; and University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in Johannesburg, South Africa.

For more details, please contact:

Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
Hagenholzstrasse 85,
CH-8050 Zurich,
Switzerland
Tel: +41 58 858 82 92
Email: info@holcimforum.org
Website: www.holcimforum.org

8th International Symposium on Utilisation of High- Strength and High-performance Concrete

The Japan Concrete Institute (JCI), Japan Prestressed Concrete Engineering Association (JPCEA) and Federation Internationale du Beton (fib) are organising the 8th International symposium on 'Utilisation of High-Strength and High-Performance Concrete' from October 27 - 29, 2008 at Tokyo, Japan.
The symposium will bring together engineers, designers, researchers and scientists from around the world to promote better understandings of topics ranging from the most recent researches to the latest applications of high-strength and high-performance concrete for construction. The main themes are: testing methods and standardisation, concrete and reinforcing materials, mechanical properties, fresh properties and constructability, structural performance, durability and long term performance, design considerations and applications.

For more details, please contact:

Symposium Secretariat
E-mail: 8hsc-hpc@jci-web.jp
Fax: +81-3-32632115