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NEWS AND EVENTS

RILEM UPDATE

The International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials,
Systems and Structures

RILEM Membership – Reduced Fee Structure
A message from Dr Radhakrishna G Pillai, RILEM Regional Convener for South Asia
Dear current & prospective RILEM Members,

Thank you for your support for the success of various online programmes we conducted in 2020. Also, with
the new members who joined in 2020, India enjoys the 2 position worldwide in terms of RILEM membership.
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Anticipating relief from the pandemic, RILEM is planning various online and in-person programmes in 2021.
Please, check the calendar of these events here: https://www.rilem.net/agenda.
There is great news regarding membership fees - RILEM has reduced the annual membership fee for young
members. The new fee structure for India (after 60% discount) is as follows.
• Young Member (age less than 35 years): € 10 (₹ 885 approx.)
• Senior Member: € 150 (₹ 13,300 approx.)
• Retired Member: € 30 (₹ 2,660 approx.)
• Institutional Member (with unlimited staff members): € 882 (₹. 78,165 approx.)
• Industrial Member (with unlimited staff members): € 1,620 (₹. 143,570 approx.)
• Associate Member (with 3 staff & 1 associate): € 466 (₹. 41,300 approx.)

For details, please visit https://www.rilem.net/article/membership-32, and join or renew your membership. Also, encourage other
young researchers and engineers to take the membership. If you have any doubts, please contact us at RilemSouthAsia@gmail.com
or RilemIndia@gmail.com.

Videos of RILEM conference available
FOR FREE on YouTube
The videos of the presentations at the last RILEM conference
“Materials and value chains for sustainable, inclusive, and resilient
urbanisation in Africa” are available for free on our YouTube channel:
youtube.com/user/RILEMChannel. This online conference was a
great success, attended by more than 700 registered participants
from 65 countries. The list of speakers and short interviews with them
can be found here: bit.ly/2YzUQzF.

Materials and value chains for sustainable,
inclusive, and resilient urbanisation in Africa

South Asia Representative in the RILEM Youth Council (RYC)
Dr Surender Singh has been elected as the Vice-Chair of the newly established RILEM Youth Council.
Surender, representing the South Asia regional area, is one of the 11 young researchers from around the
world who are members of this Council. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering,
at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. His research interests are pavement material
characterization, valorization of recycled materials, and cement concrete pavement. Currently, he is an
executive committee member of the Indian Concrete Institute Chennai center, and one of the Topic Editors
for a special issue on recycling for the Journal of Frontiers in Built Environment.

8 THE INDIAN CONCRETE JOURNAL | MARCH 2021