Promosi: Seminar on Concrete Evolvement and its Sustainability (5 MARCH 2012) at UTP

Title: Seminar on Concrete Evolvement and its Sustainability
Date: 5 March 2012 (9am-5pm)
Venue: Seminar Room 6, Undercroft, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750 Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia.

REGISTRATION FEE :
CSM Member : RM 150.00
CSM Non-member : RM 180.00

INTRODUCTION
The need to strive for sustainable development is now recognised as a global imperative. Sustainable Development is about balancing human needs with the earth’s capacity to meet them. A wide variety of construction methods and concrete products give us the application and techniques to create both beauty and function in ways that reduce the impact of buildings on the environment. Concrete offers a wide range of capabilities to help achieve this balance. Concrete plays a vital role in reducing the operational energy requirements of buildings. The concrete industry uses the latest conservation and recycling practices and technologies for the manufacturing, production and operational processes to assist in making concrete part of a sustainable solution. Concrete is one of the world’s best products for our Sustainable Construction and Development future as more people understand the many solutions concrete offers. These practices and technologies continue to advance, as what have been illustrated in the recent development of concrete technologies like the geopolymer concrete, self healing concrete as well as bioconcrete, part of which will be presented in this seminar.

BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKERS

Assoc. Prof Dr. Ir. Erik Schlangen studied Structural Engineering at Eindhoven University, The Netherlands and did his PhD at the Civil Engineering Department at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. After his PhD, he worked three years as an Assistant Professor at Delft during which he spend 14 months at NIST, USA. Then he worked eight years in the industry as a senior material scientist. In 2004 he returned to TU Delft as an Associate Professor teaching Mechanics of Civil Engineering. Currently, he is the Head of the MICROLAB, Civil Engineering at TU Delft. He has published more than 250 papers in the international journals and conferences. His research interests are (i) Early-age concrete: hydration and development of mechanical properties, (ii) Chemo-mechanics: Alkali-Silica-Reaction, Frost Salt Scaling, Chloride ingress in cracked concrete, and (iii) Self-Healing: Ongoing hydration in cracks, Bacterial Concrete, (Un)ravelling of asphalt, Wood-fibre concrete. He is the chairman of Rilem-TC-SHC: Self Healing of Concrete and members of different Rilem committees.

Prof. Ir. Dr. Muhd Fadhil Nuruddin is the Dean Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) and prior to this appointment he was the UTP Director of Sustainable Resources Mission Oriented Research Cluster. He is a Fellow Member of the Concrete Society of Malaysia and also a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia. His research focus areas are on geopolymer concrete, cement replacement materials and self compacting and ductile concrete. Over the 28 years of working experience, he has published more than 200 technical papers in journals and conferences internationally and locally. His expertise in concrete technology has attracted universities abroad to engage him as Visiting Professor, Keynote Speaker and External Examiner for PhD candidate. Currently, he is a Professor in Concrete at UTP and is heavily involved with research and consultancy in concrete science and technology.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hamidah Mohd Saman obtained her Bachelor in Civil Engineering degree from the University of Miami, USA in 1988. She worked as a Researcher in SIRIM Berhad from 1992 before pursued her PhD study in Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1999. She joined Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in 2000 as a Lecturer and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2007. Her active involvement in professional bodies is portrayed by her designation as a Secretary of Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM), Treasurer of American Concrete Institute Kuala Lumpur Chapter and Council Member of Confederation of Scientific and Technological Associations in Malaysia (COSTAM). She was appointed as a member of editorial or review board for Malaysian Construction Research Journal (CREAM-CIDB), Scientific Research Journal (UiTM), The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) Journal, Journal of Engineering Science & Technology (JESTEC) and International Sustainable Construction Journal co-published by UTHM-Concrete Society of Malaysia (CSM). During her service as an academician in UiTM, she has published more than 100 papers in the international and national journals as well as conference proceedings in the area of durability in concrete, lightweight concrete, high performance concrete and bioconcrete. Strengthening and repair materials for concrete structures using non-corrodible and high resistance materials to fire are the new area of her interest.


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