The Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council
(ACECC)
The Ninth Executive Committee Meeting
August 16, 2004
Minutes
The Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council
(ACECC) The Ninth Executive Committee Meeting |
August 16, 2004
Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel |
MINUTES |
The 9th Executive Committee Meeting of the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council was held at Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel on August 16, 2004 from 9:00 to 13:30.
AGENDA
1. Welcome by KSCE President
2. Greeting by the ACECC Chair of the Executive Committee
3. Introduction of Attendees (Attachment 1)
4. Confirmation of official representatives and quorum
5. Report from the ACECC Secretariat (Attachment 2)
6. PC Activity Report (the 3rd PC Meeting in
7. TC Activity Report (Attachment 3)
8. Report of the 3rd CECAR from LOC (Attachment 4)
9. Election of New Chair of the Executive Committee (2004 – 2007)
Remarks : Out-going Chair and the new Chair
10. Appointment and Approval of Secretary General
Remarks : Out-going Secretary General and the new Secretary General
11. Approval of the members of Local Organizing Committee (Attachment 5)
12. Report of initial plan for the 4th CECAR (Attachment 6)
13. 2005 Action Plan and Budget Plan (October 1, 2004 ~ June 30, 2005) (Attachment 7)
14. Other Businesses
- Proposals from PICE : ACECC Forum in
- Copyright of the 3rd CECAR Proceedings
- Mr. Henry’s Presentation : Global Principles for Professional Conduct
15. Next Meeting
Ms. Galloway, the President of ASCE had a short greeting address before the opening of meeting, since she had another special engagement in other place. She stated the history of ACECC and CECAR and her strong belief in the brilliant future of ACECC.
Agenda Item 1 – Welcome by KSCE President
Welcoming Address by Prof. Soo-Sam Kim, President of KSCE
Good Morning! As the President of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers, I would like to convey a very hearty welcome from each of our sixteen thousand members.
For the next three days we will see the fruits of our three years of hard work. All indications point to a very successful conference.
As Dr. Kim mentioned last evening, this would not have been possible without active assistance and participation from all of you, who are here this morning, and I truly thank you for your help.
And I would like to congratulate our friends from
We very much hope you will have a good meeting today and will enjoy the Conference.
Agenda Item 2 – Greeting by the ACECC Chair of the Executive Committee
Greeting Address by Dr. Kwang-Il Kim, Chair of ACECC EC
Good Morning, and I hope everyone had a good rest last night.
I again thank the presidents of our member societies and institutes for being here this morning, and it is an honor for this executive committee to have you here, since this happens only during the CECAR every three years.
I would like to let you know that Presidents are not obligated to stay through the end of this meeting. Only the official delegate is required to be present.
But you are reminded that there will be a Presidents' meeting starting at 7:00 p.m. this evening in the On-Dal, Korean restaurant.
Without further due, I would like to start the meeting.
Agenda Item 3 – Introduction of Attendees (Attachment -1)
Every attendee made a brief self-introduction.
The ECM had Mr. Chongrak POLPRASERT, Dean and Professor, Asian Institute of technology,
Agenda Item 4– Confirmation of Official Representatives and Quorum
The confirmation of the formal representative who had a voting right from each member society/institution was made as follows:
ASCE – Mr. Patrick J. Natale
CICHE – Dr. Jenn-Chuan Chern
EAust – Mr. Peter Godfrey
JSCE – Dr. Hiroshi Okada
KSCE – Mr. In-Kuin Kim
PICE – Mr. Peter N. Aventajado
VIFCEA – Dr. Pham Sy Liem
The ACECC Secretary General – Dr. Chun-Su Chon
Since there was no absence from member societies/institutes, the meeting was confirmed effective according to the Constitution Article 5-7.
Agenda Item 5 – Report from the ACECC Secretariat (Attachment –2)
Dr. Chon presented a brief ACECC Secretariat Activity Report and Financial Report during the four month after the 8th ECM in HCM, Vietnam and also reviewed the past three year ACECC Secretariat Activities.
Dr. Wang proposed everybody to give a big applause to KSCE for their full support for the ACECC and CECAR. Dr. Chon also expressed his sincere thanks to KSCE for her financial support for the ACECC.
Dr. Kusakabe asked Dr. Chon to explain about the Membership Campaign among the ACECC Activity Summary Report. Dr. Chon said that the Secretariat sent out Invitations to
Agenda Item 6 – PC Activity Report
Dr. Young-Nam Lee summarized the 3rd PCM held on August 15, 2004. At this meeting representatives from five member societies/institutes were present. PC members were asked to lead seven operational tasks from ACECC EC. At that moment they were working on four out of seven operational tasks. One of them is “Code of Ethics”, second one is “Asian Design Code”, third one is “Expert Resource Pool” and the fourth one is “Public Perception Issue”. And then they have “Terminology Dictionary”, and “Technical Document data-base”. They had draft report for guidelines for code of ethics from Engineers Australia. They reviewed, discussed, and came to conclusion that PC would accept this report as draft paper for further review of each ACECC member society and then they would present this to the next ECM for approval and further action. For the second item, “Asian Design Code”, JSCE reported a proposal for harmonizing Asian Design Code and it was agreed among PC members to build up the data base for design code of each ACECC member society and then link this to JSCE website from which they can move on. Also, ACECC would recommend the professional society of each ACECC member society, the necessity of harmonizing design code in specific technical field, and for the building of data-base of non-ACECC societies, ACECC would write a letter asking the society to provide date-base information to ACECC. The “Expert Resource Pool” was presented from KSCE which was just a preliminary report and ACECC PC members agreed that they need to proceed for the actions. And there was a report of Special Forum-2. Lastly, Dr. Lee mentioned that for the next ECM, ASCE would report a preliminary work out for “Public Perception Program”.
Mr. Godfrey mentioned that they would ask the feedback they provided so that they had two months to prepare. He would respond before coming back to the ECM. So he asked to remember that the societies should send their response two months before the next ECM. Mr. Mitchell would consolidate and bring it back to the next ECM for approval.
Agenda Item 7 – TC Activity Report (Attachment – 3)
Dr. Okumura presented the two TC Activity Reports; As for the TC-1, Workshop on Wave, Tide Observations and Modeling in Asian Pacific Region would be held at Conference Room, FKI Bldg.,
Dr. Chon asked if JSCE has an intension to continue TC-2 activities further on. Dr. Okumura said that at first stage, they promised to keep their activities for three years so JSCE concluded that there would be no further activities. By the end of this ECM, Dr. Chon asked JSCE to submit the formal report. Also if they have any publication, he asked to submit it to the Secretariat who can finalize it and then from 10th ECM will drop TC-2 activity.
Agenda Item 8 – Report of the 3rd CECAR from LOC (Attachment 4)
Dr. Hong, Chair of the 3rd CECAR LOC presented the 3rd CECAR activity; because the number of registration and corporate contributions were changing rapidly as the 3rd CECAR approached, they prepared another updated 3rd CECAR LOC Activity Report and distributed at the 9th ECM. He explained Budget and Registration. In HCM city,
Dr. Woo, Secretary General of the 3rd CECAR LOC explained Technical Program of the 3rd CECAR; he explained program at a glance shown in the final program and then continued to explain more details about each program. He asked the permission to waive the copyright on the 3rd CECAR Proceedings since ACECC has the copyright of the proceedings of the 3rd CECAR. KSCE wants to translate some of the articles to Korean and publish them in KSCE Journals. EA wants to select some EA papers from the Proceedings of the 3rd CECAR for republishing them in an EA journal.
ASCE made an announcement on the updated corporate contribution from ASCE. They brought the remaining USD 5,000 of their assigned amount to meet the optimistic scenario and delivered to the LOC Chair.
Dr. Chon said that as far as the copyright problem goes, we should deal with one package later on to allow member societies to use the proceedings of the 3rd CECAR.
Agenda Item 9 – Eletion of New Chair of the Executive Commitee
Dr. Kwang-Il Kim asked CICHE to nominate a new chair of the Executive Committee, ACECC. Dr. Chern was nominated as the new chair of EC, ACECC and the voting on the new chair proceeded. It was unanimously approved by EC members.
Dr. Chern delivered his acceptance speech;
Dr. Kim, the Chair of Executive Committee of the ACECC, Dr. Okada, the former Chair of ACECC EC, Prof. Kim, President of KSCE, Dr. Chon, the Secretary General of ACECC, Dr. Hong, the Chair of the 3rd CECAR LOC and Dr. Woo, the Secretary General of the 3rd CECAR LOC and Distinguished guests and Ladies and Gentlemen, on behalf of CICHE, I would like to express my appreciation for your full support for ask to host the 4th CECAR in Taipei in 2007. I am sure to let you enjoy your stay and we need a successful conference. It is also my great honor and pleasure to serve as the Chair of EC of ACECC for the term of 2004 to 2007. I would like to congratulate and thank to Dr. Kim, outgoing chair of EC of ACECC for his outstanding and dedicated leadership during his three year term to lead us to go farther and become stronger. I would like to thank Dr. Chon, the Secretary General and Joyce of course for their very dedicated service to the ACECC. And I would like to congratulate Dr. Hong, the Chair of the 3rd CECAR LOC and Dr. Woo, the Secretary General of the 3rd CECAR LOC for their great efforts and hard working to make this conference so successful. As the new chair of ACECC EC, it is my duty to profound the work according to the Constitution & By-law of ACECC. I have joined ECM meeting since the 2nd meeting. So I know many friends here and I know the roles. It is also my role to promote friendship, technology and cooperation among our civil engineers and member societies in
Dr. Chon asked Dr. Kim’s remarks as out-going Chair.
Dr. Kim delivered his speech;
It seems just like yesterday, but more than three years have passed since the 2nd CECAR in
To Dr. Okada, the first Chair of ACECC and Dr. Kusakabe, the first Secretary General of ACECC and also Executive Advisor to me during the last three years, who helped us to make a smooth transition of the ACECC Secretariat,
To Dr. Chon, who so capably assisted me for the past three years, also to Dr. Hong and Dr. Woo of the LOC,
To Prof. Chern and all the officers of CICHE who hosted the working group meeting from which the planning committee is born,
To ASCE, Engineers Australia, and VIFCEA for hosting ECMs and to PICE for your support.
I am greatly indebted to all of you, and it is to all your credit that ACECC has come so far today. I offer my full support to CICHE and the new Secretariat.
And I am confident that ACECC will become the premier civil engineering organization. I have known Prof. Chern from 5 years ago at JSCE Annual Conference in
Thank you every one.
Agenda Item 10 – Appointment and Approval of Secretary General
Dr. Chern presided over the remaining meeting. He would like to appoint Dr. Wang as the Secretary General of the ACECC. (Page 4 of Agenda 10 resume) ; Dr. Wang received his PhD from MIT. And he has been with
Dr. Chern asked for ECM members’ approval of his appointment. Executive Committee approved the proposal unanimously.
Dr. Wang delivered his short speech;
New Chair of ACECC, outgoing Chair of ACECC and ladies and gentlemen, this is my first time to attend CECAR and ACECC ECM so this is a new experience to me. But I believe I have a good chance to serve the community of ACECC to promote our quality of life in the Asian Region and also in the world. Under leadership of Dr. Chern, all of you, of course the previous experience esp. from Dr. Chon and also from Dr. Kusakabe could be really useful to me. So, I would take this chance to ask them to help me and also from all of you. I will do my best for myself and also my colleagues in
Dr. Chon delivered his remarks as out-going Secretary General;
It has been my honor and pleasure to serve you all for the last three years as the secretary general of the ACECC Secretariat.
As the record shows, Secretariat held 5 ECMs in 4 different countries, and held working group meeting in
One regret is that during three years of my service, ACECC was not successful in adding new members.
I want to express my deep appreciations to you all for supporting me and helped me through my three-year term for the smooth operation of the Secretariat. Lastly but not least, I personally want to thank Joyce here in assisting me through all the whims and frets from me. I may propose you to give her a big applause for the job well done.
I wish you all for good health and prosperity for you and your family in the future and hope to keep in touch to continue our friendship.
Thank you.
Agenda Item 11 – Approval of the members of Local Organizing Committee (Attachment 5)
Dr. Chern asked to refer to the hand out from CICHE for the approval of the members of the 4th CECAR LOC. (page 6) He nominated the candidates; Professor Keh-Chyuan Tsai as Chair, LOC, Professor Kuo-Chun Chang as Vice Chair, LOC, Dr. Lap-Loi Chung as Secretary General, LOC. And he introduced Prof. Tsai’s biography.(refer to the page 7)
All EC members approved this nomination for the 4th CECAR LOC members.
Agenda Item 12 – Report of Initial Plan for the 4th CECAR (Attachment 6)
Dr. Tsai presented the initial plan for the 4th CECAR;
1. Date : May 28~31, 2007
2. Venue :
3. Theme : Working for Asian Sustainability
4. Topics : Biodiversity & Environment, Green Community, Land Development & Management, Water & Marine Resources Management, Sustainable Transportation, New Energy & Conservation, Sustainable Construction, Hazard Mitigation, e-Construction, International Cooperation
5. Special Forums : SF-1 “Sustainable Education & Ethics, SF-2 “Ecological Industrial Park”
He also introduced
