CODE OF AWARDING
Subcommittee on ACECC Awards
(Revision on September 27, 2006)
[General Rule]
Article 1 - The bylaws stipulated herein provide the rules for nomination of ACECC Award candidates and selection of awardees.
Article 2 - For selection of ACECC Award nominees and awardees, a Subcommittee on ACECC Awards shall be established by the ACECC Planning Committee and its responsibilities shall be determined as follows;
(1) The Subcommittee on ACECC Awards shall select ACECC recommended awardees from the nominees submitted by ACECC member societies/institutions.
(2) The Subcommittee on ACECC Awards shall report its selection of recommended awardees to the Planning Committee.
(3) The decision of the Planning Committee shall be submitted to the Executive Committee of ACECC for ratification.
[Organization]
Article 3 - The Subcommittee on ACECC Awards shall be responsible to the Planning Committee and shall consist of no more than one representative from each ACECC member society.
Article 4 – The Chair of the Subcommittee on ACECC shall be chosen by the members of the subcommittee by simple majority vote.
[Award Categories]
Article 5 – ACECC Awards shall be presented to the following project(s) and person(s) that are admitted to be qualified for receiving the Awards.
(1) ACECC Award for Technology
(2) ACECC Award for Achievement
[ACECC Award for Technology]
Article 6 – The ACECC Award for Technology shall be granted to a project, which, in principle has been accomplished in the past three years and is judged to have achieved a remarkable contribution to the progress of civil engineering and development within Asia.
Article 7 – The ACECC Award for Technology will honor and recognize the efforts made by all those engineers who worked for the project. The person who is registered in the Nomination Form as the “Project Representative” shall receive the award on behalf of the project.
[ACECC Award for Achievement]
Article 8 - The ACECC Award for Achievement shall be granted to a person belonging to a member society of ACECC who has made a significant contribution to the progress of international civil engineering or to the development of social infrastructure, and who has gained recognition for that contribution from the community for which he/she worked.
[Calling for Nominee Recommendations]
Article 9 - Calling for ACECC Award nominees shall be announced within each economy at the discretion of the local ACECC Member Society.
Article 10 – A Member Society can nominate only one project and one person for the above stipulated awards.
Article 11 – The Letter of recommendation for the ACECC Award for Technology shall provide the information on (1) the outline of the project, (2) the name of the project representative, (3) photographs, (4) reason for recommendation, and (5) project reports or articles in journals or magazines, if any.
Article 12 - The Letter of recommendation for the ACECC Award for Achievement shall provide the information on (1) the nominee’s profile, (2) reason for recommendation, and (3) presented paper(s) authored by the nominee, if any.
Article 13 - A nomination must be made using the “Nomination Form” adopted by the Subcommittee for the purpose including a letter of recommendation for the nominated person or project.
Article 14 – The Chair of the Subcommittee shall encourage communication among committee members by any means in the course of selection of the recommended awardees.
[Decision of the Awardees, Timing and Way of Award Presentation]
Article 15 - The Subcommittee on Awards shall select recommended awardees by majority vote and report the result to the Planning Committee for its approval to report to the Executive Committee. Voting may be by electronic communication without any requirement for attendance at a meeting.
Article 16 - The Executive Committee shall decide the awardees by majority vote.
Article 17 – As many as five awards of ACECC Award for Technology and three
awards of ACECC Award for Achievement shall be made at any one
commendation.
Article 18 - Commendation of ACECC Awards shall be conducted once every three years coinciding with the CECAR by presenting Award certificates and plaques to the awardees during that event.
[Funding]
Article 19 - The cost for the Award certificate and plaques shall be borne by the Local Organizing Committee for the CECAR at which the awards are presented.
[Supplementary Provision]
Article 20 - These bylaws are subject to change by the decision of the Executive Committee.
Attached: Format of the Nomination Forms for awards.
