ECM Seminar Friday, March 26, 2021

ACECC TC-14 Seminar (virtual) at ECM in Taipei, Taiwan

Infrastructure to Support the UN SDGs in the Asian Region

Time: 14:00 - 18:00 CST

Moderators: Prof. Yu-Chi Sung, President, CICHE, William E Kelly ASCE Chair TC 14

• • • Welcome & Opening Address Prof. Yu-Chi Sung, President, CICHE, William E. Kelly, Chair, TC-14

    • Keynote speech: Engineers challenges and duties under climate change, Dr. Chien-Shen Lai, Chair, Minister of Water Resource Agency, Taiwan

    • Establish a sustainable and resilience safety Homeland–Develop homeland disaster prevention and safety platform, Yew-Tsang Lin, Chief Engineer, CECI Consultants, Ltd.

    • ASCE/ANSI Standard Requirements for Sustainable Infrastructure, Mr. Michael Sanio, (ASCE) Reston, Virginia presentation

    • Status of Sustainable Infrastructure in Bangladesh Prof.(Engr.) Dr. Aysha Akter (IEB) Head, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology (CUET) , Bangladesh presentation

    • Status of Sustainable Infrastructure in Mongolia Mr. Munkhbayar Buyan, (MACE), School of Civil Engineering & Architecture, Mongolian University of Science & Technology, Mongolia presentation

    • Status of Sustainable Infrastructure in Indonesia Dr. Muhamad Abduh, (HAKI), Dept Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia presentation

    • Status of Sustainable Infrastructure in Japan Dr Yoshinori Fukubayashi, (JSCE), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan presentation

There was a moment of silence at the start of the seminar to remember Professor Ali Ashraf, a member of TC 14 for IEB who passed away from COVID shortly before the seminar