On March 11-13, 2023, the 4th Asian Concrete Institute International Symposium on New Technologies for Structural Longevity (ACF2023_ETSL), organized by the Asian Concrete Institute (ACI) and co-organized by the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering(CCTE) of Shenzhen University and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, was successfully held in Shenzhen. ETSL)" was successfully held in Shenzhen. As part of the 40th anniversary celebration, this conference was also highly valued by Shenzhen University. The conference invited top experts from home and abroad such as Academician Nie Jianguo from Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Ou Jinping from Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Miao Changwen from Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Lv Xilin from Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician Teng Jinguang from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Li Jie from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician Xu Shilong from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor Shi Caijun, President of Asian Concrete Association to attend the conference and make the conference report.

The opening ceremony of the 4th International Symposium of Asian Concrete Association at a glance

Opening speech by Prof. Nie Jianguo, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University, Director of the Department of Civil, Hydraulic and Architectural Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tsinghua University

Opening speech by Prof. Zhou Hui, Vice President of Shenzhen University

Opening speech by Prof. Shi Caijun of Hunan University, Chairman of Asian Concrete Association

The conference adopts offline + online synchronous participation mode, 10 top industry experts from home and abroad gave wonderful conference reports in the main conference hall, the reports cover the research hotspots and cutting-edge issues in various fields of civil engineering, which gained wide attention from domestic and foreign counterparts and were well received by the participants.

The main venue of the 4th International Symposium of Asian Concrete Association

Professor Ou Jinping of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, reported on the conference

Professor Miao Changwen, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of Academic Committee of Southeast University, Director of State Key Laboratory of High Performance Civil Engineering Materials, Southeast University

Prof. Li Jie, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tongji University

Prof. Shi Long Xu, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang University, Conference Report (online)

Prof. Xing Feng, Shenzhen University Conference Report

Dr. Akio Kasuga, Executive Vice President, Chief Technical Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co., Ltd, Japan, Past President of the International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib) Conference Report (online)

Conference Report by Prof. Hong-Gun PARK, Seoul National University, President of Korea Concrete Association (online)

Congress Report by Prof. Sylvia Keßler, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany (online)

Conference Report by Prof. Jong-Jin Lee, Macau University of Science and Technology

Professor Teng Jinguang, President of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences

The organizing committee received more than 240 submissions from 10 countries; the organizing committee arranged 14 sub-forums with 180 presentations covering all directions of the current development of the concrete field.

Sessions of the 4th International Symposium of Asian Concrete Association

The conference also included a half-day full on-line workshop, held in the afternoon of March 13, 2023. It is jointly organized by the Asian Concrete Federation (ACF) - Shenzhen University - Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the International Federation of Structural Concrete (fib), and features seven renowned academics from home and abroad as lecturers who present new concepts and practices in concrete durability design from different perspectives.

The 4th Asian Concrete Institute International Symposium fib MC2020 Workshop at a glance

Chief Engineer Construction at the Building Research Establishment (BRE)

Dr. Stuart MATTHEWS

President of the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib)

Prof. Stephen FOSTER

Instituto Eduardo Torroja,Spain

Prof. Carmen ANDRADE

TNO, Netherland

Dr. Gerrie DIETEREN

Tongji University, China

Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Prof. Xi-Lin LV

Tsinghua University

Prof. Ke-Fei LI

Shenzhen University

Prof. Tamon UEDA

With the support and joint efforts of all parties, the 4th Asian Concrete Institute International Symposium - New Technologies for Long Life of Structures (ACF2023_ETSL) Conference was successfully held and concluded.