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60 years

Gordon Clark
President of fib
FDRATION INTERNATIONALE DU BTON INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR STRUCTURAL CONCRETE
 fib - fdration internationale du bton
International Federation for Structural Concrete
created in 1998 by merger of the
Euro-International Committee for Concrete

(Comit Euro-international du Bton, founded 1953)

and the
International Federation for Pre-stressing

(Fdration Internationale de la Prcontrainte, founded 1952)

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Aims and Objectives
To develop at international level the study of scientific and
practical matters in order to advance the technical,
economic, aesthetic and environmental performance of
concrete construction by
a) stimulation of research and synthesis of findings,
b) transfer into design and construction practice
c) dissemination by publications, congresses, courses
d) production of recommendations, guidance
e) informing members through publications

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 1953 2013
Six Decades
in Concrete

A snapshot from features in magazine

Concrete Quarterly for each 10th
anniversary.

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 1953 2013
Six Decades
in Concrete

Coincides with the reign of Her Majesty

Queen Elizabeth

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 1953
Le Corbusier RIBA Gold medal

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 1963
Commonwealth Institute London

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 1973
Sir Leslie Martin
RIBA Gold
Medal

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 1983
Low Energy
Office

UK

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 1993
Calatrava
Lyon Station

France

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 2003
High Strength
Concrete

Denmark

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 2013
Norman
Foster

Airport
Jordan

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15 times Increase 60% in China

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 Concrete in the World

Essential to Society

Estimated $1.2 trillion sector

1.5% of World GDP

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 60 years fib CEB FIP
PRESIDENTS
1953-57 Andr Balency-Barn (F) 1953-58 Eugne Freyssinet (F)
1957-68 Franco Levi (I) 1958-61 Eduardo Torroja (E)
1968-71 Hubert Rsch (D) 1961-66 Yves Guyon (F)
1971-78 Andrew Short (UK) 1966-70 Franco Levi (I)
1979-83 Julio Ferry-Borges (P) 1970-74 Gerrit F. Janssonius (NL)
1983-87 Theodossios Tassios (GR) 1974-78 Ben C. Gerwick Jr. (USA)
1987-98 Roy Rowe (UK) 1978-82 Roger Lacroix (F)
1982-84 John Derrington (UK)
1998-2000 Michel Virlogeux (F) 1984-88 Hans Wittfoht (D)
2000-2002 Joost Walraven (NL) 1988-92 Ren Walther (CH)
2002-2004 Jim Forbes (AUS) 1992-96 Jan Moksnes (N)
2005-2007 Giuseppe Mancini (I) 1996-98 Michel Virlogeux (F)
2007-2008 Hans-Rudolf Ganz (CH)
2009-2010 Michael Fardis (GR)
2011-2012 Gyrgy L. Balzs (H)
2013-2014 Gordon Clark (UK) current President
2015-2016 Harald S. Mller (D) next President
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60 years fib CEB FIP PRESIDENTS

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 60 years fib CEB FIP
SECRETARY GENERALS

1953-89 Yves Saillard (F, CH) 1953-71 Philip Gooding (UK)

1989-98 Rudiger Tewes (CH) 1971-78 Arthur W Hill (UK)
1978-85 Barry W Shacklock (UK)
1985-94 Ralph Andrew (UK)
1994-98 John Dougill (UK)

1998-2008 Rudiger Tewes

2008-2010 Anna Bosche
2011- Petra Schumacher

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 60 years of Change

Design Codes
Materials
Construction equipment
Analysis and Calculations

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 Design Codes

From allowable stress to limit state

Simple rules of thumb to complex formulae

Verification by testing

PC Beam Tests at 1953

FIP Symposium London

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 Materials

From 3:2:1 mix to UHPFRC

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 Construction equipment

Mechanisation

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 Analysis and Calculations

From slide rule to computers and NLFEM

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 International Federation for Structural Concrete
Argentina
43 National Member Groups Lebanon
Luxembourg
Australia
Netherlands
Austria
New Zealand
Belgium
Norway
Brazil
Poland
Canada
Portugal
China
Romania
Croatia
Russia
Cyprus
Serbia
Czech. Rep
Slovak Rep
Denmark
Slovenia
Finland
South Africa
France
South Korea
Germany
Spain
Greece
Sweden
Hungary
Switzerland
India
Tunisia
Iran
Turkey
Israel
(Actualized: 1 January 2014 Ukraine
Italy
United Kingdom
Japan
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Since 1980 over 50% outside Europe

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Over 70 Conferences

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CEB + FIP fib

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 Structural Concrete
Downloads

Journal of fib

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 - courses 2003 - 2013
Nicosia, Athens, New-Delhi, Brescia, Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town,
Milano, Napoli, Ankara, Buenos Aires, Vienna

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(As of Nov. 2012)

 History of Model Codes
1964: 1st CEB International Recommendations
1970: 2nd CEB/FIP International Recommendations
1978: 1st CEB/FIP Model Code
1985: Model Code for Seismic Design of Concrete Structures
1990: 2nd CEB/FIP Model Code
2006: Model Code for Service Life Design
2010: 1st fib Model Code for Concrete Structures
2013: Published in hardback book

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 fib Model Code for
Concrete Structures 2010

- Guiding document for new codes

- Developing new code concepts
- Synthesizing new knowledge in
code format
- Anticipating societal developments
- Stimulating research in new areas

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 PRESENTATION OF fib MC2010 BEFORE VOTING
Technical Council 28 October 2011, Lausanne

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 General Assembly voting on fib Model Code 2010
29 October 2011, Lausanne

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 fib Presidium 2013-2014
Gordon Clark, UK, President
Harald Mueller, Germany, Deputy President
Gyorgy Balazs, Hungary, Past President
Josee Bastien, Canada
Hugo Corres, Spain
Stephen Foster, Australia
Aurelio Muttoni, Switzerland
Tor Ole Olsen, Norway
Koji Sakai, Japan
Jun Yamazaki, Japan
Petra Schumacher, Secretary General

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 fib Presidium 2015-2016
Harald Mueller, Germany, President
Hugo Corres, Spain, Deputy President
Gordon Clark, UK, Past President
Josee Bastien, Canada
Akio Kasuga, Japan
Aurelio Muttoni, Switzerland
Tor Ole Olsen, Norway
Stephen Foster, Australia
Frank Dehn, Germany
Petra Schumacher, Secretary General
Hans Ganz, Honorary Treasurer
Co-options by President (t.b.a)
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 Congratulations to CEB-FIP/fib at 60
We are a strong organisation with a
promising future

fib Countries represent 85% of World GDP

Best wishes for the next 60 years

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