Report of the Secretary General

January 2001 – September 2001

 

General

The activities of the Central Office during January 2001-September 2001 involved mainly with :

1.      The publication of the Bulletin;

2.      Organisation of the Seminar for Young and Local Engineers on “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Microzonation” held during 23-24 August 2001 in Istanbul;

3.      Supporting the organisation of the 20TH RSEE;

4.      Meetings and correspondence with the president on the EAEE Statutes;

5.      Meetings and correspondence with Prof. D.Benedetti concerning EEE;

6.      Correspondence concerning the 12 th ECEE;

7.      Correspondence with National Delegates,

8.      Correspondence with Task and Working Group Coordinators. 

Executive Committee

The Central Office organised the fourth Executive Committee meeting to be held in Sion, Switzerland, on September 4, 2001 upon the kind invitation of Dr.Lateltin from Swiss Association for Earthquake Engineering.  The Secretary General and the President had a meeting in Paris, to work on the EAEE Statutes.  The copy of the proposed draft of the statutes was forwarded to all the members of the Executive Committee. 

Task Group Activities

TG8 is planning to organise their third workshop in the year of 2002. 

TG9 is planning to organise a workshop.

Tg6 has organised a seminar for young and local engineers prior the Satellite Conference on Lessons Learned from Recent Strong Earthquakes held on the occasion of the 15 th ICSMGE in Istanbul.  TG6 will most likely organise a special session during the upcoming ESC General Assembly to be held in Genova during September 2002.

12 th ECEE

The organising committee of the 12th ECEE decided to have a Special session on Wednesday afternoon, to allow the coordinators of the Task Groups to make oral presentations as well as for submitting reports to be included in the proceedings.  Secretary General agreed to coordinate this session as well as reviewing the submitted papers before the reproduction.

European Seismological Commission

The proceedings of the EAEE-ESC Workshop on "Seismic Risk Maps and Scenarios: Protecting Tools Against Earthquakes"organised jointly by ESC Subcommission on Engineering Seismology and EAEE/TG6 on July 25, 1999 during XXII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG99), Birmingham, UK, 18-30.7.1999 was published as a special issue of the Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering.

Journal Of European Earthquake Engineering

Following the first meeting of the Secretary General and Prof. Duilio Benedetti, the Editor of the Journal of European Earthquake Engineering, in Milan on November 29, 2000, the General Secretary had the second meeting with Prof.Benedetti and the publisher “ Patrone Editore” on May 30, 2001.  The outcome was not very favourable.

Bulletin

The Central Office published one issue of the EAEE Bulletin, Vol.19, No.1 (December 2000).  This issue were printed as 1000 copies and were distributed to all Delegates, TG and WG Coordinators and Conveners, major earthquake related organisations abroad, all Delegates of the International Society for Earthquake Engineering and all Titular Members of the ESC. 

The Bulletins have been prepared by the Secretary General with some financial support from the Turkish Earthquake Foundation and Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers only for printing and postage expenses.  The Bulletin is also available in the EAEE homepage.

Internet - WEB

The Internet-EAEE Homepages were updated continuously to contain all the published Bulletins as well as other related information forwarded to the Central Office.

A.Ansal

Secretary General

September 2001