Japan-Romania Workshop on Seismic Rehabilitation and Maintenance of Buildings and Bridges

Date

May 27^th, 2024

Location

124 Lacul Tei Blvd., Sector 2, Bucharest, Hall I.2, FCCIA Building

Program

9.00 – 9.15 – Welcome speeches

• Mr. Marin ŢOLE – Secretary of State, Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration of Romania
• Mr. Ionuț-Cristian SĂVOIU – Secretary of State, Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Romania
• H.E. Mr. Takashi KATAE – Ambassador of Japan in Romania
• Mr. Seiichi ONODERA – Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan, Deputy
• Minister for International Projects of Japan

09.15 – 13.30 – Technical presentations

• 09.15 – 09.40 – Koichi KUSUNOKI, Program Director, Cabinet Office, Earthquake Research Institute, Professor of University of Tokyo – The outline of the national project „SIP” to tackle with natural disasters
• 09.40 – 10.05 – Radu VĂCĂREANU* and Florin PAVEL**, *Professor, Associate Professor**, Department of Reinforced Concrete Structures, Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest – Seismic risk of bridges in Vrancea and Buzău counties
• 10.05 – 10.30 – Makoto HISADA, Professor of Civil Eng., Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, Temporary member of Science, Technology and Innovation Promotion Secretariat, Cabinet Office, JAPAN – The Outline of SIP3rd. Project: Smart Infrastructure Management System
• 10.30 – 10.55 – Ionuț RĂCĂNEL, Associate Professor, Department of Strength of Materials, Bridges and Tunnels, Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest – Seismic fragility of bridges. Case studies
• 10.55 – 11.30 – Coffee break
• 11.30 – 11. 55 – Mitsuyoshi AKIYAMA* and Dan M. FRANGOPOL**, *Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University,  **Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair and Professor, Department of Civil  and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University – Toward life-cycle reliability, risk, and resilience-based design and assessment of bridges and bridge networks under multiple hazards
• 11.55 – 12.20 – Victor POPA, PhD, Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania – An overview on the evolving design practice for bridges in Romania
• 12.20 – 12.45 – Yusaku SHIBATA, Director of Overseas Projects, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan – Current Status of Infrastructure Maintenance in Japan
• 12.45 – 13.10 – Melih TURFAN* and Hirofumi YANAGI**, *Deputy General Manager of Turkey İstanbul Branch, IHI Infrastructure Systems Co., Ltd,  **Asia Project Department of Overseas Project Headquarters, IHI Infrastructure Systems Co., Ltd – IHI experience of improvement of seismicity of bridges in Turkey, and utilization of ICT in maintenance of bridges
• 13.10 – 13.30 – Wrap-up discussions and conclusions
• The allotted time of 25 minutes for each presenter consists of 20 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A.

13-30 – 14. 30 – Lunch break

14.30-17.00 – Round table

• 14.30 – 16.00 – Roundtable on seismic rehabilitation and maintenance of buildings and bridges
• 16.00 – 16.30 – Coffee break
• 16.30 – 17.00 – Main takeaways and further cooperation actions