Vernon Harcourt Lecture 2010
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is pleased to announce that the Vernon Harcourt Lecture will be taking place on Monday 22 February 2010 at One Great George Street, Westminster, London.
This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor William Allsop, who will speak on:
“Historic British Breakwaters: What did we build between 1600 [...]

Arup are making available their publication “Lessons from Aceh: Key Considerations in Post-Disaster Re-construction”, to mark the 5th anniverary of the tsuami. The report is written by Jo da Silva, Director for International Development at Arup.
The document is downloadable for free at www.arup.com/internationaldevelopment 
A flyer is attached here: lessons-from-aceh_flyer

Dr John Twigg (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL) will be giving a seminar at UCL
Tuesday 23rd February at 5.30pm
Venue: Chadwick Building, room 218 (2nd floor) - see map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res
Title: “Capturing” resilience: tools or process?
Abstract:
This talk is about the “Characteristics of a disaster-resilient community”: an initiative to develop guidance for agencies trying to build resilience [...]

SÍSMICA2010
8th NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEISMOLOGY AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
20-23 October 2010, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
REGISTRATION available through the conference website:
http://sismica2010.web.ua.pt/
 

The 8th National Conference on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SÍSMICA2010 - 20-23 October 2010) will take place in Aveiro (1 hour South of Oporto), in Portugal, co-organized by the University of Aveiro and the Portuguese Society [...]

UCL will be hosting the 5th Memorial Symposium held in honour of the ‘Choshu Five’ on 20 April 2010, in collaboration with Yamaguchi University.
Venue: Foyer of Roberts Building, UCL (Malet Place), see map:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-maps/map2_low_res
There is a well recognised need for existing and new infrastructure to be able to cope with increasing environmental and economic pressures. This [...]

Dr Tiziana Rossetto spoke about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake in ‘Haiti’s Killer Quake: Why it Happened’, a documentary screened on 2nd February on Channel 4.
The devastation of the earthquake, which hit Haiti on the 12th January this year, may have created the biggest humanitarian crisis of the past decade. The documentary looked at what happened [...]

Victoria Sword-Daniels joined a team of European researchers in Naples on the 18th January to assess in detail the vulnerability of the Vesuvian Villas to volcanic hazards. The findings will be used to ascertain the best way of preserving the villas.
The mission to Vesuvius was funded under the Cost C26 Action (‘Urban Habitat Constructions under [...]