The Civil Engineering Society of the National Union of Architects and Construction Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC) invites professionals, entrepreneurs and students related to the theory and practice of Civil Engineering to participate in the V International Conference of Civil Engineering in Cuba to be held in the city of Santiago de Cuba, 19 to 22 November 2015.

The Organizing Committee invites you to submit research and technology development works and outstanding construction projects related to civil engineering and participate in this international event, which will be an enabling framework to discuss in a camaraderie atmosphere significant contributions to the buildings science and where to establish and strengthen relations and friendship between civil and other construction professionals from various countries engineers.

We intend to make a great event that promotes technical exchange based on their Central Theme "New Challenges of Civil Engineering for Integration and Development of Latin America and the Caribbean area." The Organizing Committee will ensure the conditions for participants stay be very pleasant in the historic city of Santiago de Cuba.

Wishing to offer a warm welcome greets,

MSc. Ing. Jorge Gómez Puig  

General coordinator of organizing committee

Organizing Committee. Cuba. Presidency

•Honorary Committee

Dr.C. Ing. Tomás Sancho Marco, WCCE Chairman.

Dr.C. Ing. Emilio Colon, Deputy Chairman of the Pan American Academy of Engineering

Ing. René Mesa Villafaña. Ministre of cuban construction

Dra.C.  Arq. Martha Mesa Valenciano. Rector of Universidad de Oriente.

Arq. Mercedes Elesther Savigne. UNAICC Chairman.

MSc. Ing. Maria Elena Luna Castellanos. UNAICC Santiago de Cuba Chairman.

•Organizing Committee.

MSc. Ing. Kyra Bueno del Risco. President

MSc. Ing. Pilar Ruiz Caballero. Vice President

MSc. Ing. Jorge Gómez Puig. General coordinator

MSc. Ing. Rigoberto Cantos Mejías. Divulgation and Rapporteur

MSc. Ing. Camilo Velar Gutiérrez. Logistics

MSc. Ing. Darío Candebat Sánchez. Treasurer

•Technical Committee 

Dr.C. Ing.  Luis Emilio Serrano Rodriguez.

Dr.C. Ing. Evelio Justiz García

Dra.C. Ing. Zenaida Frómeta Salas

Dra.C. Ingrid Noelia Vidaud Quintana 

Prof. MSc. Ing. Jose María Ruiz Ruiz.

Inv. MSc. Ing. Grisel Morejón Blanco.

Registration fees

Registration fees in Cuban convertible currency (CUC), for foreign delegates and Cubans with papers approved by the Technical Committee at one of three convention events, exposed or not, include participation in conferences and work meetings, technical visits, event folder, participation certificate as a speaker, CD-presentations, welcome and farewell activities as well as lunches and coffee breaks and shall be:

- $ 300.00 CUC

Registration fees in the event for professional participants whose papers have not been approved or not presentations (no speakers) include access to conferences and workshops, welcome activity, lunch, coffee breaks, certificate of participation and a technical visit, on the second day of work, which will be offered in the program with a specialized guide UNAICC.

Registration fees in the event for companions and students include access as listeners to the conferences, welcome activity, coffee breaks, certificate of participation to undergraduate students and access to the three choices of technical visits, which will be offered in accompanying program with a specialized guide UNAICC. The fixed fees for these forms of participation in the conference are:

- $ 325.00 CUC. No speakers

- $ 150.00 CUC. Companions. A final program will be offered for companions

- $ 100.00 CUC. Students

Ways of payment should be informed to the organizing committee in order to establish the ways can be implemented, for both Cubans and foreigners.

Venue

The V International Conference of Civil Engineering will be developed in the Melia Santiago Hotel and commissions will meet in its conference rooms. Close to this hotel are others you can choose according to the suggestions of HAVANATUR and PARADISUS. Among them: Las Americas Hotel, San Juan Hotel and Hostels Vision: The Confronta and La Torre, offered at affordable prices by the company “Compay Tiago”.

Tour operator and travel agency

The travel agency is HAVANATUR wich is at your order to organize your trip and your stay in Cuba,                                   

Fax (53-7) 204 2877 Website: http://www.havanatur.cu  phone 2019780, 2047412, 2019757

offices; Hotel Triton. Calle 3ra esquina a 74. Miramar. Municipio Paya Ciudad de La Habana

The airlines convened to operate in the Convention shall be Cubana airlines, COPA Airlines, Aereocaribe, among others that will be defined in the future.

• In Cubana Airlines you can contact:  Lic. Susana Perez Humpierre. Sales Specialist

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• In Copa Airlines in Cuba contact with Lic. Aida E. Abreu, Sales Specialist 

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Topics

Chapter 1. Structural Engineering cornerstone of development of our people

•Structural design of engineering structures

•Conservation and rehabilitation of engineering structures

•Vulnerability and seismic risk assessment of buildings. Safety of buildings

•Development of new technologies and building systems

•Geotechnical and Foundations

•Execution of engineering structures

•Valuation and registration of engineering structures

Chapter 2. Road Engineering, guarantee sustainability.

•Design and construction of road structures

•Roads and traffic

•Maintenance and Preservation of road structures

•Hazard, vulnerability and risk evaluation

•Geotechnical analysis in road structures

Chapter 3. Teaching of civil engineering and the challenge of climate change

•Strategies and new educational models

•The disciplinary integration as methodological and scientific tool

• Civil engineering and tackling climate change.

•The civil engineering and its contribution to achieving communities more resilient to the effects of extreme natural phenomena (earthquakes, hurricanes, droughts, floods ...)

Presentation requirements. Summary and paper

The summaries should contain the title, author name (s), address, phone, email and any contact information for your location. The extension thereof shall not exceed 400 words written in Word (Arial 12 in the title and 10 in the text), letter format, and it should be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Full papers of accepted abstracts will not exceed 15 pages, including appendices, graphs and figures, in letter format, with margins of 2.5 cm on each side, title Arial 12 and 10 in the text, single spaced; must be sent in PDF format by email, making sure it does not exceed 1 Mega Bytes.

Schedule

Submission of Abstracts: until June 15, 2015

Communication of Acceptance: until July 15, 2015

Receiving completed papers: until September 10, 2015

Inquiries and submission of abstracts and papers

MSc. Ing. Jorge Gómez Puig. General coordinator of organizing committee

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