Welcome Message

Civil structure and infrastructure systems play a vital role in promoting and enhancing the economic growth and sustainable development of countries. It is hence a strategic priority to consolidate and enhance criteria, methods, and procedures to protect, maintain, and improve the safety, robustness, durability, functionality, and resilience of critical structure and infrastructure systems under uncertainty in their whole life.

In this context, civil engineering is undergoing a profound change toward a life-cycle-oriented design philosophy to fulfill the continuously increasing demand from economic, environmental, social, and political needs, and to incorporate emerging environmental issues, such as carbon emissions of structure and infrastructure systems and their effects on global warming and climate change. Efforts are also needed to bridge the gap between theory and practice and foster the incorporation of life-cycle concepts in structural design codes, standards, and specifications. For this purpose, research and applications are promoted within the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE).

On behalf of IALCCE, we are pleased to announce the Tenth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2027) which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, October 18-21, 2027, under the auspices of Institute of Science Tokyo.

The previous night symposia of the series have been organised in Varenna (IALCCE 2008), Taipei (IALCCE 2010), Vienna (IALCCE 2012), Tokyo (IALCCE 2014), Delft (IALCCE 2016), Ghent (IALCCE 2018), Shanghai (IALCCE 2020), Milan (IALCCE 2023) and Melbourne (IALCCE 2025). These events have been very successful, both technically and academically, and IALCCE Symposia have become established events in the field of Life-Cycle Civil Engineering and related topics.

IALCCE covers all aspects of life-cycle assessment, design, maintenance, rehabilitation and monitoring of civil engineering systems. The objective of the Association is to promote international cooperation in the field of Life-Cycle Civil Engineering for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. Currently, IALCCE includes over 880 individual members from 66 countries and about 30 collective members.

The aim of IALCCE 2027 is to bring together all cutting edge research in the field of Life-Cycle Civil Engineering and to advance both the state-of-the-art and the state-of-practice in the field. This symposium will provide opportunities for academics, engineers, architects, consultants, contractors, public authorities and decision makers around the world to keep themselves up to date with the latest developments in the field of Life-Cycle Civil Engineering.

Besides promoting their own research and professional work, participants will learn about and discuss the latest accomplishments, innovations and potential future directions in Life-Cycle Civil Engineering and connect with each other in order to build innovative and lasting networks and collaborations.

We look forward to welcoming you in Tokyo for IALCCE 2027.

Sincerely,

Mitsuyoshi Akiyama, Dan Frangopol & Hiroshi Matsuzaki
Symposium Chairs of IALCCE 2027