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Dedicated to Professor J. M. Sebnisu (Hauardskyy universtitet, USA) 27 th Annual Conference "Our World In Concrete & Structure "(" Our world in concrete structures ", OWICS) held 29 and August 30, 2002 in Singapore in the hotel New Otani, specially designed for such events. Subject upcoming conference - "Concrete for Sustainable Development. Among the sponsors of the forum in Singapore - The Association of Engineers, designers, suppliers Association finished concrete mix, the Singapore Concrete Institute, Society perednapruzhenyh industrial concrete structures Asotsyatsyya cement producers, the Association of macadam suppliers, Shidnoaziatskyy Institute materials, as well as Singapore section of the American Concrete Institute. Among foreign - California, Nevada and Washington sections, ACI, Section Aci-maharashtra (India), Malaysian Society of concrete, the British Society of concrete Honkon hskaya association repair of concrete and reinforced concrete structures, Indian Construction Association, the Indian Concrete Institute, International Institute for repair of concrete and concrete designs, Indonesian Society of Civil Engineers, Japan Concrete Institute, Japanese perednapruzhenoho Concrete Association, Malaysian Association of Suppliers finished concrete mix and the Institute of Building Structures (USA). Keynote conference "Restoring concrete sewer systems using antibacterial agents will 'Professor J. M. Sebnis and V. E. Shuk. K. R. Alimchandani (STUP Consultants, India) will present the most outstanding concrete structures, built recently in India. Professor I. Tsuyi and I. Suzuki (Japan) - Japanese standards for processing materials that are received in dismantling structures in concrete. Topics of other messages - "stray currents as poorly studied cause corrosion of reinforcing steel," Determination of shock vibration resistance of concrete to install Enya boundary conditions before the destruction of the blow, "Materials for sustainable development of infrastructure - from production resources to their rehabilitation," Strengthening and operation construction of conventional concrete and perednapruzhenoho. To participate in the conference (as well as the competition work) has presented about 100 works from 22 countries worldwide. For the award winners based these awards. Award "for young researchers concrete will be awarded the authors of the best works, which are up as of August 27, 2002 will not exceed 35 years. The conference "Ci-premier Conference Organisation" has established a prize named Professor T. Dzheyvora and named Ken Francis. Award "JCI-OWICS" based Japanese Institute of Concrete, "ACI-SC" - Singapore Section ACI. "STUP consultants" (India) and Singapore Association of the finished concrete mix suppliers also established their prize. In 27th Annual Conference will be devoted OWICS 5 th Singapore Concrete week (27-31 August 2002). Sobstven but say within this week and last years conference prohodit OWICS. On August 28 scheduled work section, which will consider various aspects of gaseous discharge silicon products to improve properties of concrete (Chairman - Harald Yustnes, SINTEF, Norway). In particular, the following topics: Rheology and its application to the laying of fresh concrete (concrete supply, shotkretirovaniye), the role of gaseous combustion products discharge in strengthening concrete structures and increase their durability; scheloche-, acid-and sulfatoustoychyvyy concrete; hloridnaya attack and combat ; normotvorchist related improved concrete silicon smoke. Professor Sebnis author awarded ASi concrete building energy efficiency project, and has many other scientific achievements. Last time out of the books written by them is called "Repair and maintenance of concrete and reinforced concrete structures. And next, the 28 th Conference OWICS, which will be held from June 27 to August 29, 2003, is dedicated to Professor Shoyi Ikeda and Japan Concrete Institute. Details of "Ci-premier Pte Ltd": 150 Orchard Road № 07-14, Orchard Plaza, Singapore 238,841. Tel: 065-7633-2922. Fax: 065-6235-3530. E-mail: cipremie@singnet.com.sg By Sergei Zolotov