Prime minister to open engineering conference
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will open the 10th East Asia Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC-10) at the InterContinental Hotel on 3 August 2006.
The conference was originally initiated by the Structural Engineering Program Division at the Asian Institute of Technology in 1986. Celebrating the 20th anniversary year, EASEC is returning to Bangkok. EASEC-10 takes place 3-5 August 2006 and is being organized by AIT in partnership with four Thai national universities and 28 international and national professional associations in the Asia Pacific region.
This year is particularly notable for structural engineering and construction in Thailand: Suvarnabhumi Airport, which took 46 years, 31 cabinets and 14 prime ministers to plan and construct, will open for domestic flights on 29 July and officially for international flights on 28 September. Many new mega projects of highway bridges and underground structures for the Bangkok mass transit system are under planning and construction. Thus, EASEC-10 will highlight the major advancements of civil infrastructure in Thailand through its exhibition at the conference hall.
The prime minister will present an opening address after a welcome by AIT President Said Irandoust. They will be joined on stage by Dr. Srisook Chandrangsu, Airports of Thailand board chairman, Prof. Fumio Nishino, emeritus chairman of EASEC International Steering Committee, Prof. Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, dean of the School of Engineering and Technology and chairman of the EASEC International Steering Committee, Koichi Maekawa, general secretary of the EASEC International Steering Committee, and Gen. Dr. Boonsrang Niumpradit, president of AIT Alumni Association.