The Gustave Magnel Gold Medal Award - Deadline January 15th 2014

The Association of Civil Engineers graduated from Ghent University, Belgium, as contract holder of the Professor Gustave Magnel Memorial Fund has the pleasure to announce the twelfth « Magnel Gold Medal Award ». The medal is awarded to an engineer, a designer of a remarkable construction, holding an important application of reinforced or prestressed concrete.

Gustave Magnel, was a professor at Ghent University and Director of its Laboratory for Concrete Research who earned international recognition for his contributions to the development of prestressed concrete.

Enclose is an abstract of the regulations of the contest. The full regulations can be downloaded from : http://www.mijn-aig.be/downloads/reglement-magnel2013.pdf.

The presentation ceremony of the Gold Medal will take place in the autumn of 2014. All interested candidates are kindly requested to send their application to the Secretariat of the AIG Foundation, Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, prior to January 15th, 2014.

We will be most grateful if you could pass on this announcement to any interested people. The Executive Committee is at your disposal for any additional information.

Yours faithfully,

On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Gustave Magnel Gold Medal,

Gustave Magnel Laboratory is a RILEM Titular Member