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The project’s ambition is to contribute to greenhouse gas reduction and circular economy goals by addressing these challenges in both deconstruction and reuse of existing steel buildings, and in the design of new buildings, their construction and documentation to facilitate future reuse. Its scope includes reuse of constituent products, fabricated components, and reuse of component assemblies. The reused material may originate from primary structures, secondary structures and envelopes.
The primary objective is to increase the recovery and reuse of constructional steelwork by providing engineers, investors, contractors and other decision makers with reliable performance data and guidance. This will be achieved by disseminating the information about the products, systems, methods and protocols that facilitate reuse of various components of constructional steelwork using the tools and methodologies developed within activities of the consortium partners.
The outcomes of the project will include recommendations to enable reuse of building components in-situ or in different location(s), and in the original layout or in a different design with the necessary modifications/adaptations to resist the new external loads (due to the relocation) or internal loads (due to the modification of the structural layout). Our goal is to address the wider scientific, business and engineering
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community in the Member States with the localized Recommendations for Reuse, information brochure, mobile app and presentation materials.
In particular, the objectives are to:
1. Provide guidance for reuse of existing components or structures and design of new ones, introduce recommendations for product/waste status and material testing protocol for recertification of steel products in the updated Recommendations for Reuse
2. Support declaration of the environmental benefits of steel reuse implemented in the mobile LCA app and web tool
3. Increase awareness about the alternative end-of-life options for constructional steel and steel-based products
4. Identify the possibilities and roadmaps for scaling up the outcomes of the background projects beyond their original focus area
12 organisations will be participating in the project implementation (2 research institutes, 5 industrial associations, demolition contractor and 4 universities).
17th June 2025
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Webinar: Galvanized steel short and medium span bridges
Save the date for the next webinar organized by ECCS with the support of the European General Galvanizers Association (EGGA).
Galvanized steel short and medium span bridges: Achieving optimal service life
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Peters, Tom F.: Industrializing Iron Construction at the École Centrale Paris 1829–65. Madrid: Instituto Juan de Herrera. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 2024. vii–xiv, 520 pp., many illustrations, 16.7 x 23.5 cm, softcover.
ISBN 978-84-9728-615-2, CHF 58,Order by email from the author: tomfpeters@gmail.com
When people talk about French engineering schools, the name of an institution created in 1794 during the French Revolution is likely to come up: it is the École Polytechnique (EP), the model of higher technical education par excellence. Civil engineers with an interest in history may still be able to name the École des Ponts et Chaus-
sées (EPC), founded in 1747 by Daniel Charles Trudaine (1703–1769), King Louis XV’s Minister of Finance, the first engineering school of modern civil engineering.
But who is familiar with the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures Paris (ECP), founded in 1829 on the private initiative of businessman Alphonse Lavallée (1791–1873) and the scientists Théodore Olivier (1793–1853), Eugène Péclet (1793–1857) and Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884)? You may be familiar with the following names: Camille Polonceau (1813–1859), William Le Baron Jenney (1832–1907), Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), Edmond Coignet (1856–1915) and Francis Bouygues (1922–1993) – all graduates of the ECP.
In 1840, Polonceau designed the Polonceau truss named after him (Fig.), a roof truss that later spanned countless spaces (made entirely of iron) and was sometimes called the French truss. Jenny, the „father of skyscrapers“, designed the 10-storey, 42 m high Home Insurance Building in Chicago, completed in 1885, which is considered the world’s first high-rise building and has a steel skeleton as its load-bearing system. Eiffel is synonymous with classic iron construction in the second half of the 19th century. Edmond Coignet is regarded as a pioneer of reinforced concrete in France and spread this type of construction as an entrepreneur through innovative buildings. Finally, in 1952, Francis Bouygues founded the construction company named after him,
The event is free of charge. Information regarding registration and program details will be available soon.
Moderator: Prof. Pavel Ryjacˇek, CTU in Prague Chair – ECCS Bridge Committee
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which is now one of the world’s leading construction groups.
With the ECP, on the eve of the July Revolution of 1830, which finally ended the restorative Bourbon rule, the liberal French bourgeoisie created a training centre for engineers tailored to its needs, which was to advance the process of industrialization in general and iron construction in particular. This book provides an impressive account of industrializing iron construction at the ECP.
Tom F. Peters, who worked for many years as a professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem/USA, became internationally known through his monographs „Transitions in Engineering. Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges“ (1987) and „Building the Nineteenth Century“ (1996).
In the first part of his book (pp. 25–307), Peters deals with the pedagogy of the ECP and also takes into account its social roots, mentioning Jean-Rodolphe Perronet
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(1708–1794), the first director of the EPC, and Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), the protagonist of the EP. Basic elements of the pedagogical concept of „Vulgarisation“ of scientific knowledge (p. 91), which played a key role for the ECP, can be traced back to Monge. In the context of engineering education, the French word „Vulgarisation“ corresponds to natural science-based engineering and engineering-based natural science, which in the German-speaking world was sometimes simplistically referred to as „scientific technology“ (= „wissenschaftliche Technik“) in the past. It is therefore not only a question of the knowledge of the causal relationship realized in the technical model, but also of the constructive or technological modelling of causal relationships in technical structures and processes. Peters demonstrates this convincingly us-
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ing the example of ECP, a hot spot of innovation in iron construction.
The second part of this book (pp. 309–463) is dedicated to the practical implementation of the pedagogical concept at the ECP. The author devotes considerable space to the contribution of Louis-Charles Mary (1791–1870) and analyses the consequences of this concept in the section „The result in iron: a brief characterization of six careers“ (pp. 409–463): Polonceau, Joseph-Louis Henri de Dion (1828–1878), Eiffel, Jenney, Onésime Armand Moisant (1838–1906) and Victor Contamin (1840–1893). Contamin was to be the engineer responsible for the 113.5 m wide Galerie des Machines for the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris, where the Eiffel Tower also astonished the world: two leading structures of
classical iron construction designed by graduates of the ECP.
In his concluding thoughts (pp. 465–472), Peters provides a concise summary of industrializing iron construction at the ECP. A thorough bibliography rounds off the book, which is well done in terms of content and form.
All those who would like to find out more about the development of classical iron construction and the contribution of the ECP to this should pick up this book. It is an extraordinarily stimulating read – a firework of historical knowledge that is still able to unfold its productive power today.
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Eurosteel 2026 in Cracow, Poland
The 11th European Scientific Conference on Steel and Composite Structures Eurosteel 2026 will take place 16–18 September 2026 in Cracow, Poland. Two technical universities will organize the Eurosteel conference, the Cracow University of Technology (Politechnika Krakowska, PK) and the Rzeszów University of Technology (Politechnika Rzeszowska, PRz), with European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS) as a partner.
All scientists, designers, producers and students interested in the design of new and upkeep of existing structures made of structural steel and composite structures are invited to participate in the 11th European Scientific Conference Eurosteel 2026. During the conference special attention will be paid to modern, innovative, environmentally friendly construction solutions and the issue of reusing steel structural elements.
The conference will be the 11th in this series. Previous conferences of this series took place in Athens (1995), Prague (1999), Coimbra (2002), Maastricht (2005), Graz (2008), Budapest (2011), Naples (2014), Copenhagen (2017), Sheffield (2021) and Amsterdam (2023).
Cracow is very well connected to the rest of Europe and the rest of the world. The In-
ternational Airport in Cracow-Balice is connected to many international destinations by reputable air carriers. Cracow is also a hub of convergence for both rail and car transport. It has a vibrant hotel network offering facilities of various standards suitable for all budgets.
Prof. Aleksander Kozłowski (Rzeszów University of Technology) heads the Conference’s Scientific Committee. Prof. Mariusz Maślak (Cracow University of Technology) heads the Organizing Committee.
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