INTRODUCTION

The 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be held in Beijing.  This makes Beijing the first city in the world to host both Summer and Winter Olympic Games. Some new sports buildings, like National Speed Skating Oval, will be built employing spatial structures with innovation. Besides, sports facilities built for 2008 Summer Games, like National Stadium (Birds Nest) and National Aquatic Center (Water Cube) will be refurbished and capitalized on the legacy from 2008. Either old or new, all the construction will integrate long-term benefits of sustainability.

The annual symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures（IASS 2022）will be affiliated with 13th Asian-Pacific Conference on Shell and Spatial Structures (APCS 2022). Special sessions pertinent to issues in Asian-Pacific area will be organized.

THEME AND TOPIC

The theme of the symposium is: Innovation, Sustainability and Legacy.

The theme of the symposium covers all aspects of shell and spatial structures and will include but not limited to the following topics:

1. Cooling and Solar Updraft Towers
2. Masts and Towers
3. Concrete Shell Roofs
4. Tension and Membrane Structures
5. Metal Spatial Structures
6. Timber and Bio-based Spatial Structures
7. Computational Methods
8. Structural Morphology
9. Historical Spatial Structures
10. Life-Cycle Design and Assessment of Shell and Spatial Structures
11. Teaching of Shell and Spatial Structures
12. Advanced Manufacturing and Materials
13. Innovation in New Concepts and Projects
14. Sustainability in Refurbished Facilities
15. Legacy of Antiquity Structures and Modern Exploitation
16. Disaster Mitigation, Wind and Earthquake Effects
17. Next Generation Parametric Design

SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS

As requested by President Lázaro, all IASS Working Groups are preparing to organize sessions in the Symposium. Individuals and groups are welcome to propose new sessions and send the titles to the organizing committee. 

DATES AND VENUE

The symposium will be held on 19 - 23 September 2022 at Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Engineers, architects, researchers and anyone interested in shell and spatial structures are invited to submit abstracts of 300-400 words in English and participate this Symposium.

Please log in the symposium website to download the abstracts template.

(http://www.iass2022.org.cn/callforpaper.html)

KEY DATES

HANGAI PRIZE

Hangai Prizes annually recognize talented young researchers, designers, and engineers under the age of thirty who working in the field of shell and spatial structures. This recognition is achieved by selecting outstanding submissions to the Annual IASS Symposium in the form of research papers, resumes of design projects, or presentations of innovative ideas. For more information, please check the Hangai Prize website (https://iass-structures.org/Hangai-Prize).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair: Prof. Su-Duo Xue (Beijing University of Technology)

Co-Chairs:

Assoc. Prof.  Jin-Zhi Wu (China Association for Spatial Structures)

Prof.  Feng Liu (China Academy of Building Research)

Prof.  Qing-Shan Yang (Chongqing University)

Prof.  Feng Fan (Harbin Institute Of Technology)

Prof.  Qing-Hua Han (Tianjin University)

Prof.  Qi-Lin Zhang (Tongji University)

Prof.  Yao-Zhi Luo (Zhejiang University)

CORRESPONDENCE

Email: IASS2022@vip.126.com

Website: www.iass2022.org.cn

Third Announcement of IASS/APCS 2022