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The topic of this year's conference is "Disaster Management - Engineering Solutions for Mitigation, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Man-Made and Natural Disasters". Any country may experience disasters, whether man-made or natural - wars or earthquakes, terrorism or floods, industrial pollution or landslides. Engineers and architects need to be able to meet these challenges wherever they arise.

Program:
22 May 2004 Saturday
Pre Conference Tours
09:00 – 18:00 Registration
Pre-conference Tour to Princess Islands (optional)
23 May 2004 Sunday
Efca Meetings
09:00 – 15:00 Registration
10:00 – 11:30 EFCA Board of Directors Meeting
13:00 – 14:30 EFCA Presidents Meeting
15:00 – 18:30 Istanbul City Tour
19:00 – 22:00 Welcome Reception (Rahmi Koc Museum)
24 May 2004 Monday
Conference
Full Day Accompanying persons tour - “Istanbul in Leisure”
08:30 – 09:30 Conference Registration
09:30 – 10:45 Opening / Welcoming Speeches
Rasit Unuvar, President, ATCEA (Association of Turkish Consulting Engineers and Architects)
Martin Guldner, President, EFCA (European Federation of Engineering Consultancy Associations)
Richard Kell, President, FIDIC (International Federation of Consulting Engineers)
Protocol Speaker (invited)
Yucel Yılmaz, Prof. Dr., Kadir Has University - Rector, Keynote Speaker
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 1 (Natural Disasters / Earthquakes)
Earthquake Recovery and Activities of the Non-Profit Community Organization in Kobe after Hanshin - Awaji
Earthquake 1995
Kazuyoshi Ohnishi, Ph.D. Eng. Assoc. Prof., Kobe University, Department of Architecture and Graphics
Istanbul Earthquake Master Plan
Murat Balamir, Prof. Dr., Middle East Technical University, Department of City and Regional Planning
Proactive Disaster Management
Murat Sungur Bursa, Director, Prime Ministry, Project Implementation Unit
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Session 2 (Natural Disasters / Floods and Landslides)
The Flood Disaster in Eastern Germany 2002 - Inventory and
Co-ordination of the Rehabilitation Works
Erhard Robold or Dr. Michael Neumann, Arcadis Deutschland GMBH
Importance of Hydro-meteorological Data Bank for Use in Watershed
Models and Disaster Management Using New Techniques (RS/GIS) -
Turkish Applications
Unal Sorman, Prof. Dr., Middle East Technical University, Civil Engineering Department
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30 Session 3 (Man-Made Disasters / Wars, Terrorism, Accidents)
Wars and Terrorism
Armagan Kuloğlu, Maj General (Ret.), Head of the Geopolitics and
Strategic Studies, ASAM (Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies)
The Collapse of Twin Towers: Causes and Effects
Oral Büyüköztürk, Prof. Dr. Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Disaster Management Dutch Experiences: How We Dealt With Recent Man-Made Disasters in the Netherlands (e.g. Enschede 13 May 2000) and the Lessons Learned.
Tom Smit, Director Spatial Development, Royal Haskoning
Istanbul, as a Metropolitan City, Faces Potential Disasters
Mesut Pektaş, Deputy Secretary General, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Closing Speech
19:30 - 23:00 Gala Dinner (Esma Sultan Residence)
25 May 2004 Tuesday Efca Meetings
Full Day Accompanying persons tour (optional)
09:00 – 11:00 EFCA Directors and Secretaries General Meeting
11:30 – 13:00 EFCA Task Force Reports
14:00 – 16:00 EFCA General Assembly Meeting
19:30 – 23:00 Dinner on Cruise (Optional)
26 May 2004 Wednesday
Post – Conference Tours
Post-conference Tours (optional - please contact PCO for details and
prices)