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The 10 Commissions are listed below. Where applicable the UK participants and their positions are noted. Each Commission has a number of Task Groups and Working Parties.

Commission 1: Structures

UK participant and position:
Gordon Clark (Gifford) - Chair; Mr Truby (Gifford) - Member

TG 1.1 Design Applications
WP 1.1.3 Design examples for the application of strut-and-tie models
TG 1.2 Bridges

UK participant and position:
Mr Curran (Gifford) – Member
WP 1.2.1 Cable systems for bridges
WP 1.2.3 Bridges for high speed trains
WP 1.2.7 Corrugated steel web bridges
TG 1.5 Concrete structures in marine environments
TG 1.6 High-rise Buildings

UK participant and position:
Mr Truby (Gifford) – Convener

 
    Commission 2: Safety and performance concepts
 

Commission 3: Environmental aspects of design and construction

TG 3.5 Protective concrete structures
TG 3.7 Integrated life cycle assessment of concrete structures
TG 3.8 Green concrete technologies for life-cycle design of concrete structures
TG 3.9 Application of environmental design to concrete structures

 

Commission 4: Modelling of structural behaviour and design

TG 3.5 Protective concrete structures
TG 4.1 Serviceability models

UK participant and position:
Mr Lark (Cardiff University) – Member; Mr Beeby – Corresponding Member
TG 4.2 Ultimate limit state models Serviceability models

UK participant and position:
Steve Denton (Parsons Brinckerhoff) - Member
WP 4.2.1 Shear in slabs and beams

UK participant and position:
Steve Denton (Parsons Brinckerhoff) - Member
TG 4.3 Fire design of concrete structures

UK participant and position:
Mr Khoury (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) – Member; Mr Lennon (FRS) – Member; Stuart Matthews (BRE) - Member
TG 4.4 Computer-based modelling and design
WP 4.4.5 Modelling of fibre reinforced concrete
WP 4.4.6 Modelling of repaired and strengthened concrete structures
WP 4.4.7 Nonlinear dynamic analysis for design and assessment of RC structures
TG 4.5 Bond models

UK participant and position:
Mr Cairns (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) – Convener

 

Commission 5: Structural service life aspects

UK participant and position:
Stuart Matthews (BRE) – Chair; Mr Cleland (Queens University Belfast) – Member; Mr McKenna (Halcrow Group) – Member; Mr Smith; Mr Cairns (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) – Corresponding Member; Steve Denton (Parsons Brinckerhoff) - Corresponding Member; Mr Shave (Parsons Brinckerhoff) - Corresponding Member; Mr Sterritt (Atkins) – Corresponding Member

TG 5.3 Assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation

UK participant and position:
Stuart Matthews (BRE) - Member; Mr Cleland (Queens University Belfast) – Member; Mr Cairns (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) – Corresponding Member
TG 5.7 Service life design guide

 

Commission 6: Prefabrication

UK participant and position:
Mr Elliott (University of Nottingham) – Member

TG 6.1 Prestressed hollow-core floors

UK participant and position:
Mr Elliott (University of Nottingham) – Member
TG 6.2 Structural connections for precast concrete

UK participant and position:
Mr Elliott (University of Nottingham) – Member
TG 6.6 New Model Code – precast concrete
TG 6.9 Design of precast concrete structures for accidental loading

UK participant and position:
Mr Elliott (University of Nottingham) – Member
TG 6.10 Precast concrete buildings in seismic areas – practical aspects

 

Commission 7: Seismic design

TG 7.6 Critical comparison of major seismic design codes for buildings
TG 7.7 Direct probability-based seismic design of buildings

 

Commission 8: Concrete

TG 8.3 Fibre reinforced concrete
TG 8.5 Silica fume in concrete

UK participant and position:
Mr Glasser (University of Aberdeen) – Member
TG 8.6 Ultra high performance fibre reinforced concrete
TG 8.7 Code-type models for concrete behaviour

 

Commission 9: Reinforcing and prestressing materials and systems

UK participant and position:
Ben Bowsher (UK CARES) – Member; Gordon Clark (Gifford) – Member

TG 9.3 FRP (Fibre Reinforced Polymer) reinforcement for concrete structures

UK participant and position:
Mr Burgoyne (Cambridge University) – Member; Steve Denton (Parsons Brinckerhoff) - Member; Mr Chen (Edinburgh University) - Corresponding Member; John Clarke (The Concrete Society) - Corresponding Member; Mr Donchev (Kingston University) - Corresponding Member; Mr Duckett (Gifford and Partners) - Corresponding Member; Dr Ibell (University of Bath) - Corresponding Member; Mr Leeming (Mouchel Consulting) - Corresponding Member; Stuart Matthews (BRE) - Corresponding Member
TG 9.5 Durability of prestressing materials
TG 9.7 Reinforcing steels and systems

UK participant and position:
Ben Bowsher (UK CARES) – Convener
TG 9.9 Manual for prestressing materials and systems
TG 9.11 Testing the bond capacity of tendon anchorages
TG 9.12 Ground anchors

UK participant and position:
Mr Barley (Single Bore Multiple Anchor Ltd) – Member
TG 9.13 External tendons for bridges
TG 9.14 Extradosed tendons

 

Commission 10: Construction

UK participant and position:
Mr Srinivasan (Arup) – Member

TG 10.1 Curing of concrete
TG 10.2 Formwork and falsework
TG 10.3 Life cycle management – construction for service life