WCCE - World Council of Civil Engineers

13th WCCE General Assembly

Summer is coming and the time for WCCE's General Assembly comes nearer. This time WCCE is travelling to America as 13^th WCCE's General Assembly will be hosted by the SOCIEDAD DE INGENIEROS DE BOLIVIA, member of the organization. The activities regarding 13^th WCCE General Assembly will be held from 19^th to 22^ndSeptember 2018 in Sucre.

This meeting will be an opportunity to review WCCE's contributions to UNESCO'S II Engineering Report as well as our several partnerships with UN agencies such as UN-Water, UNESCO, UNDSR, etc. Such WCCE contributions will require dissemination and contributions by our member organizations in order to replicate succesfull schemes in the commitment of our profession as a whole on the accomplishment of UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

Further information will be delivered shortly on our website.

9th Meeting of the Council of Professional Associations of Civil Engineering of Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries, Cancún, Mexico

The 9th Meeting of Professional Associations of Civil Engineering of Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries will take place on April 26-27, 2018 at Occidental Xcaret Hotel in Cancún, Mexico. This annual meeting is organized by the Federación de Colegios de Ingeniería Civil de la República Mexicana on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

WCCE members are encouraged to attend this meeting in order to address several topics to be discussed in this meeting to encourage a common view to be endorsed on a global level by WCCE in its next General Assembly. Hereby we enclose CICPC's Conference Schedule and attendance logistics to the meeting. [+]

Sophia's awakening, a story of rural women empowerment through engineering

"This was my presentation, like a story. I am going to tell you a story that is a real fact and that has as its protagonist a lady who uses engineering to achieve a dream ".

The dream referred to by Alfonso González, the president of the World Council of Engineers, takes place in Mexico and is part of a project that shows that engineering helps improve the quality of life of indigenous women.

Alfonso González presented this project during an event dedicated to the empowerment of rural women in the field of engineering within the framework of the Commission on the Status of Women.

https://news.un.org/es/audio/2018/04/1430081 - Audiocast in Spanish

The story of Sophia can be fully read here [+]

1st edition of Manuel Lorenzo Pardo Awards

On Wednesday, February 28th, the awarding ceremony of the first edition of Manuel Lorenzo Pardo’s Awards on Water Management best practices was held. On a biennial basis, the Association of Civil Engineers awards people, organizations and institutions regarding water which stand out for their best practice in the integrated water resource management model.

The entities awarded this year were the Ebro river Basin Authority and Valencia’s Water Court. In the awardee proclamation speech, Association of Civil Engineers’ Vicepresident Tomás A. Sancho, highlighted the avant garde nature of both organizations in their different areas: Valencia’ Water Court as a millenial institution regarding the ruling of water rights and Ebro river Basin Authority, as the first basin organization, created by Mr. Manuel Lorenzo Pardo in 1926.