The 50 Executive Committee Meeting (ECM) held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 22 to 24 April, 2026 was a true milestone for ACECC. We celebrated our golden jubilee ECM in many ways, such as having a day long International Conference on 23 April and cutting a cake at the welcome dinner hosted by Nepal Engineers’ Association (NEA). Many important decisions were made at the ECM.
We completed the roster of the remaining officers and leaders of ACECC. The first Deputy Secretary General (Er. Win Mon Mon Lwin of Fed. MES) and the second Deputy Secretary General (Dr. Prasanti Widyasih Sarli of HAKI) had been appointed days before the ECM. A new Finance Committee was appointed for the next 3 years, with Dr. Moonkyung Chung of KSCE serving as its Chair. Er. Frederick Sison of PICE was elected Chair of the Awards Sub-Committee, and Er.Maqbool Mohammed of ASCE was elected Chair of the Future Leaders Forum (FLF).
Dr. Mony Mom, the President of the Cambodian Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE), attended the ECM as an observer after applying for CSCE membership into ACECC, and answered questions from member societies. The application was approved and CSCE became ACECC’s 18 member. Congratulations and welcome to CSCE!
The TC31 Chair’s (Dr. Cris Liban) proposal to engage ACECC member societies in the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) training for the ISI Envision Rating Tool used to evaluate the sustainability of a project was approved. Moreover, four new technical committees were approved:
- TC37: Climate Adaptation and Sustainable Development in the Asia Pacific Region (sponsored by EA and ENZ).
- TC38: Seismic Resilient Infrastructures for Sustainable Development (sponsored by IEB, IEP, NEA, and Fed. MES)
- TC39: Cascading and Compound Risk Assessment for Resilient Engineering (sponsored by NEA and HAKI)
- TC40: Hydropower Knowledge & Innovation Network (sponsored by NEA)
We look forward to knowledge acquisition and sharing by the four new TCs on these important topics.
The new ACECC Chair (Prof. Yu-Chi Sung of CICHE) laid out his vision for ACECC in the coming years. Moreover, the CECAR 10 Final Report and CECAR 11 plans were approved. Also approved was ACECC’s budget for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.
