Technical Program and Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speaker I - Takashi Yamane
President
Kyokuto Kowa Corporation
Takashi Yamane is the President of Kyokuto-Kowa Corporation, a Japanese company
specializing in the construction of prestressed concrete bridges. He graduated from Kure
National College of Technology and joined Kyokuto-Kougyo Corporation, which is now
called Kyokuto-Kowa Corporation, in 1980. Mr. Yamane earned a master’s degree in civil
engineering from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1995. His work experience includes
the design and construction of various types of prestressed concrete bridges, such as box
girder bridges using balanced cantilever construction, cast-in-place hollow slab bridges using
span-by-span construction and composite I-section girder bridges. Mr. Yamane led the
engineering and sales departments of the company before becoming president. He was a
member of the Japan Prestressed Concrete Contractors Association and chaired the committee
on design guidelines for precast/prestressed concrete splice-girder bridges. He has published
numerous technical papers and holds several patents in the field of bridge engineering.
Title: Construction of Sustainable Concrete Structures Using FRP as Reinforcement and Prestressing Tendons
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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