LATAM SEC 2024

Leading Construction Technology Systems for Today's Environmental and Social Crises
Quito, Ecuador, March 4-7, 2024

List of Tracks/Topics




The tracks and topics for which papers are invited cover (but are not limited to) the following:

Tracks

Topics


Air and Water
AAW
  • Air pollution
  • Air quality
  • Indoor air quality
  • Pollution of water systems
  • Water management
  • Water sufficiency
  • Other

Architecture & Architectural
Engineering
AAE
  • Architectural management
  • Building information modeling (BIM)
  • Building pathology
  • Creative and optimal design
  • Green design
  • Performance based design
  • Structural morphology and form finding architecture
  • Other

Coastal Engineering
CEN
  • Beach erosion
  • Engineered reefs
  • Harbor designs
  • Shoreline protection
  • Other

Construction
CON
  • 4-D CADD
  • Advanced technology in construction
  • Artificial intelligence methods
  • Construction equipment analysis
  • Construction methods and systems
  • Construction robotics and construction automation
  • Information technology for construction
  • New Production and Business Models in Construction
  • Productivity improvement
  • Other

Construction Process
Simulation
CPS
  • Process modeling
  • Applications of Process simulation
  • Use of EZSTROBE or MicroCYCLONE
  • Use of AWESIM! or SLAM
  • Other process simulation software
  • GUI development in computer process simulation
  • Other

Construction Safety
CSA
  • Elements of a safety program
  • Fall protection
  • OSHA and other government regulations
  • Planning
  • Safety incentives
  • Safety systems
  • Safety training and supervision
  • Substance abuse
  • Other

Cost and Project Management
CPM
  • Bidding and estimating
  • Cost analysis
  • Cost control
  • Culture in construction
  • Engineering economy and life cycle cost analysis
  • Leadership in engineering and construction
  • Organizational behavior
  • People in engineering and construction
  • Other

Education & Professional
Ethics
EPE
  • Building Research and Education
  • Case studies
  • Ethical Issues in Engineering and Construction
  • Information and Knowledge Management
  • Postgraduate Research Training in Building and Construction
  • Regulatory control
  • Research and Innovation Transfer
  • Roles of learned societies
  • Teaching methods
  • Other

Energy
ENR
  • Energy and environment
  • Energy economics
  • Energy production and consumption
  • Future trends in energy production
  • Global energy management
  • Policies and politics of energy
  • Other

Facilities and Asset Management
FAM
  • Best management practices
  • Facility condition assessment
  • Maintenance management
  • Portfolio management
  • Process management
  • Professional liabilities
  • Strategic and operational planning
  • Other

Geotechnical and Foundation
Engineering
GFE
  • Dam construction
  • Design of foundations in seismic environments
  • Foundations of mega tall buildings
  • Reinforced earth
  • Rock mechanics
  • Seismic control
  • Soil structure interaction
  • Tunnel and underground structures
  • Other

Housing
HOS
  • Affordable housing
  • Energy conservation
  • Housing delivery
  • Housing economics
  • Housing technology
  • Industrialized housing
  • Low-cost housing
  • Mass housing
  • Social and cultural analysis
  • Standards and codes of practice
  • Other

Infrastructure
INF
  • Infrastructure rehabilitation and renewal
  • Lifeline and infrastructure networks
  • Roads and railways
  • Other

Law and Dispute Resolution
LDR
  • Claims
  • Contract law and professional liability
  • Dispute resolution
  • Law in engineering and construction
  • Legal affairs and cases
  • Negotiation/mediation
  • Other

Materials
MAT
  • Asphalt performance
  • Composition and properties of asphalt
  • Concrete products
  • Concrete Technology
  • Cost-effectiveness
  • Future of asphalt
  • High performance concrete
  • New construction materials
  • Traditional construction materials
  • Optimal design
  • Quality issues
  • Roofing materials
  • Timber
  • Other

Oil and Gas
OAG
  • Design and Construction of Refineries
  • Installing Oil Rigs
  • Oil Flow Management
  • Oil & Gas Economics
  • Oil & Gas Exploration
  • Oil & Gas Production
  • Other

Pipelines
PIP
  • Pipeline Systems
  • Pipeline Engineering
  • Pipeline Construction and Planning
  • Pipeline Economics
  • Pipeline Operation and Maintenance
  • Pipeline Materials
  • Other

Policies for National
Development
PND
  • Development Issues and industrial development in developing countries
  • Economics and influence of engineering on national business and growth
  • Engineering leadership for better government and nation building
  • Estimates of world/nation/state water supply, housing or electricity
  • Finance, contracting, and politics in mega projects
  • Five-year plans, ten-year plans, and strategic planning for national growth
  • Infrastructure for GDP growth
  • International collaboration in technology sharing
  • Legislation of engineering policy, environmental policy, and science policy
  • Life cycle costs for national electricity and water consumption
  • Rationale, application, and implementation of technology policies
  • Regional and national development
  • Other

Procurement
PRO
  • Best value systems
  • BOT and other type of projects
  • Case studies
  • Contractor selection and prequalification
  • Performance building specifications
  • Performance, competition, and profitability
  • Private Public Partnership
  • Service evaluation
  • Other

Quality
QUA
  • Audit and control
  • Quality and excellence
  • Quality benchmarking
  • Quality improvement
  • Reliability analysis
  • Other

Risk Analysis and
Disaster Management
RAD
  • Crisis management
  • Decision strategies
  • Disaster and emergency preparation
  • Hazard and risk management
  • Inventory uncertainties
  • Probabilistic estimating
  • Risk analysis and assessment
  • Risk mitigation
  • Other

Structures
STR
  • Bridges and special structures
  • Concrete and masonry structures
  • Forensic engineering in structures and construction
  • Innovation in structural design
  • Nonlinear behavior of structures
  • Numerical methods
  • Reinforced concrete structures
  • Steel structures
  • Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering
  • Structural mechanics and optimization
  • Tall buildings
  • Other

Sustainability
SUS
  • Advanced and sustainable materials
  • Certifications
  • Concurrent engineering
  • Smart and adaptive structures
  • Structural control by strategic design
  • Sustainable Building
  • Other

Tunneling
TUN
  • Tunneling operations
  • Construction methods
  • Seepage prevention
  • Boring and Boring machines
  • Design of tunnel lining
  • Ventilation and safety
  • Other

Other
OTH
  • Topic not covered in any other