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A visit to a 2,000-year-old aqueduct and a boat tour through a scenic archipelago are among the activities planned for those accompanying ASCE's president to Europe this summer. Set for July 19-30, the trip will give participants an opportunity to become acquainted with engineering achievements in Spain and Sweden and with some of the people responsible for those achievements.
ASCE members and their spouses or guests are invited to join President Thomas L. Jackson and his wife, Pat, as they meet with the leaders and members of Spain's Association of Civil Engineers (AIC) and the Swedish Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (SVR), as well as with ASCE members residing in those countries. Reservations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Preliminary plans call for participants to gather in Madrid on the evening of July 20 for a welcoming reception hosted by President Jackson and his wife. An orientation program describing the various activities planned will then follow.
July 21 will include a meeting and luncheon at the AIC headquarters. The remainder of the day will be open for sight-seeing in Madrid.
July 22 will feature a day trip to the city of Segovia, the site of a Roman aqueduct built around 50 a.d. Constructed of massive stones without the use of mortar, the aqueduct was accorded international landmark status by ASCE in 1999. En route, the delegation will visit the Escorial, a palace and monastery that houses the tombs of the Spanish royal family, and La Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen), a monument to those who died in the Spanish civil war.
On July 23, the ASCE delegation will travel by high-speed train to the city of Zaragoza, approximately 150 miles northeast of Madrid, for technical site visits. The AIC is planning roundtable discussions in Zaragoza on such topics as hydraulics and transportation.
The following day, the ASCE delegation will move on to Barcelona, and participants will spend that day and the next visiting hydraulic works and exploring the city.
On July 26 the delegation will fly to Stockholm, where the SVR is planning a boat tour of the Stockholm archipelago and several technical visits to construction jobsites around the capital city. A number of other activities and excursions will round out the trip.
The cost of the trip has not yet been determined. When announced, it will include hotel accommodations, city tours, local transportation with English-speaking guides, some meals, air transportation between Barcelona and Stockholm, and a program for spouses. It will not, however, include airfare to and from Europe.
For more information, contact Marisa Sherard in ASCE's international affairs department by telephone at (703) 295-6046 or by e-mail at msherard@asce.org
