109 August 2016

The Fundación Juanelo Turriano’s Advisory Commission has a new member: Francisco Javier León González, professor with the Department of Continuous Medium Mechanics and Structural Theory, School of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Madrid.

ICOHTEC held its 43^rd Annual Meeting at Porto. In the forthcoming and subsequent editions, the ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars will be named the Turriano ICOHTECPrize.

The winner of the 2016 ICOHTEC book prize for young scholars is Vanessa Meikle Schulman, for her book WORK SIGHTS: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America, which was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2015.

The University of Extremadura held its international summer course entitled ‘Guadalupe, Cáceres: managing tourism in the world heritage’ from 19 to 21 July.

David Fernández-Ordóñez, Fundación Juanelo Turriano trustee, participated in the course, along with expert geographers, architects, tourist trade economists, archaeologists and managers and authorities representing consortia of Spanish and Portuguese world heritage cities.

The English language version of the book entitled in Spanish Ingenieros del Renacimiento  [Reinaissance engineers] can now be read online or downloaded in PDF format.

The book reproduces the conferences delivered in Segovia on the occasion of the 2013 course on Renaissance engineers, jointly organised by the National Distance University’s (UNED) Associate Centre in Segovia and Fundación Juanelo Turriano.

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The English language version of the book entitled in Spanish Ingeniería Romana, que la majestad de tu Imperio cuente con el adecuado prestigio de edificios públicos [Roman engineering: that the greatness of the empire might be attended with distinguished authority in its public buildings] can now be read online or downloaded in PDF format.

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Javier Rui-Wamba Martija, President of Esteyco and Fundación Esteyco, has been awarded the Ministry of Public Works’ Prize for Civil Engineering 2016.

Fundación Juanelo Turriano takes this opportunity to congratulate Mr Rui-Wamba, former foundation trustee (2001-2011), for this award.

The Madrid Chapter of the Chartered Association of Civil Engineers announces the ninth edition of its awards, which cover the following categories:
Best public works project; Best municipal public works project; Best public works project abroad; Social responsibility and sustainability; Journalism; Young civil engineer, Outstanding civil engineer.

The deadline for submitting candidacies is 16 September.

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