President looks forward

At the 54^th meeting of the UEAtc Co-ordination Commission, held recently, Mr Juan Monjo Carrio, Director of the Eduardo Torroja Institute, for Construction Science (IETcc) was unanimously re-elected as President of UEAtc.

In accepting the post for a further term, Mr Monjo remarked on the continued importance of the UEAtc as a European network that is dedicated to the assessment of innovation and to facilitating the movement of construction products between countries. He noted that in two years time the UEAtc will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary and with it the issue of over seventy technical guides for assessment of innovative construction products, plus hundreds of certificates of confirmation i.e. the acceptance of the technical work from one member institute by another. While there were great challenges to be faced by the members in the coming year, most notably those associated with the revision of the Construction Products Directive, he was confident that UEAtc was equipped to address these in a manner that would yield opportunities for the network and the individual members. He congratulated the members of the Technical Commission on the endorsement of the UEAtc Technical Report ‘Assessment of Risk associated with Prototype Products’ and he looked forward to the results of the continuing work on Environmental Impacts of Construction Products. The UEAtc would continue to develop its services to the whole range of stakeholders in the construction industry, and to continue working in close collaboration with manufacturers, architects, regulators and insurers in the issue of approvals.