International Conference of Agricultural Engineering

International Conference of Agricultural Engineering
XXXVII Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Agrícola
ASABE ILES VIII

DATE: August 31^st to September 4^th - VENUE: Iguassu Falls City - PR - Brazil

A2 - VI^th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CEMENT BASED MATERIALS FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE - CSA'2008;

Chair: H. Savastano Jr. (USP) (holmersj@usp.br)
Co-Chair: N. de Belie (nele.debelie@ugent.be)

This symposium will be the sixth of the series and the first one outside Europe. This conference gained a solid reputation in Section II of CIGR and now it is expected to reach great visibility as it will be held in parallel with the CIGR Conference and ILES Symposium.

Potential Topic Areas

• Concrete structures for animal husbandry, agriculture, horticulture, manure storage and silage structures
• Durability, sustainability and quality aspects of cement based materials in agriculture
• Concrete in relation to general animal welfare and energy savings
• Concrete for water and wastewater management
• New developments in material and design
• Concrete and environment
• Others