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Hosted and Organized as a joint effort in Halifax

by Dalhousie University

and the Canada Masonry Design Centre

Click here to see all presented papers from the 13th CMS

Conference Chairs:

Yi Liu

David Stubbs

Acknowledgements

The Thirteenth Canadian Masonry Symposium was co-organized by Dalhousie University and Canada Masonry Design Centre. The organizers received incredible support from the members of the Organizing Committee, Technical Committee and Industrial Sponsors.

Organizing Committee

Yi Liu, Co-Chair, Dalhousie University
David Stubbs, Co-Chair, Canada Masonry Design Centre
Bennett Banting, Canada Masonry Design Centre
Bill McEwen, Masonry Institute of British Columbia
Wael El-Dakhakhni, McMaster University
Paul Hargest, Canadian Concrete Masonry Producers Association
Patrick Kelly, Clay Brick Association of Canada
John-Nevan McCulloch=, Atlantic Masonry Institute

Technical Committee

Bennett Banting, Co-Chair, Canada Masonry Design Centre
Yi Liu, Co-Chair, Dalhousie University

Canadian Technical Committee Members

Don Anderson, University of British Columbia
Svetlana Brzev, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Roger Cheng, University of Alberta
Jim Cowie, J. W. Cowie Engineering Ltd.
Sreekanta Das, University of Windsor
Robert Drysdale, McMaster University
Augustin Dukuze, University of New Brunswick
Wael El-Dakhakhni, McMaster University
Hany El-Naggar, Dalhousie University
Lisa Feldman, University of Saskatchewan
Khaled Galal, Concordia University
Monica Guzman, Canada Masonry Design Centre
Mark Hagel, Alberta Masonry Council
Patrick Kelly, Clay Brick Association of Canada
Sasha Kisin, Canada Masonry Design Centre
Craig Lake, Dalhousie University
Gary Leblanc, GA Masonry
Shelley Lissel, University of Calgary
Bill McEwen, Masonry Institute of British Columbia
Mike Picco, PICCO Engineering
Pedram Sadeghian, Dalhousie University
Ted Sherwood, Carleton University
Nigel Shrive, University of Calgary
Gary Sturgeon, Canadian Concrete Masonry Producers Association
Joe Wierzbicki, Canada Masonry Design Centre
Ehab Zalok, Carleton University

International Technical Committee Members

Daniel Abrams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Sergio Alcocer, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Andrea Benedetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee, U.S.A.
David Biggs, Biggs Consulting Engineering, U.S.A.
Vlatko Bosiljkov, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
John Chrysler, Masonry Institute of America, U.S.A.
Marcio Corrêa, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil
Manicka Dhanasekar, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Mohamed ElGawady, Missouri University of Science and Technology, U.S.A.
Fernando Fonseca, Brigham Young University, U.S.A.
Alex Graubner, Technishe Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Ahmad Hamid, Drexel University, U.S.A.
Barry Haseltine, Jenkins & Potter Consulting Engineers, UK
Jason Ingham, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Wolfram Jäger, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Nick Lang, National Concrete Masonry Association, U.S.A.
Paulo Lourenço, University of Minho, Portugal
Xilin Lu, Tongji University, China
Marjana Lutman, Slovenian National Building Institute,Slovenia                                                             Chip Clark, Brick Industry Association, U.S.A.
Dirk Martens, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Mark Masia, University of Newcastle, Australia
Mark McGinley, University of Louisville, U.S.A.
David McLean, Colorado State University, U.S.A.
Claudio Modena, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Nebojsa Mojsilović, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
John Nichols, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.
Guilherme Parsekian, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
Jennifer Popehn, Target Corporation, U.S.A.
Durgesh Rai, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Humberto Roman, University Santa Catarina, Brazil
Phillip Samblanet, The Masonry Society, U.S.A.
Michael Schuller, Atkinson-Noland & Associates, U.S.A.
Arturo Schultz, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Marwan Shedid, Ain Shams University, Egypt
Benson Shing, University of California San Diego, U.S.A.
Jennifer Tanner, University of Wyoming, U.S.A.
Jason Thompson, National Concrete Masonry Association, U.S.A.
Adrienn Tomor, University of the West of England, U.K.
Diane Throop, International Masonry Institute, U.S.A.
Miha Tomaževič, Institute for Construction Slovenia, Slovenia
Brian Trimble, Brick Industry Association, U.S.A.
Maria Rosa Valluzzi, University of Padova, Italy
Arduinus Vermeltfoort, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Industry Sponsorship

Platinum: $50,000+

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Gold: $15,000 - $49,999

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Silver: $5,000 - $14,999

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Bronze: $1,000 - $4,999

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