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Invited plenary lectures and their speakers.
Invitations to plenary speakers are under way. Once confirmed, each speaker will be listed here with a photo, a short biography, and the title and abstract of the lecture. Invited lectures in the technical tracks will accompany the plenary programme.
Confirmed plenary speakers will be announced here with photos, biographies and lecture titles.
The technical tracks will feature invited lectures on frontier topics in the durability of concrete structures.
The list of invited speakers in the technical tracks will be announced here.
The 8th ICDCS took place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, in October 2025. The speakers below are listed on the official conference website and give a sense of the academic calibre and breadth of the series.
University of Toronto
Zhejiang University
University of Minho
The University of Tokyo
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Arizona State University
Queen's University Belfast
Purdue University
Sunanda Global
City, University of London
Queen's University Belfast
University College London
The edition also hosted the first McCarter Symposium on advances in testing and monitoring of concrete, in memory of Professor W. John McCarter.
All photos and biographies above are published with the speakers’ authorization.