European co-operation in Environmental Engineering
Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies, CEEES, is a forum for international cooperation and information
exchange regarding the resistance and integrity of products and systems against environmental influences. It was created as a
co-operative body for the European societies in this field and as a partner organization to the U.S. Institute of Environmental
Science and Technology.
CEEES welcomes and encourages participation from all organizations and individuals with an interest in environmental engineering and in working with design and testing methods to enhance the integrity, performance and service life of products and systems. Activities are channelled through the national societies, and it is recommended that such societies are founded in countries, which at present do not have a national society for environmental engineering.
53rd CEEES General Assembly & TAB Meetings
The 53rd Meeting of the CEEES congress will be held at the Royal Military Academy, rue Hobbema, 8 1000 Brussels, Belgium on the 12th February 2010. The three CEEES Technical Advisory Boards will meet in the afternoon of the 11th February at the same location. A meeting of EUREKA TEENEST Programme E!3517 will occur in the Morning of the 11th February at the same location again at the Royal Military Academy.
CEEES ANNOUNCES A NEW PUBLICATION.
A new publication is available to download from the CEEES website site on Reliability - For A Mature Product From The Beginning Of Useful Life.
This Recommended Practices document has been generated by the Reliability and Environmental Stress Screening (R & ESS) Technical Advisory Board (TAB) of the Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies (CEEES). The co-ordination of this work by the R & ESS TAB of CEEES allowed the participation of a wide range of specialists from all over Europe encompassing both a wide range of expertise as well as experiences in a broad range of industrial sectors.
Winning Photographs in CEEES Photographic Competition
CEEES are pleased to announce the winner of the CEEES photographic competition as the photograph titled "Ci5000 interior". The photographs were judged on content and technical quality. The judges considered the winning photograph to be "colourful and interesting". The photograph was submitted by Atlas Material Testing Technology GmbH . The second prize was for the photograph "MTT Emma QUA system" and was judged "intriguing and technically reasonable". The third prize was for the photograph "Fisheye Static Florida" as "impressive in scale and unusual".
The photographs were judged for technical quality by Professor Mervyn L de Calcina-Goff * and Professor Raymond P Clark**. The environmental content was judged by a CEEES from each National Society.
First Prize
Image Title: Ci 5000 interior
The image shows a rotating three-tier specimen rack of an Atlas Weather-Ometer with samples prepared for accelerated
laboratory weathering testing. The image was taken at the Atlas weathering testing laboratory.
Second Prize
Image Title: EMMAQUA Systems
The image shows a fresnel solar concentrator which is most widely recognized and used for accelerated outdoor weathering testing.
The name is an acronym for: Equatorial Mount with Mirrors for Acceleration, with Water(Aqua). The fresnel-reflecting
system with 10 flat mirrors concentrate natural sunlight onto specimens. The high-quality, first-surface mirrors uniformly
focus sunlight onto the samples at an intensity of approximately eight times that of global daylight and approximately five times
the global radiation in the UV portion of the spectrum. The image was taken in Arizona.
Third Prize
Image Title: FishEye
The image shows racks for the direct weathering procedure in a test field for outdoor weathering. The image was taken in Florida.
*Professor Mervyn L de Calcina-Goff, CEnv ASIS FSEE FRPS FBP. Accredited Senior Imaging Scientist, Honorary Member and
Fenton Medalist of The Royal Photographic Society and previously Trustee and Past Chairman of The Imaging Science Qualification
Board.
**Professor Raymond P Clark, OBE CEng ASIS, Hon.FSEE, Hon FRPS Honorary Fellow, Fellow & Accredited Senior Imaging
Scientist of The Royal Photographic Society and Past President.
CEEES 52nd Meeting at Oporto
The autumn meeting of CEEES was hosted by SOPSAR the Portuguese Society. The meeting was held on the 24th and 25th September 2009 at Oporto in Portugal. The 52nd CEEES meeting included meetings of the three CEEES technical advisory boards as well as the CEEES congress. The meeting was held alongside the 1st SOPSAR Congress - Innovative Environmental Testing: A Supporting Tool for Sustainable Renewable Energies. Presentations from this congress are available in the Downloads area of this website. Following the congress a dinner was hosted by SOPSAR to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of CEEES. The dinner was held at the Calum port winery.
The Current President of CEEES, Markku Juntunen Chairing, the CEEES Congress
Henri Grzeskowiak, the convenor of the Reliability and Environmental Stress Screening Technical Advisory Board, discusses a point
with Thomas Reichert, the convenor of the Climatic and Atmospheric Pollution Effects Technical Advisory Board.
A number of the attendees of the CEEES meeting at Oporto.
The 1st SOPSAR Congress - Innovative Environmental Testing: A Supporting Tool for Sustainable Renewable Energies, was held on the
day after the CEEES meeting. As well as thought provoking presentations the conference allowed for a number of panel discussions
during the day. The congress was held in the old Customs house on the waterfront at Oporto.
Following the 1st SOPSAR Congress, the delegates took a short boat trip across the river to the Calum port winery.
Markku Juntunen, President of CEEES, thanks Claudia Sil and SOPSAR for Hosting the meeting.
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