The Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA) has extended its deadline for abstract submissions for its 81^st conference to 13 March 2017.

IMESA invites all members and non-members to submit papers for consideration for presentation at the prestigious IMESA Conference.

The theme for this year’s event is ‘Sustainable Engineering: back to basics for the future’, posing the question ‘Has technology in design made us forget the basic principles of engineering design?’

IMESA encourages a broad range of topics typically falling into the following areas:

• Political, legal and regulatory
• Ecological and environmental
• Financial and social
• Transport and traffic
• Water and sanitation
• Roads and stormwater

The IMESA Conference and Exhibition is regarded as one of the main events on the municipal engineering calendar, attracting around 1 000 delegates across Southern Africa.

The three-day-long event will run from 25 to 27 October 2017 at Emperor’s Palace in Gauteng.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS PROCESS

Participants are required to go through a review process called the Call for Papers process. All stages of the process are reviewed by the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).

The title and topic will be evaluated for innovation, thought, leadership, business value, conformance to the theme and business interest. Only the best will be selected to go on to the next stage.

The process has three phases:

PHASE 1 : Submission of an ABSTRACT

Deadline: 13 March 2017

Participants will be notified by the 06 April 2017 if they will be moving on to PHASE 2.

Abstracts should be limited to 350 to 400 words and short resume with contact details for each of the authors (max 200 words each) must be submitted with the abstract.

 PHASE 2 : Submission of a FULL PAPER

Deadline: 1 June 2017

Participants will be notified if they will be moving on to Phase 3.

 PHASE 3 : Submission of a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

Deadline will be communicated to successful participants.

 

For more information contact:

Melanie Stemmer

Tel:  031 266 3263

Completed submissions to be forwarded to:

marketing@imesa.org.za