Dear PIANC friends,

I have been delighted to notice that many of you responded favourably to my first blog message: indeed all of you have supported my first proposal to launch some record of major waterborne infrastructure projects and of typical infrastructure projects. We discussed this topic at our last Council meeting in Paris and will soon be back, as Philippe Rigo accepted to write a template in order to determine how we should proceed.

Another matter I would like to raise is to get your feedback through our blog concerns our publications policy. In fact many of us have the feeling that PIANC has shifted successfully to electronic publications and that most of us can handle easier our publications. Some figures can illustrate this tendency:

·         Technical reports sold in 2010: 428 hard copies

·         Technical reports sold in 2011: 197 hard copies and 307 electronic versions:                                  total of 504 copies

But of course this is only a very quick glance on the topic. As our ProCom Commission is meeting in Brussels at the very beginning of February, I would suggest that you send us through this blog some feedback in order to get your feelings about the electronic publications policy and about the ways to improve it.

With my very best regards,

Geoffroy Caude