LanammeUCR PROPOSAL FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF APT 2016 Ing. Luis Guillermo Loria-Salazar, MSc, PhD...
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LanammeUCR PROPOSAL FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF APT 2016 Ing. Luis Guillermo Loria-Salazar, MSc, PhD General Director, Transportation Infrastructure Program
LanammeUCR PROPOSAL FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF APT 2016 Ing. Luis
Guillermo Loria-Salazar, MSc, PhD General Director, Transportation
Infrastructure Program National Laboratory of Materials and
Structural Models, LanammeUCR University of Costa Rica
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COSTA RICA -Located in Central America. -52,000 km 2 (Texas is
700,000 km 2, Mexico is 2,000,000 km 2 ). -4,000,000 people. -No
army since 1948. -2 million of tourists in 2013. -Biggest INTEL
facility in the world -2011: The happiest country in the
world!!!
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Traveling to COSTA RICA -L.A. -San Francisco -Chicago -Phoenix
-Houston -Dallas -Fort Lauderdale -Miami -Orlando -New York -Newark
-Denver -Madrid -Montreal -Atlanta -Mineapolis -Philadelphia
-Charlottee All major airlines travel to Costa Rica in a daily
basis from:
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Traveling to COSTA RICA -Hundreds of good hotels -No visa is
required for most of the countries -Various conference centers to
fulfill any conference need -Several auditoriums at UCR -LanammeUCR
auditorium can easily accommodate 150 people, and bigger ones
available on campus TOURISM is our MAIN industry -The best.The
kindness of costarican people
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Panama Channel hour flight Possible Nicaragua Channel Regional
Context
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An hour's drive from the airport to the beach Three-hour trip
between the airport and the best beaches Two-hour drive from the
airport to the Arenal Volcano Local Attraction
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Date of creation: August 26 th, 1940 Total area: 83,613,938.95
m 2 Buildings area: 474.616,55 m 2 7 regional campuses 13 colleges,
47 schools 1 planetary 98 research units 37,600 students 5,256
professors 2,615 administrative 104 undergrad programs 95 master
program 10 PhDs University of Costa Rica Regional campuses Main
campus
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What is LanammeUCR? LanammeUCR is the National Laboratory of
Materials and Structural Models of the University of Costa Rica. We
work on: Applied researchApplied research AcademicsAcademics
Technologhy TransferTechnologhy Transfer Technical
cooperationTechnical cooperation First latin-american laboratory
accredited by ISO 17025-2002 80 test accredited
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Areas of Expertise Seismic and Risk Management Engineering.
Geotechnical Engineering. Structural Engineering. Construction
Materials Engineering. Ingeniera Vial (PITRA Program 8114 y 8603
Law). LEGAL BASE: 7099 law National Laboratory of reference 8603
law, Auditing, research, specs and tech-transfer 1.0% fuel tax
$8MM/year
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CURRENT INSTALLED CAPACITY Civil engineers, Chemist, Chemical
and Mechanical engineers 150 workers11 PhDs12 M.Sc.50
Students-assistants
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Facilities Area Two buildings of laboratories and technology
transference center: 8,000 m 2 Liberia Campus: 1200 m 2 of
buildings in a total area of 10,000 m 2
PaveLab Facilities > 1 000 000 load repetitions after august
2013
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XVIII CILA, 2005: Iberoamerican Asphalt conference. 600
participants. 200 papers. 24 countries. I CISEV 2008: Iberoamerican
road safety conference. 150 papers. 600 participants. 27 countries.
HVSIA 2013. 8 countries. CITRANS: every 2 yrs @LanammeUCR T 2
center. > 300 training courses after 2003. > 3500 partipants:
technicians, engineers and citizens.
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Available dates: May to September (subject to approval of the
committee) Estimated cost: $400 - $500 Proposed chairmans: Main
chairman: Luis G. Lora-Salazar (LanammeUCR) Co-chair: Gerardo
Flintsch (Virginia Tech)