Items of the latest issue, 01-08 - January/February 2008:

COBRAE Member and Membership News
* Not a COBRAE Member yet?
* COBRAE Members 2008

COBRAE Group News
* COBRAE Chair may be filled again
* Invitation for COBRAE Membership
* Lightweight Bridge Decks Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS

Structural Composites & Bridges News Flashes
* Sheffield Parkway Competition - Winner Announced
* New Report on FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Structures
* Dubai to build world's longest arch bridge
* Investigators find design flaw in I-35W bridge
* LNG Warms Up to Composite
* New crack found on Clyde Arc bridge
* CALL FOR PAPERS 2008 International Orthotropic Bridge Conference - Sacramento, California, USA
* Interesting website: http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/BRIDGE/index.shtml
* Free downloadable textbooks about Composites
* New date for Composites & Polycon 2009
* First Composite Rail Bridge Undergoes Successful Testing
* Louisiana's Luling Bridge Stay Cables To Be Replaced
* Job Announcement
* Job Announcement


COBRAE Agenda
* Lightweight Bridge Decks Conference, June 18-20, 2008, Arnhem, The Netherlands
* 2008 China Composites Industry Trade Mission, September 11-19, 2008, China

Other Composite Structures & Composite Bridges Events
* Composite Products 2008, March 6-9, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
* 9th World Pultrusion Conference: "Profiting from Pultruded Profiles", March 27-28, 2008, Rome, Italy
* PLASTEX - 2nd International Plastcs, Rubber and Composites Fair, May 13-16, 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
* International fib Symposium, May 19-22, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Footbridge 2008, Third International Conference, July 2-4, 2008, Porto, Portugal
* CICE 2008 Zurich, July 22-24, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland
* Compotec, October 29-31, 2008, Marina da Carrara, Italy
* Concrete: 21st Century Superhero, June 22-24, 2009, London, UK