Items of the latest issue, 02-08 - March/April 2008:

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

COBRAE Group News
* Invitation for COBRAE Membership
* Lightweight Bridge Decks Conference - FINAL PROGRAM

Structural Composites & Bridges News Flashes
* TxDOT Advances Viability of Custom FRP Bridge Beams
* 2008 JEC Composites Show has a Record Turnout
* HJ3’s Carbon Fibre in ‘Hurricane Proof House’
* Minnesota DOT Shuts Bridge, Citing Bent Gusset Plates
* New Large Capacity Pultrusion Machines Installed at Strongwell
* SAMPE Announces 2008 Class of Fellows
* Monumental microtunnelling in Verona
* Official fib 2008 Symposium
* Strongrail Low-Maintenance, Fibreglass Architectural Handrail
* NTSB Decides Not to Hold Hearing on Bridge Collapse
* JEC Singapore – October 22-23-24, 2008
* World-beating Chinese bridge open for traffic
* French Highway Secured in GRP pipes
* The question is this: A "house bridge" or a "bridge house"?

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
* JEC Singapore – October 22-23-24, 2008
* 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
* Cursus Koolstoflijmwapening, 3 & 10 June,2008, Utrecht, 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
* 6th International FRP Conference, March 4-5, 2009, Munich, Germany
* Concrete: 21st Century Superhero, June 22-24, 2009, London, UK