Items of the latest issue, 03-08 - May/June 2008:

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

COBRAE Group News
* COBRAE Member introduction: FiReCo AS
* Invitation for COBRAE Membership
* Lightweight Bridge Decks Conference - Photo Impression and Order Form for Conference Proceedings

Structural Composites & Bridges News Flashes
* Composite Advantage Builds New Drop-In-Place FRP Superstructure For Eight Mile Road Bridge In Ohio
* VINCI signs contract for Qatar–Bahrain causeway, the world’s longest bridge
* Italian minister commits to Messina Bridge
* FHWA Launches Flagship Initiative to Collect Nationwide Data on Highway Bridges
* New Indian bridge connected
* ACMA Releases 2007 Composites Industry Report
* SAMPE ’08 Lightweight Bridge and Aircraft Wing Fosters Student Engineers
* Final section completed at new Elbe Bridge
* SAMPE '08: Successful Reception in Long Beach Paves Way for Return to the East
* Building Information Models Are Now Crossing Over
* Interesting website: http://www.wonderebar.com
* Report: I-35W Maintenance Recommendations Ignored
* Lankhorst develops new design plastic arch bridge
* GRP pipes installed by microtunneling
* Article in Concrete Engineering International magazine by Schöck Bauteile, Germany

COBRAE Agenda
* 2008 China Composites Industry Trade Mission, September 11-19, 2008, China

Other Composite Structures & Composite Bridges Events
* Footbridge 2008, Third International Conference, July 2-4, 2008, Porto, Portugal
* CICE 2008 Zurich, July 20-25, 2008, Zurich, Switzerland
* 5th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures,
September 22-24, 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
* Compotec, October 29-31, 2008, Marina da Carrara, Italy
Concrete: 21st Century Superhero, June 22-24, 2009, London, UK