Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Kanazawa, Japan. Free University Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.SA. Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Japan. Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Japan.

• Preface -- Organization -- Civil Infrastructure -- Designing for FRP composites durability in the civil infrastructure (Invited lecture) /J.V.Bausano, S.W.Case & JJ.Lesko -- Correlation of laboratory and field studies of ageing and degradation of composite systems in civil infrastructure (Keynote lecture) /VMXarbhari & J.SZhang -- Interfacial properties control the durability of externally repaired infrastructures with composite materials (Keynote lecture) /K.Yamaguchi, I.Kimpara