At the Awards Conferral Ceremony of the 2024 Annual Symposium, the 22nd Hangai Prizes were conferred to the following winners, who all later presented their papers at the symposium:

• Elena SHILOVA (UK): “A Framework for Parametric Structural Design of Topological Interlocking Flat Vaults”
• Guusje UBACHS (UK): "Walking on eggshells: innovative methods to justify reuse of a historic thin shell roof at Smithfield Poultry Marke"
• Hiroki AWAJI (Japan): “Verification of Flexible Cable-net Formwork Method for GFRC Panel Manufacturing Using Structural and Physical Optimization”
• Seri NISHIMOTO (Japan): “Transformable Surface Mechanisms based on Bending-active Scissors Structures”

Their papers will not only appear in the Proceedings of the 2024 Symposium but will also be published in the December 2024 issue of the Journal of the IASS.

In addition to their medals and other benefits, each of the winners will receive one dues-free year of IASS membership. (This award of one-year dues-free membership accrues also to each of the non-winning entrants into the Hangai Prize competition who presented their papers at the 2024 Annual Symposium.)

At the Awards Conferral Ceremony of the 2024 Annual Symposium, the 2023 Tsuboi Awards were conferred to the following winners:

For the best Journal paper of 2023: Luis BORUNDA, Jesús ANAYA, “Hierarchical Structures Computational Design and Digital 3D Printing”, Journal of the IASS, Vol. 64 (2023) No. 1 March n. 215, pp. 5-18.

For the best Proceedings paper for 2023: Munkyun LEE, Tomohiro TACHI, “Design and evaluation of compliant hinges for deployable thick origami structures”, Proceedings of the 2023 IASS Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, Paper 867, Session 17.

The best Proceedings paper will be published in the December 2024 issue of the Journal of the IASS.

At the IASS Annual Symposium held in Zurich, Switzerland, the following distinguished honors were formally conferred:

• IASS Honorary Membership for David M. Campbell (USA)

At the annual meeting of the IASS Executive Council held on 25 August 2024, the following honor was approved and announced for conferral at the 2025 Annual Symposium in Mexico City, Mexico:

IASS Honorary Membership for Juan Gerardo Oliva Salinas (Mexico)

The annual Executive Council meeting was held on Sunday, August 25, one day before the start of the 2024 Annual Symposium in Zurich.

The Executive Council approved the results of the annual election by the membership for renewal of one-third of the IASS Executive Council and seated the following for 3-year terms:

• Jianguo CAI (newly elected)
• Su-Duo XUE (re-elected)                    
• Philippe BLOCK (re-elected)            
• Caitlin MUELLER (re-elected)            
• Olivier BAVEREL (re-elected)            
• Olga POPOVIC-LARSEN (re-elected)

In addition, at the meeting, the EC co-opted the following to 3-year terms:

• Stefano GABRIELE (Chair of the Organizing Committee of the IASS 2026 Symposium in Turin)
• Marisela MENDOZA (Chair of the Working Group 17)

And the following former EC members were elected to the Advisory Board:

• Alireza BEHNEJAD (Co-Chair of Working Group 20)
• Annette BOEGLE
  

The SLTE VIII – VIII Latin American Symposium on Tensile Structures, scheduled on October 14-16, 2024 in Buenos Aires has been canceled. More info on the event's website:

https://www.latensored.org/slte-viii-buenos-aires-argentina-2024/

For IASS members, access to the PDF of the full issue is through the Publications Gateway of this website. The issue will be available soon on the Ingenta website in the usual form.

The issue includes 6 technical papers.

According to a resolution approved by the IASS Executive Council, the Proceedings of IASS Symposia are now freely available to all users, regardless of their membership status.

As of April 2, all articles on the Ingenta Connect website that archives the accumulated proceedings since 2013 are marked as fully free access. This allows anyone to view and print the articles they select.

Now, balloting for the IASS Executive Council Elections 2024, and General Assembly Referendum 2023 is open on the Association website

from March 21 (00:00 CET) through April 20 (24:00 CET).

After logging in, select MEMBER TOOLS from the top menu and then BALLOTING.

Only Individual, Senior and Distinguished Members as well as Collective Representatives and Chapter Representatives are eligible to vote.

The following membership levels are not eligible to vote:
Student, Awardee, Chapter affiliates, Collective affiliates

For IASS members, access to the PDF of the full issue is through the Publications Gateway of this website. The issue will be available soon on the Ingenta website in the usual form.

The issue includes the following:

• The Annual Message by the President, Carlos Lázaro
  
• A Memorial Statement for Avelino Samartín Quiroga (1939-2023), an esteemed professor of structures and an IASS Honorary Member
• The Tsuboi Proceedings Award paper for 2022
• The four Hangai Prize papers for 2023
• One additional technical paper