21 – 24 July 2024, University of Birmingham
The International Brick and Block Masonry Conference is an international conference intended to attract representatives among masonry researchers and practitioners, masonry industries and building management authorities, construction professionals and educators. The conference will thus represent a unique platform for discussion, networking, sharing new ideas and gaining insights into trends, innovations and challenges related to masonry, in both research and building practice.
To celebrate the 18th edition of this significant event, all accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (Springer) and indexed in Scopus.
We are also pleased to announce that RILEM offers a one-year free RILEM membership to the best papers (awardees must be under 35, unlimited number of awardees) and the best paper awardee has the possibility to submit a paper to RILEM Technical Letters.
After the first edition of this conference in 1967 in Austin Texas, the conference has been held 16 other times, to date, in different countries across the world. These include:
| Year | Edition | City | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 1st IB²MaC | Austin Texas | USA |
| 1970 | 2nd IB²MaC | Stoke-on-Trent | England |
| 1973 | 3rd IB²MaC | Essen | Germany |
| 1976 | 4th IB²MaC | Bruges | Belgium |
| 1979 | 5th IB²MaC | Washington | USA |
| 1982 | 6th IB²MaC | Rome | Italy |
| 1985 | 7th IB²MaC | Melbourne | Australia |
| 1988 | 8th IB²MaC | Dublin | Ireland |
| 1991 | 9th IB²MaC | Berlin | Germany |
| 1994 | 10th IB²MaC | Calgary | Canada |
| 1997 | 11th IB²MaC | Shanghai | China |
| 2000 | 12th IB²MaC | Madrid | Spain |
| 2004 | 13th IB²MaC | Amsterdam | The Netherlands |
| 2008 | 14th IB²MaC | Sydney | Australia |
| 2012 | 15th IB²MaC | Florianopolis | Brazil |
| 2016 | 16th IB²MaC | Padua | Italy |
| 2021 | 17th IB²MaC | Krakow | Poland |