The ISCOWA Award

Following the first international conference WASCON '91 the international society ISCOWA has been established, in order to come to an organisation with the goal of stimulating exchange of know how in the field of application of waste materials in construction. ISCOWA initiates and participates in the organisation of the WASCON conference series.

As an element of competition the ISCOWA Award has been introduced. The Award will be appointed to a person who has made an excellent contribution to the aims of ISCOWA. A jury selects the winner from nominations put forward by ISCOWA members and presents the winner at the WASCON conferences.
In 1994 the first Award has been appointed to Prof. Joe Cabrera from the University of Leeds and in 1997 the second winner in the chain was dr. H. A. van der Sloot from ECN, The Netherlands. The third ISCOWA Award was awarded to Dr. Ole Hjelmar of DHI, Denmark, at Wascon 2000 in Harrogate, UK. In 2003 in San Sebastián the fourth ISCOWA Award was given to the Dutch ministry for the Environment, represented by Rein Eikelboom. He will be the chairman of the jury of the ISCOWA Award 2006.
To keep the chain growing it is important that WASCON conferences will be organised. ISCOWA is grateful that the Serbian Society of Civil Engineers has offered to organise WASCON 2006 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

Who will be the fifth Award winner ? Come to WASCON 2006 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro and find out !

Prof. Joe Cabrera receives the first ISCOWA Award at Wascon 1994

Prof. Joe G. Cabrera (middle) receives the first Iscowa Award from the Iscowa Board (Jan Hartlén -left- and Hans Goumans -right-) at the WASCON 1994 Conference.

Dr. Hans van der Sloot receives the second ISCOWA Award at Wascon 1997

Dr. Hans van der Sloot (right) receives the second ISCOWA Award from Prof. Joe Cabrera (left) at the Wascon 1997 Conference.

Dr. Ole Hjelmar receives the third ISCOWA Award at Wascon 2000

Dr. Ole Hjelmar receives the third ISCOWA Award at the Wascon 2000 Conference.

Rein Eikelboom received the fourth ISCOWA Award at Wascon 2003

The Netherlands Ministry of Environment, represented by Rein Eikelboom, received the fourth ISCOWA Award at the Wascon 2003 Conference.

The fifth Iscowa award will be awarded at Wascon 2006 in Belgrade.

The fifth Iscowa award will be awarded at Wascon 2006 in Belgrade.
(award made by Renata Berk)