Sunday, 12th July 2026 – MuK
4 – 7pm: Registration, welcome reception and classical concert
Monday, 13th July 2026 – MuK
9am – 5pm: Keynote and parallel sessions
6pm – 11pm: ‘Shaping the Future Together’ Professional and Industrial evening with keynotes, together with local engineers and architects (to take place in MuK Rotunda)
Tuesday, 14th July 2026 – MuK
9am – 4pm: Keynote and parallel sessions
4pm – 6pm: DAfM Jahresversammlung (annual meeting for DAfM members only)
7pm – 11pm: Gala Dinner in MuK Rotunda
Wednesday, 15th July 2026 – MuK
9am – 3pm: Keynote and parallel sessions
3pm: Closing ceremony
TBC: Post-conference tour ‘Nordic Brickwork’
The 11th IMC will cover a wide variety of topics, including those listed below:
- Innovation and sustainability of masonry
- Circularity
- New construction techniques and technologies
- Quality assurance
- Architecture with masonry
- Analysis of masonry structures
- Masonry materials and testing
- Brick infrastructure
- Resilience
- Reliability and performance
- Masonry and building physics, durability and deterioration
- Affordable housing
- Codes and standards
- Design
- New Eurocode 6
- Fire resistance
- Repair, strengthening and retrofitting
- Training and education in masonry
- Conservation of historic buildings
- Earthen, timber and stone construction
- Climate change
- Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics
- Low carbon solutions
- Novel modelling or testing techniques
- Monitoring technology
- Case studies
- RILEM TC CTM: Testing method for masonry cores
