Preface

Abstract

On behalf of the Editors, it is our pleasure to accept many research papers on the latest development in infrastructure studies during the 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI 2020). The Conference, which was organized by Department of Civil Engineering and Planning-Yogyakarta State University, was succesfully held on 5th October 2020. Different from the previous conferences, ICSI 2020 was carried out in the form of virtual conference due to the impact of Covid-19 pandemic. Because there was worldwide travel restriction, ICSI 2020 was held in this flexible online conference to gather experts and scholars with the aim to continue disseminating the latest advanced research in the field of sustainable infrastructures, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. These kind of activities must continue in order to avoid delays in the development and application of new knowledges especially in a difficult situation during the pandemic.For the Plenary Session, the committee of ICSI 2020 invited a keynote speaker, Wikan Sakarinto, Ph.D. (Director General of Vocational Education, Ministry of Education and Culture – Republic of Indonesia), and two renowned experts as invited speakers: Prof. Atsushi Fukuda (Nihon University – Japan) and Prof. Ts. Dr. Salwani Mohd. Daud (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia – Malaysia). The keynote and invited speeches were the first session of the conference, which were each delivered in about 45 minutes via Zoom meeting. Following the keynote presentations, the parallel sessions was held through online meeting group via Zoom meeting for participants to share and discuss more about their research. In total, 7 parallel virtual rooms were allocated for the presentation and discussion. Each presenter in the parallel session was given 10-minutes pre-recorded presentation and 5 minutes question and answer session. The pre-recorded presentations were also shared in ICSI YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoiPBovMgHz0zOZuarvbW-w). Therefore, if the participants still have something to discuss, the discussion can be continued in the channel comment section.We were very glad that the participants enjoyed the conference very much both the technical quality and also the discussion session. In total, ICSI 2020 was attended by more than 200 participants from Japan, China, Turkey, Malaysia, and all over Indonesia. We received more than 100 paper submissions to be presented in the conference. Hence, ICSI 2020 selected a bunch of high-quality papers and compiled them into the proceedings after rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of international publication standard. We would like to warmly thank all the authors who, with their presentations and papers, generously contributed to the lively exchange of scientific information that is so vital to the endurance of scientific conferences of this kind.Lastly, ICSI 2020 would like to thank the organization staff, the members of the program committees and reviewers. They have worked very hard in reviewing papers and making valuable suggestions for the authors to improve their work. We also would like to express our gratitude to the external reviewers, for providing extra help in the review process, and the authors for contributing their research result to the conference.List of Committees, Conference Secretariat are available in this pdf