Accommodation
	A sufficient number of rooms has been reserved at international standart five-four-and-three star category hotels in Istanbul for the Conference. Detailed information on the hotels, along with rates will be available in the Second Bulletin.
Registration Fees
	An international conference of this size is an important event, and its financing should also depend on additional sponsoring. The organisational focus of the Conference is to keep the registration fee as low as possible to promote attendance by researchers and engineers from all over the world. The Turkish National Society, after a careful study of the financial possibilities, has decided to offer 650 USD (including VAT) as the conference registration fee, which will cover all the traditional benefits of international conferences. Furthermore, to encourage and to facilitate the participation of younger researchers and engineers a special reduced fee (half of the normal fee) is offered. Up to 200 reduced fees will be offered to those participants nominated by their Member Societies.
Correspondence
	Correspondence about scientific/programme issues should be addressed to: Prof. Dr. Ergün Togrol Chairman, Organising Committee XVth ICSMGE Faculty of Civil Engineering Istanbul Technical University 80626 Ayazaga, Istanbul, Turkey Tel : 90 212 285 3747 Fax : 90 212 285 3582 E-mail : 15icsmge@itu.edu.tr Correspondence about organisational issues should be addressed to: IKON TOURISM AND TRAVEL INC. P.K. 86 80221 Sisli, ISTANBUL Tel : 90 212 231 3021 (pbx) Fax : 90 212 232 1522 E-mail : 15icsmge@ikontur.com.tr