The first China-Japan Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering was held in 1990 in Beijing, China on the cooperative research between CRIBC (Central Research Institute of Building and Construction) and Kobe University in Japan involving wider researchers and engineers in China and Japan who were interested in Lifeline Earthquake Engineering. The second Symposium as a tri-lateral symposium of China-Japan and US joint programs was held in 1994 at Xi’an, China under the official US-China protocol program on cooperative earthquake engineering studies. Since then, altogether 9 series symposiums have been held.

In the past few decades, earthquake disasters have caused serious losses to human beings, such as the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011, and the Türkiye earthquake in 2023. Consequently, lifeline and infrastructure earthquake engineering has attracted increasing attention worldwide. With this background, the aim of the International Symposium on Lifeline and Infrastructure Earthquake Engineering (ISLIEE) is to bring engineers and scientists all over the world together to present and discuss innovative methodologies and the practical applications of these technologies in this field. The symposium originated from the China-Japan-US Trilateral Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering. Previous editions took place in Beijing (1990), Xi’an (1994), Kunming (1998), Qingdao (2002), Haikou (2007), Chengdu (2013), Shanghai (2017), Shenyang (2018), and Beijing (2024). The 10th International Symposium on Lifeline and Infrastructure Earthquake Engineering will be held in Perth, Australia. It is jointly organized by CIMP (Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection) at Curtin University, the Earthquake Engineering Research & Test Center at Guangzhou University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As organizers, we eagerly anticipate the vibrant exchange of ideas and visions, all within the framework of our broad thematic coverage. We look forward to welcoming scholars from across the globe to ISLIEE 2026, where the pursuit of knowledge and the quest for innovative solutions will be at the forefront of our endeavours.