The first of them, the Industrialized Housing International Seminar, will be organized by the FICEM-APCAC and the Cement and Concrete Institute of Guatemala and the FIHP. The event will take place on the 26^th and 27^th of May in the Capital City of this country. The spreading of the best construction practices in the Industrialized Housing in the region and the optimization of mitigating Technologies and processes for the environmental impact of the operations in the sector will be the main topics of the seminar, seeking the Sustainable Development.

The second event in which FICEM-APCAC will be participating in 2008, will be hosted in San Salvador. It is the 5^th National and 1st Central-American Forum on Housing: Habitat and Sustainability in the Globalization. On Wednesday 9^th July, opening date for the Forum, the FICEM-APCAC Housing Committee will launch the “Industrialized Housing Basic Manual and Implementation Guidelines” (Manual básico y guías de implementación de la Vivienda Industrializada) result of Fernando Mayagoitia’s, member of the Cement and Concrete Mexican Institute, research.

In the same way, topics related to successful experiences in Sustainable Housing, Urban Development, and Efficiency in Energy Use in the construction chain will be treated. The event that will conclude on 12th July will count with the participation of the Ministers of Housing from the Central-American region.

The third event scheduled in the FICEM-APCAC 2008 Agenda is the Masonry International Seminar in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican Cement and Concrete Institute has designed and agenda for the spreading of the best practices in masonry within the region and for facilitating the communication of technologies, processes, and products directed to satisfy the necessities of this sector of the construction. The event will take place in San José de Costa Rica on the 7th and 8th August, 2008.

On the other hand, the participation of FICEM-APCAC for second time in the Concrete Show South America 2008, will take place on the 27^th, 28^th, and 29^th of August in Sao Pablo. By participating in this event FICEM-APCAC is aiming to support the region’s development by the optimization of technologies and processes in the operations of the sector. 

Finally, the Board of Directors established the dates when the XXV Technical Conferences and the XVIII FICEM-APCAC Partners’ Assembly and Congress will be held. The first are to be taking place in Panama on the 8th, 9th and 10th of September and the XVII Partners’ Assembly and Congress will be held in Cancun, on the 15^th, 16^th, and 17^th of October.

The topics to be discussed during the XXV FICEM-APCAC Technical Conferences will be: the spreading of security and occupational health initiatives related to the production quality of the cement industry, initiatives of responsible management and innovations to mitigate the environmental impacts of the sector’s operations, as well as the optimization of technologies in order to make an efficient use of the energetic resources.

On its part, the thematic agenda of the FICEM-APCAC Congress in Cancun will be focused in Sustainable Development. The goal will be to share the best practices to minimize the consumption of the limited energetic resources in the sector, to facilitate its efficient and sustainable production, with the optimization of technologies that properly satisfy the construction and infrastructure necessities in the region’s countries.

In this way it is structured the event offer that the FICEM-APCAC has for the 36 production companies, 15 institutes, and 6 associations members of the Federation in 2008.