From Oct. 9th-11th, the Third Kwang-Hua World Forum on Sustainable Civil Engineering hosted by State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering and College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, was Held in Tongji. Fifty-one experts from USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Finland, Japan, Singapore, Mainland China and Taiwan District attended the meeting. The objective of the event was to provide a forum for experts around the world to present recent progress and exchange views or experiences in the field of sustainable civil engineering. The forum also aimed to promote the international collaboration and mutual understanding on how to achieve sustainable infrastructure through innovative planning, design, construction, maintenance, hazard mitigation and retrofitting.