The first Middle East Conference on Smart Monitoring, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures (Smar) has made a call for abstracts. The event will be held from February 8 until 10 next year at the American University of Dubai. It will be sponsored by the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure and the International Institute of FRP in Construction. Smar is a forum for international engineers, scientists and managers to discuss recent advances in the field.