Turkish Construction Steel Association President Prof. Dr. Nesrin Yardımcı, having assumed the title of the first female ECCS Board Member in 2001, took over the title of ECCS President from Prof. Dr. Raffaele Landolfo in ECCS General Assembly held in Naples / Italy on 9 September 2014.
Turkish Construction Steel Association was invited by European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS) first in 1989, and officially became an active member of ECCS as the representative of Turkey in 1992. Since that date, ECCS Presidency was assumed twice by Turkey in ECCS where 20 European countries are represented. Among the presidents of Turkish Construction Steel Association, Prof. Dr. Tevfik Sano Arda assumed the role of ECCS President in 1999-2000 and Prof. Dr. Nesrin Yardımcı in 2009-2010.