in 1979 the european community considered the work of ceb ripe to become the basis for the first eurocode; franco levi was appointed chairman of the drafting committee for eurocode 2 (concrete structures). eurocode 2 was printed by cec in the famous luxemburg edition 1988, together with ec1, ec3, ec6, ec8. franco levi had an essential role in the coordination of the drafting of such 5 eurocodes based on the same criteria of the “limit states” and on what was called the “semiprobabilistic approach”. this format still remains the format of the subsequent set of eurocodes issued by cen tc 250 (structural eurocodes).