04.07.2008

 The 24th ITA newsletter available!

The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES) created a new Committee, the Committee for Education and Training (ITA-CET) and the launching seminar was organized by the Politecnico of Torino on Tuesday 20 May according to the following programme
The seminar was attended by 32 representatives of Education and Training Institutions coming from 15 different countries from all continents (read more)

The launching seminar of the Kazakhstan Tunnelling Association (KTA) took place in Astana on May the 15th. The seminar has been chaired by Baibol UTEPBAYEV, President of KTA. More than 80 persons representing companies and public services of Kazakhstan took part in the seminar.

ITA has been invited to participate and was represented by its General Secretary, Claude Berenguier.

The formal adhesion of Kazakhstan inside ITA through KTA will be done during the 34th ITA General Assembly in Agra. Kazakhstan will become the 53rd ITA Member Nation.

- Thesis of Donald Lamont (animateur WG5) : A study of decompression illness and its regulation in contemporary UK tunnelling  - an engineering perspective

- New Dehli, Conclave on "Contract Management for Accelerated Development of Indian Hydropower Projects"

- Istanbul - 1st Black Sea and 4th Silk Road Conference

- Shanghai Symposium - Conference of Prof Qian Qihu on Risk Management

- STUVA Tagungs 07- Keynote lectures

- Shanghai Symposium - Keynote lectures

- Gibraltar strait crossing - Proceedings of the 4th UN-ITA Workshop

- more

ITA COSUF Newsletter, May 2008 - download here

The ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2008, will take place in Agra, India between the 19th and 25th September 2008.

The main theme of the congress will be: "Underground Facilities for Better Environment   & Safety"

The 3rd bulletin and 4 page flyer have been published

 -Website

AGRA (INDIA) 2008

The ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2009 "Safe Tunnelling for the City and Environment" will take place in Budapest/Hungary on 23-28. May, 2009.

The Call for Papers and the main topics as well as Call for Sponsorship and Exhibition is now available on the website.

BUDAPEST 2009

Several important future events will take place in 2008-2009. The following ones will be sponsored by ITA (for details go to the page future events):

• 22-27 September 2008, Agra, India. WTC'08 and ITA-AITES General Assembly
• 23-26 September 2008, Berlin, Germany. InnoTrans 2008
• 6-8 October 2008, Monaco. Building Underground for the Future.
• 22-24 October 2008, Wroclaw, X International Conference - Underground Urban Infrastructure 2008
• 10-12 November 2008,Singapore. ICDE 2008
• 23-28 May 2009, Budapest, World Tunnel Congress & 35th ITA General Assembly
• 22-25 June 2009, Trondheim, 5th Symposium of Strait Crossings