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In the past 3 weeks l have met with the Japanese, Chinese and Hong Kong tunnelling industry.The tunnelling scene in China is by far the most encouraging ongoing tunnelling news that reflects the infrastructure stimulus initiatives that have been introduced by governments to combat the drop in market activity due to the financial crisis. Hong Kong too is experiencing big tunnelling activity along with Singapore in metros, water supply and sewerage schemes. The activity is attracting engineers from Europe and USA seeking employment opportunities. Until the tunnel market in USA and Europe... |
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The registration to the congress is now open. (read more)
Opportunities for the exhibition as well as for sponsoring are still available. You have to take into consideration that Canada has a large number of tunnelling projects planned and underway, and provides highly dynamic opportunities for business generation and market penetration. Examples of projects in Canada are: York Sewage, 3 Metro extension projects (Spadina, Young, and Eglinton) in Toronto, Port Mann tunnel and 2 Metro Extension projects (Evergreen, Millennium) in Vancouver, Metro Ottawa, all representing approximately $5... |
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The second bulletin for the WTC 2011 which will take place in Helsinki, Finland 21-26 May 2011 is now available for downloading.
The abstract submission is also available from the website. |
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The Survey of Existing Regulations and Recognised Recommendations (Road Tunnels) was produced by ITA COSUF Activity Group 2. This report intends to be a useful tool for organizations responsible for design and operation of road tunnels along with administrations authorities responsible for road tunnel safety. The topics which are treated in this work are dealing amongst others with safety facilities, safety approaches and procedures and risk analysis. Starting point were the products of the thematic network FIT (Fire In Tunnels). Safety experts of many European countries have ... |
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President and Secretary general, together with Eivind Grov, Soren Eskesen, Bai Yun and Harald Wagner were invited to the China's 4th International Symposium on Tunnelling held in Shanghai on 28-29 October 2009. The symposium was mainly sponsored by CCES, the Chinese representative in ITA, and by the Shanghai authorities, including Shanghai Municipal Government, Shanghai Society of Civil Engineering (SSCE) and Shanghai Tunnelling Engineering Company (STEC, ITA member); it gathered around 500 participants.
President of CCES, Mr TAN Qinglian introduced the Symposium.(download his... |
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The Finnish Tunnelling Association celebrated from 4 to 5 November in Helsinki, Finlandia Hall.
Seminars on Underground Space, Rock Engineering, and the Nordic symposium of Rock Grouting
included 48 papers, and was attended by 283 persons representing 7 countries. President of FTA professor Pekka Särkkä gave the lecture ‘Finnish Tunnelling Association 35 years’ , and Vice President of ITA professor Eivind Grøv presented ‘International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association ITA’. Underground Space seminar included City Planning, LCC management, shelter function, and cases of... |
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Vice President, In-Mo Lee, Secretary General, Claude Berenguier, and Executive Director, Olivier Vion, visited Indonesia end of September at the occasion of a "Seminar Underground tunnel" organized by MRT Jakarta.
At this occasion presentations have been made by Claude Berenguier on ITA and Safety in Underground Space, Olivier Vion on Underground Use in urban areas as well as by Zaw Zaw Aye from TUTG (ITA Thailand) on Geotechnical aspects of Bangkok MRTA. Around 60 persons participated in the seminar and many questions were asked by the audience. On the day after the local... |
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President and Secretary General visited JTA, Japan ITA representative from 25 till 27 September.
During this visit a Symposium was organized at the attention of JTA members; a talk was given by the President (download text ; presentation) to the Japanese Business Community and the Secretary general informed about the new development concerning Training within ITA; 25 participants were present especially the new President N. Sato, the Chairman of the International committee, the Executive Director T. Mizutani, K. Ono and Y. Ota.
A visit was also organized to the new Tunnelling method URUP... |
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ITA Vice-President Prof In-Mo Lee and Executive Director, Olivier Vion, visited Lao, the latest ITA Member Nation. A meeting took place at the University with some of the members of the LUSEA (ITA representative) members.At this occasion, Prof In Mo Lee officialy gave to them their membership certificate.
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Saudi National group of ITA co-organized with the Gulf Road Engineering Society (GRES) the second Gulf Transport Conference in Riyadh which gathered around 500 specialists from the 6 Gulf Countries and from Syria and Jordan. The conference was mainly devoted to the Railway network in Saudi Arabia (including High Speed Railway), to Public Transport in Gulf cities and to the use of ITS. Tunnelling being of interest in many cases, the ITA Secretary General was invited to present the Role of ITA toward Public Transport; he also presented briefly the new ITA-CET Foundation chaired by Eng. Abdullah... |
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Vice President, In-Mo Lee, Secretary General, Claude Berenguier, and Executive Director, Olivier Vion, visited Singapore end of September. They had several meetings notably with TUCSS, ITA representative, with TUSTD, ITA representative in Malaysia, with the Ministry of National Development and with the Nanyang Technical University.
Contacts are followed notably for the organization by TUCSS and TUSTD of an International Conference and Exhibition on Tunnelling and Trenchless technology in March 2011 in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and with the Ministry of National Development which has... |
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On September 16-18, took place in Ljubljana, the 9th conference on tunnel construction and underground structures. ITA was represented by Eivind Grov, Vice President. Around 110 participants from 12 countries contributed to the visibilityf the conference on a international scale, with 30 contributions in various area of underground space. particular emphasis was made to tunnel safety through a round table (read more). |
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ITA Turkish national group organized a Seminar on Operational Safety of Underground Structures in Istanbul on 6-7 October 2009. Around 160 specialists participated to the seminar. Among them, ITA was represented by A.Haack, F.Amberg and C. Berenguier, invited by Yucel Erdem. (The lectures presented by ITA representatives and by Wolfgang Baltzer from Aachen University can be downloaded). In addition to the foreign and local invited experts, representatives of the central and local organisation of the Directorate General of Highways, officials of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality,... |
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Vice President In-Mo Lee and Executive Director, Olivier Vion, visited Hanoï, beginning of October.
They had teh opportunity to meet ITA representative ITST as well as several academics and companies such as the National University of Civil Engineering, the University of Transportand Communications, the University of Architecture, the Vietnam Geotechnical Institute, the engineering company CONINCO and to meet other people at the occasion of a diner organized by Mr Nguyen (Systra).
Many contacts have been taken notably with the universities which are in a process of having specialized... |
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The Secretary General visited the newly open 7km 2x3 lanes Yangtsé River Road Tunnel
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In order to facilitate the search among all papers and publications available on the ita website, we have implemented a new search engine specially devoted to this task.
When entering keywords, the search engine will automatically generate a page gathering all papers and publications (mainly pdf files) with this or these keywords. (go to the publication page) |
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Recently, thanks to relationships of ITA Vice President In-Mo Lee, six companies from Korea became ITA Supporters (more) :
Dodam, GS Engineering, Sambo, Samsung, SSangyong, Teso |
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ITA is a large community and around 8,000 people will receive this ita@news. Nevertheless, it seems useful that ITA becomes also member of a wider networking system such as LinkedIn.
We have created a group inside LinkedIn (go there) where you will be able to share information and ask question to a large community of tunnellers and professionals interested in the use of underground space.
So if you have already a LinkedIn account just join ITA-AITES group, if you have not an account yet, create your profile and join us. |
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The results of the biggest research initiative on underground construction were presented recently at a two-day workshop and final event in an underground cultural facility Dom-im-Berg in Graz, Austria. The project lasted 4 years and involved 41 partners (clients, industry, SMEs, manufacturers, research institutions, Universities) from 11 countries of the European Union. The budget (financed 50% by the EC) was 26 Million Euros. (read more).
A book has been published "Technology Innovation in Underground Construction" which present highlights of the achievements of the projects.... |
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During the last months, ITA has been present in the International Press.
Rail Transit, article from Martin Knights at the occasion of the Congress in Shanghai "Astonishing Tunnelling Work in China"Travaux (Magazine of the French Civil Works Federation), interview from Yann Leblais, ITA Vice President. (article in French) |
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1-3 December,2009, Hambourg, Germany, Organised by STUVA
ITA Sponsored |
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18-19 January 2010 in Bahrain |
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