As the new version of the ITA Web site is now available since a few days, we are pleased to send you this new version of the ita@news.
As you will see, its presentation is slightly different from our previous ita@news, as it is mainly composed with only extracts of news. The full news is available by clicking on the title of the news.
Enjoy your reading. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any comments or questions.
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I last wrote to you in late June following my visits to Croatia, Sao Paulo and San Francisco.I hope that those of you who were fortunate to take a break these last 3 months have enjoyed time away with their families. The next few months will be busy times for ITA, not least because the WTC will be held in Agra in September--see ITA website for details. Over 1000 delegates are expected to attend. Our previous WTC was held in Prague in May of 2007 (16 months ago)so the ITA agenda will be full this year. I hope to see many of you there and to see your active participation in the... |
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The issue n°32 of Tribune can be dowloaded from the website.
It contains a focus on India as well as ITA Member Nations reports for the year 2007 and reports from ITA Prime Sponsors and supporters.
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The following recommendations produced by the ITA WG2, WG6 and WG16 are now available as didactic material:
WG2 : Settlement induced by tunnelling in soft ground
WG6 : Guidelines for structural fire resistance for road tunnels
WG16 : Technical features for quality procedures in tunnelling |
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TUST online is now available for ITA Members. Interested members should go in the private area of the web site. |
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A general report summarizing the activities of the WG 13 "Direct and Indirect Advantages of Underground Structures" has been prepared by Jean-Paul Godard,John Reilly and Raymond L. Sterling
Download the report |
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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 has been done during the 34th ITA General Assembly in Agra. Kazakhstan is the 53rd ITA Member Nation. |
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As a consequence of the last years' action of the Former President André Assis, Peru has applyed to become an ITA Member Nation. It will be represented by the Associacion Peruana de Tuneles y Obras Subterraneas -APTOS (Peruvian Tunnelling and Underground Works Association).
The formal adhesion of Peru inside ITA through APTOS has been done during the 34th ITA General Assembly in Agra. Peru is the 54th ITA Member Nation. |
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The Steering Board of the ITA Committee on Underground Space – ITACUS, met in Sao Paulo on 27 and 28 June 2008 on occasion of the 2nd Brazilian Tunnelling Conference 2008. During the meeting the work programme for the committee was finalised and approved by the Steering Board. The work programme will now be presented to the ITA General Assembly 2008 in Agra, India, for approval, making it possible for ITACUS to continue its already started activities.
The Steering Board of ITACUS will actively pursue making contact with other international organisations, especially in the field of Regional... |
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Tunnelling in Australia and New Zealand
Over the past few years tunnelling has really taken off in Australia although recently the focus has moved away from Sydney to Brisbane. The recent 13th Tunnelling Conference held by the Australasian Tunnelling Society in Melbourne attracted over 350 attendees and papers were presented on a variety of road, rail and service tunnel projects planned and under construction. Tunnelling in New Zealand has begun to expand in recent years as well and the Australasian Tunnelling Society (previously known as the Australian Underground Construction and... |
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Cut-through ceremony on the Tauern Tunnel Second Tube project
Only a few days ago, the final cut-through was celebrated on the Tauern Tunnel Second Tube project, on the A10 Motorway south of Salzburg. This was achieved after a construction time of only 22 months. Many guests and VIPs from politics, the media and the construction industry had the opportunity to get an idea of this extraordinary tunnelling feat at the cut-through ceremony last Friday. Thus, Alfred Sebl, Chief Executive Officer of Porr Technobau und Umwelt AG, emphasised in his welcome address: "This is indeed a historic... |
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The Brazilian Government instituted the year of 2008 as the Brazilian and Japanese Exchange Cooperation Year, when the Centennial of the Japanese Immigration in Brazil is commemorated. Therefore, during the June of 2008, a series of commemorative activities were being programmed by the Japanese and Brazilian Authorities and the Nikkey Community in Brazil. Representatives of the Imperial Family of the Japan also appeared for the festivities.
As part of this great programming, the Brazilian Japanese Researchers Society – SBPN organized the... |
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Congress and Symposium join 550 engineers from 22 countries in São Paulo
São Paulo, the main Brazilian metropolis, was the center of the international tunneling community in July 2008. Two important technical meetings were held between June 23rd and 26th. The first event was the 2nd Brazilian Tunneling and Underground Structures Congress. The second was the International Seminary South American Tunneling – 2008 (SAT’2008). About 550 engineers and experts in underground works from 22 countries around the world joined both events. The meetings were promoted by the Brazilian Tunneling... |
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Our Corporate Member ACTOS is organizing the 3rd Andin Seminar on Tunnels and Underground works. This seminar will take place in Bogota on the 24 and 25 November 2008.
More information on their website
More on the leaflet |
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Meetings of the new CTuC (CzTA) Board: Meetings of the new board which took place on 24th January 2008 and 30th April 2008. At the beginning of the first meeting, the Board assessed the results of the previous term. Then they elected two vice-chairmen, namely Prof. Jiří Barták (the Czech Technical University in Prague) and Mr. Stanislav Sikora (VOKD a.s.). In addition, the members of the Board distributed responsibilities for individual fields of the Committee activities among themselves as follows:
- Tunel magazine and the edition of CTuC (CzTA) Documents – Prof. Jiří... |
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CPT Seminar on Tunnels and Underground Works in Portugal
The Portuguese Tunnelling Commission-CPT-the ITA national group, organized in Lisbon, on the 29 and 30 of May,2008 , a Seminar on the above theme, as a starting point to a future edition of a book on the same subject , to be carried out by CPT in a next future.
ITA sponsered the event and Dr. François Vuilleumier, from ITA Executive Council, delivered 2 lectures.
The Seminar was a success, with 198 participants, 24 sponsors , 12 exibitors, and 20 technical presentations on the most important road, ... |
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Underground City 2008
The 5-th international exhibition “Underground City-2008” will take place in Moscow (Russia) from 10-th to 13-th of November’08. Experience of underground space development, solution of urgent issues will be demonstrated.
At the suggestion of the Russian Tunneling Association, the international scientific conference “Developing features of underground space and urbanization in large cities” will be held under the direction of the Department of town-planning policy, development and Moscow city renewal. The object of the conference is to discuss the forming and... |
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TUCSS 2 day short course
TUCSS jointly with the Land Transport Academy (LTA) Academy organised a two-day short course on “Planning and Design of Tunnels” on 5th and 6th March 2008 at the Hotel Swissotel Merchant Court. Fifteen industry eminent experts have presented their lectures on various topics including planning, investigations, designs, risk assessment and management and regulatory requirements. It was well attended by slightly more than 100 participants from contractors, consultants, developers and authorities.
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We would like to inform you that pdf versions of the presentations made during the symposium ISTSS 2008 in Stockholm in March this year are available at the webpage of the symposium. There you can also find some photos from the symposium.
The next symposium in the series, ISTSS 2010, will take place 17-19 March 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany. You can already now find some information on the internet . More information, including call for papers, will be available after the summer. |
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Training course „Sprayed concrete“ at Hagerbach Test Gallery
On demand of MC-Bauchemie and the Centre for Concrete Technologies in St. Petersburg, Russia, Hagerbach Test Gallery trained Russian contractors and authorities in production, application and testing of sprayed concrete.
Aim of the course was to give an overview on aspects design on application and quality control of high quality sprayed concrete. During intensive discussions open questions of the participants concerning their jobsites could be answered.
The main aspects to design an appropriate mix for high quality concrete have... |
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Morocco and Spain are working to finalise the studies for a railway tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar. According to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Angel Moratinos, the project will be presented to the European Union October the 13th. The goal of this meeting is to obtain a preliminary green light for a project which now estimated to 18 billion euros, more than 3 times the previous estimation of 5.4 billion.
The two public companies SEGEC-SA (Spain) and SNED (Morocco) were established in 1996 to be responsible for the project. The tunnel will be approximately 42km, with... |
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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 second bulletin including call for papers and registration information as well as Call for sponsorship and exhibition have been released; you can download them on the website.
Please don’t forget to deliver your abstract for lecture until 30th September 2008, about new technique and share experience, knowledge and skills in planning, construction and operation in favor of the safe tunnelling for the city and for... |
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The World Tunnel Congress 2010 and 36th ITA general Assembly will take place inVancouver CAnada; 14-20 May 2010.
More on the web site |
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16 October 2008, London UK |
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29-31 October 2008, Zaragoza, Spain |
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16 December 2008, Brussels, Belgium |
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The OneMine.org library is a world wide initiative that is attempting to create a centralized repository of all information related to the mining and minerals industry. With thousands of documents (and growing) that spans from 1873 to the present day, OneMine is already positioned to be the ‘must have’ product for those doing any kind of research on any aspects of within this industry. On behalf of the OneMine.org Board of Directors, we would like to extend an invitation to you and your organization to attend the OneMine Launch that is happening at MinExpo. Please click the link to... |
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