Diary Dates
 
Diary Dates

Feb 16-17, 2012 - Innsbruck, Austria - BC2012: BrennerCongress

Mar 14-16, 2012 - New York - ISTSS: International Symposium on Tunnel Safety & Security

Mar 26-28, 2012 - Berlin, Germany - Wastewater Infrastructure


2012, February 5 - 8

Event:
Qatar Projects 2012
Location:
Doha, Qatar, Grand Hyatt Hotel
With Qatar preparing to roll out US$106 billion of projects between now and when the 2022 Soccer World Cup kicks off, global interest in this conference is expected to be high. Qatar Projects 2012 features a masterclass on the country's compliance and regulation reforms to help bidding companies make informed decisions, as well as a series of project focused sessions. There will also be a series of presentations and case studies to give delegates the facts, figures and forecasts on the realities of Qatar's mega-projects. Of special interest to the tunnelling industry will be a complete project overview of the scope and opportunities offered by Qatar rail projects from QRail, to be given by Qatar Railways Development Company, AECOM, Atkins and Al Jaber Engineering. This will include the $35 billion Doha Metro, with prequalifiers for up to 15 construction contracts expected to start being announced from March. Looking from now to beyond 2022, Qatar has 203 projects in the pipeline that are known and announced, together worth $161 billion. Last year's record attendance looks set to be beaten.
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2012, February 16 - 17

Event:
BC 2012 - Brenner Congress
Location:
Innsbruck, Austria
Held as part of the Viatec 2012 road construction and infrastructure maintenance trade show, the Brenner Congress will include an update on the baseline project through the Alps between Austria and Italy and will consider contractual issues such as conflict management and dispute settlement on tunnelling projects and the dispute procedures as practiced on Austria's Lower Inn Valley railway project and on the Gotthard railway in Switzerland. It will also ask if the objectives of the world record Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland were achieved. TBM excavation through squeezing rock and difficult geological conditions are topics for the second day. Excursions are planned to drill+blast excavation of lateral exploratory adits for the baseline tunnel as well as to fit out works through the tunnels of the Lower Inn Valley railway tunnels around Innsbruck.
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2012, February 21 - 23

Event:
Fire Protection & Safety in Tunnels Asia
Location:
Singapore
As the design of transportation tunnels and public underground space facilities evolves, fire safety considerations need to be factored in through every part of the process from emergency response systems to ventilation, to fire resistant materials. With Asia having some of the longest tunnels in the world and some of the most rapid developments occurring globally, Fire Protection & Safety Asia uncovers current and future projects across the region and pinpoints the best strategies to ensure fire design is implemented accordingly. The post conference tour on day three will be to the 9km long underground section of Singapore's Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway and its dedicated operations control centre.
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2012, February 29

Event:
Crossrail Meet the Contractor
Location:
London Transport Museum Depot, Acton
With many of the main contracts on London's £14.5 billion Crossrail project already let, specialist subcontractors and suppliers are being invited to find out about opportunities available to them. This event is hosted jointly by Crossrail and the National Specialist Contractors Council, and will enable suppliers and subcontractors to meet and discuss opportunities with tier one contractors directly, on a one to one appointment basis.
Main contractors in attendance include Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall, Vinci, BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial, Kier, Costain, Skanska, Dragados, John Sisk, Hochtief, Murphy and Morgan Sindall. Speakers on the day will include Andrew Wolstenholme, Crossrail Chief Executive, and Martin Rowark, Crossrail Procurement Director. The event is free, but places must be booked on a first come first served basis (maximum two per company), with priority given to relevant trades.
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2012, March 11 - 13

Event:
Multi-System Utility Tunnels
Location:
Haifa, Israel
The symposium will discuss engineering, safety, economic, urban, security, legal and maintenance aspects of utility tunnels, and will include a tour of Haifa’s existing multi-system utility tunnels, and of the new ones being built. The official conference language will be Hebrew with translation to English available. Topics for discussion include risk rating and surveys, hazardous materials in tunnels, and business opportunities for the private sector.
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2012, March 22 - 23

Event:
Rock Mechanics - Theory and Practice 6th Colloquium
Location:
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Organized by the Research Center of Engineering Geology of the Institute for Geotechnics of Vienna University of Technology, the event which includes the Vienna Leopold Müller Lecture. Co-organized by the sections Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering and Engineering Geology of the Austrian Society for Geomechanics, the preliminary programme for the two day conference will discuss:
• Mechanics of rock slopes and mass movements including modelling of run outs
• Mechanics of foundations in and on rock
• Mechanics of underground excavations in rock

English is the preferred conference language.
Download a preliminary programme.
Registration €280. Free for students.
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2012, March 26 - 28

Event:
Wastewater Infrastructure
Location:
Germany, Berlin
As societies grow, governments around the world are now faced with a quandary to either replace old water pipelines or continue maintaining them. This international conference will concentrate on the most effective strategies and plans to locate, repair and reduce inflow and infiltration of existing infrastructure to minimize the burden and financial costs of replacing aging sewage systems. Presentations about London's Thames Tideway Scheme; the STEP sewerage project in Abu Dhabi and the ADSSC masterplan for the United Arab Emirates; as well as drainage and flood control projects in Berlin; Istanbul; Helsinge, Denmark; and Philadelphia, USA are part of the programme. Day three is devoted to a series of four interactive workshops to discuss various industry concerns including the challenges surrounding storm tunnel assets post construction and using PPPs to finance and build sewerage infrastructure.
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2012, March 27 - 29

Event:
INTERtunnel 2012
Location:
Turin, Italy
Now in its tenth year, INTERtunnel is an exhibition dedicated exclusively to the construction, maintenance and operation of rail and road tunnels, providing an ideal platform for suppliers wanting to present their technologies and capabilities. The exhibition presents equipment available for the safe and efficient operation, building and equipping of tunnels. INTERtunnel exhibitions always attract a wide international audience.
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2012, April 23 - 24

Event:
National Seminar On Pressurized TBM Tunneling
Location:
USA, Florida, Miami
Reflecting the growing number of soft-ground, pressurized EPB and slurry TBM projects currently progressing and planned for the US in the coming years, the event will deliver informative presentations, panel debates, a topic-specific exhibition to investigate this specialist sector of the tunneling industry in depth. Co-sponsored by the UCA of SME and TJ North America, the program includes an opportunity to visit to the city's Port of Miami slurry Mixshield highway tunneling project.
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2012, April 24 - 26

Event:
Conference on Shaft Design and Construction
Location:
UK, London
Organised by IOM Communications on behalf of the Mining Technology Division of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the event follows on from the initial Shaft Sinking and Tunnelling conference in 1959 and the Shaft Engineering symposium of 1989, to target once again the design and construction of both civil engineering shafts and mine shafts specifically. Co-sponsored by the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) and endorsed by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, all areas of shaft design and construction will be considered.
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2012, May 18 - 23

Event:
ITA General Assembly and WTC 2012
Location:
Bangkok, Thailand
Thailand Underground and Tunnelling Group (TUTG) of the Engineering Institute of Thailand, and under His Majesty the King's Patronage, is pleased to announce that the World Tunnel Congress 2012 and 38th General Assembly of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. Theme of the congress is 'Underground Space for a Global Society' and the second of three stages in the ITA's Global Perspective Open Session on Planning, Designing and Delivering Resilient Cities will be presented.
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2012, June 24 - 27

Event:
NAT - North American Tunneling Conference
Location:
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
The 2012 fixture of the NAT conference is organized for June in Indianapolis. Sponsored by the UCA of SME the conference, held once every two years, will consider topics that are of interest more to the owner and the engineering professions of the industry. Further information will become available as details are confirmed.
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2012, September 18 - 21

Event:
Eastern European Tunnelling Conference
Location:
Budapest, Hungary
Co-organsied by the Hungarian Tunnelling Association and the Croatian Association for Tunnelling and Underground Structures, the conference is designed to give delegates an opportunity to discuss design, construction and management of underground infrastructure and to share research results and technical developments by companies at their exhibition stands. A full programme is available on the website
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2012, October 2 - 4

Event:
NO-DIG LIVE 2012
Location:
London, UK
The biennial event showcases the trenchless technology, products and services that are applied to the installation and refurbishment of underground utilities.
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2012, November 7 - 9

Event:
13th World Conference of ACUUS
Location:
Singapore
The Associated research Centers for the Urban Underground Space will convene at the Marina Bay Sands convention centre to discuss 'Underground Space Development - Opportunities and Challenges'. Discussions will focus on new opportunities amid a re-focus on developing the urban underground as part of sustainable development and the many challenges and issues that face city planners, developers, and engineers.
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