12th International Tunnelling and Underground Structures Conference
21–22
November
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Programme
This year’s conference session topics cover a full range of underground engineering, including project preparation, technical aspects regarding safety and tunnel equipment, ground investigations and construction of underground structures. For detailed information please download full programme. We reserve the right to change the programme.
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By attending the conference chartered engineers and supervising engineers will earn 3 credits for elective content and 1 credit for technical visit, in accordance with the General Legal Act on the continuing vocational training of chartered engineers. Members of the IZS who will participate in the event do not need to specifically apply for credit, as the organizer will submit a form of all the participants to the IZS. Points will be credited to you automatically. All participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance, which also shows credit points for IZS members. Thus, you will not receive additional notifications regarding credit points from the IZS.
| Thursday, 21 November 2019 Exhibition and Convention Centre, Ljubljana, Urška Hall |
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| 08:00–09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00–09:15 | Welcome Address |
| 09:15–09:20 | Opening Address Samo Križaj, director SIKA Slovenia, general sponsor |
| INVITED SPEAKERS | sponsored by SIKA | |
| 09:20–09:40 | Sascha Schreiner Use of Shotcrete in Tunneling and Mining |
| 09:40–10:00 | Yves Boissonnas Waterproofing solutions for tunnels to achieve the required watertightness and durability |
| Topic: GROUND INVESTIGATION | |
| 10:00–10:15 | Tina Živec, Erazem Dolžan, Ana Grkman, Julija Fux, Bogomir Celarc, Nejc Mihevc, Vlado Vukadin Over the Karstic Edge: Geological Challenges in the Design of the 2nd Railway Track Divača – Koper |
| 10:15–10:30 | Markus Schmidt, Thomas Richter, Paul Lehmann Geophysical Karst and Structural Exploration of the Divača–Koper Tunnels and their Integration in BIM |
| 10:30–10:45 | Walter Frei Detection of Karst Dissolution Zones Using Seismic Methods |
| 10:45–10:55 | Discussion |
| 10:55–11:15 | Coffee break with refreshments |
| Topic: DESIGN Part 1 | |
| 11:15–11:30 | Gerold Lenz, João Dinis Ductile Support Systems – Lessons Learned at the Semmering Base Tunnel, Lot SBT1.1 |
| 11:30–11:45 | Johannes Rodler, Peter Sturm, Robin Ratkic, Daniel Fruhwirt System Tests of the Tunnel Ventilation – Common Practice in Austria |
| 11:45–12:00 | Melanija Huis, Matthias Trauntschnig, Ljubo Žerak, Gerald Zwittnig, Christian Seywald, Peter Strasser, Peter Kastner Challenges at Refurbishment of Railway Line from Rosenbach to Jesenice |
| 12:00–12:15 | Dietmar Bach, Thomas Neumayr General Refurbishment of the 15.5 km Long Arlberg Tunnel in Austria |
| 12:15–12:25 | Discussion |
| 12:25–13:15 | Lunch | sponsored by Metrostav |
| Topic: DESIGN Part 2 | |
| 13:15–13:30 | Peter Jemec, Mitja Jurgele Drained Pavement Structure in Tunnel |
| 13:30–13:45 | Miha Hafner, David Rajšter, Marko Žibert, Ulrich Zorin, Bernard Ženko, Tea Tušar New Optimization and Decision Support Technologies in Tunnel Design, Operation and Traffic Management |
| 13:45–14:00 | Vojkan Jovičić, Elvir Muhić, Mitja Pečovnik Main Challenges of Design in BIM Environment for Tunnel Pekel on Second Railway Track Maribor–Šentilj |
| 14:00–14:15 | Jure Česnik, Marko Žibert, Martin Lah Advanced Analytics and Data Management in Tunneling |
| 14:15–14:25 | Discussion |
| 14:25–14:45 | Coffee break |
| Topic: CONSTRUCTION | |
| 14:45–15:00 | Jure Klopčič Use of NATM in North American Mining Industry |
| 15:00–15:15 | Aleš Gothard, Pavel Herman, Václav Pavlovský Construction of Rail Tunnels and Station Espoonlahti of Helsinki – Espoo Metro |
| 15:15–15:30 | Josef Malknecht Tunnel Dýrafjarðargöng, Iceland a Matter of Challenging Logistic |
| 15:30–15:40 | Discussion and conclusions |
| 15:45–17:15 | ROUND TABLE Public procurement of infrastructure projects; Experiences from Slovenia and abroad dr. Tomaž Vidic, CEO DARS, Marko Brezigar, Director 2TDK, Damir Topolko, Deputy Director DRSI, Václav Pavlovský, Metrostav, Deputy Director for International Operations, contractor with experience in tendering abroad, Angelo Žigon, Director Elea iC |
| 17:15–22:00 | Networking event with dinner | Pavilion Jurček, Exhibition and Convention Centre, Ljubljana | sponsored by DSI Underground |
| Friday, 22 November 2019 Technical Visit |
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| 08:00–17:00 | Visit to the future second track of the Divača–Koper railway line, portal locations and viaducts along the new access roads. (Lunch is included. The technical visit will only be organised in case of a sufficient number of applications.) |
Join the Conference
We invite you to sign up for the conference as soon as possible using the Registration Form. The terms of the registration/cancellation and personal data protection policy are detailed on the Terms of Participation page.
The registration fee includes:
- Admission to all Conference sessions
- Conference materials, including programme with abstracts
- Two coffee/tea breaks and a lunch break
- Conference evening event and dinner
- Conference excursion
Prices for registration fees do not include VAT. Member fee is valid for all members of the Slovenian Society for Underground Structures. Regular and non-regular Bachelor and Master students can apply for the Student fee.
Early bird rate
before 4th November- Members €200.00
- Young members €140.00
- Non-members €250.00
- Conference speakers €140.00
- Students/Pensioners €20.00
Standard rate
after 4th November- Members €250.00
- Young members €190.00
- Non-members €290.00
- Conference speakers €190.00
- Students/Pensioners €20.00
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Important Dates
10 May, 2019
29 July, 2019
Review of papers
30 August, 2019
23 September, 2019
Final acceptance of papers
7 October, 2019
8 November, 2019
21–22 November, 2019
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