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CBT-0014-2021 São Paulo, 8th of March 2021.
Brazilian Tunnel Committee
Dear colleagues from the ITA-AITES Working Groups,
The Brazilian Tunnelling Committee – CBT, as some of you might already know, is organizing a debate with women tunnellers, discussing about the participation of women in the tunnel industry and its challenges, on March 25th, on our YouTube Channel.
Since a couple of weeks, we have reached some colleagues asking for numbers of an estimate of the women’s participation in tunnel projects in their countries. We got already some rough estimate, as most of the countries, including Brazil, do not have precise numbers. Nevertheless, we are still missing the data from many countries.
We have, so far, this estimate for the USA, Canada, Nigeria, Croatia, Turkey, Russia, Poland, the Netherlands, China, Australia, Austria, as well as ITACUS board. Thanks a lot for all the valuable contributions.
If your country is not cited above, it would be great to hear from you, even if it is just an estimate from your own experience, of how many women are involved in the tunnelling industry, in your country. If you have an estimate from 30 years ago and now, that also adds valuable information. We will be deeply grateful for your support. Please, send us an email to cbtabms@tuneis.com.br.
Best regards,
Eloi Palma Filho
President 2021-2022, Brazilian Tunnelling Committee – CBT
Daniela Garroux Gonçalves de Oliveira
Treasurer 2021-2022, Brazilian Tunnelling Committee – CBT
Secretaria Executiva CBT: Av. Queiroz Filho, 1700 Torre A, Sala 106 – 05.319-000 São Paulo -SP Fone: +55 11 3641-8927 Fax: +55 11 3833-0023 e-mail: cbtabms@tuneis.com.br
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47th GENERAL ASSEMBLY AITES
DIGITAL – VIRTUAL-2021
47th GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ITA
- On behalf of the Executive Council of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA), I have the honor to inform that the 47th Annual Meeting of ITA will be held as a video-conference on Wednesday June 30th, 2021 from 1PM to 4PM CEST
- You will find enclosed the draft agenda of the General Assembly (Encl.1). Please let us have your comments and suggestions concerning it by Wednesday March 31st, 2021, mandatory deadline for receiving. The preliminary documents will be sent to you together with the formal invitation letter to the General Assembly to Member Nations in the course of May 2021.
- The General Assembly 2021 will also have to choose the place of the annual meeting 2024; if your Member Nation is a candidate for this organization, be aware that due to the rescheduling of the General Assembly, your documents (see Appendix of By-laws) have to be sent before April 16th, 2021.
- In accordance with the Statutes Chapter 10.4, the term of the two members representing Member Nations on the Governance Council expires at the 2021 General Assembly. Please send any candidatures of a representative of your Member Nation in accordance with the Statutes to the secretariat before April 16th, 2021.
- In addition to the General Assembly, meetings will be organized concerning the activity of Member Nations and those of Working Groups and Committees.
AGENDA OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 2021
ITA-AITES c/o MIE (Maison Internationale de l’Environnement) Chemin de Balexert 9 – CH-1219 Châtelaine – Switzerland
Tel. : +41 22 547 74 41 – e-mail : secretariat@ita-aites.org – www.ita-aites.org
To: ITA MEMBER NATIONS
Copy to: Executive Council Members
Dear President,
The ITA Extraordinary General Assembly will take place as planned as a videoconference on Wednesday 10th February from 1 to 4 PM CET.
You will receive in due time a direct link to connect to the meeting.
Please find attached the invitation and the agenda.
The additional enclosures can be found following the hereafter Dropbox link :
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/49xcjxwvqwxeln1/AABbu4dOLCmdHVzw7FWRVVN6a?dl=0
– Encl-PJ 2 & 3_WTC 2023
If you are experiencing difficulties accessing Dropbox please inform us so that we can send you the attached files by another way.
We remain at your disposal for any further information.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Best regards.
Dear Madam, Sir,
The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) has advised ITA that WTC 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is cancelled. The Executive Council of ITA supports IEM’s decision to cancel a physical WTC 2020. ITA shares IEM’s view that this is in the best interests of the welfare and safety of our global ITA family.
IEM has also advised ITA that they intend to hold a virtual conference instead of WTC 2020 and are not intending to provide a substantial refund of the monies received from sponsors, exhibitors, and registrants.
ITA expects IEM to provide substantial refunds for all sponsors, exhibitors and registrants and will continue to work to achieve this outcome. With a successful resolution of the refund issue ITA could support the concept of a virtual conference in 2020.
We acknowledge the great efforts that have been expended by IEM and our global family to prepare for WTC 2020 and express our shared disappointment that the global pandemic has led to this outcome.
Looking to the future we hope the COVID19 crisis can be brought under control so that the international tunnelling community can safely meet again and work together for a better-shared future.
As far as ITA activities are concerned a virtual General Assembly will be held in September and the different Working Groups and Committees meetings will also be organized on a virtual basis. We will keep you informed of ITA initiatives on this subject.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best regards,
Olivier Vion
Executive Director
AITES c/o MIE 2 (MAISON INTERNATIONALE DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT)
Chemin de Balexert 9,
CH-1219 Châtelaine
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| Envoye aux : Nations Membres de l’AITES, Animateurs des GTs, Presidents des Comites Prime Sponsors Membres du Bureau Executif | Sent to : ITA Member Nations,
Working Groups’ Animateurs, Committees ’Chairs Prime Sponsors Executive Council Members |
Geneve, 14 avril 2020 / April 14, 2020
Conference Muir Wood – 2021 – Muir Wood Lecture
| Cher President,
Cher Animateur de Groupe de Travail, Cher President de Comite Cher Prime Sponsor, Comme vous le savez, depuis la disparition de Sir Alan Muir Wood, l’AITES a cree une “Conference Muir Wood” qui a lieu une fois par an a l’occasion du Congres Mondial des Travaux en souterrain (WTC).
l’Institut de geotechnique de l’Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Zurich (Suisse) a donne celle de 2014
de Rocksoil et ancien Ministre des Infrastructures et Transport (2001-2006) a donne celle de 2015 a Dubrovnik. |
Dear President,
Dear Animateur of Working Group, Dear Chair of Committee, Dear Prime Sponsor, As you know, since Sir Alan Muir Wood passed away, ITA has created a “Muir Wood Lecture” that is delivered once a year at the occasion of the World Tunnel Congress (WTC).
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Chemin de Balexert 9 – CH-1219 Chatelaine – Switzerland
Tel. : +41 22 547 74 41 – e-mail : secretariat@ita-aites.org – www.ita-aites.org
ITA-AITES c/o MIE (Maison Internationale de I’Environnement)
ITA – AITES
ITA – AITES
| Lors du WTC 2016 à San Francisco ce fût le Prof. Peter Kaiser, Professeur émérite de la Bharti School of Engineering, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
▪ En 2017 : le Professeur Emérite Hakan Stille du Royal Institute of Technology – Stockholm, Suède. ▪ Dr. Edward Cording, Professeur Emérite de l’Université d’Illinois (USA) a donné celle de Dubaï lors du WTC 2018 ▪ A Naples lors du WTC 2019 : Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin Herrenknecht, Fondateur et CEO de Herrenknecht AG. La prochaine conférence sera donnée à l’occasion du WTC 2020 par M. Tom Melbye, consultant et Membre du Conseil d’Administration du Groupe Normet. . Nous sommes actuellement en train de procéder au choix du conférencier pour la douzième Conférence Muir Wood qui aura lieu à Copenhague (DEN) en mai 2021. Le nom de ce conférencier sera annoncé lors du WTC 2020. C’est pourquoi nous serions très heureux que vous, en tant que Nation Membre, Animateur d’un groupe de travail, Président d’un Comité, ou Prime Sponsor de l’AITES, puissiez nous proposer un candidat pour cette conférence. Le conférencier peut provenir de n’importe quel domaine d’activité de la communauté des travaux et de l’espace en souterrain (Maître d’Ouvrage, ingénieur, client, avocat, architecte, industriel, académique, etc.). Il/Elle sera choisi(e) sur la base de son curriculum vitae montrant sa capacité à représenter “l’esprit” Muir Wood (voir ci-après); en insistant sur l’innovation, la stratégie, la recherche et des idées originales et influentes dans le monde de l’espace souterrain. Il/Elle devra envoyer un résumé (200 mots minimum en anglais) présentant la conférence qu’il/elle envisage de donner durant le WTC. Il/Elle donnera une conférence de 45 minutes durant la Cérémonie d’ouverture du Congrès Mondial des Travaux en Souterrain. La conférence pourra être donnée dans n’importe quelle langue, elle sera traduite simultanément en anglais. |
During the WTC 2016, it has been delivered by Prof. Emeritus Peter Kaiser from Bharti School of Engineering, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
▪ In 2017: Prof. Emeritus Hakan Stille from the Royal Institute of Technology – Stockholm, Sweden. ▪ Dr. Edward Cording, has delivered the one in Dubai, during the WTC 2018. ▪ In Naples during the WTC 2019: Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin Herrenknecht, Founder and CEO of Herrenknecht AG. The next lecture will be delivered at the occasion of the WTC 2020, by Tom Melbye, consultant and Member of Board of Directors of Normet Group. We are now in the process of selecting the lecturer for the twelfth Muir Wood Lecture to take place in Copenhagen (DEN) in May 2021. The name of this lecturer will be announced during WTC 2020. Therefore, we would be very pleased if you, as Member Nation, Animateur of Working Group, Chair of Committee or Prime Sponsor of ITA, would propose a candidate for this lecture. The lecturer may come from any field of activity of the tunnelling and underground space community (Owner, engineer, contractor, lawyer, architect, industrial, academic, etc.) He/She will be chosen on curriculum vitae showing his/her ability to represent the Muir Wood “spirit” (see here after), and insisting on innovation, strategy, research, original and influential thinking in the world of underground space. He /She will have to send a short abstract (#200 words minimum in English) presenting the lecture he/she will deliver at the WTC. He/She will have to deliver a 45 minutes lecture during the Opening Ceremony of the World Tunnel Congress. The lecture can be given in any language, it will be simultaneously translated into English. |
ITA – AITES
| Cependant la présentation power point devra être en anglais.
La conférence sera publiée comme rapport de l’AITES, et éventuellement enregistrée en vidéo. Le texte complet, 6 000 à 10 000 mots, et les illustrations, devra parvenir à l’AITES au moins 8 semaines avant le Congrès. L’hébergement (3 nuits maximum) et le transport (économique) du domicile du conférencier au lieu du WTC seront payés par l’AITES. Afin de permettre au bureau exécutif de l’AITES de choisir un candidat, nous devons recevoir vos propositions de candidature motivées (1 page) avec les curriculum vitae ainsi que les résumés, d’ici le 30 Juin 2020. Nous vous prions d’agréer, Cher Président, Cher Animateur, Cher Prime Sponsor, nos salutations distinguées. |
Nevertheless, the power point presentation has to be in English.
The lecture will be published as an ITA report and possibly video-recorded. The full text, 6 000 to 10 000 words, and illustrations, will have to be sent to ITA at least 8 weeks before the Congress. Accommodation (maximum 3 nights) and transport (economic) from lecturer’s home to WTC venue will be paid by ITA. In order to allow the ITA Executive Council to choose the candidate, we need to receive your argued proposal (1 page) with the curriculum vitae of your candidates and the abstracts, by June 30th, 2020. Sincerely yours, |
ITA – AITES
Olivier Vion
Executive Director
ITA – AITES
Annexe ment. / Encl. ment.
In the issue 11 (February 2002) of British magazine Ingenia, magazine of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Sir Alan Muir Wood delivered a “Tunnel Vision”.
You will find hereafter some “key sentences” of the article which may help to better know what was Sir Alan “spirit” concerning engineering and specifically tunnel engineering.
Innovation in tunnelling has been a key to economy and safety.
Above all, successful tunnelling depends on management of uncertainty of the ground and how it may affect a specific scheme of construction within a specific project.
The success of the scheme depends therefore greatly upon the all-round competence of the engineer, including an ability to understand the owner’s interests as well as the existing and potential capabilities of construction techniques.
Economy and efficiency would be served by freeing the contractor from the need to carry responsibility for incalculable risks beyond his control, by the use of such features as “reference conditions” which set clear limits on physical features, usually based on characteristics of the ground, that fall within the contractor’s liabilities.
The secret of success in tunnelling is to recognise the ubiquity of uncertainty which attends work beneath, and sometimes a long way beneath, the surface of the ground. The nature of the uncertainty needs to be identified and a management strategy for its containment developed, specific to the project.
Uncertainty is a feature that is unavoidable in tunnelling. But it can be understood and controlled so that it does not cause damaging risk.
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The 6th edition of the international tunnelling and underground space awards welcomes new applications until
June 23, 2020
The ITA Awards will take place at the end of the year. For this edition, the Awards conference will be held as a virtual Conference. It will be a new challenging experience allowing everyone from all over the globe to attend and discover the most interesting projects. The winners will be announced live during the Australian Tunnelling Conference.
This year the entries can be submitted in
8 categories
For this edition, some changes are proposed in the categories with notably a category “Overcoming the challenge” for projects which overcame either foreseen or unforeseen extreme challenges during excavation and construction and another one named “Oddities of the Underground” celebrating the creativity, ingenuity, and imagination of the human spirit in its endeavors underground.
Entries can be submitted through our dedicated website
https://awards.ita-aites.org/entries
Nominations for the different categories must be related to projects for wich the major civil engineering work was completed between 1st January 2018 and 1 st April 2020.
The Young Tunneller of the Year rewards an individual born after 1st January 1985 and who has brought an outstanding contribution to tunnelling.
Register today and find more on the following link
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The letter from ITA President Yan Jinxiu
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of ITA, I would like to extend our deepest concern and heartiest wishes to all our friends and colleagues affected by the new coronavirus in our member organizations during these difficult and challenging times.
Facing such a serious health issue across the world, ITA stands in solidarity with ITA member nations and fully supports your determined efforts to counter the spread of the new coronavirus. I firmly believe that we will manage this situation together and countries affected will quickly overcome and recover from this epidemic.
I wish you and all the people in your country good health and a swift end to the new coronavirus outbreak. We stand by you.
All the best,
Yan Jinxiu
Original letter see here.: letter ITA family_ COVID 19
ITA 45th General Assembly & WTC 2019 Video and Photos
Last 3-9 May took place in Naples, Italy, the World Tunnel Congress and 45th ITA-AITES General Assembly. You will find in the dedicated area of our web site the photos taken during the event. https://about.ita-aites.org/press-room/ita-photos
Enjoy the video summarizing this event!
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2019 GENERAL ASSEMBLY – NAPLES
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More than 2500 delegates participated in the Congress. 62 of the 78 Member Nations participated or were represented in the General Assembly.
During the 45th General Assembly in Naples, the ITA approved the creation of a new working group called Shaft Design and Construction. 16 individuals from 8 countries participated in the first Working Group 23 meeting, facilitated by Siamak Hashemi and Joe Lux, Animateur and Vice-Animateur, respectively. For this first year, the objectives of the new WG will be to: Establish the correct terminology and nomenclature for shaft design and construction by providing suitable definitions for…
Latest ITA Working Groups and Committees’ publications
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They are available on ITA website. Click on the following links: WG2 – Guidelines for the Design of Segmental Tunnel Linings WG5 – Guide to ITA/BTS CAWG Report 10 for Clients and others not familiar with high pressure compressed air work WG14 / 15 – Handling, Treatment and Disposal of Tunnel Spoil…
ITA Tunnelling Awards: 71 valid entries collected
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The ITA-CET university network currently comprises 28 higher education establishments from 20 different countries around the world. This network was set up in 2009 in order to act as an exchange platform for universities offering Master’s degrees in tunnelling and underground space. Its main aims are to enable professors to: share ideas on teaching methods and the content of Master’s develop collaborations on specific research activities organise exchanges between lecturers and students envisage…
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Welcome to the 5th edition of Breakthrough, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association’s Young Members group’s (ITAYM) initiative to promote opportunities for
the next generation of tunnellers.
The Committee is pleased to present its new logo!
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Many thanks to all those who contributed towards the new design!
A productive meeting for the ITA-CET Committee in Naples
The ITA’s Committee on Education and Training met in Naples on 7th May within the scope of the 2019 World Tunnel Congress. The 21 attendees from 9 different countries included official Committee members and regional correspondents from Member Nations with whom ITA-CET regularly works to develop course programmes. It was good to see that there were also several new faces, from universities or Member Nation representative bodies, interested to learn more about the Committee’s work and to develop collaboration…
Malaysia to plays host to prestigious World Tunnel Congress 2020
With the recent handing over of the ITA-AITES Flag to Malaysia, the annual World Tunnel Congress (WTC), a foremost global gathering of the greatest tunnelling minds and expertise, will next convene on our home grounds for the year 2020.
Read more : http://www.wtc2020.my
TERRATEC joins the ITA as a Prime Sponsor
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AMITOS: First Photography Contest
The Mexican Association of Tunnel Engineering and Underground Construction, AMITOS, and ICA Foundation invite the general public to participate in their first photography contest. An important item for the association’s project that it developed for the XVI Board of Directors includes the task of collecting, documenting and cataloging its collection of underground works, to which photographic materials form is a fundamental part of. Because of this, the association has decided to invite…
55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress – Beyond the Metropolis in Jakarta, Indonesia