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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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| 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. |
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| 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, |
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Olivier Vion
Executive Director
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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.