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I really like to be engaged in teaching underground technologies – starting from geotechnical exploration ending up in choosing the right tunnelling methodology for given conditions. It is worth to intervene doing research in the University and listen to actual problems of the practical world. From this we have a real win-win situation. With the ITACET short courses we get in very close contact to the demands of engineers in very different areas of the world. Thus also the arising issues in these specific country areas are very different. Additional to that also the education of the engineers and preparation for the problems to be solved is varying a lot, which also makes the preparation of each short course very interesting.

 

 

 

Yes, it was the first two days training on Conventional Tunnelling in Thimphu, capital city of Bhutan. Six international trainers from ITA provided the two days training. The interest in the training action was really high; so 57 officials from Ministry of Works and Human Settlement, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Construction Development Corporation, DHI Infra, Bhutan Electricity Authority, Dagachhu Hydro Power Corporation and Druk Green Power Corporation attended the training. Furthermore his Excellency, Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk, Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs graced the opening ceremony of the training. Dasho Sangay Khandu, Hon’ble Chairman, DHI concluded the training, which shows the high priority of this training action for Bhutan.

 

 

 

Bhutan is situated in the area of the Himalayas, so we are facing extraordinary high mountains with very challanging geotechnical conditions having very few exploration results available. Furthermore Bhutan is interested to extend its capacity in hydro power caverns. For solving such challanging construction site conditions a lot of conventional tunnelling will be needed. Thus together with Druk Green it was decided to start with a short course in Conventional Tunnelling.  

 

 

 

ITACET Foundation sponsored trainers from Austria, Danmark, France and Thailand with DGPC bearing only their local expenses. Jaiprakash Associates, Hindustan Construction, Ugen Earthmovers and Atlas Copco also supported the training. This made the training action to a real international event which is in my opinion most beneficial for the audiance, as they are able to listen to experiences of tunnel engineers from different point of views.  

 

 

 

No, at the end we are engineers and all of us learned that we have to capture the principles of physics, mechanics, geotechnics and others in the same way. I agree that there are different philosophies in doing that depending on the experiences which engieers from different countries have. And it is very good to show the audience the different experiences. So after the short course they are free to decide what could be the best way for them to solve their project specific challanges.

 

 

 

We had intensive discussions with the audience – so the response was really good. At the end my impression was, that the ITACET courses would have to be extended to about 5 days to capture all the questions of the audience and to go in the one or the other detail. However I think the  ITACET Foundation and the ITACET Committee are on the right track to achieve better knowledge in the field of geotechnics and tunnelling around the globe through intensifying Education and Training.

 

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Focus is on two main topics: "Soft Ground Urban Tunnelling and Rock Tunnelling in Karst".

The ITA-CET training sessions are delivered by globally established professionals and experts in these related topics and their aim is to contribute to the education and knowledge of students and young professionals in tunnelling field.

07.04.2015 - The updated program of the training session is available >>

Registration for the WTC2015 ITA-CET training session is open as is the registration for the WTC itself >>

 

 

More information on the WTC 2015 web site >>

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Mechanized Tunnelling. 23-24 March 2015. Santiago, Chile

Press Release.  Around one hundred participants attended the two-day training session on “Mechanised Tunnelling” held  at the Radisson Plaza Santiago Hotel.

The objective of the course was to provide general information to young engineers and to update tunnelling professionals on topics related to Mechanised Tunnelling.

It was the first training event organized in Chile since the ITACET Foundation has been created five years ago. This event was very effectively co-organized by CTES (Chilean Commitee for Tunnelling and Underground Space of the CDT of the Chilean Construction Chamber) the ITA-AITES Chile nation member. 

The Opening speech was given by Alexandre Gomes as President of CTES Chile.
In the audience were guests from People Transport Company (METRO), the Ministry of Public Works of Chile, National Corporation of Cooper (CODELCO), Energy producer Company (AES GENER S.A).

The course topics were presented in such a way as to build the basic concepts of Mechanised Tunnelling necessary for professionals.  

On the first day, the theme of the lectures of the first session was “Introduction & Overview”, and the second session were devoted to “Improvement & Support systems”.  On the second day the first theme was on “operation” and the second on “Management & examples”. See the program of the event for more information (Pdf) >>

About the training session, a word from Alexandre Gomes, President of CTES Chile:
“We are very happy and satisfied with the realization of this workshop. More than 100 professionals who were trained in these two days and had the opportunity to participate in an event of high technical content and importance to the field of tunnels and underground spaces”

The Foundation wishes to express its thanks to all the lecturers of the event, namely:  Messrs Alexandre Gomes,  (Geoconsult), Lars Babendererde,  (Babendererde Engineers); Werner Burger, (Herrenknecht); Piergiorgio Grasso, (Geodata); Daniele Peila, (Politecnico di Torino); Hartmut Claussen (MAPEI); José María Espinosa, (Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions); Lok Home, (The Robbins Company); Giorgio Höffer-Öllinger, (Geoconsult); Jean-Luc Audureau, (VINCI); Karl Grossauer, (Alto Maipo HEP construction); Francisco Avila, (HERRENKNECHT).

Finally, our thanks to all attendees for their active participation and contribution to the success of the training session.

CTES Published a Press release in Spanish on their website, you can read it here >>

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Tunnelling for transport in urban areas. 28 February, 01 March 2015. Kuala Lupur, Malaysia.

Press Release. The training session organized by the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) and the ITACET foundation gathered 40 participants.

The objective of the course was to introduce the design and construction approaches for tunnelling in urban areas.

The two-day program was divided in six session and 16 lectures.
Ten experts delegated by ITA-AITES and participating manufacturers and providers were selected by the ITACET Committee to lecture during the training serssion; namely Messrs Søren Degn Eskesen (COWI, ITA-AITES President), Felix Amberg (Amberg engineering Group), Harald Wagner (Harald Wagner, conculting engineer), Daniele Peila (Politecnico di Torino), Elena Chiriotti (SYSTRA), Tim Babendererde (Babendererde Engineers), Kah Fai Lee (Normet), Eric Leca (SYSTRA, ITA-AITES), Ooi Lean Hock and Gusztáv Klados.

On the first day,  Messer Ir. Dr. Ooi Teik Aun & Soren Degn Eskesen welcomed the participants and opened the training session.The three session of the day were on the following topics "general", "mechanized Tunnelling" and "conventional Tunnelling".
The second day started with the session on "risk management" followed by "monitoring" and "Case Histories".

High level of the presentation, very interesting case review and an active participation of the audience insured the success of the training session.

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On January 15th and 16th, SIG Società Italiana Gallerie, ITA-AITES and the ITACET Foundation jointly organised a training session aimed at young professional on “Conventional Tunnelling and Ground Reinforcing Techniques. 

Altogether 90 participants attended the two-day training session hosted at the Politecnico de Torino.

The participants were welcomed by opening speeches from delegates of the authorities of the city of Torino, SIG and the rector of the Politecnico of Torino. 15 Internationally recognised experts from the academic and entrepreneurial fields presented a total of 16 papers.
The first two session were dedicated to “General aspects and main features of conventional tunneling” and “Lesson learnt in relevant conventional tunneling examples in different soil and rock conditions”. During the second part of day 2, industrial representatives shared their field experiences during the session on “Special examples and innovations”.

The lively ensuing discussion reflected the great interest shown by those taking part in the topics and the successful conclusion of the course. 

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