CONFERENCE TOPICS

Construction in restrained urban areas:

• Foundations for high-rise buildings

• Deep excavations, retaining structures, diaphragm walls

• Tunnels for underground transport infrastructures and other networks

• Foundations of city bridges and elevated roads

• Construction on problematic soils

Preservation of existing structures taking into account soil-structure interaction:

• Effect of new buildings and constructions on underground structures

• Effect of new underground structures on existing buildings and networks

• Preservation of historical buildings

• Strengthening and reconstruction of foundations

• Interaction of foundations

Urban environmental geotechnics:

• Geofailures and risk assessment

• Construction on contaminated soils

• Preservation of hydrogeological situation

• Improved soils

• Geoecological problems

• Geological risks in urban planning

• Geotechnical sustainability

For all these topics, papers presenting recent developments concerning the following problems will be welcome:

• Technological developments and construction methods

• Design and calculation methods

• Observational method

• Soil-structure interaction analysis

• Case histories

• Monitoring

• Codes of practice

• Geotechnical risk analysis and management