WTC Bangkok 2012

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Programme at a Glance Congress Program

Congress Theme:
• Tunnelling and Underground Space for a Global Society

    Main Topics:
    • Urban tunnelling
    • Use of underground spaces
    • Natural disaster mitigation and management through underground space use
    • Underground structure resistance against seismic loads
    • Advance and innovation in mechanised tunnelling
    • Conventional tunnelling
    • Long and deep tunnelling
    • Contract practices, commercial aspects and risk assessment
    • Tunnelling nearby sensitive structures
    • Tunnel rehabilitation and restoration
    • Safety in tunnels
    • Micro tunnelling
    • Deep excavations

Keynote Lectures and Technical Sessions:
The congress will allow professionals in the Asia region and around the world to exchange the views on current issues and future trends of Tunnelling and underground structures. Participants of member nations of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES) and Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) will be offered a great opportunity to meet with practitioners and scientists in the Tunnelling and associated industries.

Pre-Congress Technical Training Program
Apart from technical sessions led by prominent keynote lecturers and series of presentations by the congress participants, WTC Bangkok 2012 will feature pre-conference technical training programs which will be led by ITA with resources contributed by Asian Institute of Technology and major universities in Thailand. Specialists from the industry will be invited to lecture the most recent innovation in Tunnelling and underground space technology.

Exhibition
The exhibition will be held in a creative and cooperative atmosphere where worldwide recognized companies will display the latest stateof-the-art technologies, from innovative products and available advanced services to today’s Tunnelling and underground structure industry.

Technical Field Trips
Technical field trips will be arranged for delegates to see the ongoing Tunnelling and underground construction projects and completed major projects.

One of the most interesting projects will be the Bangkok MRTA Blue Line Extension. Within underground sections of MRT Extension Line, there are some sensitive historical areas where Tunnelling and underground excavation would face major challenges. Ground freezing method may be utilized to pre-stabilize Bangkok soft clay coupled with NATM application for the station located in most culturally and historically significant area, Rattanakosin Island, where full cut-and-cover method is not applicable for underground excavation. Construction work of this extension line is likely to be commenced before 2012.