PREVIEW | WTC 2025
TRAINING A two-day training course has been prepared by ITACET to offer a variety of interesting areas of focus under the umbrella theme of ‘Managing Risks, Sustainability, and Innovation’. The course is taught by industry leaders with a numbers of planned half-day sessions over the two days of the course:
DAY 1 (9 MAY)
Session 1: Risk Management ● Looking at geological and hydrogeological uncertainties; risk management approaches and assessment; case studies in conventional tunnelling; and, reference documents for contractual management
Session 2: Sustainable Underground ● Impacts of tunnelling; carbon footprint evaluation and
emission reduction options; managing groundwater and spoil; and, ways to minimising environmental impact when rock fracture grouting
DAY 2 (10 MAY)
Session 3: Difficult ground ● Progressive Project Design; investigating difficult ground and choosing tunnelling method; using BIM to help handle uncertainties; and, monitoring and asset management
Session 4: Smart technologies and innovation ● Smart systems and monitoring; worksite management
tools (safety, production efficiency and traffic awareness); structural inspections and robotics; and, AI for design and construction
Round Table: The future of tunnelling The course can be taken by itself or with other elements of WTC 2025.
CONFERENCE & ‘THINK TANK’ This WTC has introduced the ‘Think Tank’ sessions, to discuss: Environmental Impact; Technical Development; and, Tunnelling without injuries. Each session will have a dedicate half-day over 12-14 May. They are to be held in the mornings and then followed up in the afternoons, where workshops then pass findings to ITA General Assembly. The Technical Development session is to discuss
education, asking what is required of universities and industry. Introduction of the Think Tank sessions now
schedules the Technical Programme to the afternoons only of the first two days (12-13 May). On the last day (14 May) the Think Tank session will run in parallel to the Technical Programme.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME The Technical Programme runs over the afternoons of 12-13 May, and all day 14 May, as follows:
DAY 1 (12 MAY)
Afternoon ● Track 1: Impact from climate change ● Track 2: Use of underground space ● Track 3: Investigations and ground characterisation in hard rock
● Track 4: Planning and design of underground space in soft ground
Break ● Track 1: Innovative tunnelling 1 ● Track 2: Contractual aspects, financing and risk management
● Track 3: Investigations and ground characterisation in soft ground
Above: Stockholm metro with permanent SCL tunnels, permanent rock bolts PHOTO CREDIT: ALUN THOMAS April 2025 | 11
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