INSIGHT | ITA
The results speak for themselves. ITA now has
new active collaborations with BRE, NEC, World Bank, International Road Federation (IRF), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Our links with long standing sister organizations have been bolstered by our attendances at their meetings, including PIARC (World Road Association) and the IRF as well as meetings of our accredited Member Nation organizations in Turkey, India, and Australia. We also look actively for opportunities and
occasions to give and support positive and inclusive messages of a friendly ITA, helping the pursuit of a better life for all our peoples and planet. At the most recent WTC, in Athens in May this year, we joined with an international cricket match at a local primary school. Hundreds of children, cheering on players from around the world, created an atmosphere of inclusivity, purpose, and fun.
LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS WTC 2023 in Athens was also an occasion for more change at ITA, including appointment of our new Executive Director, Roland Herr, to lead the Secretariat. He has been joined by his new Executive Secretary, Christiane Linkenbach. Elections have been held in all ITA Working Groups
and Committees, setting a new precedent for open and regular elections for all roles within our organization. The issue of elections has been ambiguous in the
past. As part of the governance reforms, the new ExCo has agreed for the ‘One ITA’ policy to include provision for leadership elections every three years. The new energized ITA needs these regular elections to maintain momentum and energy. ITACET Foundation is independent and since I was
elected it, too, has had elections in accordance with the One ITA policy and further performance improvements are being encouraged. We are urgently seeking new funding mechanizms to promote the education agenda.
Top: Outreach for ITA in Athens, at WTC 2023, with fun cricket match
Centre: In Pakistan, building international friendly relationships, prior to the country being accepted as a new Member Nation to ITA, at WTC 2023. With Arnold Dix and guests are (second from right in the photo) Dr Abdul Qudoos, Director of the Tunneling Institute of Pakistan, and (far left) Ahmed Ali, GM of Master Builders
Above: Celebrating at DAUB 50-Year Event, in May, in Bonn, Germany, with (L to R) Klaus Rieker (ExCo), Prof Gunter Gimau (3rd ITA president, 1980-83), Lars Barbendererde (past first Vice President), Arnold Dix (President), Alfred Hack (Past President), and Markus Thewes (Past Vice President)
40 | Winter 2023
MEASURES AND METRICS The global sustainability crisis – which is linked to the climate emergency and other worrying global trends – has highlighted the importance of transparent means of measuring the performance of underground spaces. In the absence of such tools the underground is exposed to great risk of being misunderstood and the benefits of using the underground lost in the noise of the uninformed and uneducated popular narratives. The world needs underground solutions for its water,
sewerage, environmental protection, transport, energy storage, wastes storage, energy production, and security needs. Responding to the climate emergency and the lack
of objective sustainability assessment tools for the underground, a new special purpose sustainability committee has been formed which directly reports to the ExCo and has deliverables due by WTC 2024, to be hosted in Shenzhen, China (April 2024).
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