The 5th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (GEOTEC HANOI 2023) will take place at the National Convention Centre on May 14 and 15, with the participation of world leading professors, organisers told the press on April 17.
Hanoi (VNA) – The 5th InternationalConference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (GEOTECHANOI 2023) will take place at the National Convention Centre on May 14 and 15,with the participation of world leading professors, organisers told the presson April 17.
The event will be held by FECON Corporation incollaboration with the Vietnam Society for Soil Mechanics and GeotechnicalEngineering, Thuy Loi University, Japanese Geotechnical Society and Vietnam Petroleum Institute. New solutions in geotechnics towards sustainable infrastructure development are part of the focus of the conference.
First held in 2011, GEOTEC HANOI 2023 is a prestigious scientific forum in geotechnics, as reflected in the increasingnumbers of participating countries and businesses, articles covering the eventand visitors.
Through the conferences, technologies have been adopted in Vietnam, meeting the country’s requirements for sustainableinfrastructure, including one on landslide prevention introduced at the 2019edition.
This year’s conference will cover the themes of deepfoundations, tunneling and underground spaces, ground improvement,geotechnical modelling and monitoring, landslide and erosion, and offshore windpower and coastal geotechnics.
Keynote speakers include Prof. Alessandro Mandolinifrom University of Campania (Italy), Prof. Giulia M.B. Viggiani from Universityof Cambridge (UK), Prof. Rainer Massarsch from Geo Risk& Vibration Scandinavia AB (Sweden), Prof. Antonio Gens from TechnicalUniversity of Catalonia (Spain), Prof. Mitsu Okamura from Ehime University(Japan), who is also Vice President of the Japanese Geotechnical Society, and Prof.Richard Jardine from Imperial College London (UK).
Prior to the conference, the participants arescheduled to make a field trip to the construction site of Hanoi’s metro lineNo.3./.
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