Today (7th February, 2014) we had a special lecture by Mr. Søren Degn Eskesen (President of International Tunnelling Association and Chief Project Manager of COWI). To welcome the ITA president, we also had with us, Prof. Daniele Peila (Technical Director of ITACET Foundation and the coordinator for this specializing course), Mr. Piergiorgio Grasso (Vice President of ITACET and Director of Geodata Engineering), Prof. Marco Gilli (Rector of Politecnico di Torino) and Prof. Monica Barbera (Professor of Rock Mechanics, Politecnico di Torino).
Mr. Eskensen gave us a lecture on Guidelines for Tunnelling Risk Management, prepared by ITA Working Group No. 2, and published in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 19 (2004) 217-237, Elsevier Publications (for more details about on the topic, please refer to the paper in ITA website, available here) and PAT - Plan for Advancement of Tunnel (briefed in my blog post). We studied the risk management procedure with a case study on Copenhagen Metro project.
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| Mr. Søren Degn Eskesen (ITA President) with the Tunnelling and TBM (9th Edition) |
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