5TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS
Cardiff, Wales, UK, 26th-30th June 2006 - www.grc.cf.ac.uk/5iceg
Announcement:
The 2nd Bulletin including registration and accommodation details are now
available for this prestigious international Congress which has as its theme
"Opportunities, Challenges and Responsibilities for Environmental
Geotechnics"
Visiting the UK for the first time, this Congress is the fifth in the series
held every 4 years by the International Society of Soil Mechanics and
Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). 5ICEG is also supported by the
International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) and the ISSMGE British member
society, the British Geotechnical Association (BGA).
The congress programme consists of the keynote lecture, three feature
lectures, nine themed workshop sessions, a dedicated poster session, a
parallel exhibition as well as a detailed social programme. Abstracts have
been accepted from almost 40 countries internationally and final congress
proceedings will be available as part of the delegate pack. The workshop
sessions will cover the following areas of interest.
a) Remediation
b) Testing and Monitoring
c) Fate and Transport of Pollutants
d) Waste Reuse and Waste Management
e) Sustainability, Regulation and Risk Management
f) Barrier Design, including Nuclear Waste Disposal
g) Mine Sites, Tailing Dams, Dredgings and Lagoons
h) Tailings, Sludge Ponds, & Underwater Geoenvironmental Issues
The Congress Keynote Lecturer will be given by Dr. M. Eisa of the United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Vienna on "Persistent
Organic Pollution - Sustainable Solutions"
The three Feature Lectures are:
- Prof. G. Blight - Professor Emeritus, University Of The Witwatersrand,
South Africa "Catastrophic flow failures of refuse dumps - why they occur
and simple procedures to prevent them"
- Prof. R Kerry Rowe - Vice-Principal (Research) and Professor of Civil
Engineering Queen's University Kingston, Canada "Geosynthetics for
Environmental Geotechnics"
- Dr. M. Head - Director of Infrastructure, TRL Ltd, UK "Reuse of Waste
Material in Construction"
For more information including registration forms, technical visits and
social programme details please visit the congress website at
www.grc.cf.ac.uk/5iceg/
[ **Early Registration Fee discounts are only available until the 15th March
2006 ]
Congress Sponsorship and Exhibitor opportunities are also available - for
more information please visit www.grc.cf.ac.uk/5iceg/sponsorship/
kind regards
David-Huw
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*** ISSMGE's 5th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics
*** Cardiff, UK 26th-30th June 2006.
*** For full details visit: http://www.grc.cf.ac.uk/5iceg
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Dr David-Huw Owen
Development Manager
Geoenvironmental Research Centre,
Cardiff University, Queens Buildings,
The Parade, Newport Road,
Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Tel: +44 (0) 29 2087 6697
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.grc.cf.ac.uk/
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