DFI, EFFC, London 2010 

Day One: Let’s get technical

Wednesday 26th May 2010

   
09.00 Welcome address
  David Sherwood, Chair, Bachy Soletanche - UK
   
09.20 John Mitchell Memorial Lecture:
Geotechnical Practices in Urban Regeneration
  Professor Tom O'Rourke, Professor of Engineering,
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Cornell University (USA)
 
 
10.00 - 11.00 Predicting and controlling ground movements
around deep excavations
10.00 Chair: Rab Fernie, Chief Engineer, Cementation Skanska (UK)
10.15 Keynote Address:
Professor Malcolm Bolton
, Head of Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Group, University of Cambridge (UK)
10.45 Question and answer session
   
   
11.00 Morning refreshments and exhibition
   
11.30 - 13.00 Deep basements and underground excavations
11.30 Chair: Francis J. Arland PE, Partner, Mueser Rutlidge Consulting Engineers (USA)
11.40 Rapporteur: Hans-Joachim Bliss, Director, BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH (Germany)
   
 
12.10 Fulton Street Transit Centre – Dey Street Concourse:
John Coupland, Consultant, Cementation Skanska (UK)
12.20 Top down basement design and construction at One Hyde Park, London
Dinesh Patel, Director, Arup Geotechnics (UK)
12.30 The Lainzer railway tunnel in Vienna, lot Lt 44: the construction of an innercity railway link
Michael Heymann, Brückner Grundbau GmbH (GERMANY)
12.40 Question and answer session
   
13.00 Networking lunch and exhibition
 
14.00 - 15.30 Soil displacement piles from installation
technology to performance
14.00 Chair: Matthew Janes, President, Resonance Technology International (Canada)
14.05 Keynote Address:
Novel pile foundations: Jacking, rotary jacking and optimised sheet piles
Professor David White, Professor, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, University of Western Australia (Australia)
14.30 Questions and answer session
14.35 Rapporteur: Tim Chapman, Director, Arup (UK)
14.50 Use of displacement piles for reinforcement of existing pile foundations
Jürgen Grabe
, Professor, Hamburg University of Technology (GERMANY)
15.00 Foundation solutions for the urban regeneration of Glasgow city centre
 Andrew Bell, Technical Manager, Cementation Skanska (UK)
15.10 Understanding CHD pile performance in granular materials
John Jeffrey, Student, University of Dundee (UK)
15:20 Question and answer session
   
15.30 Afternoon refreshments and exhibition
 
16.00 - 17.30 Special foundation solutions for urban regeneration
16.00 Chair: Christian Gilbert, Corporate Director of Design and Method Expert Departments, Soletanche Bachy (France)
16.10 Rapporteur: Professor Frits Van Tol, Part-Time Professor in Foundation Engineering, Delft University of Technology (NL)
16.30 Cannon Place Redevelopment London
Jim Martin, Geotechnical Engineer & Director, Byland Engineering Ltd (UK)
16.40 High capacity pali radice and innovative foundation design for deep basement in central London
Helen Nattrass, Tunnel & Substructure Engineer, Sir Robert McAlpine (UK)
16.50 Some lessons learnt from the ‘Forever’ French national research project on micropiles
Roger Frank, Professional Geotechnical Engineering, Ecoles des Ponts Paris Tech (FRANCE)
17.00 Challenges of Sub-Basement Parking Construction for New In-Fill Building in Boston, Massachusetts USA 
Marya Gorczyca, Senior Vice President, Haley & Aldrich Inc (USA)
17.10 Soilfrac grouting for tunnelling
Ulrich Trunk, Corporate Services, Keller Holding Gmbh (GERMANY)
17.20 Question and answer session
   
17.30 Close of Conference Day 1
 
18.00 Evening Drinks Reception

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