Project Design, Planning
- Design, planning and utilization of underground structures
- Field and laboratory investigations, soil and rock testing
- Geological, geophysics and geotechnical reporting
- Feasibility studies
Conventional Tunnelling and Mine Developments
- Sequential excavation, NATM
- Applications of umbrella arch and other pre-support methods
- Applications of shotcrete, wire mesh, steel support
- Drilling and blasting applications and vibrations in urbanized areas
- Drilling and blasting applications in underground operations
- Excavation, support, haulage, and drainage applications
- Probe drilling, ground-soil improvement, jet grouting, and dewatering
- Tunnelling and mining applications of conventional excavation methods
Mechanical Excavation Methods / Mechanical Tunnelling
- New (rapid) excavation technologies, selection-design- performance
- Full-face tunnelling machines (TBMs)
- Roadheaders and impact/hydraulic hammers
- Logistics-backup units in rapid excavation systems
- Soil-muck conditioning, slurry conditioning
- Post-excavation works, electro mechanics, signalization, fire monitoring
- Mining and tunnelling applications of mechanical excavation methods
Urban Tunnelling, Digitalization in Underground Excavations
- Digitalization in underground excavation projects' design and construction processes (IoT, building information modeling, data science, etc.)
- Sustainability practices in the construction and design of underground structures,
- Automatic Monitoring Systems,
- Urban tunnelling and underground excavations in densely populated areas.
- Urban construction site applications.
- Recycling and reuse of TBM wastes,
- Underground urbanism and underground excavations
Risk, Environment, Occupational Health and Safety, Other Topics
- Risk analysis and management, organization, tendering processes, costs
- Environmental effects, ground deformations, geotechnical measurements
- Health and safety in underground excavations
- Ventilation applications
- Maintenance and rehabilitation of underground structures
- Mega tunnel applications, mega-mining applications
- Microtunnelling