36th Annual Meeting of the ITA in Vancouver, Canada

36th Annual Meeting of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association – World Tunnel Congress 2010 in Vancouver, Canada
Dr. R. Leucker

1 2010 World Tunnel Congress in the new Vancouver Convention Centre

2 The accompanying exhibition was well attended during the breaks

3 Rick Staples, president of the Tunnelling Association of Canada opening the 2010 World Tunnel Congress

4 From 58 ITA member countries were present 48 at the General Assembly

5 Argentina joins the ITA

6 The new president In-Mo Lee from Korea elected in Vancouver, past-president Martin Knights from the UK and 1st vice-president Markus Thewes from Germany (from right to left)

7 ITA Executive Council composed of various experts and the new executive director (from left): S. Suwansawat, S. Calinescu, C. N. Ow, F. Amberg, B. Yun, I. Hrdina, I.-M. Lee, P. Saarka. M. Knights, P. Kocsonya, C. Bérenguier, D. Peila, M. Thewes, S. Eskesen, A. Elioff. O. Vion, R. P. Lovat (F. Vuilleumier is missing)

Around 950 tunnellers from all over the world assembled in Vancouver/Canada from May 14 to 20, 2010. The occasion was the 36th Annual Meeting of the ITA – International Tunnelling and Underground Space Asso-ciation – in conjunction with the World Tunnel Congress 2010. The motto of this event organised by the Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC) was “Tunnel Visions towards 2020”. Participants came from all over the world (Fig. 1). 48 of the ITA member countries were represented in Vancouver – reflecting an attendance figure of 83 % far in excess of comparable values in recent years (roughly...

Dr.-Ing. Roland Leucker, CEO of the STUVA, Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities, Cologne/D; CEO of the DAUB, German Committee for Underground Construction, Cologne/D

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