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Tunnel Day

The Austrian National Committee of the ITA (International Tunneling Association) organizes the Austrian Tunnel Day in conjunction with the Geomechanics Colloquium. The Tunnel Day focuses on presenting the latest state of the art of Austrian and international engineering concepts in design and construction.

Recent creative developments in design, construction, and operating methods in tunnelling are presented.

The application of those new design and construction concepts will promote further innovation in future tunnelling projects.

13th Austrian Tunnel day, 10/12/2022

On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022, the 13th Austrian Tunnel day will take place.

The session topics are:

  • Large underground project
  • Strategies for sustainable underground engineering

The sessions topics are:

  • Special challenges at large construction sites New regulations for tunnelling
  • Innovation and processing of tunnel construction projects
  • Presentation Innovation Award Tunneling Deadline: 07/31/2021
  • Handling of tunnelling projects - Future ways

Participation is only possible in combination with the Geomechanics Colloquium.


Here you can find the program of the Tunnel Day.

Submission Innovation price

Here you can find information about participating in the competition: (only availabe in german)


Innovationspreis Tunneltag

Dinner at the fortress

In the evening, a dinner will be held in the Hohensalzburg Fortress for the participants of the Tunnel Day (costs € 45 per person).

Geomechanics Colloquium

The annual Geomechanics Colloquium has developed as an important meeting point for experts in Central Europe. The event with the associated exhibition usually attracts over 900 participants annually, making it one of the largest annual events in the field of geomechanics worldwide.

71st Geomechanics Colloquium

October 13th-15th, 2022

This colloquium will be held as a hybrid event. You can book the colloquium on site or as an online version. The participant fees of the physical colloquium automatically includes the online version. All contributions are recorded and can be accessed at a later point in time.

The sessions topics are:

  • Current Hydropower Projects
  • Grouting
  • Mass Movements
  • Artificial Ingelligence in Geotechnical Engineering

Subission of abstracts is comming soon!

Important dates

  • Submission of abstracts (01/31/2022)
  • Submission paper:  (06/15/2022)
  • from August 9th higher registration fees

Here you can find our first announcement


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Submission of Contribution

Submission form

Generelle Information zum virtuellen Geomechanik Kolloquium

Alle Vorträge werden als LIVE-Stream abgehalten. Vortragende, Teilnehmer und Halbtagsvorsitzende sind live.

Fragen können via Chat von den Teilnehmern gestellt werden. Diese werden von den Halbtagsvorsitzenden koordiniert und an den Vortragenden mündlich gestellt, um diese nach dem Vortrag zu beantworten.

Der Einstieg in das Webinar erfolgt über unsere Webseite und muss über die Browser Chrome oder Firefox erfolgen um eine gute Funktionalität zu gewährleisten.

Nach der Anmeldung erhalten die Teilnehmer Ihre persönlichen Zugangsdaten (Anmeldecode), mit welchen sie sich ins Webinar einloggen können, sobald dieses freigeschalten ist.

Alle Vorträge werden gespeichert und bleiben für angemeldete Teilnehmer (mit Zugangscode) auch nach dem Live-Stream noch bis Ende des Jahres abrufbar (nur Ton und Präsentation).

Die Proceedings (Geomechanics and Tunnelling - Heft 5 und Heft 6 - für Miglieder inkludiert) zum virtuellen Geomechanik Kolloquium 2020 können gegen Aufpreis zusätzlich bestellt werden.

Program survey

The Tunnel Day and the Geomechanics Colloquium will take place from Wednesday, October 13th, 2021 to Saturday, October 16th, 2021

Programm zum Downloaden

Hier können Sie das Programmheft downloaden:


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Chamber concert

The state and city of Salzburg support us to invite the participants and their accompanying persons to a chamber concert on Thursday evening.

The invitation to the chamber concert will be enclosed with the conference documents.

Congress dinner

After the chamber concert, the Austrian Society for Geomechanics invites all participants and their accompanying persons to the congress dinner in the Stieglkeller Salzburg.

Earliest entry: 7 p.m.

Address: Festungsgasse 10 (after the funicular to the fortress), 5020 Salzburg

Excursion on 10/15/2022

An excursion is planned for October 15th, 2022

 

 

Sight Seeing Programm

On Thursday, October 8th, we are offering accompanying persons the following social program:

The Attersee is the largest lake in the Salzkammergut and, thanks to its turquoise blue water of drinking water quality, is one of the most popular bathing lakes in Austria. In addition to various sports opportunities, the region also offers numerous  attractions.

First, our tour leads to the beautiful late Gothic parish church of Gampern, where you can admire one of the three most famous Gothic winged altars in Upper Austria.

Then we go to Seewalchen where we visit the Gexi Tostmann traditional costume museum.

Afterwards we enjoy a walk on the promenade with a view of the lake, passing Villa Paulick, a historic summer villa that is a listed building.

A visit to the Klimt center in Schörfling, a walk on the Klimt theme trail, in the Klimt garden and a boat trip on Lake Attersee open up the Klimt trails and its impressive motifs on land and from the sea side.

Of course, lunch as well as coffee and cake are also provided.

SPRACHE

Alle Beiträge werden dieses Jahr in der vom Vortragenden gewählten Sprache abgehalten. Eine Simultanübersetzung findet nicht statt. In den Proceedings finden Sie die Beiträge jeweils in englischer und deutscher Sprache.

Languages

The conference languages for the tunnel day and the geomechanics colloquium are German and English.

Simultaneous translations are available.

You will find the headsets to the left of the entrance to the "Europa hall".



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The registration form will be open in July!

Fees

Proposed Fees Regular Members Retirees Students
GEOMECHANICS COLLOQUIUM (Early bird registration 01.03.2022 - 31.07.2022) * 440 € 360 € 200 € 75 €
GEOMECHANICS COLLOQUIUM (Standard price 01.08.2022 - 30.09.2022) * 490 € 400 € 225 € 100 €
GEOMECHANICS COLLOQUIUM (Walk in price 01.10.2022 - 15.10.2022) * 540 € 450 € 275 € 150 €
VIRTUAL COLLOQUIUM (Standard price 01.03.2022 - 30.09.2022) * 150 € 120 € 100 € 0 €
VIRTUAL COLLOQUIUM (Last Minute 01.10.2022 - 31.12.2022) * 170 € 150 € 120 € 50 €
TUNNEL DAY (Early bird registration 01.03.2022 - 31.07.2022) * 175 € 175 € 175 € 30 €
TUNNEL DAY (Standard price 01.08.2022 - 15.10.2022) * 175 € 175 € 175 € 30 €
EXCURSION  * 80 € 80 € 80 € 80 €
VIRTUAL TUNNEL DAY (Standard price 01.03.2022 - 30.09.2022) * 100 € 100 € 100 € 0 €
VIRTUAL TUNNEL DAY (Last Minute 01.10.2022 - 31.12.2022) * 100 € 100 € 100 € 20 €
* incl. 10% VAT
** incl. 20% VAT

The proceedings are printed in issue 5 of our association magazine "Geomechanik und Tunnelbau". Members receive this automatically.

The Austrian Tunnel Day can only be booked in combination with the Geomechanics Colloquium!

The price includes:

The participation fee includes participation in the conference and the exhibition, the conference bag, the lunch buffet, the congress dinner and the chamber concert on Thursday.

"Students" (reduced participation fee) are persons under the age of 26 years, without a regular salary – except doctoral students! The certificate of studies has to be added.

Your name badge (participant card) and all other conference documents are only available at the conference desk in the congress center (NO participant documents will be sent!).

Venue

Die Teilnahmegebühr beinhaltet die Teilnahme an der Tagung und der Fachausstellung, die Tagungstasche, das Mittagsbuffet, das Kongressdinner sowie das Kammerkonzert am Donnerstag.

Als "Studenten" (ermäßigte Teilnahmegebühr) gelten nur Personen unter 26 Jahren, welche kein geregeltes, einkommensteuerpflichtiges Einkommen beziehen. Doktoratsstudenten sind von der Ermäßigung ausgenommen.

Ihr Namensschild (Teilnehmerkarte) wowie alle anderen Tagungsunterlagen erhalten Sie ausschließlich am Tagungsschalter im Kongresszentrum (es werden KEINE Teilnehmerunterlagen verschickt!).

All lectures will be held as a LIVE stream. Lecturers, participants and session chairs are live.

Questions of participants can be asked via chat. These are coordinated by the session chairmen and  passed on orally to the lecturer, to be able to respond them after the presentation.

The webinar can be started via our website and must be done using the Chrome or Firefox browser to ensure good functionality.

After registration, the participants will receive their personal access data (registration code) with which they are able log in to the webinar as soon as it is activated.

All presentations are saved and remain available for registered participants (with access code) even after the live stream until the end of the year (sound and presentation only).

Proceedings (Geomechanics and Tunneling - Issue 5 and Issue 6 - for members included) of the Virtual Geomechanics Colloquium 2020 can be ordered additionally for small fee.

The geomechanics colloquium and the tunnel day will be held in the "Salzburg Congress" congress center (Auerspergstraße 6, 5020 Salzburg, Mirabellgarten entrance), which is located near the city center.

Salzburg is a household name worldwide due to its beautiful old town and cultural offerings.

Download Program

Here you can download the Conference Programm


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Languages

All contributions will be held this year in the language chosen by the lecturer. There is no simultaneous translation. In the proceedings you will find the articles in English and German.

Excursion

An technical field trip will take place on Saturday, October 10th.

More information soon.

The AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR GEOMECHANICS

The organizer of the Geomechanics Colloquium

Austrian Society for Geomechanics

Innsbrucker Bundesstraße 67
5020 Salzburg
Austria
Tel: +43 662 875519
Mobil: +43 664 8128990
E-Mail: salzburg@oegg.at
Web: oegg.at

More informationen tho the society you can find here.

The geomechanics colloquium and the tunnel day will be held in the "Salzburg Congress" congress center (Auerspergstraße 6, 5020 Salzburg, Mirabellgarten entrance), which is located near the city center.

Salzburg is known worldwide for its dreamlike old town and the cultural offer.