Amberg Group had a strong presence at the WTC 2018 in Dubai amongst approximately 1500 registered attendees, engineers and industry professionals from all over the world. Amberg Group's representatives exchanged the latest trends and innovations, learned from case studies, and discussed how tunnel infrastructure and underground space use will support future sustainable cities.
Felix Amberg and Antonia Cornaro each gave 2 lectures in the ITACET Training course preceding the WTC.
Jasmin Amberg was elected Vice chair of the ITA Young members (ITAym) and Stefan Maurhofer represented Switzerland in the General Assembly of the ITA.
The following technical papers were presented by experts Thomas Dickmann, Michael Rehbock, Marco Bettelini and Klaus Wachter of the Amberg Group:
Thomas Dickmann | Optimization of Tunnel Seismic |
Michael Rehbock | The Brenner Base Tunnel, |
Klaus Wachter | Ultra-long subsea tunnel under |
Marco Bettellini | Transient Effects in Ventilation |
Antonia Cornaro presented her new book (together with co-author Han Admiraal) as part of the ITA Open session to an audience of approximately 500 attendees. In their ground breaking new book Antonia and Han challenge the common perception that the development of underground spaces is only for cities that have a scarcity of land. They argue that both the sustainable development goals and the new urban agenda require cities to look at the planning and use of underground space. In a book written for urban planners, urban designers, architects, geologists, engineers, and for policy makers and decision makers, they unveil a hidden urban asset as able to provide solutions for many of the challenges urban areas face now and in the future. The publication of the book is timely as cities are evermore being challenged by rapid urbanisation, climate change and the need for urban resilience.
Antonia also co-chaired the well attended ITACUS (ITA Committee of Underground Space) open session "We think Underground Space" in line with the congress’ theme "The role of underground space in future sustainable cities", where pressing issues around urban development and associated new technologies, research and methodologies to further underground space and sustainable urban development were discussed. As part of this session, the Think Deep National Actions Programme (NATDP) and Young Professsional Think Deep Program (YPTDP) were presented with new videos prodcuced by ITACUS.
