Athens ready to welcome WTC2023

This year all accepted papers will be made available permanently through an open access portal.

WTC2023, focusing on the theme ‘Expanding underground’, will be hosted by the Greek Tunnelling Society in Athens from May 12-18. It is a hybrid event so delegates can attend in person or online.

Following the ITACET training course on Risk Management in Tunnelling and Underground Sustainable Solutions on May 12-13 and the ITA General Assembly and working group and committee meetings on May 14, the conference programme will start on May 15 with Professor Marc Panet delivering the Muir Wood Lecture on his Convergence-Confinement Method in tunnel design and Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki giving a keynote address on seismic design and risk assessment of tunnels and underground structures.

As well as a full programme of technical sessions, WTC2023 offers delegates site visits including Athens Metro Line 4, the 2.36km-long National Railway Line, and the Hellinikon Project – an urban development scheme that includes an underground coastal road.

Greece has several tunnelling projects in progress and more planned, including the southern extension of the Ymittos ring road in Athens with a 3km-long road tunnel and the northern extension comprising a 1.6km twin-bore road tunnel and a 1.3km rail tunnel; the 2.42km Kymis road tunnel in Athens; the Salamine undersea tunnel comprising a 1.1km-long immersed tunnel, two conventional tunnels 4.5km long and two 0.5km cut and cover tunnels; the Thessaloniki Metro; the northern road axis of Creta Island; the Thessaloniki East Ring Road involving three tunnels; and a 0.7km undersea tunnel for Lefkada Island.

For more information on WTC2023 click here [https://wtc2023.gr]