WTC2025 call for papers opens March 1

Next year’s WTC, to be held in Stockholm from May 9-15, will focus on sustainability, innovation, and tunnelling into a sustainable future. Papers can be based on innovative ideas, research findings and case studies.

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The organisers are looking for submissions covering the areas of:

• Innovative tunnelling
• Safety underground
• Use of underground space
• Investigations and ground characterisation
• Planning and design of underground space
• Conventional tunnelling
• Mechanised tunnelling
• Complex geometries including shafts and ramps
• Grouting and groundwater control
• Instrumentation and monitoring
• Operation, inspection, and maintenance
• Contractual aspects, financing, and risk management
• Impact from climate change

For more on the submission guidelines to go the event website

The key dates for the submission of papers are:

• Initial call for abstract – March 1, 2024
• Deadline abstracts – May 31, 2024
• Abstract notification of acceptance – July 1, 2024
• Full paper submission deadline – September 30, 2024
• Full paper notification of acceptance – December 15, 2024
• Full paper revision deadline – January 5, 2025
• Final paper notification of acceptance – January 26, 2025
• Authors’ registration deadline – February 9, 2025