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Greek Young Members emerge with Athens Career Day
01 December, 2014
GREECE - The first activity of the Young Members Group of the Greek Tunnelling Society (YMG-GTS) enjoyed an enthusiastic industry reception. The ‘Career Day for Tunnel and Geotechnical Professionals’ was held on 28 September during the 2nd Eastern European Tunnelling Conference in Athens, Greece and its attendance of 80 professionals exceeded expectations.

Young members matter
31 October, 2014
In the last 15 months there has been a flourish of countries establishing Young Member Groups in tunnelling organisations, and that includes both Canada and the US. In May the ITA General Assembly in Brazil approved the creation of an ITA Young Members Group. Its mission is to “bridge the generation gap and provide a technical network platform for young professionals in the tunnelling and underground space industry."

Obstacles to the underground
27 June, 2014
William Edgerton of Jacobs Associates, and chair of the Underground Construction Association, discusses barriers to the advancement of the underground industry in North America.

ITA Working Group Five suspends future activities
27 May, 2014
The ITA Working Group on Health and Safety in Works (WG5) has been forced to temporarily suspend future activities due to poor attendance. Speaking at the ITA General Assembly in Brazil last month, group animateur Donald Lamont also warned that the level of scrutiny afforded the current documents up for review was not as great as he had hoped, and could result into a delay of up to a year for the work programme.

Turkish mine disaster and Rio sinkhole shadow WTC 2014
22 May, 2014
Two disasters shook the World Tunnel Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil last week. A sinkhole appeared on the Rio de Janeiro Metro Project, while in Europe, more than 300 coal miners were killed in an explosion and fire in western Turkey. A minute of silence was held prior to the second session of the ITA General Assembly on 14 May. The catastrophe was felt keenly, given the 2014 Congress’s major focus on future tunnelling opportunities in the mining sector.

ITA turns 40
26 March, 2014
WHEN CONSIDERING an anniversary it is always fun to delve into the archives and see what the past can reveal. The International Tunnelling Association's 40th birthday is no exception and when routing through the early editions of Tunnels we happened across an interview with Alan Muir Wood ahead of the first ITA meeting in Oslo, 1974.

In with the new
26 February, 2014
In a Finnish conference hall in 2011, Sao Paulo hammered both Singapore and Sydney, and was selected to host the World Tunnel Congress in 2014.