Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SOIL MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL MEETING held at the Palais de Congrès, Paris, France Sunday, 1st September 2013 PRESENT: Professor Jean-Louis Briaud - ISSMGE President Professor Samuel U. Ejezie - ISSMGE Vice President Africa Professor Askar Zhussupbekov - ISSMGE Vice President Asia Professor Michael C.R. Davies - ISSMGE Vice President Australasia Professor Ivan Vaniček - ISSMGE Vice President Europe Professor Gabriel Auvinet Guichard - ISSMGE Vice President North America Dr Roberto Terzariol - ISSMGE Vice President South America Professor Pedro Sêco e Pinto - ISSMGE Immediate Past President Professor R.N. Taylor - ISSMGE Secretary General Professor Roger Frank - ISSMGE Board Member Professor Charles Ng - ISSMGE Board Member Professor Ikuo Towhata - ISSMGE Board Member Professor Kenji Ishihara - Past President ISSMGE Professor Michele Jamiolkowski - Past President ISSMGE Professor William Van Impe - Past President ISSMGE Professor Paul Mayne - Chair TC In-situ testing Professor Christophe Gaudin - Chair TC Physical modelling Professor Pierre Delage - Chair TC Unsaturated soils Professor António Gomes Correia - Chair TC Transportation Dr Albert Ho - Chair TC Interactive Design Professor Vladimir Ulitsky - Chair TC Soil Structure Professor Zeping Xu - Chair TC Dams Professor Deepankar Choudhury - Secretary TC Deep Foundations Professor Malek Bouazza - Vice Chair TC Geo-environmental Professor Dipanjan Basu - Chair TC Sustainability Professor Frederic Pellet - Vice - President for Europe ISRM Professor Fatma Baligh - Vice President Elect Africa Professor Mark Jaksa - Vice President Elect Australasia Professor Antonio Gens - Vice President Elect Europe Member Society Voting Member Non-Voting Member Albania Professor Luljeta Bozo Ing. Geol. Skender Allkhja Argentina Eng. Alejo O. Sfriso Australia Mr Graham Scholey Professor John Carter Austria Professor Heinz Brandl Bangladesh Professor Sarwar Yasin Belarus Professor Dmitry Sobolevsky Professor Oleg Popov Belgium Ir. Maurice Bottiau Bolivia --- Bosnia & Herzegovina Professor Ivan Vrkljan* Brazil Professor André Assis Dr Carlos Silva Bulgaria Dr Andrey Totsev Canada Dr Richard Bathurst Chile Professor Ramon Verdugo Volume 6 - Page 229 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013 Member Society Voting Member Non-Voting Member China Professor Maosong Huang Professor Jianhong Zhang Chinese Taipei Professor Yung-show Fang Professor Der-Wen Chang Colombia Mr Graham Scholey* Costa Rica Eng. David Yañez Santillan* Croatia Professor Ivan Vrkljan Professor Predrag Kvasnička CTGA Professor Ibrahim Khalil Cisse Dr Etienne Marcelin Kana Cuba --- Czech & Slovak Republics Professor Jana Frankovska Professor Josef Jettmar Denmark Dr. Jørgen S. Steenfelt Mr Ander T. Andersen Dominican Republic Professor Roberto Terzariol* Ecuador --- Egypt Prof. Dr. Mohamed Sakr El Salvador Professor Cesar Sagaseta* Estonia Mr Prit Ilves Eng. Mait Mets Finland Professor Tim Länsivaara Professor Leena Korkiala-Tanttu France Dr. Philippe Mestat Mr Jacques Robert Georgia --- Germany Professor Georg Heerten Dr Kirsten Laackmann Ghana Dr Samuel I. K. Ampadu Greece Professor Ivan Vaniček* Hong Kong Professor George Tham Ir. Tony Cheung Hungary Professor József Mecsi Mr Peter Görög Iceland Mr Haraldur Sigursteinsson India Dr Gautam Gandhi Professor G.L. Sivakumar Babu Indonesia Dr Masyhur Irsyam Mr Idrus Iran Professor Abbas Soroush Dr Fardin Jafarzadeh Iraq Dr Omar al-Farouk Salem al-Damluji Ireland Professor Trevor Orr Israel Professor Ivan Vaniček* Italy Professor Stefano Aversa Professor Mario Manassero Japan Dr Toru Sueoka Dr Yoichi Watabe Kazakhstan Dr Rauan E. Lukpanov Dr Victor Popov Korea R Professor Seung-Ho Lee Professor Dong Soo Kim Kyrgyzstan Professor Askar Zhussupbekov* Latvia Associate Professor Kaspars Bondars Lebanon Prof. Salah Sadek Prof. Muhsin Rahhal Lithuania Professor Vincentas Stragys Macedonia, FYR Mr Bojan Susinov Mexico Eng. David Yañez Santillan Eng. Walter Paniagua Morocco Dr Essadaoui El Moustafa Mozambique Professor Carlos Quadros Nepal Dr Rauan E. Lukpanov* Netherlands Dr Mandy Korff New Zealand Mr Gavin Alexander Nigeria Mr Fidelis Ejikeme Norway Mr Kristian Aunaas Mr Jan Holme Pakistan Professor Askar Zhussupbekov* Paraguay Professor Roberto Terzariol* Poland Professor Zbigniew Lechowicz Professor Kazimierz Gwizdala Portugal Prof José Luis Machado do Vale Dr Nuno Manuel da Costa Guerra Romania Professor Sanda Manea Dr Ernest Olinic Russia Professor V.A. Ilyichev Serbia Professor Ivan Vaniček* Singapore Mr T S Chua Professor C.F. Leung Slovenia Dr Vijkan Dr Ana Petkovšek South Africa Dr Nicol Chang Professor S.W. Jacobsz S E Asia Dr Teik Aun Ooi Spain Professor Cesar Sagaseta Professor Enrique Dapena Sri Lanka Dr Asiri Karunawardena Sudan Dr Elfathi M. Ali Dr Hussein Elarabi Sweden Dr Gunilla Franzén Dr Håkan Garin Switzerland Syria Dr Talal Awwad Tajikistan Professor Rustam Usmanov Thailand Dr Suttisak Soralump Dr Noppadol Peinwet Tunisia Mr Slaheddine Haffoudhi Turkey Professor Feyza Cinicioglu Professor Gokhan Baykal Ukraine Mr Petro Kryvosheiev Mr Yuriy Slyusarenko U K Dr Christopher Menkiti Volume 6 - Page 230 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013 Member Society Voting Member Non-Voting Member U S A Professor Robert Holtz Professor Jorge Zornberg Uzbekistan Professor Askar Zhussupbekov* Venezuela --- Vietnam Mr Nugyen Min Hai * Denotes Proxy vote APOLOGIES: Prof. Kok Kwang Phoon (Chairman TC304 – Risk) 1 OPENING REMARKS The current list of corporate sponsors is included in Appendix 1. There had been a substantial increase in Corporate The President opened the meeting by welcoming all delegates. Associates (currently 52 and an additional 7 who were He went on to state that Council would need to consider the exhibitors at the Paris Conference and had taken up the offer of eligibility of two Member Societies when votes were being the complementary offer of a year’s membership). taken. Dominican Republic had sent an email stating that they Regarding the ISSMGE List of Members and CD, the had paid their fees, but that payment was made after it was no Secretary General reported that by the time of the extended longer possible for the Secretary General to check the ISSMGE deadline that the Member Societies had been given to submit account. The Syrian Geotechnical society had offered to settle information, the Secretariat had received such a small response their arrears, but current banking sanctions prevented it from that he took the executive decision to abandon plans for doing so. The President asked if Council would allow these two producing the CD in 2013. He went on to report that Member member societies to cast votes during the meeting. This was Society lists of members were updated on the ISSMGE website agreed. whenever these were received and also the contact details of the member societies themselves were kept up-to-date on the website. 2 LIST OF DELEGATES AND OTHER PERSONS PRESENT 6 AMENDMENTS TO STATUTES AND BYLAWS RE The Secretary General presented a list of delegates who had GENDER NEUTRALITY indicated their intention to attend the Council Meeting. All the voting delegates present were noted and as were the Member The President introduced this item. One of his duties as Societies who had transferred their voting rights by proxy. president was to choose the individual to deliver the Terzaghi Oration. After consultation with Member Societies and Board Members, the President invited Suzanne Lacasse to be the 3 QUORUM Orator. He then noticed that the Statutes and Bylaws were not A roll call was established. The complete list of delegates is gender neutral, and although a footnote appeared in the Statues the use of the masculine gender in the Constitution given at the beginning of these minutes. The Secretary General stating that “ does not imply the position described is occupied by a male confirmed that there were 81 Member Societies entitled to vote person and since the voting delegates (including proxies) exceeded two ”, he felt that it was time that the Statutes were brought thirds of this number, the meeting was declared quorate to deal up to date. He had asked the Secretary General to propose the with all matters. changes, and these had been reviewed by the Board prior to inclusion in the Council Meeting Agenda. The Secretary General stated that strictly speaking each 4 MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL MEETING IN TORONTO, amendment to the Statutes and Bylaws should be considered OCTOBER 2011 separately and voted on separately. However, since the changes all related to the same issue he asked for Council’s approval that The Minutes of the Council Meeting in Toronto had been all the amendments could be considered together. This was redistributed with the Council Meeting papers. The President approved nem con. asked if there were any comments or corrections to the Minutes, After a request by the President the motion was proposed by and there were none. On a show of hands the Minutes were Jorgen Steenfelt (Denmark) and seconded by Gautam Gandhi approved with 77 votes in favour, 2 abstentions, and none (India). The President then asked for comments. Samuel against. Ampadu (Ghana) asked for changes to Statute 10B to read “The Secretary General may shall not ...”, and “...shall if necessary