Organizing Committee About Hangzhou Announcement & Call for Papers Chair: Liangtong Zhan (Zhejiang U.) Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang Province in the southeast of China. Secretary: Bate Bate (Zhejiang U.) Wenjie Xu (Zhejiang U.) It is located close to Shanghai and is at the southern end of the Andrea Dominijanni (Secretary of TC215, ISSMGE) Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (World Heritage). Hangzhou was the birthplace of the Liangzhu Culture dated to about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, Elizabeth Peggs (Secretary of IGS) 2018 Johnny Cheuk (Secretary of HKGES) and was one of the seven ancient capitals of China. Hangzhou has also been known as the “land of silk and tea,” with theme museums like China Marco Ritzkowski (Managing Director of IWWG) Silk Museum, China Tea Museum and Museum of Liangzhu Culture Ruins. Jiannan Chen (Southwest Jiaotong U.) Hefu Pu (Huazhong U. of Sci. and Tech.) I EG Described as “the finest and most splendid city in the world” by the famous Yonggui Chen (Tongji U.) Chaosheng Tang (Nanjing U.) Italian traveller Marco Polo, Hangzhou is renowned for the natural beauty th Suqin Tang (Hangzhou Environ. Group The 8 International Congress on Abraham C F Chiu (Hohai U.) and charm of the West Lake (World Heritage) and the picturesque Co., Ltd) Yanjun Du (Southeast U.) landscapes of Thousand-Islet Lake. Hosting the headquarters of many Environmental Geotechnics Xiaowu Tang (Zhejiang U.) Shijing Feng (Tongji U.) hi-tech companies including Alibaba, the world’s leading e-commerce Haijian Xie (Zhejiang U.) Han Ke (Zhejiang U.) group, Hangzhou has grown into a hi-tech metropolis, better known as “Towards a Sustainable Geoenvironment” Qi Li (Inst. of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Yongfu Xu (Shanghai Jiaotong U.) China’s “Silicon Valley.” As a modern city, Hangzhou also has many CAS) Sifa Xu (Zhejiang U. of Tech.) delightful shopping centers and leisure facilities. 28th October – 1st November 2018 Yuchao Li (Zhejiang U.) Chuang Yu (Wenzhou U.) Travel to Hangzhou is convenient. Hangzhou International Airport Jiangfeng Liu (China U. of Mining and Lingling Zeng (Fuzhou U.) (HGH) connects directly with 15 oversea cities, such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Hangzhou, China Tech.) Jianhong Zhang (Tsinghua U.) Singapore, Doha, Amsterdam, Moscow and Los Angeles. Alternatively, Yang Liu (Hunan U. of Sci. and Tech.) Wenjie Zhang (Shanghai U.) guests can first fly to Shanghai International Airports (SHA, PVG) that Yuemiao Liu (Beijing Research Inst. Zhenying Zhang (Zhejiang Sci-Tech U.) connect with most major cities in the world, and then take China Uranium Geology) Zhihong Zhang (Beijing U. of Tech.) High-Speed Rail to arrive at Hangzhou (about 1-3 hours’ ride). Fan Lv (Tongji U.) Weilie Zou (Wuhan U.)
Important Dates
Abstract submission window: 1st August – 1st October 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30th November 2017 Full manuscript submission: 31st March 2018 Organized by: th Final paper submission: 15 July 2018 □ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Congress dates: 28th October – 1st November 2018 Geoenvironmental Engineering, Zhejiang University □ The Chinese Institution of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (CISMGE) Tentative Venue: □ The Hong Kong Geotechnical Society (HKGES) Sheraton Grand Hangzhou Wetland Park Resort, Hangzhou, China Website: Under the auspices of: http://www.ICEG2018.com □ TC215 Environmental Geotechnics, ISSMGE Contact Details: Supported by: Organizing Committee of 8th International Congress on Environmental □ International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Geotechnics Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental □ International Waste Working Group (IWWG) Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, □ Commission on Radioactive Waste Disposal of International P.R. 310058 Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) Tel.: +86(0571)88208793 □ Commission on Waste Disposal of the International Fax.:+86(0571)88208793 Association of Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG) E-mail: [email protected]
4 Introduction Congress Topics Technical Committee
Issues associated with Environmental Geotechnics continue to be a Geoenvironmental risk assessment, Application of geosynthetics in Chair: Yunmin Chen (China) managementmanagement and and sustainability sustainability geo-environmental engineering major preoccupation for governments, public and private organizations and • Sustainability • Geotextiles and geocomposites Co-Chair: Malek Bouazza (Australia) Liangtong Zhan (China) the general community around the world. With the support from the • Risk-based site evaluation and • Geomembranes Secretary: Bate Bate (China) Shuai Zhang (China) International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering management • Geosynthetic clay liners (ISSMGE) and the Technical Committee of Environmental Geotechnics • Case histories and regional • Other geosynthetics Ishtiaque Anwar (Singapore) Zhiping Lin (Taiwan) (TC215), the Environmental Geotechnics Congress Series has been held experiences Geoenvironmental aspect in D.N.Arnepalli (India) Xianchang Ling (China) Geotechnical recycling and reuse of energy geotechnology regularly since 1994 (Canada 1994; Japan 1996; Portugal, 1998; Brazil Kazem Badv (Iran) Songyu Liu (China) waste materials 2002; UK 2006; India 2010; Australia 2014), and has established itself as a • Nuclear waste • Construction and demolition wastes • CO sequestration Xiaohong Bai (China) Lurdes Lopes (Portugal) highly influential forum for exchange and discussion on the subject. 2 • Coal combustion residues • Shallow and deep geothermal Loretta Batali (Romania) Mario Manassero (Italy) The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and • Dredged sediments • Methane hydrates Geoenvironmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, CISMGE and HKGES • Other solid wastes • Underground storage facilities Maria Eugenia Boscov (Brazil) Nicola Moraci (Italy) th cordially invite you to attend the 8 International Congress on Environmental Transport, persistence and fate of Tailings and mine wastes Herminia Cano (Spain) Catherine Mulligan (Canada) th pollutants Geotechnics in the week of October 28 , 2018 in Hangzhou, China. • Tailing ponds Roger Clark (UK) V.G.Ofrikhter (Russia) • Advection • Waste dumps Congress Theme • Diffusion • Acid mine drainage Dimitrios Coumoulos (Greece) Ernest Olinic (Romania) • Adsorption • Heap leach pads John Cowland (Hong Kong SAR) Ali Pak (Iran) • Degradation and attenuation Biogeotechnical engineering The congress theme is “Towards a Sustainable Geoenvironment.” “Sustainable • Emerging contaminants Yujun Cui (France) Marina Pantazidou (Greece) • Biomediation Development is to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability Manoj Datta (India) Contaminated land and remediation • Bioremediation Fernando Pardo (Spain) technology of future generations to meet their own needs.” Geoenvironment is a specific • Phytostabilization and Gemmina Di Emidio (Belgium) G V Ramana (India) compartment of the environment and comprises portions of geosphere, • Site investigation phytoremediation • In-situ remediation Andrea Dominijanni (Italy) Krishna Reddy (USA) hydrosphere and biosphere. Under this theme the congress will cover a broad Forensic environmental • Off site remediation geotechnics Abbas El-Zein (Australia) Sergio Anibal Reyes (Argentina) range of topics and will provide an excellent opportunity for academics, engineers, • New remediation technologies scientists, government officials, regulators and planners to present, discuss and • Failure case studies Evelina Fratalocchi (Italy) António Roque (Portugal) Landfills of solid wastes Engineering barriers exchange the latest advancements and developments in the research and • Waste characterization and properties Eugene Gallagher (UK) R. Kerry Rowe (Canada) • Covers application of environmental geotechnics. • Stability Antonio Gens (Spain) • Liners Aykut Senol (Turkey) • Deformation • Vertical barriers Jean-Pierre Gourc (France) Paper Submission and Special Issues • Greenhouse gas and odor reduction Charles Shackelford (USA) Pinjing He (China) Jianyong Shi (China) Several internationally renowned journals have agreed to publish a special issue International Advisory Committee Georg Heerten (Germany) Luis Sopeña (Spain) for ICEG2018, with tentative subject matters on geoenvironmental engineering Liming Hu (China) Douglas I Stewart (UK) Craig H. Benson (USA) William Powrie (UK) (EnvironmentalEnvironmental Geotechnics;Geotechnics; JournalJournal of Zhejiang University-ScienceUniversity-Science A (AppliedApplied Stephan Jefferis (UK) AntônioThomé (Brazil) Malek Bouazza (Australia) R. Kerry Rowe (Canada) PhysicsPhysics & EngineeringEngineering)), geosynthetics (GeotextilesGeotextiles and GeomembranesGeomembranes) and Han-Yong Jeon (South Korea) Marc Van Den Broeck (Belgium) energy geotechnics (GeomechanicsGeomechanics forfor EnergyEnergy andand thethe EnvironmentEnvironment). The format, Zuyu Chen (China) Daichao Sheng (Australia) Takeshi Katsumi (Japan) Qiang Xue (China) procedures and timeline of submitting a regular conference paper to ICEG2018, as Raffaello Cossu (Italy) Devendra N. Singh (India) Albert Yeung (Hong Kong SAR) stated in the conference website, will be followed, and the full paper will be Pierre Delage (France) Kenichi Soga (USA) Edward Kavazanjian (USA) published in the proceedings of ICEG2018 first. Conference papers of publication Roger Frank (France) Hywel R. Thomas (UK) Eugeniusz Koda (Poland) Yeliz Yukselen (Turkey) potential in a special issue of a journal will be identified by the guest editors, Delwyn G. Fredlund (Canada) Ikuo Towhata (Japan) Hideo Komine (Japan) Dimitrios Zekkos (USA) considering but not solely based on the recommendations from the conference Edward Kavazanjian (USA) Ju Wang (China) Lingwei Kong (China) Honglei Zhou (China) paper reviewers. The corresponding author of an identified paper will be contacted Yuanming Lai (China) Weimin Ye (China) Craig Lake (Canada) Wei Zhu (China) to submit a journal manuscript, which will then undergo the rigorous peer review Mario Manassero (Italy) Jianmin Zhang (China) process as a regular journal paper does. Charles WW Ng (Hong Kong SAR) Jorge G Zornberg (USA) William Likos (USA) 1 2 3