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 Sheraton Centre Toronto, Canada Sunday, 2nd October 2011 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 Professor Roberto Terzariol - ISSMGE Vice President South America Professor Pedro Sêco e Pinto - ISSMGE Immediate Past President Professor R N Taylor - ISSMGE Secretary General Ms P Peers - ISSMGE Secretariat Ms H Prichard - Assistant to the President Professor Roger Frank - ISSMGE Board Member Professor Charles Ng - ISSMGE Board Member Professor Ikuo Towhata - ISSMGE Board Member Professor Michele Jamiolkowski - Past President ISSMGE Professor José Luis Rangel - Chair TC214 Dr Dimitrios Zekkos - Chair – Innovations & Development Committee Rick Staples - President Tunnelling Association of Canada Jim Morrison - President, Deep Foundations Institute Professor Owen White - Past President, International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment Dr Jorge Zornberg - President, International Geosynthetics Society Member Society Voting Member Non-Voting Member Albania Professor Pedro Sêco e Pinto* Argentina Eng. Alejo O. Sfriso Eng. Pablo L Torres Australia Professor Michael C.R. Davies* Austria Professor George Heerten* Azerbaijan --- Bangladesh Professor Roger Frank* Belgium Mr Flor de Cock Bolivia Brazil Professor Arsenio Negro, Jr Professor Roberto Quental Coutinho Bulgaria --- Canada Dr Dennis Becker Chile --- China Professor Zeping Xu Chinese Taipei Professor San-Shyan Lin Professor Wei Feng Lee Colombia Eng. Mario C. Torres Eng. Monica F. Bedoya M. Costa Rica --- Croatia Professor Stefano Aversa* CTGA --- Cuba Professor Gilberto Quevedo Sotolongo Dr Yoermes González Haramboure Czech & Slovak Reps. Professor Jana Frankovská Denmark Dr. Tim Lansivaara* Dominican Republic --- Ecuador --- Volume 6 - Page 95 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013 Member Society Voting Member Non-Voting Member El Salvador Eng. Mario C. Torres * Egypt Estonia Dr. Tim Lansivaara* Finland Dr. Tim Lansivaara France Professor Roger Frank* Georgia --- Germany Professor George Heerten Ghana Professor Samuel U. Ejezie* Greece Dr. Nicholas Vlachopoulos Hong Kong Professor Charles Ng* Hungary Professor Jozsef Mecsi Iceland India Indonesia Iran Dr Shahaboddin Yasrobi Iraq Professor Chun Fai Leung* Ireland Professor Roger Frank* Israel Professor Ivan Vaniček* Italy Professor Stefano Aversa Professor Mario Manassero Japan Professor Osamu Kusakabe Dr Yoichi Watabe Kazakhstan Dr Serik Yenkebayev Kenya --- Korea R Professor Kim Dong Soo Professor Yoo Chungsik Kyrgyzstan Professor Askar Zhussupbekov* Latvia --- Lebanon Professor Muhsin Elie Rahhal Lithuania --- Mexico Eng. Juan de Dios Aleman Eng. Walter Paniagua Morocco --- Mozambique Professor Pedro Sêco e Pinto* Nepal --- Netherlands Dr Suzanne Lacasse* New Zealand Professor Michael C.R. Davies* Nigeria Professor Samuel U. Ejezie* Norway Dr Suzanne Lacasse Pakistan Dr Serik Yenkebayev* Paraguay --- Peru --- Poland Professor Ivan Vaniček* Portugal Professor Pedro Sêco e Pinto* Romania Professor Iacint Manoliu Russia Professor Iacint Manoliu* Singapore Professor Chun Fai Leung Serbia Professor George Heerten* Slovenia --- South Africa Professor Samuel U. Ejezie* S E Asia Professor Chun Fai Leung* Spain Professor Ivan Vaniček* Sri Lanka Professor Jozsef Mecsi* Sudan --- Sweden --- Switzerland --- Syria --- Tajikistan Professor Askar Zhussupbekov* Thailand Professor Charles Ng* TfYR Macedonia Professor Iacint Manoliu* Tunisia Professor Mounir Bouassida Turkey Professor Stefano Aversa* Ukraine Dr Serik Yenkebayev* U K Eng. Gareth Belton U S A Professor Philip King Professor Robert Holtz Uzbekistan Professor Askar Zhussupbekov* Venezuela Professor Roberto Terzariol* Vietnam --- Zimbabwe --- * Denotes Proxy vote Volume 6 - Page 96 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013 APOLOGIES Professor Norbert Morgenstern - Past President ISSMGE Professor KT Chau - Chair, TC103 Professor Jonathan Fannin - Chair, TC208 Professor Christophe Gaudin - Chair, TC104 Professor Michael Heibaum - Chair, TC213 Professor Arne Instanes - Chair, TC216 Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis - Chair, TC203 Professor Vladimir Ulitsky - Chair, TC207 Dr Esve Jacobsz - Secretary, AWAC Professor François Schlosser - Chair, AWAC Professor Harry Poulos - Chair, MPAC Dr Mahnoosh Biglari - Chair, SYMPG reasons while there had been no contact with the Azerbaijani society for several years. However, it was hoped they would all be able to renew ties in the near future. The Secretary General 1 OPENING REMARKS BY PRESIDENT AND stated that ISSMGE may have over 19000 individual members, AGREEMENT OF THE AGENDA but that this was difficult to affirm since individual membership lists from Member Societies were often submitted irregularly The President opened the meeting by welcoming all delegates, (some member societies not having submitted lists for a number and thanking them for having elected him as President of the of years), and some Member Societies were prevented from Society at the previous Council Meeting. He welcomed the providing comprehensive lists due to national privacy laws. newest members, the Lebanese and the Chinese Taipei The Secretary General welcomed two new Member Geotechnical Societies, bringing national member societies to Societies: the Lebanese Geotechnical Engineering Society and 89, and he commented that the total individual membership was the Chinese Taipei Geotechnical Society. He commented that nearly 19000. He expressed his interest in expanding ISSMGE there had been some changes in Corporate Associates in that the into those countries who are currently not members. He pointed economic crisis had affected some companies particularly out that he was the fifteenth president in the history of the adversely and they had chosen to opt out of their association Society, with Professor Michael Davies being the current First with ISSMGE. Nevertheless, there had been an overall increase Vice-President. in Corporate Associates due to the recent recruitment efforts by The President described the remits of the various Board members of the MPAC. Level committees, and explained that the newest initiative, the The Secretary General went on to discuss the issue of the Public Relations Committee, was still at the planning stage. Membership List. He commented that the idea of producing a booklet had been recently abandoned, but that there was still 2 LIST OF DELEGATES AND OTHER PERSONS interest in having a list of names. He asked for a straw poll PRESENT amongst the attendees to see if a list should be produced on CD in time for the Paris Conference, with the following results: The Secretary General explained that it was important for the record to know who attended the meeting. He presented a list Votes of delegates who had indicated their intention to attend the For: 27 Council Meeting. All the voting delegates present were noted Against: 5 and as were the Member Societies who had transferred their Abstentions: 2 voting rights by proxy. On other matters, the Secretary General noted that the Nepal Geotechnical Society had not been in contact for some time, and 3 CONFIRMATION OF QUORUM was in danger of being suspended. He asked for help in trying to establish contact with responsive members of that society. The Secretary General noted that at this count there were 63 The Secretary General asked the attendees if there were any votes available from 26 voting delegates and 37 proxies. He further comments, but there were none. confirmed that the meeting was quorate for voting on any matter; though he thought it unfortunate that the quorum was made up largely of proxy votes. 6 TRANSFER OF THE ISRAEL GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY TO THE ISSMGE EUROPEAN REGION 4 CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF THE The President gave Council the background to this item. He ALEXANDRIA COUNCIL MEETING said that at the recent Asian Regional Conference in Hong Kong he was approached by a representative of the Israeli The President asked if there were any objections to the minutes Geotechnical Society who asked for the society to be transferred of the Alexandria Council Meeting. There were none and the to the European region. The President said that he first Minutes were approved. consulted with the Vice-Presidents for Asia and Europe, who both agreed that this would be a good move. Essentially, the move was a means of dealing with the political problems that 5 MEMBERSHIP had arisen with other countries in the region especially with The Secretary General presented his report (given in Appendix regards to selection of the venue for the Regional Conference. 1) in which it was noted there were currently 86 member The matter had been discussed by the Board, who had agreed societies. Following the discussion at the previous Council unanimously to this suggestion, but the President noted that the Meeting in Alexandria, three societies were considered Statues required the decision to the ratified by Council. suspended: Azerbaijan,