ICEG 2014 - 7th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG2014)

The International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), TC 215 Environmental Geotechnics is pleased to announce that the 7th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG2014) will be held between the 11th and 14th November 2014 in Melbourne, Australia.
This Congress is the seventh in a series that started in Edmonton, Canada 1994. It is being organised by Engineers Australia and supported by the Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB), City of Melbourne and the Australian Geomechanics Society.
Environmental Geotechnics has evolved dramatically from the 80s/90s practice where the focus was on addressing problems related to contaminated sites as well as hazardous and non-hazardous waste management. Nowadays it deals also with emerging contaminants (nanoparticles, etc.), energy geotechnology (geothermal energy, CO2 sequestration, coal seam and shale gas, methane hydrates, etc.), oil and gas resources, mining, reservoir engineering, effect of climate change on built structures and biogeotechnical engineering, attracting new challenges and new set of skills to the profession. These had the effect of bringing the different disciplines even closer than before.
This Congress aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in Environmental Geotechnics and related disciplines to discuss the advances which have been achieved in the past 20 years or so. Since the organisation of the 1st Environmental Geotechnics Congress in Edmonton, Canada in 1994, great progress has been made but we must address the new challenges of a rapidly changing world. In so doing, this Congress will contribute to the ongoing process of consilience between the different disciplines so that current and future challenges are addressed efficiently by our profession.
We look forward to welcoming you to Melbourne, Australia in 2014
Professor Malek Bouazza
Chair
7th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics