ICPTT 2011 - International Conference on Pipelines and Trenchless Technology 2011 (ICPTT 2011)

At present, China is the largest market for trenchless technology all over the world, with huge gas and oil transmission pipeline projects under construction and 100,000 km municipal pipelines new installed each year and 300,000 km municipal pipelines need to be rehabilitated urgently. There are more and more related international organizations and companies paid much more attention to the pipeline and trenchless technology market in China.

China-U.S. Joint Center for Trenchless R&D (CTRD), American Society of Civil Engineers-Pipeline Division, Center for Underground Infrastructure Research & Education (CUIRE)-UTA, Geo-Technical Engineering Research Center, China Ministry of Education,and China University of Geosciences(Beijing) co-sponsor the International Conference on Pipelines and Trenchless Technology 2011 (ICPTT 2011), which will be held on October 26 through 29, 2011 at China National Convention Center, Beijing. With the success of the ICPTT 2009, the organizer expects that ICPTT 2011 willl draw more than 500 participants, and more than 1000 visitors will attend the conference.

ASCE will publish the conference proceedings, which will be provided on CD-ROM. The qualified papers will be recommended to be published in the ASCE journal: 《Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice》.