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Geotechnical News December 2011
CGS NEWS
nomination submitted by April 1st of
the Award year is sufficient to initiate
and complete the annual process of se-
lection on the basis of the nominee’s
excellence in research and publication,
or professional practice and education
or professional service or some combi-
nation of these areas.
The IAH and CGS call on Canadian
hydrogeologists to submit nomina-
tions for the Farvolden Award to hon-
our those who have displayed the very
qualities that Bob Farvolden brought to
our profession.
Chris Neville,
Chair, Hydrogeology Division, CGS
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Conference Summary: 64th
Canadian Geotechnical
Conference, 14th PanAmerican
Conference on Geotechnical
Engineering and Soil
Mechanics, and 5th
PanAmerican Conference on
Teaching and Learning
Geotechnical Engineering
The 64th Canadian Geotechnical
Conference,
14th
PanAmerican
Conference
on
Geotechnical
Engineering and Soil Mechanics,
and 5th PanAmerican Conference on
Teaching and Learning Geotechnical
Engineering was held in Toronto
from October 2 to 6, 2011. Over 825
conference delegates attended, with
over 500 technical proceeding papers
and 63 exhibitor booths. The conference
was a blend of Canadian and South
American conference traditions, with a
combination of plenary and concurrent
breakout sessions. The conference
technical program was set to enhance
opportunities for interaction between
academics, practitioners, designers,
contractors and owners, through a
combination of invited speakers for
plenary and keynote presentations,
specialist technical breakout sessions,
poster presentations and exhibits.
On Sunday, preconference work-
shops on
Meaningful Numerical Mod-
elling in Geotechnical Engineering,
The Use of Geophysics for Geotech-
nical Projects: Benefits and Potential
Pitfalls, Advanced Features for Slope
Stability Analysis, Geosynthetics in
Landfill and other Barrier Systems and
FLAC Modelling for Soils
were pre-
sented.
Plenary session presentations con-
sisted of the Casagrande Lecture by
Kerry Rowe on
Short and long-term
leakage through composite liners
and
the R.M. Hardy Address by K.Y. Lo on
The effects of deep excavation in soils
and rock on adjacent structures
. The
CGS Colloquium was presented by
Craig Lake on
Assessing geo-environ-
mental performance of cement-based
containment systems
and the CGS
Graduate Student Paper was presented
by Fathi Mohamed on
Bearing capac-
ity and settlement behaviour of shal-
low footings in unsaturated sands.
Six
keynote and theme lectures were also
presented by Carlos Santamarina, José
Amundaray, Gabriel Auvinet, Márcio
Almeida, John McCartney and Andy
Take.
The primary CGS Award, the 2011
R.F. Legget Medal was presented
to Dr. Liam Finn of UBC at the lun-
cheon on Tuesday. Later that evening
at the awards gala, the remainder of the
awards and honours were presented.
At the Monday luncheon, the 75th
Anniversary of the ISSMGE was cel-
ebrated with presentations on the
Past,
Present and Future of ISSME in North
and South America
by Norbert Mor-
genstern, Gabriel Auvinet, Roberto
Terzariol, Franco Francisca, and San-
dra Garcia.
The social program offered wonder-
ful combinations of food, drink and en-
tertainment, starting at the Sunday eve-
ning icebreaker, through the Awards
Gala, to the local colour night at the
Royal Ontario Museum.
At the Closing Ceremonies, Confer-
ence Chair Andrew Drevininkas passed
the conference bell and banner to the
committee for the CGS 2012 confer-
ence, which will be held in Winnipeg.
We would like to express thanks to
the organizing committee on behalf of
all of the attendees for an entertaining,
informative and successful conference.
We are also extremely grateful for the
generous support of our sponsors and
exhibitors, as without their support this
conference would not have been pos-
sible. Special thanks to our platinum
sponsors: AMEC, BGC Engineering,
Coffey Geotechnics, ConeTec, EBS
Engineering & Construction, Geopac,
Geo-Slope International, Golder As-
sociates, MEG Consulting, Rapid Im-
pact Piers, Reinforced Earth Company,
Stantec, and Worley Parsons.
