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Geotechnical News • December 2013

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GEOTECHNICAL INSTRUMENTATION NEWS

International Course on

“Castle of Poppi”, Tuscany (Italy)

Course Director:

John Dunnicliff

Consulting Engineer

Paolo Mazzanti

This annual course in Italy replaces the long-

standing series of continuing education courses in Florida. The

format will be similar to the Florida courses, but with the

substantial content on remote methods for moni-

toring deformation

COURSE EMPHASIS

is on why and how to monitor field

performance.

The course will include planning monitoring

programs, hardware and software, recent developments such

as web-based, wireless and monitoring, remote methods for

monitoring deformation, offshore monitoring, case histories,

and lessons learned. Online sources will be included, together

with an open forum for questions and discussion.

: Engineers, geologists and technicians who are involved

with performance monitoring of geotechnical features of civil

engineering, mining and oil and gas projects. Project managers

and other decision-makers who are concerned with

uring construction

: to learn the who, why and how of successful

geotechnical and structural monitoring while networking and

sharing best practices with others in the geotechnical and

structural monitoring community.

provided by leaders of the geotechnical and

structural monitoring community

, representing users, manu-

facturers, designers and people of academia from Italy,

England, Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland,

USA, Hong Kong and The Netherlands.

: the 3-day course will be held in Poppi (Tuscany, Italy),

in the main room of a 13th century castle

(www.castellodipoppi.com). Poppi is in the countryside of

Tuscany, near the city of Florence.

Dedicated transportation

to Poppi from Florence main train station and city airport will

be available

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