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Geotechnical News •September 2015
GEOTECHNICAL INSTRUMENTATION NEWS
Introduction by John Dunnicliff, Editor
This is the 83
rd
episode of GIN.
Just one article this time.
Decommissioning and removal
of instrumentation
The article by David Cook and Thijs
Claus describes decommissioning and
removal of instrumentation after 13
years of monitoring at a large tunnel-
ing project in the center of Amster-
dam. This is a subject that I’d rarely
thought about, despite helping with
many monitoring specifications, and
the article woke me up to the impor-
tance of including this in the planning
process and in specifications.
International Courses on
Geotechnical and Structural
Monitoring in Italy
This year’s course attracted 84 reg-
istrants from 23 different countries,
together with more than 20 exhibi-
tors. The little town in Tuscany again
closed off the main street for our
street party on the first evening, and
as you’ll see in this photo, our wines
(red, white and spumante) had labels
with the name of our course. How
about that?
Planning for the next course in June
2016 is well underway, and we’re
looking for improvements and
innovation. Some new speakers will
be invited. To increase the interac-
tion among us all, we plan to invite
selected exhibitors to make brief pre-
sentations about new trends in contact
and remote monitoring, and about data
Vino rosso, bianco, spumante.
