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Geotechnical News • March 2016
THE GROUT LINE
tunnels, highways and buildings. Few
institutions are teaching grouting as an
engineering discipline, and as a result
the Grouting Fundamentals course
has educated more grouters than any
other program worldwide. The core
faculty are recognized international
authorities and leaders in the grouting
industry, representing the most current
state-of-practice in the US, Canada,
and throughout Europe.
The course’s long history has included
installments at the University of Mis-
souri, University of Florida, and the
Colorado School of Mines. The move
to UT Austin is motivated by an inter-
est in strengthening ties between the
grouting profession and UT Austin’s
world-class geotechnical engineering
group, where faculty are performing
innovative research concerning ceme-
niitious grouts. Significant synergies
between grouting technologies in the
civil and petroleum engineering indus-
tries are also anticipated at the new UT
Austin venue. And very importantly:
Texas BBQ is hard to beat!
For course details visit:
.
For technical queries please contact
Scott Kieffer:
The second new item is related to
“our” 2017 grouting conference.
The call for papers is out, with two
additional topics, Deep Mixing and
Diaphragm Walls.
As usual, I make the same request,
asking you to send me your grouting
comments or grouting stories or case
histories. My coordinates remain:
Paolo Gazzarrini,
or
Ciao! Cheers!
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
5th International Conference on Grouting, Deep Mixing and Diaphragm Walls
Hilton Waikiki July 9-12, 2017
INTRODUCTION
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
The Geo-Institute Grout-
ing Committee and the
International Conference
Organization for Grouting
(ICOG), as cooperating
organization, are organiz-
ing the 5th International
Grouting Conference. The
conference focus will be
on new technologies and
current practice related to
Grouting, Deep Mixing and
Diaphragm Walls.
Since 1982, four interna-
tional grouting conferences
(one every ten years) have
been held in New Orleans.
At the last conference, in
2012, there was a com-
mon thought expressed, to
reduce the ten year interval
to five. The feeling was that
a ten year interval was too
long between conferences
and too many advances
and innovative grouting
applications, deserved a
shorter interval. In 2012,
four keynote lectures and
182 papers were presented
for an audience of more
than 800 delegates.
At the 2017 conference,
short courses on jet grout-
ing, compaction grouting,
deep mixing and slurry
walls, along with work-
shops will be available.
Details to follow.
Conference sessions will take place over three
days, in both plenary formats and in concurrent
tracks. The Geo Institute Grouting Committee
will be assisted by a Technical Advisory Commit-
tee consisting of representative from more than
15 countries in determining the proposed session
topics for which abstracts should be submitted:
• Sustainability in Grouts and Grouting Applica-
tions
• New and Emerging Technologies in Grouting
• Properties of Grouts and Grouted Materials
• Digital systems for control and monitoring
• Verification of Grouting, Deep Mixing and
Diaphragm Walls
• Grouting and Deep Mixing for Seismic Retro-
fit and Remediation
• Diaphragm Walls, Deep Mixing and Jet Grout-
ing for Deep Excavations
• Grouting, Deep Mixing and Diaphragm Walls
for Cut-offs
• Grouting for Tunnels; Pre or Post-excavation
• Design methods for Grouting, Deep Mixing
and Diaphragm Walls
• Case Studies
• Innovations and Developments
• Materials
• Equipment
• Methods
• Grouting for Pipelines
• Soil and Rock Grouting
The abstracts and papers will be subject to GI
GSP (Geotechnical Special Publication) proce-
dures.
Abstracts are due by April 15, 2016. Notifica-
tion to the authors by July 15, 2016.
Send your
abstract to
. More informa-
tion at website, asap.
