13 - 15 November, 2017
Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort & Spa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Le Royal Meridien Beach Resort & Spa, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Conference Day Two: Tuesday, 14 November 2017
8:00 am - 8:55 am Start of conference registration with welcome refreshments
8:55 am - 9:00 am Opening remarks from the conference Chairman
USING EFFICIENT METHODOLOGIES TO CREATE ROBUST UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE
9:00 am - 9:30 am Keynote presentation: Mysterious subsidence in the road: a forensic study
A significant subsidence was observed in a newly constructed road in a remote labor city in Abu Dhabi. The cause of the destress in the pavement structure was hard to identify not only at first glance but also after significant concentration. The pavement layers were carefully examined. More relevantly, sampling and testing were carried out in order to characterize the material of the foundation soils as well as to determine their fabric strength. All other applied loadings and historical incidents were also investigated in order to reveal the true cause of the reported substantial damage.
• Careful examination is a key to the success in forensic studies
• Careful and disciplined interpretation of test results is essential
• Peculiarity and jumping to conclusions are the worst misleaders
Prof. Hesham El Shazly
Geotechnical Expert, Parsons; Reviewing Expert, Abu-Dhabi ProjectsAbu Dhabi Municipality
9:30 am - 10:00 am The subsoil deformation behaviour in Dubai
• The importance of interpretation procedures in the geotechnical design
• The performance of single pile on the weak rock
• Evaluate the Young's modulus of weak rock in Dubai
10:00 am - 10:30 am Examining innovative piled raft design methodologies in challenging ground conditions: The case of high rise buildings
· Optimizing the piled raft design
· The significance of evaluating pile load tests
· Prediction of pile behavior with the use of CEMSET and the Finite Element Methodologies
· The importance of using the appropriate ground constitutive modeling
10:30 am - 11:00 am The use of enhanced pile testing to optimise pile design – a case study from the UAE
- Exploring new developments in deep foundations technologies
- Optimisation of the deep foundations technologies
- Guarantee of the stability and serviceability of the deep foundation system in the region
11:00 am - 11:30 am Networking break and refreshments
11:30 am - 12:15 pm Panel discussion: Establishing sustainable stakeholder collaboration
Moderator:
Marwan Alzaylaie Senior Manager, Geotechnical Design Dubai Creative Clusters Authority
Speakers:
Reza Shahzana Head of Structural Engineering Department National Engineering Bureau
Prof. Hesham El Shazly Geotechnical Expert, Parsons; Reviewing Expert, Abu-Dhabi Projects Abu Dhabi Municipality
Aymen Ben Braiek Technical & BD Manager Trevi Ground Engineering
Marwan Alzaylaie Senior Manager, Geotechnical Design Dubai Creative Clusters Authority
Speakers:
Reza Shahzana Head of Structural Engineering Department National Engineering Bureau
Prof. Hesham El Shazly Geotechnical Expert, Parsons; Reviewing Expert, Abu-Dhabi Projects Abu Dhabi Municipality
Aymen Ben Braiek Technical & BD Manager Trevi Ground Engineering
• How can clients, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers work together effectively from conception to construction
• Understanding each stakeholder’s role in the design and construction process to ensure project success
• What future plans are in place to ensure the continued prominence of the industry
• How does geopolitical tension affect the market
• Application of the observational method
Prof. Hesham El Shazly
Geotechnical Expert, Parsons; Reviewing Expert, Abu-Dhabi ProjectsAbu Dhabi Municipality
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm Synchronization of geotechnical investigations for a mega project: case study from UAE
This presentation will discuss management of executing more than 6 thousand CPTs, hundreds of boreholes and over a 1.7 million m length of geophysical survey lines for a mega project in the UAE resulting into a cost effective design of ground improvement works involving stone columns, dynamic replacement, dynamic compaction and rapid impact compaction.
12:45 pm - 1:15 pm Benefits of pre-loading temporary props supporting braced excavations
Using soil profiles of excavations in London and Dubai, experts from Atkins have carried out calculations to compare the performance of temporary steel and proprietary hydraulic propping. The finite element models produced prove that, for the cases considered, the use of pre-loaded low stiffness hydraulic props achieved the same performance as stiff steel props, with no impact on the wall's reinforcement.
DURABILITY AND PROTECTION OF UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm Liquefaction potential evaluation and its optimisation for UAE calcareous sands
1:45 pm - 2:15 pm Managing risk: Determining geotechnical risks and their mitigation during underground building and shoring works: Highlighting case study from the Cayan Tower project in Dubai
- Understanding technical challenges of underground and shoring works planning process to overcome complexities
- Exploring how ground engineering professionals should adapt to address geotechnical challenges during underground and shoring works
- Learning how risks in the future may differ from those today
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Chairman’s closing remarks, networking lunch and end of conference day two
The published programme is correct at time of printing. However, given the seniority of our speakers and the nature of their roles, speakers may subsequently substitute or remove themselves from the programme. This is always regrettable, and we will always try to replace the speaker with a speaker with equivalent insight.