ISM  2012 | Milan, Italy
 
 
Business Casual Attire Requested for Workshop and Awards Dinner
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
12:00 pm - 6:00 pmPre-Workshop: Roundtrip Transportation to GeoFluid 2012 Conference
$75.00 USD per person (not included in Full Registration)
4:00 pm - 7:00 pmRegistration {Hotel Lobby Hospitality Desk, Grand Visconti Palace}
5:00 pm - 7:00 pmWelcome Reception {Winter Garden, Grand Visconti Palace}

Thursday, October 4, 2012
7:30 am - 8:30 amContinental Breakfast {Hotel Restaurant}
7:30 am - 8:30 amRegistration {Porta Romana Foyer}
8:30 am - 10:30 amTechnical Session 1: Welcome, Introductions and Invited Speakers {Porta Romana Room, Grand Visconti Palace}
  • Welcomes
    • Local Organizing Committee, Federico Pagliacci, Development Vice President, Soilmec S.p.A.
    • ISM Chairman Allen Cadden, Schnabel Engineering, USA
  • 7th Lizzi Lecture: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Part 2), Paul Woodfield, Managing Director, Technik Ground Solutions, U.K.
  • Modeling the Performance of Micropiles at Close Spacing, Dr. Alexis Rose, City University, London, UK
  • ISM 10th Workshop Overview
10:30 am - 10:45 amBreak {Porta Romana Foyer}
10:45 am - 12:45 pmTechnical Session 2: Cultural and Regional Applications {Porta Romana Room, Grand Visconti Palace}
  • School of Santa Beatrice in Rome - Special Use of Micropiles for Recovery of Underground Tunnels, Federico Pagliacci, Development Vice President, Soilmec S.p.A., Italy
  • Underpinning challenges facing cultural values of foundations, Dr. Jouko Lehtonen, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland
  • Reticulated reinforcement for historic structures stabilization, Dr. James Mason, University of Tennessee Knoxville, U.S.A.
  • Application of high capacity soil-bonded micropiles in the Greater Toronto Area, Jim Bruce, Geo-Foundations Contractors, Inc., Canada

12:45 pm - 1:45 pmLunch {Visconti Room}
1:45 pm - 3:45 pmTechnical Session 3: Load Testing {Porta Romana Room, Grand Visconti Palace}
  • Cyclic response of hollow bar micropiles under seismic loads, Ahmed Yehia and Prof. Hesham El Naggar, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Behavior of micropile groups subjected to seismic excitations, Alper Turan, Ontario Ministry of Transportation, Canada
  • New System for Static Load Tests on Micropiles, Martin Hayden, Grund-, Pfahl- Ulod Sonderbau GmbH, Austria
3:45 pm - 4:00 pmBreak {Porta Romana Foyer}
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmTechnical Session 4: Case Histories {Porta Romana Rooms, Grand Visconti Palace}
 
  • Underpinning of new student housing building using micropiles in Raleigh, NC, John Wolosick, Hayward Baker, Inc., U.S.A.
  • 2020 Fifth Avenue Building Renovation, Tom Armour, DBM Contractors, Inc., U.S.A.
  • Micropiles for Villa Foundation Strengthening, Prof. José Matos e Silva, ISEL, Portugal
  • A Case Study of Micropiling for Ground Reinforcement, Changho Choi, Korean Institute of Construction Technology, Korea

6:00 pm - 8:00 pmSteering Committee Meeting at Conference Venue (By Invitation) {Porta Ticinese Room, Grand Visconti Palace}

Friday, October 5, 2012
8:30 am - 9:00 amContinental Breakfast {Hotel Restaurant}
9:00 am - 10:30 amTechnical Session 5: Micropiles for Slope Stabilization {Porta Romana Room, Grand Visconti Palace}

  • Lateral Stability of Micropiles, Dr. Jesús Gómez, Schnabel Engineering, U.S.A.
  • Use of Micropiles for Salmon River Road Slope Stabilization - Part 2, Gary Quinn, Terracon, U.S.A.
  • RD-pile wall - a new way to build retaining wall structures,  Veli-Matti Uotinen, Ruukki, Finland
10:30 am - 10:45 amBreak {Porta Romana Foyer}
10:45 am - 12:15 pmTechnical Session 6: Micropliles for Foundation Support {Porta Romana Room, Grand Visconti Palace}

  • Improved railway construction design with drilled and grouted micropiles TITAN, Ernst Ischebeck, Ischebeck GmbH, Germany
  • Case II micropiles, design model for structures, and two case histories, Walter Vanderpool, Terracon, U.S.A.
  • Micropiles for the Highway 104 West River Bridge Nova Scotia, Jim Bruce, Geo-Foundations Contractors, Inc., Canada


12:15 pm - 6:00 pmLunch and Bus Trip to Visit GeoFluid 2012
(does not include ticket to GeoFluid Conference, you will need to purchase a ticket - see GeoFluid Conference tab on website)
6:30 pm - 9:30 pmAwards Dinner (Delegates and Companions) {Grande Albergo Roma in Piacenza}
Business Casual Attire Please
9:30 pm - 11:00 pmReturn Bus Trip to Grand Visconti Palace

Saturday, October 6, 2012
8:30 am - 9:00 amContinental Breakfast {Hotel Restaurant}
9:00 am - 10:30 amTechnical Session 7: Design

10:30 am - 10:45 amBreak
10:45 am - 12:15 pmTechnical Session 8: Innovations {Porta Romana Room, Grand Visconti Palace}

  • New micropile innovations in underpinning, Jussi Hattara, Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland
  • Reinforcement works for the slope stabilization: standard and new approaches for the use of micropiles and anchors, Prof. Simonetta Cola, University of Padova - Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
  • Use of real time monitoring for micropile/anchor testing and stressing, Paulo Gazzarini, Sea to Sky Engineering, Canada
12:15 pm - 12:45 pmClosing Remarks
12:00 pm - 5:00 pmPost-Workshop: Tour of Milan includes Lunch
$200.00 USD per person (not included in Full Registration)
CANCELLED DUE TO MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS NOT MET