100+ Forum Russia invites prospectors

Thematic sessions on engineering surveys in construction will be conducted by Alexander Trufanov, Head of the Laboratory of Soil Research Methods at the N.M. Gersevanov National Research Institute of Economics.

The 100+ Forum, held annually in Yekaterinburg, is becoming an increasingly significant event for the domestic and global construction industry. This year's event will be held in Yekaterinburg for the fourth time.

This year, the prospectors will be allocated three times more time in the business program. The session "Engineering and geological surveys for the construction and reconstruction of unique buildings and structures" will consist of two parts. The first part contains reports by leading experts from Lomonosov Moscow State University, MGSU, and N.M. Gersevanov National Research Institute on topical issues of soil research at the foundations of high-rise structures. Experts such as Evgeny Voznesensky, Vladimir Lushnikov, Armen Ter-Martirosyan, Anatoly Mirny and others have been invited to speak. In the second part of the session, representatives of industrial survey organizations in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg will share their own experience in high-rise construction surveys.

The participants will receive an interesting report by Rolf Katzenbach, Professor of the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), on the experience of conducting engineering surveys for the construction of the world's tallest skyscraper being built in Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom Tower (height 1007 m).

For the first time, the forum will host a session on the topic "The importance of engineering surveys in the economics of building high-rise and unique facilities." As part of her work, the issue of how poor-quality, insufficient or unreliable surveys affect the final cost of the structure under construction will be revealed. Using concrete examples, prospectors and designers will show investors that minor savings at the first stage of construction lead to multimillion-dollar costs later.

Prospectors will also be able to freely participate in the work of other sections close to the field, related, for example, to calculations of foundations and design of foundations.

The prospectors did not participate in the first 100+ forum in 2014. However, later, step by step, the issues of research began to occupy an increasingly prominent place here. In 2015, only one report was devoted to the topic of engineering surveys; a year later, a special session was devoted to engineering and geological surveys, where reports from well-known domestic and foreign scientists and specialists on topical issues of surveys for high-rise construction were presented. Additionally, a master class was organized, and experts shared the experience of the N.M. Gersevanov National Research Institute for Scientific and Technical support of surveys for the construction of the unique Lakhta Center high-rise complex (design height 462 m), which is under construction in St. Petersburg, and Akhmat Tower, a 102-storey skyscraper (435 m), built by Grozny.

Source: GeoInfo