Photo opportunity 10am, Friday 5 September, West Park Conference Centre, Perth Road, Dundee.
International delegates are gathering in Dundee this week to discuss state-of-the-art construction methods and foundation problems in buildings.
Organised by the Geotechnical Engineering Research Group at the University of Dundee, the conference will be addressing some engineering issues that most of us never think about and take for granted as we go about our daily routines.
Included in the sessions will be discussions on coastal foundations, earthquakes, offshore oil and gas structures and the logistics of making vertical sidings on roads safe.
A keynote lecture will be delivered today by a leading Greek academic George Gazetas, who will discuss the best way to design foundations to prevent a building being damaged by the sideways movements caused by the earthquakes.
A keynote lecture on Modelling of Shallow Foundations for offshore structures will be delivered by Guy Houlsby from Oxford University.
A visit to the University of Dundee's centrifuge will be available to delegates. The centrifuge is where much of the Geotechnical engineering research takes place and is the facility where Professor Michael Davies made his discoveries about the ice melt on the Swiss Matterhorn.
By Jenny Marra, Head of Press 01382 344910 j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk