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national and international engineering
universities, with 70 research papers
being presented and 30 companies
exhibiting for best practices in tunnel-
ling.
"ITA is a federation of member nations
and the UAE joined us a member
nation only 18 months ago at our
General Assembly in Bangkok in May
2012," said Soren Eskesen, President
of the International Tunnelling
Association (ITA) during his opening
address. "It is commendable that
within such a short period of time the
"The inaugural ATC event demon-
telecommunication."
Society of Engineers - UAE has
strates that the UAE engineering
The Arabian Tunnelling Conference
hosted the ATC event to highlight the
community and ecosystem is ready to
and Exhibition 2013 is being organ-
field of tunnelling and sustainable
host a global event that highlights the
ised by the Society of Engineers -UAE
underground space utilization, and bid
importance of underground space
in cooperation with the International
for the World Tunnelling Congress in
utilisation for above-the-ground trans-
Tunnelling Association with delegates
2018."
portation system, energy, water and
from 50 countries, 150 students from
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