Bridging Government, Industry, and Academia for Resilient Mega-Communities
Join us for the Geo-Congress 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the most exciting, educational, and inspirational event of the ASCE Geo-Institute in 2024. To bridge geotechnical practice from hot climates to cold climates, we have an extensive technical program, engaging keynote speakers, and many networking possibilities.
Top Reasons to Attend
- Attend Special Sessions focused on types of infrastructure.
- Earn PDHs via technical sessions, technical tours, and keynote presentations.
- Networking with your favorite crowd – ASCE GI’s members.
- Terzaghi, Peck, Seed and Prakash Award Lectures.
- Figure out if Geocongress 2024 will surpass the record-size of the Geocongress 2022 exhibition hall, learn about the latest and greatest tools, technologies and get some amazing swag.
- Vancouver is a great place to visit and is home to great food, art, cultural attractions, and much more.
Target Audience
- Geotechnical engineers (from academics to practitioners, from students to emeriti, from staff engineers to company presidents)
- Structural engineers who love working with geotechnical engineers (or appreciate the value that comes from synergy?) will find an exceptional interest in our infrastructure-themed sessions.
Special Topics for Geo-Congress 2024
- Ports: port infrastructure and vulnerability assessments, navigation channel dredging and maintenance, scour, site characterization
- Dams: hazard and risk assessment for embankment dams and levee systems
- Bridges: from foundation design, scour assessment and mitigation, to multihazard resilience
- Sustainability in Geotechnics: environmental, economic, and societal dimensions of sustainability through lifecycle assessments
- Technical and Societal Dimensions of Resilience: quantification of resilience against multiple hazards, human dimensions, data collection, and cross-disciplinary synergy
- Cascadia – M9: hazard assessment, scenarios, designs, and mitigation of impacts
- Cold Regions and Cryosphere Applications: permafrost, impacts of climate change on high latitude regions, arctic coastal and riverine erosion, site investigation methods, and geotechnical engineering in cold regions.
- Near- and Offshore Geotechnics: seabed characterization, coastal and offshore infrastructure, renewable energy development including offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, geotechnical and geophysical data fusion for seabed investigation, coastal hazards and extreme events, coastal erosion, scour.
- Tailings: characterization of materials, analyses, and impacts of failures, future prospects
- Landslides: characterization and mitigation
- High-Speed Rail: design, challenges, construction
- Tech in Geotech: reshaping the future of geotechnical engineering through advances in cyberinfrastructure resources, AI/ML, and big data in conjunction with soil and site characterization methods
- Urban Geotechnics: design and construction challenges as well as vulnerabilities related to dense urban environments
- Underground structures: lifelines, tunnels, spatially distributed systems
- Energy geotechnics: resource recovery, energy geo-storage, energy waste, efficiency, and conservation
Core Geotechnical Engineering Topics
- Computational Geotechnics
- Deep Foundations
- Earth Retaining Structures
- Embankments, Dams, and Slopes
- Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
- Engineering Geology and Site Characterization
- Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Geophysical Engineering
- Geosynthetics
- Geotechnics of Soil Erosion
- Pavements
- Risk Assessment and Management
- Rock Mechanics
- Shallow Foundations
- Soil Improvement
- Soil Properties and Modeling
- Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering
- Underground Engineering and Construction
- Unsaturated Soils
- Data and Software for Geotechnical Engineering
- Education for Geotechnical Engineering
- Others
Location:
Offical Congress Hotel
Fairmont Waterfront
900 Canada Place Way
Vancouver, BC V6C 3L5
Canada
