11th ACUUS Conference "Underground Space: Expanding the Frontiers", Athens

The organization of the  conference is progressing well and we have received many interesting abstracts.  If you would like to participate in this conference please submit your abstract  as soon as possible and note that the abstract deadline is  30  September 2006 and the paper deadline is 31 March 2007.

The conference aims not only at strengthening and promoting the scientific knowledge but also at bringing closer engineers, architects, policy planners and decision makers, in a pursue to bridge the gap between them and develop common policies that will  allow the wider adoption of underground development. Thus, the conference will  be facilitating technical sessions, exhibitions and several forum discussions  where major issues are to be addressed.

The conference topics are:

• Underground space utilization
  
• Environmental aspects of underground development
  
• Risk assessment and rock engineering
  
• Underground projects
  
• Economics of underground development
  
• Legislation and proprietary rights of underground space
  
• Aesthetics and architectural planning of underground environments
  
• Public acceptance of urban underground development
  
• Visualization of underground environments
  
• Future challenges in underground development

For further information please visit the conference website http://www.acuus2007.ntua.gr.