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Piling and Deep Foundations Asia | 樁材及深樁基礎峰會
Ensuring Cost-Effective, Safe and Sustainable Foundations in East Asia
13 – 16 July, 2009 · Hong Kong SkyCity Marriott Hotel, Lantau, Hong Kong


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Conference Day One: 14 July 2009

08.00 Registration And Refreshments

09.00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Rudolph P. Frizzi
Senior Principal
LANGAN ENGINEERING & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES and
President, DEEP FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTUTE (DFI)

09.10 Axial Bearing Capacity of Piles- Can We Get it Right for the Wrong Reasons?

  • Reviewing empirical methods and to what extent they are founded - relevant soil parameters and proper interpretation of pile load test data
  • Assessing what has been learnt from numerical modeling and well-documented instrumented pile load tests
  • Evaluating an ongoing load testing program to verify long-term aging effects

Kjell Karlsrud
Technical Director
NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE (NGI)

09.50 CASE STUDY: Minimising The Effects Of Installation Of Drilling Piles On Adjacent Structures

  • Special considerations - selection of foundation type, method of construction and stringent quality control
  • Analysing the effect of pile construction for an expressway on a nearby high speed railway viaduct
  • Evaluating results of finite element analysis and centrifuge model tests, compared with actual performance

Za-Chieh Moh
Chairman
MAA GROUP CONSULTING ENGINEERS

10.30 Networking Break And Exhibition

11.00 Uncovering The Fallacy Of The Conventional Bearing Capacity Design Of Footings And Piles

  • Analysing application to geotechnical design of analysis
  • Examining the results of full-scale tests on footings and piles
  • Responding to the load observed in those case histories

Dr. Bengt Fellenius
Consultant
BENGT FELLENIUS CONSULTANTS

11.30 How To Maximise Deep Foundation Design While Minimising Cost

  • Pre-design testing – what are the benefits?
  • Why it is important to avoid the “Factors of Uncertainty” approach to design
  • Current case histories from some of the world’s finest structures, including the world record loadtest exceeding 62,000 kips (268 MN)

John Hayes
President
LOADTEST

12.00 Negative Skin Friction On Single Pile And Pile Groups

  • Recognising the fundamental mechanism of negative skin friction on piles
  • Evaluating the effects of negative skin friction on end-bearing, socketed and floating piles
  • Discussing the advantages of large size pile groups against negative skin friction

Prof. C.F. Leung
Department of Civil Engineering
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

12.30 Networking Lunch And Exhibition

Stream A - Site Investigation, Piling and Testing Stream B – Alternative Technologies and Latest Developments

13.30 Chairperson’s Introduction

Rudolph P. Frizzi
Senior Principal
LANGAN ENGINEERING & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES and
President, DEEP FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTUTE (DFI)

13.40 Settlement Reducing Piled-Rafts For Tall Buildings

  • Using fully piled-rafts and rafts where piles are used for the reduction of settlements
  • Considering settlement-reducing piles as soil improvement elements rather than structural members
  • Applying this new design concept to actual projects

Prof. I. H. Wong
Principal Consultant
MITIC ASSOCIATES

14.10 CASE STUDY: Foundation Engineering For Taipei 101, Taiwan

  • Interpretation of pile trial installation and comprehensive, instrumented load test programme
  • Performance design employing pile load test results and considering interaction of structure-pile-soil system
  • Measures for improving sediments caused during pile construction and increasing end-bearing capacities

John C. H. Yu
Chairman
SINO GEOTECHNOLOGY, INC., TAIWAN

14.40 Best Practice Foundation Engineering For High-Rise Buildings

  • Efficient specification, testing and analysis to guarantee a swift construction phase
  • The importance of a competent site investigation to avoid delays and escalating construction costs
  • Combined piled raft techniques to optimise design

Final Speaker TBC, STS | AECOM

15.10 Networking Break And Exhibition

15.40 Panel Discussion: Ensuring The Sustainability Of Piles When Drilling Under The Ground Water Table

  • Overview of standard ODEX drilling beneath the ground water table
  • Understanding how high pore water pressure and the migration of soil into the pile casing can compromise the pile
  • Analysing benefits vs. cost of solutions – sourcing new equipment, different drilling techniques, symmetrical drill heads, steel casing

Panelists:

Prof. Richard Jardine
Head of Geotechnics, Professor of Geomechanics
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Prof. I. H. Wong
Principal Consultant
MITIC ASSOCIATES
John C. H. Yu
Chairman
SINO GEOTECHNOLOGY, INC., TAIWAN

16.20 Assessing Performance Of High Capacity Long Driven-H Piles Founded On Weathered Soils

  • Analysing the load-transfer mechanism with varying magnitude of applied load and pile Length
  • Evaluating the dependency of creep settlements on pile length
  • Examining how piles deformed linearly with increased load and might have buckled under large loads
Prof. Charles NG
Associate Dean of Engineering
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Arthur So
PhD Candidate & Senior Project Manager
CHUN WO FOUNDATIONS

16.50 Preventing Settlement Damage To Structures Adjacent To A Site That Uses Socketed H-Piles In Hong Kong

  • Why down-the-hole hammers with the Odex technique can cause unexpected settlement
  • Investigating the loss of soil from the ground and the resultant reduction in stiffness from the surrounding soil strata
  • Controlling soil loss and the reduction of soil stiffness for socketed H-piles

Dr. James Lau
Managing Director
JAMES LAU & ASSOCIATES

17.20 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks And End Of Day One

13.30 Chairperson’s Introduction

Prof. Richard Jardine
Head of Geotechnics, Professor of Geomechanics
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

13.40 Avoiding Piling Failure Due To Poor Implementation Of The Pile Design Process

  • Overview of the pile design process from initial inception to completion of construction including examples of where the process has broken down
  • Defining the responsibilities of the designer and contractor throughout the process
  • Emphasising deep weathering profiles and deep soft marine and alluvial sequences frequently encountered in Southeast Asia

Andy Pickles
Director
GEOTECHNICAL CONSULTING GROUP (ASIA) LTD.

14.10 CASE STUDY: Foundation Design For The Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong

  • Temporary works to address problems caused by late handover due to reclamation projects
  • Ensuring structural safety through ship collision simulations and wind tunnel testing
  • Design considerations when implementing foundations through faultlines

Peter Thompson
Associate Director
ARUP

14.40Novel Applications of Bored Piling Techniques to Remove a Buried Seawall in Singapore

  • Identifying the challenges in removing of a 60m wide by 480m long tract of breakwater
  • Utilising the weight and hyrostatic pressure of water to provide stability during excavation
  • Analysing the deep embedded retaining wall, comprising tubular steel pipes around the excavation perimeter

Ian Askew
Deputy Head of Engineering
GAMMON

15.10 Networking Break And Exhibition

15.40 Panel Discussion: Reusing Existing Foundations

  • Examining the benefits of using existing foundations as permanent structures in terms of time, cost and space
  • What level of testing is required to guarantee HSE standards are met?
  • Who is responsible for the structural integrity and load-bearing of existing foundations for a new project?

Panelists:

Kjell Karlsrud
Technical Director
NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE (NGI)
Ian Askew
Deputy Head of Engineering
GAMMON
Andy Pickles
Director
GEOTECHNICAL CONSULTING GROUP (ASIA) LTD.

16.20 Jet Grouting and its Applications

  • Mechanisms, functions and types of jet grouting and how they can be applied in Asia
  • Examining practical applications including stabilization of different soils and underground support beneath braced excavation
  • Implementing in-situ prototype tests under to verify the effectiveness of compaction piles

Dr. Valipuram Ganeshan
Technical Director
MAUNSELL CONSULTANTS PTE LTD., SINGAPORE

16.40 Construction Of Deep Hand-Dug Caissons In Karst Limestone Formations

Ir. Hj. Azmi Jamaludin
Director
KHAIRI CONSULT

17.20 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks And End Of Day One

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