{"id":17175,"date":"2024-06-23T04:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=17175"},"modified":"2024-06-23T04:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T04:52:34","slug":"itacet-lunchtime-lecture-series-july-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=17175","title":{"rendered":"ITACET Lunchtime Lecture Series July 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itacet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITACET<\/a>, the next month\u2019s concentration of Lunchtime Lecture Series, is due to be on Health &amp; Safety lessons from recent projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Considering that the last decades&#8217; number of incidents in tunnels during construction was increasing, it has outlined the need for fire and rescue operations under atypical conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hence an integral program as part of the Health and Safety measures on tunnel construction sites is necessary for emergency managements, whereas it is of the utmost importance to include emergency response organizations as early as possible, starting in the planning phase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tunnel construction sites or similar subsurface structures e.g. hydro power plants, with their complex network of tunnels, cross passages and caverns, call for specific considerations and in-depth knowledge of emergency organizations, emergency procedures, smoke management and other risks which might occur during the construction phase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to the more confined space, The characteristics of fire and smoke spread in tunnels under construction are different from those in tunnels under operation, thus escape routes can therefore be long and ventilation can be challenging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This episode are going to feature the following speakers and topics:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Tunnel disaster response \u2013 an introduction in emergency management during construction phase \u2013 Michael Halwachs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Emergency management in long deep tunnels during construction phase: smoke management and evacuation strategy \u2013 Walter Lanciano<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Register to attend the online webinar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itacet.org\/registration\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being organized by ITACET, the next month\u2019s concentration of Lunchtime Lecture Series, is due to be on Health &amp; Safety lessons from recent projects. Considering that the last decades&#8217; number of incidents in tunnels during construction was increasing, it has outlined the need for fire and rescue operations under atypical conditions. Hence an integral program as part of the Health and Safety measures on tunnel construction sites is necessary for emergency managements, whereas it is of the utmost importance to include emergency response organizations as early as possible, starting in the planning phase. Tunnel construction sites or similar subsurface structures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4027,4028,4029,346,47],"class_list":["post-17175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-health-safety-lessons","tag-itacet","tag-lunchtime-lecture-series","tag-switzerland","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}