Dear Participant:

Thank you for participating in the UNDER CITY 2012 Colloquium on Using Underground Space in Urban Areas in South-East Europe.

This event collected 175 participants from 24 countries, having 15 booths, 67 articles and 58 presentations from academic researchers, tunnel experts and specialists.

Opening session presented international tunnelling experiences overarticles from Mr. Martin KNIGHTS, Past ITA-AITES President, Mr.Olivier VION, ITA_AITES Executive Director as well as an overview of Croatia as Accession Country to EU from Ms.Micaela KLEEDORFER, Austrian Chamber of Commerce and EU-Parlament Member Mrs. Dr. Hella RANNER.

Thank you again for taking the time to be a part of this important meeting. For more information please feel free to contact Under City Organizing Committee Ms. T. Rabar E. Tanja.Rabar@hubitg.com.
We appreciate very much your comments and suggestions and your continued support and efforts through presenting new ideas and technologies in the region SEE.

UNDER CITY Committee

Using of underground space is a modern way of protecting environment where we live. It requires a general public understanding and knowledge about advantages, procedures and technologies that should be applied. Therefore it needs time and effort to learn society and to present new ideas and technologies to people that have to accept new solutions.

In that sense the use of underground space in urban areas is the most difficult task that can be performed in civil enginnering. Because it needs a lot of time and a lot of effort: to show, to learn, to educate, to convince , to prepare, to start, to develop underground projects in cities. Today we look to the region of Soth-East Europe where is a enormous potential to develop infrastructure and especially undergorund infrastructure. To be on time and ready to change all ideas in to projects we would like to support this developmet by organizing the colloquium on using of underground space in urban areas in the region. Just as the start.

The Colloquium will be organized by ITA Croatia - Croatian Association for Tunnelling and Underground Structures with the support of members of ITA from all other neighbouring countries and with the cover of sponsoring by ITA-AITES.