EPILOGUE ISC'5: 5th International Conference on Site Characterization (Gold Coast, Sept. 2016)
The ISC´5 was a very successful conference hosted by Allan McConnell, Barry Lehane and Richard Kelly, who have created the best conditions for a wonderful conference. On behalf of the committee thanks for all your work, time, and effort.
ISC’5 :
Allan in the opening session and An-Bin Huang, with António Viana da Fonseca and Paul W. Mayne, after the 7th James K. Mitchell
Some brief Statistics and Facts about ISC'5: - More than 350 delegates attended, from 47 countries; - Expert short courses were run on CPT, DMT/SDMT and Sampling & Laboratory Testing; - An inspiring J K Mitchell Lecture was made by Prof. An-Bin Huang from Taipei; - Eight excellent keynote lectures: Dr. Kenji Mori - Japan; Prof. Antonio Gens - Spain; Prof. Carlos Santamarina - Saudi Arabia; Prof. Ross Boulanger - USA; Dr. Nina Stark - USA; Prof. Mark Randolph - Australia; Prof. Paul Mayne - USA; Dr. Ken Been - Canada; - 24 technical sessions at which 185 papers were presented; - A post-conference technical tour was made to Brisbane Airport's New Parallel Runway (NPR) project, certainly one of the most complex and largest-scale ground improvement projects in Australia.
In the ISC-5 website, extra information is available: delegates, presentations of several communications, conference photos.