The 9th International Conference Environmental Engineering.
Cygas, Donatas ; Vaiskunaite, Rasa
On 22-23 May 2014, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU)
hosted a feast of scientific knowledge--the 9th International Conference
Environmental Engineering. This beautiful tradition has been continued
for already 20 years.
The Conference was opened by the Chairman prof. dr Donatas Cygas, a
welcoming speech was given by the VGTU Vice-Rector for Research prof.
habil. dr Antanas Cenys.
The first international conference Environmental Engineering was
held in 1994. Until the year 2005 it was held every two years, and since
2005--every three years.
The 9th International Conference Environmental Engineering was
devoted to the analysis of the most topical environmental, urban
transport systems, road and railway as well as water engineering issues,
to the spread of the key scientific researches, the presentation of the
state-of-the-art geodesy and cadastre technologies, the analysis,
assessment and optimization of researches on the energy supply and use
systems. Environmental engineering, because of its versatility,
complexity and applied nature, is one of the most complicated areas of
general engineering comprising various fields of life and joining
knowledge and experience of different sciences.
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The main goals of the Conference are the following:
--to facilitate direct discussions and versatile cooperation
between researchers from Lithuanian and foreign science and education
institutions, engineers, representatives of industry and municipalities;
--to bring together potential partners for successful, long-term
and continuous cooperation on environmental engineering;
--to discuss further directions of the applied research development
and to implement state-of-the-art researches in practice.
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Before the Conference 284 presentations were selected by the
International Scientific Committee from the submitted 317. All the
presentations were reviewed by Lithuanian and foreign scientists and
published in the Conference CD.
The 9th International Conference Environmental Engineering was
attended by the speakers from 20 countries: Poland, Latvia, Estonia,
Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Ukraine, Belarus, Great
Britain, Russia, Malaysia, Slovakia, Czechia, Slovenia, Hungary, Italy,
Finland, etc. The oral and poster presentations were delivered in six
sections: road and railway, environmental protection, water engineering,
energy for buildings, sustainable urban development, technologies of
geodesy and cadastre.
At the Plenary Session the following presentations were made: S.
Gulbinskas (Klaipeda University)--Environmental Aspects of the Liquefied
Natural Gas Terminal; V. Lukosevicius (Lithuanian Energy Consultants
Association)--Opportunities and Obstacles of Cogeneration in Lithuania;
S. Skrinskas (Lithuanian Road Association under the Ministry of
Transport and Communications)--Roads as a Part of Lithuanian Transport
System. Challenges and Objectives; M. Pakalnis (Sweco Lietuva
UAB)--Urban Development Challenges and Territorial Planning Law of
Lithuania; S. Urbanas (Association of European National Mapping,
Cadastral and Land Registry Authorities (Euro-Geographics) --European
Location Framework (ELF)--the Solution for Utilizing Authoritative
Geographical Information at European Market.
In the section of Roads and Railways more than 70 participants took
part from 7 countries: Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Finland, Spain, Italy
and USA.
The presentations dealt with the construction of road asphalt
pavements, the production of hot asphalt mixtures, the use of
geosynthetic materials in road pavement structures. Much attention was
paid to solving the problems of road safety, road design, roadside zone
pollution, road maintenance, mitigation of traffic-generated noise. The
results of railway, bridge and intersection researches were presented.
Also, the presentations were made on the methods of determining subgrade
strength and the equipment used, selection of soft asphalt pavements,
noise reducing asphalt mixtures.
An active participation of the scientists of various countries, a
demanding work of the Conference Scientific Committee, a strict
selection and review of presentations showed a high scientific level of
the Conference. The Conference participants not only complemented their
fund of knowledge but also strengthened international cooperation.
It would be difficult to organize the 9th International Conference
Environmental Engineering without a large support from 22 conference
sponsors, of which: Lithuanian Roads Association, Eurovia Lietuva AB,
Kelprojektas UAB, Gatviu statyba UAB, Fegda UAB, Dolomitas AB, and
others.
Caption: During the plenary session
Caption: Work at Road section
Prof. Dr Donatas Cygas
Chairman of the Conference
Assoc Prof. Dr Rasa Vaiskunaite
Chairman of the Organizing Committee
