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What do the next three years look like for high-rise towers and how has Covid-19 impacted development plans?

Breaking Ground's latest episode explores digital twins, carbon reduction hierarchies and artificial intelligence – key topics discussed at GE’s Basements and Underground Structures and Instrumentation and Monitoring conferences in October.

In early October we witnessed the return of Ground Engineering’s physical events with the co-located Basements & Underground Structures and Instrumentation & Monitoring conferences.

Improving and decarbonising basement design was a key focus at Ground Engineering’s Basements and Underground Structures conference on Wednesday 6 October.

Well over a year after Covid-19 started playing havoc with our lives, we are still living in “unprecedented times”, as the cliché goes. But even with the current restrictions in place, normality has been creeping in. Small gatherings – both personal and professional – have been taking place and continue…

Ground Engineering has released the preliminary programmes for its two autumn conferences, Basements and Underground Structures and Instrumentation and Monitoring, both taking place on 6 October 2021.

The session on Assessing impact of ground movement on framed buildings was followed by a live Q&A with the speaker.

At the 2020 GE Basements and Underground Structures conference, Tony Gee and Partners associate director Jesse Schoor explored the latest guidance on assessing the impacts of construction-induced ground movement on framed buildings.

At the 2020 GE Basements and Underground Structures conference, Wentworth House Partnership's Yueyang Zhao, Adrian Bugea and Vasileios Papastathis discussed temporary works design at the Greenwich Pumping Station site, as part of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project.

At the 2020 GE Basements and Underground Structures conference, Arup senior engineer Henry Tayler talked about the design of the Elizabeth House redevelopment and basement at Waterloo station in London.