Topics

Challenges of urban underground adaptation and repurposing due to climate change; energy solutions utilizing underground space to respond to climate change; Urban resilience to potential disasters  

Subsurface (geotechnical, geological/hydrogeological, obstructions) issues; construction and constructability; design issues; related risks and mitigations/solutions

Global metropolises as a catalyst for innovative underground solutions; breakthrough and cutting-edge case studies related to underground space use and development, and related technologies; Nuclear waste storage

Spatial solutions for underground facilities and underground infrastructure (laboratories, thematic parks, storage, utility tunnels, etc.); systemic approaches on integrated planning of underground urban space in the context of future cities (tools, strategies, valuations, analysis, benchmarking, multidimensional cadastral); utilization of BIM and related tools, Cultural and historical heritage

Issues related to safe use, maintenance, and operation of underground space; security challenges and solutions; impacts of underground space on human behaviors and decision-making, and related solutions

Property, legal issues, and implementation of 3D cadastral toward underground space definition and use; management, optimized utilization and protection of underground space

Artificial intelligence and machine learning toward “smart” solutions in underground space use and development; utilizing large amounts of data toward recognition of patterns, making decisions, and more efficient judging toward making underground pace better for human use; related digital solutions