WG – Underground Space & Transitions Committee
A Committee devoted to understanding and promoting underground space
A space for projects and an underutilised resource
This Committee’s core purpose is to promote rational use of underground space, particularly in urban environments.
As well as engineers, it speaks to urban planners, architects and developers, providing assistance, arguments, references and ideas for making greater use of underground space, in particular as part of the drive for sustainable urban development.
Working Group Information
Underground Space & Transitions Committee (USTC)
The purpose of the Underground Space & Transitions Committee (USTC) is to promote rational use of underground space, particularly in urban environments.
Theme: General
Chair: Michel deffayet
USTC Sub-Group – Typology
USTC – Underground Space and Transitions Committee aims to promote the rational use of underground space, particularly in urban areas.
Theme: Typology
Chair: Arnaud Taillandier
USTC ‐ GT 41 ‐ Underground works and sustainable development
This Working Group deals with all sustainable development issues relating to the construction and operation of underground structures..
Pending Recommendation: Applying life cycle analysis (LCA) to underground structures.
Theme: Planning, socio-economic and legal aspects
Animateur: Laetitia D’Aloia
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