ABSTRACT

Much has been achieved by Technical Committee 28 (Underground Construction in Soft Ground) in recent years. In 1994, under the leadership of the Chairman, Professor K. Fujita, a one-day International Symposium was held in New Delhi – just before the 13th ICSMGE. Following the success of this, under the Chairmanship of the author it was decided to initiate a series of two-day International Symposia on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground, with a third day devoted to technical site visits to underground construction projects. These International Symposia have been held every three years over the past 10 years as follows:

1996 London 1999 Tokyo 2002 Toulouse 2005 Amsterdam

TheProceedings of theLondon,TokyoandToulouse Symposia have been published, as illustrated in Figure 1. The pre-print volume of this Amsterdam Symposium contains 122 papers, together with General Reports for each of the technical sessions; we look forward with anticipation to the final Proceedings being published.