Issues associated with Environmental Geotechnics continue to be a major preoccupation for governments, public and private organizations and the general community around the world. With the support from the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and the Technical Committee of Environmental Geotechnics (TC215), the Environmental Geotechnics Congress Series has been held regularly since 1994 (Canada 1994; Japan 1996; Portugal, 1998; Brazil 2002; UK 2006; India 2010; Australia 2014), and has established itself as a highly influential forum for exchange and discussion on the subject.

The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, CISMGE and HKGES cordially invite you to attend the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics in the week of October 28th, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

The following topics are tentatively proposed:

Geoenvironmental risk assessment, management and sustainability

• Sustainability

• Risk-based site evaluation and management

• Case histories and regional experiences

Geotechnical recycling and reuse of waste materials

• Construction and demolition wastes

• Coal combustion residues

• Dredged sediments

• Other solid wastes

Transport, persistence and fate of pollutants

• Advection

• Diffusion

• Adsorption

• Degradation and attenuation

• Emerging contaminants

Contaminated land and remediation technology

• Site investigation

• In-situ remediation

• Off site remediation

• New remediation technologies

Engineering barriers

• Covers

• Liners

• Vertical barriers

Landfills of solid wastes

• Waste characterization and properties

• Stability

• Deformation

• Greenhouse gas and odor reduction

Application of geosynthetics in geo-environmental engineering

• Geotextiles and geocomposites

• Geomembranes

• Geosynthetic clay liners

• Other geosynthetics

Geoenvironmental aspect in energy geotechnology

• Nuclear waste

• CO2 sequestration

• Shallow and deep geothermal

• Methane hydrates

• Underground storage facilities

Tailings and mine wastes

• Tailing ponds

• Waste dumps

• Acid mine drainage

• Heap leach pads

Biogeotechnical engineering

• Biomediation

• Bioremediation

• Phytostabilization and phytoremediation

Forensic environmental geotechnics

• Failure case studies