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William Gleason June 14, 2021 For the first time in more than a year professionals in the tunneling and underground construction industry were able to gather for an in-person technical conference and exhibit when the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) kicked off in Las Vegas, NV on June 13. More than 800 industry professionals shook hands, bumped elbows and discussed the hot topics in the industry at Caesars Palace. The technical conference from June 13-16 included 21 sessions with 106 papers covering a number of topics including contract practices, design, difficult ground, hard rock tunnel boring machines and tunnels, ground support, international projects, large span tunnels and caverns, future projects, new and innovative technologies, pressurized face tunneling, SEM applications and projects, geotechnical considerations, microtunneling and trenchless tunneling, project planning and risk management and tunnel rehabilitation. ....
On July 1, 2020, Dr. Tom Iseley joined the faculty at Purdue University as the Beavers Heavy Construction Distinguished Fellow as a full professor of engineering practice in Construction Engineering and Management (CEM), College of Engineering, in West Lafayette, Indiana. ....