Speakers

The 2019 programme opened with addresses from the organising committee and invited guests, followed by six plenary lectures. The summaries below are written for this archive.

6 keynotesOpening and plenary programme

Opening

Opening addresses

Uktam Umurzakov

Conference chair

Professor and rector of TIIAME. Welcomed participants on behalf of the host university.

Andrey Volkov

Conference chair

Professor and rector of MGSU. Spoke for the scientific leadership of the conference.

Alibek Ahmedov

Conference chair

Director of JSC Hydroproject. Represented the engineering and water infrastructure side of the programme.

Inomjon Madjidov

Guest speaker

Minister of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Leonid Stavitskiy

Guest speaker

First Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation.

Abdukahhor Tuhtayev

Guest speaker

Minister of Construction of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Shavkat Khamraev

Guest speaker

Minister of Water Management of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Abdugani Sanginov

Guest speaker

Chairman of the Board of JSC Uzbekgidroenergo.

Plenary

Keynote lectures

Abdulkhakim Salokhiddinov

TIIAME, Uzbekistan

Water and salt balance in arid settlements

The lecture examined how irrigation canals and conventional surface watering raise saline groundwater and waterlog settlements. It considered closed loop irrigation, conjunctive use of groundwater and canal water, biodrainage and alternative municipal supply options.

The work was prepared with Karimov A. Kh. and Umurzakov R. K. at TIIAME.

Daman K. Panesar

University of Toronto, Canada

From design studio to aging infrastructure

The talk connected civil engineering education with the assessment of concrete structures that have been in service for decades. It argued for open ended design problems that include environmental, social, economic and safety considerations alongside technical ones.

Borislav Hristov

HTW Berlin, Germany

Road geometry and driver attention

Using recorded gaze behaviour, the lecture compared attention on straight sections with left and right horizontal curves. The findings connect road alignment to the way drivers gather information and to traffic safety.

David L. Passmore

Pennsylvania State University, USA

Artificial intelligence and the reconstruction of work

The lecture placed artificial intelligence in the long history of creative destruction. It looked at smart systems in construction, from generative design to risk monitoring and autonomous machinery, and asked how work and skills may change.

Andrey Zhuravlev

MGSU, Russia

The lifetime value of tile installations

The talk reviewed failures in tile systems through adhesive formulation, climate exposure and application error. It set out recommendations for indoor and outdoor work and weighed the economic case for professional installation.

Alim Pulatov

TIIAME, Uzbekistan

Planetary data for land and water

The lecture described remote sensing archives, sensor networks and machine learning as tools for land cover, salinity, desertification and landslide assessment. It also discussed open tools such as Collect Earth for interpreting satellite imagery.

Programme

Follow the talks in the agenda

The opening addresses and plenary lectures sat on the first full day. Parallel sessions continued for the next two days, with the poster programme and the young researcher competition on 19 April.

Open the programme Publication guide

Speaking record

Names, affiliations and lecture subjects are taken from the published 2019 programme. No recordings or original abstracts are reproduced on this site.

Reference shelf

15 selected external sources

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers Moscow State University of Civil Engineering University of Toronto Pennsylvania State University HTW Berlin University of Lisbon Bialystok University of Technology University of Naples Federico II Wroclaw University of Science and Technology Czestochowa University of Technology South China University of Technology University of Zilina Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Scopus E3S Web of Conferences