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for Candidates of COSUF Award 2016!
Application for distinguished Prize now
open for Young Researchers and Professionals
Lausanne (CH), November 2015.- The
Presentation of the COSUF Award Winner on the ITA COSUF meeting is every year
one of the highlights. The prestigious award is granted annually to a student,
young professional or researcher less than 35 years old who has recently
completed an outstanding research work in theory or practice in the field of
operational safety or security of underground facilities. To develop the
culture and knowhow of scientists and practitioners is a basic idea of ITA
COSUF and this is a main motivation to offer the COSUF Award.
The
COSUF Award
To win the COSUF Award means to get an
invitation attending the award ceremony 2016 including travelling and
accommodation expenditures, a 1,000 Euro Prize and the award certificate.
The
Award Ceremony
The ITA COSUF Award 2016 will be presented
during the ITA COSUF Workshop in Fall 2016. As every year and also as a special
opportunity the winner shall have the chance to present her/his own work during
a plenary session of the workshop.
Applicants
younger than 35 years
Every student, young professional or
researcher less than 35 years old may apply for the COSUF Award. A second
requirement is a recently or in the last 2 years completed research 2 work in
theory and/or in practice in the field of operational safety and security of
underground facilities. Applicants need not to be member of ITA COSUF.
Deadline
29 February 2016
The application in English should be
received latest on 29 February 2016 at the ITA secretariat in Lausanne/CH.
Additional information like the contents of the COSUF Award application file is
available on the ITA COSUF website www.ita-cosuf.org.
COSUF
Award: Focus on new generation
"We wish to attract the interest of the
new generation of professionals on safety and security of underground
facilities" described Dr. Roland Leucker, chairman of ITA COSUF, the
motivation for the ITA COSUF Award. One of the highlights of the annual ITA
COSUF meeting in Dubrovnik/Croatia was the presentation of the ITA COSUF Award
Winner 2015, Karl Fridolf from Sweden. With the prestigious award in his hands
he presented his honoured thesis on evacuation in rail tunnels like a
professional. Fridolf explained the aspects of evacuation through smoke, the
design of evacuation systems for rail tunnels and gave examples how to realise
this under the given circumstances.
ITA
COSUF Award Winners of last years
The first ITA COSUF Award received Ben
Nieman in 2009 for his master thesis at the University of Delft, the
Netherlands, entitled: “Cracking on the Unheated Side during a Fire in an
Immersed Tunnel”. From both a practical and theoretical side, the thesis deals
with a lurking problem of large cracks at the fire-unexposed side of tunnel
linings. This is especially relevant for immersed and cut-and-cover tunnels.
The 2010 Award was conferred to Stefan
Kratzmeir from Germany for his excellent record on tunnel safety research. He
worked as a scientific manager and guided R&D applications. Kratzmeir
contributed to European projects like UPTUN, FIT and the German research
project SOLIT in a high-level manner, always with a focus on the development of
fire fighting and the acceptance of fixed fire fighting systems.
In 2012, the ITA COSUF Award was granted to
Ying Zhen Li of SP Technical Research Institute (Sweden) for his work on fire
dynamics in tunnels. The work of Ying Zhen Li on the latest advance of research
on tunnel fire dynamics was included in the September 2012 issue of the ITA COSUF
Newsletter.
In 2013, the award was handed over to
Enrico Ronchi for his contribution in the area of Evacuation Modelling in Road
Tunnel Fires combining various evacuation models to increase the reliability of
predictions regarding human behaviour, validated by tests. The corresponding
paper of his presentation was included in the September 2013 Newsletter.
In 2014, the award was granted to Francesco
Colella for his work on modelling of tunnel ventilation systems with a
multi-scale model. His paper has been printed in the COSUF newsletter in
September 2014.
Centre of Excellence ITA COSUF is the first
committee of the ITA, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space
Association, founded in 2005. It is the Centre of Excellence consisting of approx.
80 corporate member organisations and companies from 25 countries all over the
world. The World Road Association PIARC is also supporting ITA COSUF. Since the
very first beginning COSUF is a platform for communication on operational
safety and security in underground facilities. Only the best specialists in the
field of tunnelling are discussing in four different activity groups about the
latest developments.
Joining ITA COSUF is very easy. It´s not
needed to be an ITA member and for this reason ITA COSUF welcomes corporate and
individual members.
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