ITA COSUF contributed to the Indian Roads Congress, Tunnel Seminar 2023
Together with PIARC, ITA AITES and ITA COSUF contributed with presentations on the tunnel seminar in Dehradun, India. The Indian Roads...
Committee on Operational Safety of Underground Facilities
Centre of Excellence for world-wide exchange of information and know-how regarding operational safety and security of underground facilities
Exchange Knowledge
We develop & maintain a network to exchange knowledge
Facilitate Cooperation
We facilitate cooperation worldwide through network activities
Fostering Innovation
We foster innovation & bring new knowledge into the industry
Raising Awareness
We support the development of improved regulations & standards
ITA COSUF create an ecosystem for learning, which benefits both clients and suppliers in the entire underground industry.
We invite all actors and stakeholders (authorities, consultants, academia, research, industry suppliers, contractors, safety officers) to be members.
We serve both road-, rail- and metro infrastructure industry, but also all underground structures and tunnel projects in general, including mining, underground industri, caverns and city services developments.
Keeping an oversight of activities worldwide and keep contact with organizations, networks and projects in order to exchange relevant information, to cooperate and exchange information.
Ben Van Den Horn
Activity Group 1
Follow up regulations and the state-of-the-art and best-practices internationally.
This includes discussion and comparison of regulations, norms, standards and procedures.
Severin Wächli & Marco Bettelini
Activity Group 2
Provide a platform for exchange of knowledge by bringing together key stakeholders from academia, authorities and industry.
Götz Vollmann
Activity Group 3
Aims to be the platform for European tunnel safety officers for exchange of experiences through its biannual Tunnel Safety Forum and development of best practices.
Bianca Janssen & John Aldrige
Activity Group 4
The Greek Tunnelling Society, organizes between 12 – 18 May 2023 the World Tunnel Congress (WTC2023) in the city of Athens. The WTC is the premier annual event of the International Tunnelling Association (ITA-AITES), with the participation of more than 2000 professionals. ITA COSUF will host a session and bring operational issues on the agenda.
Tunnels represents the most challenging part of a road infrastructure when it comes to the complexity of construction, technical infrastructure and technical facilities. But how should the road owner design, build, operate and manage the infrastructure to make sure that vulnerable parts of the road network remain reliable, available at all time, maintenance friendly for the operators and safe for the road users. Issues concerning Building Information Models (BIM) and the latest developments, will be on the agenda on this workshop.
Every biannual year, ITA COSUF gather the entire Tunnel Safety Officer (TSO) community to a joint workshop, supported by EU and the World Roads Association (PIARC). Bringing relevant issues to the table, discussing them with experts from all over the world.
An important part of the work in ITA COSUF, is to support other initiatives and bring in underground safety experts, highlighting relevant issues for today.