Past publications and comittee work

HOJ Consulting is active in international committee work and has contributed to a large number of international symposia. Below is a list of some selected past publications.

HOJ Consulting is a founding member of COSUF „Committee of Safety of Underground Facilities“, under patronage of ITA the international tunneling association. HOJ Consulting was a sponsor of the inaugural meeting of COSUF in Lausanne May 2006

Past Publications

  • Hazards in Tunnels, Seminar Fire Protection and Safety Measures in Rail, Road and Metro Tunnels, Warsaw, Poland, October 2006

  • Design Options and Possibilities, View of a Consulting Company. ITA / ICE conference Fire Protection Engineering for New and Existing Tunnels London October 2006
     
  • Optimal Design of Tunnels, Experience from and for Practice. 2nd International Symposium Safe & Reliable Tunnels. Innovative European Achievements, ITA, COSUF, Lausanne May 2006
     
  • “Fire Design by Performance based methods Robustness of Structural Performance” JCSS & IABSE WC 1 Workshop, Watford, UK November 2005
     
  • “Safety criteria in the design concept for new railway tunnels”, Long Tunnels 2005, Taipei, ROC, October 2005
     
  • “Keep Concrete Attractive – Fire Design of Concrete Structures” Key note lecture at fib Symposium, Budapest May 2005
     
  • “Criteria for operational safety of road tunnels: Safety management and safety review”. Safety Innovation Criteria Inside Tunnels. Gijón, Spain June 2005
     
  • "Hazards in tunnels, Structural Integrity" presented at the1st International Symposium "Safe & Reliable Tunnels, Innovative European Achievements" Prague, Czech Republic, February 2004
     
  • "Guidelines for fire safe design. Compared fire safety features for road tunnels" presented at the 1st International Symposium "Safe & Reliable Tunnels, Innovative European Achievements". Prague, Czech Republic, February 2004
     
  • "Integrated tunnel design from cradle-to-grave enhancing structural performance and owner confidence". Proceedings of 1st International Symposium "Safe & Reliable Tunnels, Innovative European Achievements" Prague, Czech Republic, February 2004
     
  • "How to decide on restrictions to transport of dangerous goods" Proceedings of the ITA World Tunnelling Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 2003
     
  • "Optimisation of decisions in the process of creating and operating tunnels" Proceedings of the ITA World Tunneling Congress, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 12 - 17 April 2003.


International committees

  • fib International Federation for Structural Concrete

  • fib Commission 4 Structural Design

  • fib Task Group 4.3 Fire Design of Structures and Working Parties

  • JCSS Joint Committee of Structural Safety

  • JCSS WG2 Risk Analyses

  • ITA International Tunneling Association
     
  • ITA Steering Board of COSUF
     
  • ITA WG6 Maintenance of tunnels / Fire design of Tunnels
     
  • IABSE International Association for Bridges and Structural Engineering
     
  • IABSE Editorial Board of the Journal „Structural Engineering International“