Preface

Abstract

[Excerpt] The 3rd International Conference on Information Technology in Geo-Engineering(3rd ICITG) is organized in the framework of the activities of the Joint TechnicalCommittee 2 (JTC2) on Representation of Geo-Engineering Data of the Federationof International Geo-Engineering Societies (FedIGS), by the PortugueseGeotechnical Society (SPG) and the University of Minho (UM). FedIGS is anumbrella organization linking the main international professional societies in thefield of“Geo-Engineering”: the International Society for Soil Mechanics andGeotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), the International Society for Rock Mechanicsand Rock Engineering (ISRM), the International Association for EngineeringGeology and the Environment (IAEG) and the International Geosynthetics Society(IGS). The conference is also supported by the Transportation Research Board(TRB) and the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI).This 3rd conference, held in the city of Guimarães, a UNESCO World HeritageSite, in Portugal, from 29 September to 2 October 2019, followed the successfulconferences of this series held in Shanghai in 2010 (ICITG2010) and in Durham in2014 (ICITG2014). [...]