Ingeokring/ TU Delft Autumn Symposium 2025: Fifty Shades of Clay

We are pleased to invite you to our annual autumn symposium, titled Fifty Shades of Clay.

Clay is one of the most complex and fascinating materials in geo-engineering, offering both challenges and opportunities. This year’s symposium will bring together experts to share their insights, case studies, and lessons learned from working with this multifaceted material across a range of applications. Kindly refer to the detailed programme outlined below.

DateFriday 21 November 2025
LocationTU Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Stevinweg 1, Delft
Talks: Hall A
Snacks & Drinks : Geoscience & Engineering Reception room, 1st floor, next to MV room

The symposium is free of charge, but please register here if you want to join: registration
For parking you can use the QR code below. Note: please read the instructions below on how to use the parking QR code!

Programme:

13:00 – 13:30: Welcome drinks (Reception room)
13:30 – 13:40: Opening (Hall A)
13:40 – 14:00: Maria Konstantinou: Pile Installation in Glauconite Sands: Experimental Insights
14:00 – 14:20: Buu Long Nguyen: Late-glacial and Postglacial Clay at Fehmarnbelt – Origin, Properties & Behaviour
14:20 – 14:40: Leon van Paassen: Challenges and opportunities of using clay in land reclamations
14:40 – 15:00: Panel discussion with audience
15:00 – 15:40: Coffee break (Reception room)
15:40 – 16:10: Quiz & Fun hand tests
16:10 – 16:30: Arthur ten Katen: Horizontal Directional Drilling in Clay
16:30 – 16:50: Anne-Catherine Dieudonné: Characterisation of poorly indurated clays for geological disposal of radioactive waste
16:50 – 17:00: Panel discussion with audience
17:00 – 17:10: 2026 XXL Ingeokring symposium: the IAEG 2026 WORLD CONGRESS
17:10 – 17:30: Closure
17:30 – 19:30: Post-symposium drinks and snacks (Reception room)

Ingeokring/ TU Delft Autumn Symposium 2024

Join us in celebrating a remarkable year for engineering geology!

When: 22nd November 2024, Welcome drinks & symposium from 13:00 to 17:30
After symposium: drinks & snacks from 17:30 to 19:30

Where: TU Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Stevinweg 1, NL-2628 CN Delft, Hall A

The activity is organized as part of celebrations for a double anniversary: the 50 years of Ingeokring and the 60 years of IAEG!

The event is free of charge, but please register to join the event!

Featured speakers

Helen Reeves, IAEG Vice-President Northern Europe, Director & Head of Discipline for Geoscience & Engineering Geology TGE (Europe), Jacobs, UK
Engineering Geology: Bringing the UN Sustainable Development Goals closer!

Denise Maljers, Research Manager, TNO
Dinoloket: Data for People, Present and Future

Joost van der Schrier, RHDHV |
Jacco Haasnoot, CRUX Engineering |
Ronald Brinkgreve, PLAXIS, Sequent and TU Delft, Geo-eng |
Guillaume Rongier, TU Delft, Applied Geology |
Tom de Gast, Waterschap Hollandse Delta/TU Delft
360° discussion on the superpower of cone penetration tests

Joek Peuchen, Manager of Engineering, Fugro
Journey from marine site investigations to augmented reality

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Excursion Valkenburg aan de Geul: Post mining risk management Calcarenite mines

The summer holidays are around the corner. You are invited to join us for a memorable adventure in Valkenburg calcarenite mines on Saturday 24 August. We will visit diverse types of mine instabilities and observe the tremendous progress achieved in the monitoring and mapping of the old pillars and rooms over the last 40 years.
 
The activity is organized as part of celebrations for a double anniversary: the 50 years of Ingeokring and the 60 years of IAEG!
 
To join the event, please register

IAEG international congress in Delft in 2026 – For those who are interested!

Dear colleague, friend,

With a small core team we are doing the first preparations for the next IAEG world congress in Delft, in November 2026. We need lots of people who are interested and would like to participate in the organisation. Our aim is to set up a complete organisational structure before coming summer. If you are interested, please fill out the survey with the link below!

Fill out the IAEG2026 Survey

The IAEG2026 is going to happen in Delft!

We are delighted to announce that IAEG General Assembly voted that the next will be organized by the Dutch National Group of IAEG (Ingeokring) in Delft, the Netherlands in the first half of November 2026. The congress, themed Engineering Geology in a Rapidly Changing World, will focus on cutting-edge research on the fundamentals of engineering geology, showcase best practices in the domain and demonstrate the pivotal role of engineering geology in a world struggling with unprecedented challenges.

So keep your agenda open from Saturday 31-10 to Friday 05-11-2026 ánd from Saturday 07-11 to Friday 13-11-2026. Until further notice!

For more information, go to iaeg2026.org

Ingeokring General Assembly (ALV) and EngGeo Get-together at RHDHV in Amersfoort

Hereby an invitation of the Ingeokring General Assembly (ALV) and EngGeo Get-together at RHDHV.

Location: Royal HaskoningDHV Amersfoort, Laan 1914 nr. 35, Amersfoort
Date:
Friday 5 April 2024

Program:
15.30-15.45: Welcome
15.45-16.00: General Assembly (Algemene Ledenvergadering)
16.00-17.00: Presentations on “Assessment of existing dam structures” by:
* Oscar Mooijman: 13 years of InSAR data APC Dead Sea Works
* Jelle van der Zon: Tailing dams in Brazil17.00-17.15: Questions & Conclusion
17.30-18.30: Drinks & bites (café Zuiderhoek)

This invitation is open to all Ingeokring members, students and everyone else who is interested. For registration for this event, please here: register for event.

Hoping to see you all on April 5 in Amersfoort at RHDHV!

Ingeokring Autumn Symposium: “Salt of the Earth” -UPDATE-

On Friday 24 November 2023, the Ingeokring has held the Autumn Symposium themed “Salt of the Earth”. The symposium has been attended very well. A lot of new insights, ideas and lessons have been learned from to the speakers and their presentations. Again, we would like to express the speakers our gratitude!

Furthermore, we would hereby like to share the speakers’presentations:

For an extensive photographic impression of the atmosphere during the symposium, please feel free to download the file below:

2023 Ingeokring Autumn Symposium Photo Impression

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