Completion of ICGEColombo2020

ICGEColombo2020 – The third International Conference organized by the Sri Lankan Geotechnical Society (SLGS) was very successfully conducted on 6-7 December 2021 on a virtual platform. The conference was conducted from Cinnamon Grand Colombo with organizers being present there and all the participants from Sri Lanka and all over globe joining online. Presentations were pre-recorded but there were interactive live discussions after the presentations.

Inaugural session had welcome speeches from President SLGS and Co-Chair ICGEC2020 – Eng. K L S Sahabandu, Immediate Past President and Co-Chair ICGEC2020 – Prof. Athula Kulathilaka and President – ISSMGE – Prof. W W Ng Charles. There was a short video clip on the history of SLGS. Conference Secretary – Dr. J S M Fowze proposed the vote of thanks.
There were five keynote lectures, two on day one and three on day two. Keynote lectures were delivered by; Prof. W W Ng Charles, Prof. Buddhima Indraratna, Dr. Brian Simpson, Dr. Chris Haberfield and Prof. Krisna Reddy.

Conference was conducted with three parallel sessions on day one and two parallel sessions on day two. There were sessions on; Transport Geotechnics, Landslides and Slope Stability, Ground Improvements, Site Investigation, Foundations, Geosynthetics and Case Histories, Environmental Geotechnics and Problematic soils. Altogether there were 96 presentations.