14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DRILLING AND BLASTING TECHNOLOGY–2018 - UPDATED

1st Circular
 
Dear Madam/Sir, our Friends,
 
in accordance with our traditions, we would like to invite you to our

14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
DRILLING AND BLASTING TECHNOLOGY–2018

 
This conference is dedicated to the re-establishment of drilling and blasting technologies, and to environmental protection
 
The place of the conference: HOTEL JUVENTUS - Velence – konferenciateremés szálloda
 
Date of the Conference:: September 19th-21th, 2018
Organizer: Hungarian Society for Blasting Technology
Address: H-2481 Velence, Jozsef Attila u. 2/A, Hungary
 

The program of the conference:

The Organizing Committee will welcome the guest from abroad on the afternoon of 18th September. Dinner for the early birds is available between 18.00 and 19.45 hours. We also kindly ask guest arriving on at the afternoon or evening of 18th to inform us about their expected arrival via an e-mail.

The opening ceremony will be at 10.00 o’clock 19th September at the same place as the registration. Exhibitors can set their demonstrative materials in this building in a designated chamber, too.

19, September Wednesday morning

            Opening, greetings, remembrance, awards;

            Presentations until lunch;

            Lunch;

            After lunch there will be a social program (under organisation).

 

20 September, Thursday morning

            Presentations until lunch;

            Lunch;

            Presentations.

 

21 September Thursday afternoon

            Presentations until lunch;

            Evaluation and closure of the conference;

            Information on club matters;

            The program concludes with a joint lunch.

 

            The presentations, arrived till now:

  • Dr. Géza Bohus: Selections of blasting works done in a half century.
  • Dr. Norbert Daruka: The possibilities of apperance of civil explosives in improvised explosive devices (IED).
  • Dr. János Földesi: Demolition of reinforced concrete silos close to objects that required to be defended to a greater extent.
  • Csaba Bagi: Demonstrate Geoinform Ltd.'s new Electrically Armed before Ballistically Arming (EBBA) method implemented in 2016.
  • Jozef Ruska, Ladislav Lukacs: The drilling machine Smartroc C50 incident in Včeláre Quarry.
  • Jozef Ruska, Ladislav Lukacs: Removal of a protective pillar at the Bench III in the Včeláre Quarry.
  • Ing. Ivan Buchla, Jozef Ruska: Experience with the use of COPROD drilling system in quarries Včeláre, Trebejov and Gombasek.
  • Dr. Miklós Kiss: History of railway cut at Tatabánya.
  • Tibor Véghelyi, József Tóth: Decontamination of explosive production plant in Peremarton, 2017.
  • Ing. Vojtech Kala, ing. Maria Jaromilova, PhD. Ingmar Cechová: E*Star Electronic initiation system
  • Balázs Bőhm, Viktória Kertész: Analisys of the blasting works at quarries of Colas Északkő Kft.

             Remark: the order and the exact time of the presentations will be defined when all the presentations are already arrived.

 According to weather forecast we’ll have a pleasant autumn weather. Please be informed that we plan an evening spare time program and we suggest to bring convenient clothing.

 Official languages of the conference: English, Hungarian.

Presentations held in English language will be translated/summarized in Hungarian.

 We kindly ask all participants to send an e-mail to marehu [at] gmail.com

by the 1st of September and confirm their intention to participate.

 

Bills of the conference fee will be sent upon request.
Assumed costs:
 
Conference fee (EUR)  by July 15th 2018  after July 15th 2018
- Participants and speakers  300.00  360.00
- Accompanying guests (wife, chauffeur)  150.00  180.00

We kindly ask all participants to send an e-mail to marehu [at] gmail.com by 1st September and confirm their intention to participate. Please, note that we are not able to accept payments in cash at the Conference site!  All fees should be transferred to:

SWIFT: OTPVHUHB
IBAN: HU6711736006-20365538-00000000
Address: OTP BANK NYRT 1051 Budapest Nádor u. 16.
VAT number HU18113358

The conference fee includes the following: 
  • organizing costs,
  • all meals for the duration of the conference and the meeting,
  • costs of the field trip,
  • coffee and refreshments during the conference,
  • costs of conference proceedings and interpretation of presentations,
  • accommodation fee for 3 nights (from 18th Sept. to 20th Sept. 2018).

 During the conference we can provide places (about 4 m2 each) for technical displays, posters, etc. free of charge. Please take into consideration that we have limited place for this, we will accept requests on a first-come first-served basis through applications.

Further advertisements or introduction of your company can be published in the conference proceedings (price: 50 €u/page). If you wish to make use of this opportunity, please mark on the registration sheet.

Resignations and refunds

If you had already paid the conference fees, and because of some unforeseen reasons you will not be able to participate at the conference, we may refund your fees, as follows:

      • resignation until 01/08/2018 75 % refund
      • resignation until 15/08/2018 50 % refund
      • resignation until 01/09/2018 25 % refund

All resignations should be sent via e-mail to the marehu [at] gmail.com e-mail address.

Forward apologies, but we can not refund any fees for resignations received after 01/09/2018.

Transportation:

The site of the conference is also accessible by rail or public road. The resort has its own railway station as well.

During the conference, venues can be easily reached by a short walk. The accommodation lies in a lakeside park. Further transportation to different location will be organized by the host.

Regarding the conference place, further information can be found on the www.hoteljuventus.hu website.

If you have any questions concerning the conference do not hesitate to contact us:

József NEMES marehu [at] gmail.com Cell phone: +36-70-224-3154
József TÓTH totya2 [at] gmail.com Cell phone: +36-30-977-3944

You can find enclosed this circular and the Registration Form
 
Best regards,
Chair of MARE and the Organizing Committee