The 15th Technology Forum on Operational Safety, Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection of Tunnels and Underground Space will be held in Fuzhou from July 11 to 13, 2025. With the theme of “Smart Tunnels, Better Life”, the forum will invite renowned experts, scholars and industry elites from domestic and international fields such as tunnel and underground space engineering, energy science, materials science and environmental engineering to conduct in-depth discussions around “operational safety, energy conservation and environmental protection”.
This forum is co-hosted by the Tunneling and Underground Engineering Branch of China Civil Engineering Society, Tongji University, Fuzhou University, Fujian University of Technology, Fujian Expressway Group Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen University; organized by the College of Civil Engineering of Fuzhou University, the College of Civil Engineering of Fujian University of Technology, the College of Civil Engineering of Huaqiao University, the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Wuyi University, Fujian Provincial Academy of Building Research Co., Ltd., and the China Smart Infrastructure Industry-University-Research Collaborative Innovation Platform; and co-organized by the Fujian Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, Underground Space, Fuzhou Rail Transit Design Institute Co., Ltd. and other institutions.
The conference includes 19 plenary reports, 26 parallel session reports and 22 graduate forum reports, with over 200 participants attending. Professor Ming Huang, Vice Dean of the College of Civil Engineering, presided over the opening ceremony. Yalei Zhang, Vice President of Fuzhou University; Guomai Liu, Vice President of Fujian University of Technology; Zhuwu Jiang, Vice Chairman of Fujian Association for Science and Technology; Jianhua Wang, President of China Association for Promotion of Industry-University-Research Cooperation; Shanyun Guo, Honorary Chairman of the Tunneling and Underground Engineering Branch of China Civil Engineering Society; and Academician Hehua Zhu, Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Forum, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.
Vice President Yalei Zhang delivered an opening speech
Academician Hehua Zhu delivered an opening speech
Vice Dean Ming Huang presided over the opening ceremony
Renowned experts and scholars from home and abroad, including Academician Hehua Zhu from Tongji University, Academician Xiangsheng Chen from Shenzhen University, Professor Shouzhong Feng from Anhui University of Science and Technology, and Professor Gang Zheng from Tianjin University, delivered keynote reports at the conference. Their presentations covered theories and technological innovations in tunnel and underground engineering construction driven by new productive forces, including new theories, methods, technologies, materials, and equipment in tunnel and underground space planning and design, intelligent construction, safe operation, energy conservation, and environmental protection. They also addressed hot topics such as safe operation and smart disaster prevention of tunnels and underground engineering, new concepts and technologies for energy conservation and environmental protection in green tunnels and underground spaces, landscape renovation and resilience enhancement of tunnels and underground spaces, aesthetic and humanistic design and practice in modern urban underground spaces, and full-life-cycle intelligent construction and safe operation and maintenance of undersea tunnels and underwater engineering.
The successful holding of this conference has further consolidated China’s international leading position in the field of tunnels and underground space, and built a collaborative innovation platform for in-depth integration of “government, industry, academia, research, and application” among governments, universities, research institutions, and enterprises. It directly serves the national “dual-carbon” strategy, urban renewal initiatives, and resilient city construction, and marks a milestone in improving the safe operation level of urban underground spaces in China, promoting green and low-carbon transformation, and fostering new productive forces in the industry.
At the conference venue
