Tarcisio Celestino was elected president of the International Tunnelling Association (ITA) at the World Tunnel Congress in April. Celestino, a professor of geotechnical engineering at the Sao Carlos campus of Sao Paulo University takes the seat vacated by Soren Degn Eskesen, chief tunnel specialist for Danish contractor Cowi, who steps into the advisory 'immediate past president' position. The term will last three years, with the next election coming in 2019. Celestino, also the current and a past president of the Brazilian Tunnelling Committee, took aim at past failures of project design (elevated infrastructure) "in certain countries" that resulted in structures needing to be destroyed and undergrounded in later years. A waste of resources and effort.
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