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DAY 1 – April 27th 2017
8:00-	Registration
8:30-8:45	OPENING SESSION Official opening of conference
8:45-9:45	SESSION 1 Paul Mayne (United States of America) Recent developments and applications in geotechnical field Investigations - Session Chairman: Jorge Alva (Perú)
9:45 -10:15	COFFEE BREAK
10:15-11:15	SESSION 2 - Bengt H. Fellenius Lecture Frank Rausche (United States of America). Dynamic Loading Tests: A State of the Art of Preventing and Detecting Deep Foundation Failures Session Chairman: Bengt H. Fellenius
11:15-12:15	Presentation of Invited Papers 1 and 2 Carlos Santamarina (Argentina): Casos interesantes de interacción suelo-estructura (Interesting cases of soil-structure interaction). Tomás Murillo (Spain): Diseño y ejecución de pilotes con celda de inyección en punta. Aplicación en ríos amazónicos (Design and execution of piles with pile toe injection. Application in Amazonian rivers). Session Chairman: Paulo Albuquerque (Brazil)
12:15-12:45	Opening and overview of Exhibition
12:45-14:00	LUNCH BREAK AND DIGITAL POSTER SESSION
14:00-15:00	Presentation of Invited Papers 3 and 4 Rodrigo Salgado  (United States of America): The Load Response of Non-displacement Piles in Sand Carlos Medeiros (Brazil): Energy measurement for CFA piles capacity estimation. Session Chairman: Morgan Nesmith (United States of America)
15:00-16:00	SESSION 3 Bengt Fellenius (Canada): Discussion on best practice for performing static loading tests. Examples of test results and relevance to design. Session Chairman: Luciano Decourt (Brazil)
16:00-16:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:30	SESSION 4 Joram Amir (Israel): Testing pile integrity - past present and future. Session Chairman: Victor Hugo Alvarez (Bolivia)
17:30-18:30	SESSION 5 - K. Rainer Massarsch Lecture Oscar Vardé (Argentina): Subway stations retaining walls: Case histories in soft and hard soils. Session Chairman: K. Rainer Massarsch (Sweden)

DAY 2 – April 28th 2017
8:30-9:30	SESSION 6 Dan Brown (United States of America): State of art and state of practice in deep foundations. Session Chairman: Oscar Vardé (Argentina).
9:30-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:30	SESSION 7 Alessandro Mandolini (Italy): Design options for piled rafts - An overview. Session Chairman: Juan Carlos Rojas V (Bolivia)
11:30-12:30	Presentation of Invited Papers 5 and 6 Mónica Prezzi (United States of America): Effects of installation processes on axial pile capacity Mario Terceros Arce (Bolivia): Practical application of new expansion devices for pile improvement in sandy soils. Session Chairman: Walter Paniagua (Mexico)
12:30-14:30	LUNCH BREAK AND DIGITAL POSTER SESSION
14:30-15:30	SESSION 8 Franz Werner Gerresen (Germany): Conventional methods and recent developments in retaining walls. Session Chairman: Carlos Medeiros (Brazil)
15:30-16:30	SESSION 9 K. Rainer Massarsch and Carl Wersäll (Sweden): Recent developments in vibratory driving and soil compaction. Session Chairman: Bengt H. Fellenius (Canada).
16:30-17:00	COFFEE BREAK
17:00-18:00	SESSION 10 Jarbas Milititsky (Brazil): Deep foundations pathologies. Session Chairman: Renato Cunha (Brazil)
20:00	Gala Dinner

DAY 3 – April 29th 2017
8:30-9:00	B.E.S.T. Presentation. Alesandro Mandolini (Italy), Chairman of TC212 Bengt H. Fellenius (Canada), Mario Terceros (Bolivia), Paulo Albuquerque (Brazil) and Peter K. Robertson (Canada). Session Chairman: Roger Frank (France), ISSMGE President
9:00-10:15	Session 1 – Soil Investigation Results. - Memorial Session in Honour of Prof. Silvano Marchetti SCPT: Peter Robertson (Canada) SDMT: Diego Marchetti (Italy) SPT-T and DPSH: Luciano Decourt (Brazil) PMT: Roger Frank (France) Seismic Testing: K. Rainer Massarsch (Sweden) Session Chairman: Paul Mayne (United States of America)
10:15-10:35	COFFEE BREAK
10:35-12:05	SESSION 2: Pile Installation and Instrumentation EB and Toe Box: Mario Terceros A. (Bolivia) FDP CFA and Drilled Piles: Morgan Nesmith (United States of America) Session Chairman: Oscar Vardé (Argentina)
12:05-14:00	LUNCH BREAK AND DIGITAL POSTER SESSION
14:00-16:00	SESSION 3: Experimental Results and Predictions Prediction Outcomes: Bengt H. Fellenius (Canada) Pile Group and Piled Raft: Alessandro Mandolini (Italy) Resultado de Inyecciones Expander Body: Mario Terceros A. (Bolivia) Session Chairman: Dan Brown (United States of America)
16:00-17:00	Mario Terceros Banzer Lecture            Luciano Decourt, (Brazil): Fifty years designing foundations. A retrospective Session Chairman: Mario Terceros B (Bolivia)
17:00-17:20	CLOSING SESSION