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| Tuesday 24 April | | | | |
| 09.40 | Welcome Address | Conference Chairman | Alan Auld | |
| 09.50 | | Chairman All Party Parliamentary Group for Underground Space | The Rt. Hon. Nick Raynsford MP | |
| 10.00 | KEYNOTE:
Shaft construction for civil engineering projects | CH2M Hill | Doig, Patrick | |
| 10.20 | Design and construction of a novel lining system for a large water retaining shaft on the Lee Tunnel Project | CA Consult Ltd and Morgan Sindall Underground Professional Services Ltd | Allen, Charles and Colin Eddie | |
| 10.40 | Green Park Station step-free access, London, UK | Capita Symonds Ltd and Dr Sauer and Partners | Wall, Philip and Feiersinger, Andreas | |
| 11.00 | Break | | | |
| 11.30 | KEYNOTE:
Shaft design and construction for deep mine projects | Cementation Canada Ltd | Slack, Roy | |
| 11.50 | Shaft lining design for a potash shaft in rock salts at depth | METS, Shaft Sinkers (Pty) Ltd and GeoStable SA | Judeel G. du T., Keyter, G. J. and Harte N. D. | |
| 12.10 | Numerical modelling of the shaft linings at Boulby Potash Mine | University of Nottingham | Yudan Jia and Stace, Rod | |
| 12.30 | Lunch | | | |
| 13.30 | Stresses in sliding-shaft linings due to curvature | DMT GmbH &CoKG | Klein, Joachim | |
| 13.50 | Current situation and development for China's 1000m deep shaft sinking | Shaft Construction Research Institute and National Engineering Lab,Beijing | Long, Zhiyang and Gui,Liangyu | |
| 14.10 | The design of shaft linings to resist time deformation in rocks | Alan Auld Engineering Ltd | Hollingsworth, S. E., Colbeck, S.O. and Auld, F.A. | |
| 14.30 | Break | | | |
| 15.00 | Combined video and laser camera for inspection of old mine shafts | INERIS | Cauvin, Laurent | |
| 15.20 | Current situation and foreground outlook to China's coal shaft drilling construction technology | China Coal Mine Construction Group Co. Ltd, HeFei, Anhui Province | Xu, Huidong and Cai, Xin | |
| 15.40 | Mechanized shaft sinking method for soft and medium strength rock | Herrenknecht | Slocombe, Roy and Berger, Werner | |
| 16.00 | An introduction to the practical aspects of sinking pneumatic caissons | BAM Nuttall Ltd | Allenby, Douglas and Kilburn, David | |
| 16.20 | Case studies and analysis of mine shafts incidents in Europe | INERIS | Premel, Amélie | |
| 16.40 | Closing remarks + Drinks Reception | | | |
| 18.30 | End of day 1 | | | |
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| Wednesday 25 April | | | | |
| 10.00 | Activities of mining and shaft sinking contractors in the field of underground nuclear waste disposal | Deilmann-Haniel GmbH and J. S. Redpath Ltd | Greinacher, Jochen, Dunlop, Bruce and Oellers, Thomas | |
| 10.20 | Experiences in the design of deep shaft accesses for underground nuclear waste repositories | Alan Auld Group Ltd | Auld, Alan | |
| 10.40 | Design characteristics of 30MTa/a mine field | Coal Industry Jinan Design Research Institute | He, Guowei, He, Fangxian and Zhang, Rongying | |
| 11.00 | Break | | | |
| 11.30 | Shaft construction in Amsterdam | Joseph Gallagher Ltd | Tasker, Andrew | |
| 11.50 | Shafts for Utility Tunnels - Case Studies from Hong Kong and Singapore | Mott MacDonald Singapore Pte Ltd | Pakianathan, Leslie | |
| 12.10 | Underground City-Center complex, Helsinki Finland, 16 shafts into existing buildings | Rockplan Ltd | Nuijten, Guido | |
| 12.30 | Lunch | | | |
| 13.30 | Shaft liner design in salt | Deilmann-Haniel GmbH and CDM Consult GmbH | Oellers, Thomas and Kisse, Aloys | |
| 13.50 | Use and limitation of exploration boreholes for shaft sinking and lining design purpose | Deilmann-Haniel Shaft Sinking | Oellers, Thomas | |
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| 14.30 | Coffee | | | |
| 15.00 | New ground freezing shaft sinking technology in alluvium with thickness over 500 meters | China Assoc. of Senior Scientists and Engrs and SDIC Coal Co. Ltd | Chen, Wenbao, Li, Gong-zhou and Chen, Zhang-qing | |
| 15.20 | Tbm rescue projects using shafts and ground freezing | Deilmann-Haniel Shaft Sinking | Loffler, Michael, Ahlbrecht, Thomas and Schwarz, Wolfgang | |
| 15.40 | Largest frozen ground excavation in North America for excavation of crown pillar | Moretrench American Corporation | Sopko, Joseph, Braun, Bernd and Chamberland, Robert | |
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| 18.00 | Pre Dinner Drinks Reception | | | |
| 18.30 | Conference Dinner | | | |
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| End of Day 2 | | | |
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| Thursday 26 April | | | | |
| 09.50 | Welcome | | | |
| 10.00 | Underground and laboratory tests of filling materials used for shaft closure | Glowny Instytut Gornictwa (Central Mining Institute) | Prusek, S., Bock, S., Szymala, J. and Calus-Moszko, J | |
| 10.20 | Thorne colliery shafts - a history | UK Coal Mining Plc | Brumby, Martin | |
| 10.40 | Impact of mine closure and access facilities on gas emissions from old mine workings to surface : examples of French iron and coal Lorraine basins | INERIS | Lagny, C., Salmon, R., Pokryszka, Z. and Lafortune, S | |
| 11.00 | Break | | | |
| 11.30 | Design and construction of an offshore drilled shaft 6 m in diameter and 64 m deep at Flamanville, N. France | Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter | Pine, Robert and Cockett, Julian | |
| 11.50 | Challenging issues in design and excavation of big dimension shaft in soil and rock | Geodata Engineering SpA | Vincenza, Floria | |
| 12.10 | Design and construction of the Thames Water Lee Tunnel shafts, London | CH2M Hill | Jewell, Peter | |
| 12.30 | Lunch | | | |
| 13.30 | Achievements of China's coal mine construction in recent years | Tiandi Sciences and Technologies Shaft Construction Research Institute and China Coal No.5 Construction Co. Ltd | Zhang, Yongcheng, Liu, Zhiqiang and Duan, Bangkui | |
| 13.50 | General theory of underground structures lining design and analytical design methods | Tula State University | Bulychev, Nikolay | |
| 14.10 | The use of steel fibre reinforced concrete for Civil Engineering shafts and mine shafts | Bekaert | De Rivaz, Benoit | |
| 14.30 | Coffee | | | |
| 15.00 | Rock mechanical and support technical design of the pit bottom on the 7th floor level, Shaft Prosper 10 in 1250 m depth | DMT GmbH & CoKG | Stadie, Dr Ulrich | |
| 15.20 | Study and application of key technology to shaft drilling and grouting simultaneous operation | Tiandi Science and Technolgy Company Ltd, Beijing | Zuo, Yong-jiang and Zhou, Xing-wang | |
| 15.40 | Vertical shaft machine | Herrenknecht | Slocombe, Roy and Schmah, Peter | |
| 16.00 | Closing remarks | | | |
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| Conference Close. | | | |
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