Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA, Ukraine) and the University of Zielona Gora (Poland) in cooperation with the Ukrainian Society for Soil Mechanics, Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering (UkrSSMGFE) prepared and conducted the Second International Conference "Challenges in Geotechnical Engineering" CGE-2017 on 20-23 November 2017.

The conference is organized under the framework of the international scientific cooperation between Ukraine and Poland. It further expands more than 70 years of experience in conducting scientific conferences by KNUCA and a 40-year tradition of organising conferences on engineering geology by the University of Zielona Gora.

The conference aims to improve scientific and technical levels in solving geotechnical problems. The conference program highlights the most relevant and promising areas of solving geotechnical issues, including:

• Numerical simulation.
• Analysis of the interactions of the elements in the "soil - foundation - structure" system.
• Construction of high-rise buildings and deep foundation pits.
• Ensuring slope stability.
• Construction in the seismically dangerous areas or under dynamic loads.
• Installation of foundations under difficult geological conditions.
• Areas with a complex geological and glacitectonic structures
• Modern methods of soil research and other geotechnical and related issues.