Ústav geotechniky SAV Koice

Mission

History

Documentation

The Institute of geotechnics of SAS was founded on November 22^nd 1954 by the Resolution of The SAS Presidium No.XII as the

Commission for Mining (1954)

The Commission for Mining was transformed to the Cabinet of Mining by the Resolution of The SAS Presidium No.XI on November 21^st 1955.

Cabinet of Mining (1955)

Based on the Resolution of The SAS Presidium No.I from December 10^th 1956 valid from January 1^st 1957, the name was changed to the

The Laboratory of Mining (1957)

The Resolution of The SAS Presidium No.I from November 5^th 1962 changed the name to Institute of Mining of SAS with effect from January 1^st 1963

Institute of Mining of SAS (1963)

On December 31^st 1966 the Institute was canceled by the Resolution of the SAS Presidium No.III from September 28^th and the specification and staff were incorporated to newly founded

Institute of the Rock Properties SAS (1966)

The institute was renamed to Mining institute of SAS by the Resolution of The SAS Presidium No.1080 from November 25^th 1975

Mining Institut of SAS (1976)

After the Resolution of The SAS Presidium No.290 from April 29^th 1993 with effect from May 1^st 1993, the name was changed to the

Institute of Geotechnics of SAS (1993)

Basic research area of the renamed institute has been changed within the main mission, in terms of progress and social demands. The main scope aimed initially at the mining activities (exploitation and mineral resources processing). Mining has been a industry with long history and major tradition in Slovakia. The inhibition of mining (i.e. elimination of many branches and sites) after the formation of Slovak republic in 1993 have reflected also in scientific focus of the Institute of geotechnics which had to react to such conditions by changing several scientific activities. Hence the institute focuses on other branches besides mining, such as environmental protection in industrial areas; working environment hygiene; environmental monitoring in urban agglomerations, protected landscape areas and cave systems; in motorway tunnels construction; applications of biotechnologies in soil decontamination from oil products; clean coal technologies; utilization of ferromagnetic fluids and mineral biotechnologies in environmental pollution elimination; phytoenergetics.