Having been caught in the maelstrom of the rapidly spreading global pandemic of early 2020, the WTC 2020 organisers held the virtual alternative this week (11-16 September 2020). As a first for the World Tunnel Congress series, the
organisers in Malaysia managed in three months to prepare a virtual alternative to a programme that had been in the making for a physical gathering in Kuala Lumpur for three years. This was no small feat under such unprecedented
circumstances.