The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal
association for geotechnical engineers in the United Kingdom.
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal
association for geotechnical engineers in the United Kingdom.
Headlines and Deadlines
6ICEGE - Christchurch, New Zealand: Abstract deadline Extended to 15 September 2014
BGA Hydraulic Fracturing Debate – 17 September 2014
BGA Early Career Meeting: How Eurocode 7 Gets Misunderstood – 22 September 2014: FULLY BOOKED
Call for Papers: ICE Proceedings – Geotechnical Engineering: Themed Issue in 2016: “Innovations in Deep Foundations design & Construction”: 1 October 2014
Joint Meeting with IGS: Geosynthetics – Design & specification, the way forward – 15 October 2014
BGA Touring Lecture 2014 – 4-6 November 2014
Geotechnical Engineering Lecture – 12 November 2014
Keynote lectures announced for ECSMGE in Edinburgh: 13-15 September 2015
Other 2014 and 2015 events to put on your calendar:
1 FORTHCOMING EVENTS 2014
| HOT TOPIC!(note later start time) | 17 September 2014 – 6.15 pm | BGA Hydraulic Fracking Debate | The geotechnical & geo-environmental challenges of fracking in the UK are surmountable - Yes or No? Tea & Coffee available from 5.30 pm. Book online at http://www.ice.org.uk/Event?ID=2740 |
| 25 September 2014 | ICE Health & Safety Conference | Full details at http://www.ice.org.uk/Events-conferences/Events/Constructing-Health-and-Safety-2014 | |
| 30 September (11.00 am – 1.00 pm) | CIC Roundtable Discussion (London) – improving the image of construction as an attractive career | CIC, currently working on major national news engagements to showcase the construction professions and promote diversity within the industry, are keen for input and ideas. To take part, please let Ann-Marie Casserley know at Ground Forum GForum@ground-forum.org.uk and she will forward your details to Rosanna Bortoli from CIC. | |
| New! | 2 October | EGGS one-day Conference | Advances in Geological/Geotechnical Data Handling and Modelling – Burlington House, Piccadilly, London – full details athttp://www.geolsoc.org.uk/EG-14-Geo-Data-Handling-Modelling and register by 25th September with georgina.worrall@geolsoc.org.uk |
| 3 October 2014 6.30 for 7.45 pm | James Watt Dinner | Hosted by IESIS at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Argyle Street, Glasgow – tickets £52 per head; see www.iesis.org | |
| 15 October 2014 – 6.00 pm | Joint Evening Meeting with IGS | “Geosynthetics – Design & specification, the way forward” by Steve Corbet of AECOM. Tea and Coffee available from 5.30 pm. Book online athttp://www.ice.org.uk/Event?ID=2739 | |
| New! | 29 October | ICE BIM 2014 | Full details at http://www.ice-conferences.com/ice-bim-2014/ |
| 4-6 November 2014 | BGA Touring Lecture | Prof Eduardo Alonso on “Rapid Landslides”; University of Sheffield, University of Manchester and Central Square, Newcastle. See BGA Website for full details. Advance registration not required. | |
| Booking now open! | 12 November – 6.30 pm | Geotechnical Engineering Lecture | Dr Fleur Loveridge to present “Thermal Response Testing: Challenges and New Applications”. Online registration required at http://www.ice.org.uk/Events-conferences/Events/Geotechnical-Lecture |
| 13 November 2014 | GE Next Generation awards – inaugural event supported by Arup, Bachy Soletanche and BAM Ritchies | Expanding on GE’s Young Geotechnical Engineer of the Year Award, two age categories will celebrate career achievements by leading recent recruits in the ground engineering sector. Prof John Burland to be guest speaker. Full details at www.nce.co.uk/GENextGen or email GENextGeneration@emap.com for more information. | |
| Date for your diary | 10 December 2014 | Fleming Award | Sponsored by Skanska – shortlist and full details available shortly. |
2 YOUNG ENGINEERS
| Fully Booked | 22 September 2014 – 6.30 pm | BGA Early Career Group Meeting: | sponsored by Arup at 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BJ: Prof Brian Simpson and Georgios Katsigiannis on “How Eurocode 7 Gets Misunderstood”. Contact Shelagh.fleming@ice.org.uk for waiting list. |
| Mid-September | Pipe Jacking Association | Bursaries available (circa £2,000) for appropriate MSc or other post-graduate research projects allied to pipe jacking industry. Full details of past research activities at www.pipejacking.org and further information available from andrew.marshall@pipejacking.org. | |
| ICE Textbooks | for undergraduates | As part of our mission to educate and inspire the next generation of engineers, ICE Textbooks have been created as concise introductions to their subjects and will provide undergraduates with clear, accurate, and practical information on the major principles of civil and structural engineering.First in a series of 12:
For further information please visit www.icetextbooks.com. |
3 INTERNATIONAL MATTERS
| Mini-Symposia: | 6ICEGE | Christchurch, New Zealand; full details at http://www.6icege.com/ and suggestions to brendon.bradley@canterbury.ac.nz | |
| Abstract deadline Extended | 15 September 2014 | 6ICEGE | 2– 4 November 2015: 6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering - Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| 9–11 Sept 2014 | DECGE | Danube-European Conference on Geotechnical Engineering in Viennacelebrating golden jubilee – full details at www.decge2014.at | |
| 21-25 Sept 2014 | German Geotechnical Society: 10ICG | 10th International Conference on Geosynthetics - in Berlin: http://www.10icg-berlin.com. | |
| 23–26 Sept 2014 | German Geotechnical Society: 33rd Baugrundtagung | German Soil Mechanics Conference - in Berlin: http://www.baugrundtagung.com | |
| Early Bird Registration extended | 25 September 2014 | 7th Int’l Congress on Environmental Geotechnics | 10-14 November 2014: Melbourne, Australia plus four pre-congress short courses |
| 28 September – 1 October 2014 | Tunnelling in a Challenging Environment | 2nd Eastern European Tunnelling Conference in Athens on (EETC2014, Athens); full details at http://www.eetc2014athens.org/ | |
| 9–10 October 2014 | 63rd Geomechanics -Colloquy 2014 - Salzburg | hosted by the Austrian Society for Geomechanics, session topics will be:
abstract template (1 page) and details at www.oegg.at |
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| 14–16 October 2014 | 8th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium "ARMS8 | The Japanese Committee for Rock Mechanics (JCRM) is organising this symposium to be held in Sapporo in Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. See Bulletin No. 2 of ARMS8 at http://www.rocknet-japan.org/ARMS8/index.htm or visit http://www.rocknet-japan.org/ARMS8/authors.html for information on abstract submission. | |
| Further Deadline Extension | Abstracts for Conference proceedings to be submitted by 31stOctober 2014 | 6th IS-TC 101: Deformation Characteristics of Soils | 15th to 18th November 2015 - Buenos Aires: Conference organized in parallel with Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering will bring together practitioners, researchers and educators engaged in understanding the deformation properties of geomaterials before failure, and the small strain parameters as fundamental characteristics of geomaterials. Visit http://conferencesba2015.com.ar/ |
| FIRST BULLETIN – abstracts due | November 2014 | Albanian Geotechnical Society (AGS) | October/November 2015 -Tirana, Albania. International Conference on: Geo-Environment and Construction – see BGA website |
| 10-14 November 2014 | 7th Int’l Congress on Environmental Geotechnics | Melbourne, Australia plus four pre-congress short courses | |
| 19 – 21 Nov 2014 | GEOMATE 2014 | Brisbane: see http://www.geomate.org/ for full details | |
| ISRM | 31 December 2014 | 2016 Rocha Award | See http://www.isrm.net for full details and submit nominations tosecretariat.isrm@lnec.pt; |
| 10-13 May 2015 | ISRM Congress | Montreal, Canada – full details at www.isrm2015.com | |
| 12 May 2015 | In conjunction withISRM Congress inMontreal | Shale and Rock Mechanics Workshop, as Applied to Slopes, Tunnels, Mines and Hydrocarbon Extraction. Details at www.isrm2015.com | |
| 10 –12 June 2015 | 3rd Int’l Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics | Oslo, Norway: Symposium under auspices of TC209 - full details atwww.isfog2015.no – will also host ISSMGE Third McLelland Honor Lecture to be given by Knut H. Andersen. | |
| 15 to 18 November 2015 | 6th IS-TC 101: Deformation Characteristics of Soils | Buenos Aires: Conference organized in parallel with Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering will bring together practitioners, researchers and educators engaged in understanding the deformation properties of geomaterials before failure, and the small strain parameters as fundamental characteristics of geomaterials. Visit http://conferencesba2015.com.ar/ |
4 PUBLICATIONS
| New and FREE! Read “Ahead of Print” articles | Until 19thSeptember | ICE Proceedings – Ground Improvement |
If you would like to propose your own article for publication, contact margaret.tomlinson@icepublishing.com. |
| NEW! call for papers` | 1 October 2014 | Geotechnical Engineering – ICE Proceedings | Themed issue on Innovations in Deep Foundations design and construction in 2016 focussing on:submit online at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17BG1xv-hIfZb9A6uPhoCaLGjkJs2u9HQZyivF lm4Lak/viewform
submit a brief (<200 words) summary of your proposed paper |
| 2014 ICE Publishing Awards | for papers published in 2013 | The Winning Papers have now been announced and are currently available to read here. ICE Publishing sends out a limited number of emails promoting free journal papers, so to ensure you receive future alerts, please join the mailing list for Best of Research and Practice. | |
| Paris, September 2013 | 18th ISSMGE Conference | database hosting entire Proceedings now available fromhttp://www.issmge.org/en/resources/publications/18th-icsmge. | |
| Latest bulletin | ISSMGE | http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/issmge-bulletin/668-vol-8-issue-4-august-2014. | |
| Technical Committees 2013-17 | ISSMGE | Letter from Pierre Delage, Chair of Technical Oversight Committee, following Board mtg in London in March 2014 – see BGA website or contact me for a copy. | |
| TC211 | ISSMGE | Newsletter – see BGA website or contact me for copy | |
| Environmental Geotechnics | Please click the following link to access http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/issue/envgeo/1/1 | ||
| ICE Virtual Library Newsletter | Exclusive savings every month - ICE Virtual Library newsletter | ||
| Now in ISI’s WEB OF SCIENCE | Géotechnique Letters | Read in full at Geotechnique Letters Web of Science announcement with details of Themed Issue: Experimental micro-mechanics for geomaterials | |
| New! Issue 2 of Volume 1 just published | Geotechnical Research July 2014 (vol 1, issue 2) | Geotechnical Research | ICE Publishing’s first Gold Open Access journals. Contact Rebecca.ratty@icepublishing.com for further details. |
| New journal launched | Manuscripts invited on a range of disciplines | Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment (GETE) | More information is available on the following link:http://www.journals.elsevier.com/geomechanics-for-energy-and-the-environment/ |
| August issue now available | CIC Newsletter | Now published twice a month | Much of the information will be available on the website atwww.cic.org.uk but let me know if you would like me to forward the newsletter to you. |
| Updated version | Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) Report | ‘Migrants in low-skilled work. The growth of EU and non-EU labour in low skilled jobs and its impact on the UK.’ – updated version published 8 July 2014 in response to a commission from the Government available athttps://www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-advisory-committee-research | |
| 20% discount!(plus P&P) | Quality Geotechnical books from Whittles Publishing | Logging the Chalk, Manual of Soil Laboratory Testing vol. III and others | NB: For Logging the Chalk this will be 20% off the retail price of £135.00, not the previous price of £115.00 before the extent was increased significantly. Full details athttp://www.whittlespublishing.com/geotechnics; contact Jenna Sutherland directly on 01593 731 333 orjennas@whittlespublishing.com quoting BGAWP14. |
| “A Particle of Clay” | Judith Niechcial’s biography of her father, Sir Alec Skempton, available from Whittles Publishing – see above. |
5 ECSMGE XVI – EDINBURGH: 13 – 15 September 2015:
| Good news for authors | Proceedings | Will be included/indexed in Scopus, Google Scholar and to be sent for inclusion in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index |
| Keynote Lectures announced | Titles are provisional and subject to change.) | · The Contribution of Monitoring to Resilient Infrastructure and Development: Professor Kenichi Soga (University of Cambridge, UK).· Geotechnical Engineering for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure: Professor António Gomes Correia (Universidade do Minho, Portugal).
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| 12 months to go! | 16th European Conf on Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering | The BGA is pleased to be hosting this prestigious event in Edinburgh in just over a year’s time. Please promote to as wide an audience as possible – contact me if you need a further copy of the promotional slide |
| Acknowledgment of Abstracts | If you’ve not heard from the organisers, please check your Spam Box as particularly robust firewalls have been known to reject auto-generated e-mails! | |
| Keep up to date with developments! | LinkedIn Group set-up | Receive all the latest news on this important event (all are welcome):http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5021708&trk=group-name |
| opportunities still available | Exhibition & Sponsorship | Brochure at http://xvi-ecsmge-2015.org.uk/?page_id=434Bookings at http://xvi-ecsmge-2015.org.uk/?page_id=52 |
6 LINKED-IN
| Have you joined yet? | BGA LinkedIn Group | All BGA members pre-approved for membership of the Group | To preserve the group as a useful forum to discuss geotechnical matters and BGA business, please respect the rules: nothing political, nothing offensive, no job vacancies, no overt promotions – thank you!http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5061912 |
| Have a look! | Associated Societies | LinkedIn Account | Keep up to date with all the Associated Societies’ activities at Associated Societies of the Institution of Civil Engineers |