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.
Book now for Fleming Award event next week – 10 December 2014
John Mitchell Award Lecture – Tuesday 13 January 2015
Crossrail Technical Paper Competition – Wednesday 28 January 2015
BGA/EGGS evening lecture – Rammed Earth: 11 February 2015
ICE Conference – Engineering Underground Space 2015 – Innovating Infrastructure – 18 February 2015
GE Awards extended entry deadline – 23 January 2015
Keynote lectures announced for ECSMGE in Edinburgh: 13-15 September 2015
| MISSED IT? | 15October 2014 – 6.00 pm | Joint Evening Meeting with IGS | “Geosynthetics – Design & specification, the way forward” by Steve Corbet of AECOM. Recording now available to view online at |
| 12 November | Geotechnical Engineering Lecture | Dr Fleur Loveridge presented her paper written with Prof William Powrie on “Pile heat exchangers: thermal behaviour andinteractions”. View online at: http://vimeo.com/icegroup/review/112823727/466feadfa0 |
| 4 December 2014 – 6.00 pm | IGS/EGGS Joint Mtg & AGM | Burlington House: The future of Geosynthetics by Peter Assinder | |
| Booking essential to attend in person or view online | 10 December 2014 | Fleming Award | Sponsored by Skanska – see BGA Website for full details; registration essential at ice.org.uk/fleming14 |
| 14-21 December 2014 | ICE and Snow | Designed for young people and children accompanied by adults, the event attracts professional engineers and their families from around the UK and is an opportunity for graduates and students and unaccompanied or accompanied like-minded professionals to gather in a unique, inspiring environment(Meribel, France. Full details at http://www.ice.org.uk/Education/ICE-SNOW | |
| Employer Ownership Fund - open until December | Follow up fund to the Employer Ownership Pilot, | For further information, see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employer-ownership-improving-engineering-careers or https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/employer-ownership-developing-women-engineers |
| NEW! Online booking now open | 13 January 2015 – 18:30 | John Mitchell Award Lecture | Colin Eddie of Morgan Sindall will present his own perspective on the past, present and future of tunnelling; registration essential at http://www.ice.org.uk/goingunderground |
| New! Extended entry deadline | 23 January 2015 | GE Awards | London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane: contact George Thornton on +44 (0) 20 7391 4530 or george.thornton@emap.com to submit entries; full details at www.geawards.com |
| NEW – deadline for comments | 31 January 2015 | BS5930 (2015) revision Draft for Public Comment | The draft available for online comment has been revised to include the correct version of Figure 6 and Table 7. The new version is available at the following link: http://drafts.bsigroup.com/Home/Details/54026. |
| New – booking open | 11 February | BGA/EGGS Joint Evening Lecture | Peter Walker of the University of Bath will talk about “Rammed earth: a beautiful and sustainable construction material”. Book online at http://www.ice.org.uk/Event?ID=3213. |
| NEW! Booking now open – early bird discounts until 19 December | 18 February 2015 | ICE Conference – Engineering Underground Space 2015 – Innovating Infrastructure | Chaired by Prof Robert Mair. Discount available for BGA members. Full details and registration at: http://www.ice-conferences.com/ice-engineering-underground-space/ |
| NEW | 28 February 2015 – 6.00 pm | Crossrail 2014 Technical Paper Competition | At ICE – winners’ presentations; advance registration not required but contact christiandodge@crossrail.co.uk or 020 3229 9984 for information |
| 20 May 2015 | NEC Users' Group Annual Seminar 2015. | ||
| NEW! | 10 June 2015 | GE Awards Event | London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane: contact George Thornton on +44 (0) 20 7391 4530 or george.thornton@emap.com to submit entries; full details at www.geawards.com; £150 per table discount for BGA members. |
| NEW! | 8-9 September 2015 | Construction Industry Council | Construction Industry Summit: Government and Industry in Partnership - London |
| 22 September 2014 | BGA Early Career Group Meeting | Prof Brian Simpson and Georgios Katsigiannis on “How Eurocode 7 Gets Misunderstood” - presentation slides now available at: http://www.workshopec7.com/ | |
| BGA sponsored delegate | EYGEC 2015 - DURHAM | Regional Geotechnical Groups are invited to propose a young engineer (aged less than 34 on 31st December 2014) from within their region as a candidate for BGA sponsorship to attend this prestigious conference immediately preceding the ECSMGE in Edinburgh next September. Often regional candidates are selected by competition for best paper submitted. Contact details for your regional group are on the new BGA website at http://britishgeotech.org/about-us/regional-groups/ | |
| New | Report | EYGEC 2014 | Read the BGA Sponsored delegates’ report of the Conference in Barcelona last September in Ground Engineering |
| New | ISSMGE Bulletin | 23rd European Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (EYGEC-2014) | Positive feedback received from several participants indicating a profitable and enjoyable experience; the electronic version of the Proceedings can be downloaded from: https://www.etcg.upc.edu/congressos/eygec-2014/docs/EYGEC2014.pdf and photos taken during the Conference are available in:https://www.etcg.upc.edu/congressos/eygec-2014/photo-gallery |
| ISSMGE | Webinar by Dr. Cor Zwanenburg on the Geotechnical Aspects of Peats. | ||
| Deadline Extension | EUROCK 2015 | 7-10 October 2015 – ISRM Regional Symposium and 64th Geomechanics Colloquium in Saltzburg, Austria; see www.EUROCK2015.com | |
| Deadline Extension | 15 December 2014 | Albanian Geotechnical Society (AGS) | 26, 27 & 28 November 2015 -Tirana, Albania. International Conference on: Geo-Environment and Construction – see BGA website |
| Abstract deadline | VIETROCK 2015 | 12-13 March 2015: Hanoi, Vietnam; see http://www.vietrocknet.org/ for further information | |
| ISRM | 2016 Rocha Award | See http://www.isrm.net for full details and submit nominations to secretariat.isrm@lnec.pt; |
| REMINDER | 5 January 2015 | Full paper submission | IMCET2015: International Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey held in WOW Kremlin Palace & Topkapı Palace Hotel, Kundu/Antalya, Turkey, April 14-17, 2015 |
| ISRM | 12-13 March 2015 | VIETROCK 2015 | Hanoi, Vietnam; see http://www.vietrocknet.org/ for further information |
| 14-17 April 2015 | IMCET2015: | International Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey held in WOW Kremlin Palace & Topkapı Palace Hotel, Kundu/Antalya, Turkey | |
| 1-2 May 2015 | ISP7-PRESSIO 2015 | The International Symposium for the 60th Anniversary of the pressuremeter “ISP7” organised by the Tunisian Association of Soil Mechanics (ATMS) as part of the 16th ARCSMGE from 27-30 April 2015 in Hammamet, Tunisia. full details at www.cramsg2015.org | |
| ISRM | 10-13 May 2015 | ISRM Congress | Montreal, Canada – full details at www.isrm2015.com |
| ISRM | 12 May 2015 | In conjunction with
ISRM Congress in Montreal |
Shale and Rock Mechanics Workshop, as Applied to Slopes, Tunnels, Mines and Hydrocarbon Extraction. Details at www.isrm2015.com |
| 14-15 May 2015 | 9th Int’l Industrial Minerals Symposium | İzmir, Turkey; full details at www.indmin.org | |
| NEW! | 4-6 June 2015 | 2nd Int’l Course on Geotechnical and Structural Monitoring | “Castle of Poppi,” Tuscany, Italy. Run by John Dunnicliff, Consulting Engineer; 10% discount for BGA members. For more information, visit: www.geotechnicalmonitoring.com contact:secretariat@geotechnicalmonitoring.com; |
| 10 –12 June 2015 | 3rd Int’l Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics | Oslo, Norway: Symposium under auspices of TC209 - full details at www.isfog2015.no – will also host ISSMGE Third McLelland Honor Lecture to be given by Knut H. Andersen. | |
| CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | 15 June 2015 | 2nd Int’l Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy | 3-5 November 2015 - Brussels: under the auspices of EAGE. |
| 14-16 June 2015 | 3rd Int’l Conf on the Flat Dilatometer DMT | Under the auspices of TC 102/ISSMGE – in Rome; see BGA website or http://www.issmge.org/en/conferences-and-events/conferences-issmge/eventdetail/560/-/3rd-international-conference-on-the-flat-dilatometer-dmt15 ) for further information | |
| Rocks | 28 June – 1 July 2015 | 49th US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium | Westin St. Francis, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA; full information from Peter Smeallie at smeallie@verizon.net or visit www.armasymposium.org |
| ISRM | 7-10 October 2015 | EUROCK 2015 | ISRM Regional Symposium and 64th Geomechanics Colloquium in Saltzburg, Austria; see www.EUROCK2015.com |
| 13-15 October 2015 | 5th Int’l Symposium for Geotechnical Safety and Risk | Rotterdam, Netherlands; full details and preliminary programme at isgsr2015.org | |
| 2– 4November 2015 | Mini-Symposia:6ICEGE | Christchurch, New Zealand; full details at http://www.6icege.com/ and suggestions to brendon.bradley@canterbury.ac.nz | |
| 2– 4November 2015 | 6ICEGE
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6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering - Christchurch, New Zealand. | |
| 3-5 November 2015 | 2nd Int’l Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy | Brussels: under the auspices of EAGE. | |
| 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/ | |
| 26, 27 & 28 November 2015 | Albanian Geotechnical Society (AGS) | Tirana, Albania. International Conference on: Geo-Environment and Construction – see BGA website |
| October 2014 | Géotechnique Newsletter | http://www.elabs10.com/functions/message_view.html?mid=3428405&mlid=12974&siteid=2010001471&uid=a2679651e8 | |
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Latest bulletin | ISSMGE | http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/issmge-bulletin/676-vol-8-issue-5-october-2014 |
| ISSMGE | Webinar series launched – appx every 2 months ,.usually towards the end of or beginning of the month. | ||
| ISSMGE | International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories – now indexed at Georef Database | ||
| free! | Environmental Geotechnics | Please click the following link to access http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/serial/envgeo | |
| 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 | |
| Issue 3 of Volume 1 just published | Geotechnical Research July 2014 (vol 1, issue 3) | Geotechnical Research | ICE Publishing’s first Gold Open Access journals
Contact a.mcanena@icepublishing.com for further details. |
| Recently launched journal | 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/ |
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| November issues now available | CIC Newsletter | Now published twice a month | Much of the information will be available on the website at www.cic.org.uk but let me know if you would like me to forward the newsletter to you. |
| ICE journal launched | Bio- and Chemo- Mechanical Processes in Geotechnical Engineering | Edited by Lyesse Laloui –contains the papers selected for the seventeenth Géotechnique Symposium in Print and covers a wide range of geotechnical processes;see http://www.elabs10.com/functions/message_view.html?mid=3379618&mlid=47022&siteid=2010001480&uid=20f73537ea for further details. | |
| Launch of Journal – first papers published January 2015 | Editors in Chief: Tomasz Hueckel and Lyesse Laloui | Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment | Publishing high quality research results of lasting importance on geomechanics, focussing on applications to geological energy production and storage, and the interaction of soils and rocks with the natural and engineered environment. Detailed instructions of how to prepare manuscripts at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/geomechanics-for-energy-and-the-environment/2352-3808/guide-for-authors |
8 ECSMGE XVI – EDINBURGH: 13 – 15September 2015:
| 9 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 under 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 |
| 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.) |
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| Keep up to date with developments! | LinkedIn Group set-up | Receive all the latest news on this important event (all are welcome): |
| opportunities still available | Exhibition & Sponsorship | Brochure at http://xvi-ecsmge-2015.org.uk/?page_id=434
Bookings at http://xvi-ecsmge-2015.org.uk/?page_id=52 |