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.
2015 is shaping up to be as busy as ever for BGA members with lots of exciting events planned for 2015, most notably the XVI ECSMGE Conference in September in Edinburgh. Please visit the BGA website atwww.britishgeotech.org.uk for full details of all BGA events - flyers and booking arrangements will be available here as soon as possible.
John Mitchell Award Lecture – Tuesday 13 January 2015
OES event: Offshore Windfarm Foundations Wednesday 14 January 2015
Rankine Dinner 2015 Tickets go on sale – Wednesday 14 January 2015
Cooling Prize entry deadline – Friday 16 January 2015
GE Awards extended entry deadline – Friday 23 January 2015
Crossrail Technical Paper Competition – Wednesday 28 January 2015
BGA Medal entry deadline – Saturday 31 January 2015
ECG Event: ICE Professional Reviews for Geotechnical Engineers – Monday 9 February 2015
BGA/EGGS evening lecture – Rammed Earth: Wednesday 11 February 2015
ICE Conference – Engineering Underground Space 2015 – Innovating Infrastructure – Wednesday 18 February 2015
Keynote lectures announced for ECSMGE in Edinburgh: 13-15 September 2015
| MISSED IT? | 10 December | Fleming Award 2014 | View recording here: http://vimeo.com/icegroup/review/116234165/139a9484f3 |
| 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 |
| Online viewing link | If you can’t attend in person watch on-line at https://ice-org.webex.com/ice-org/onstage/g.php?MTID=ed84690e5e00a957d267c10ee19fb3507 | ||
| NEW! | 14 January 2015 – 18:00 | OES | Ben Wysome speaking about Offshore Windfarm Foundations – book online at http://www.ice.org.uk/Event?ID=3267 or contact jacqueline.finch@ice.org.uk for further information. |
| 14 January | Rankine Dinner Tickets | On sale from Wednesday 14th January at http://www.ice.org.uk/Event?ID=3171 | |
| 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 |
| 28 January 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 | |
| NEW! Entry deadline | 31 January 2015 | BGA Medal Entries | For papers published in calendar year 2014 – see BGA website for www.britishgeotech.org.uk for entry requirements – send to Shelagh.fleming@ice.org.uk |
| 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– call for abstracts | 1 February 2015. | Int’l Symposium on Geohazards & Geomechanics | 10-11 September 2015: Warwick University – Full details at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/news/?newsItem=094d434549f0dad4014a3dc5a4b218ed |
| NEW! | 9 February 2015 – 1800 hours | Early Career group Members Event | ICE Professional Reviews for Geotechnical Engineers: Guidance by Mike Rogers, Professional Development Manager, ICE, and David Beadman, Directory Byrne Looby Partners; at WSP House, 70 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AF. Contact joseph.murphy@tonygee.com for further information and registration. |
| 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. |
| 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 | 18 March 2015 afternoon | Pre-Rankine workshop | At Imperial College – details to be announced |
| NEW | 18 March 2015 17: 30 hours | Rankine Lecture 2015 | Dr Suzanne Lacasse (NGI) on “Hazxard, Riskl and Reliability in Geotechnical Practice”; Imperial College; no advance registration but arrive in good time as places at a premium; tea at 17:00 hours. |
| NEW | 18 March 2015 19: 30 hours | Rankine Dinner 2015 | Tickets now on sale at £85 per person; a maximum of 2 tables of 10 places may be purchased. No provisional bookings accepted and tickets sold strictly on a first-come, first-served basis. Credit card payments only. Book online at http://www.ice.org.uk/Event?ID=3171 from Wednesday 14th January. |
| 20 May 2015 | NEC Users' Group Annual Seminar 2015. | ||
| 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. | |
| 8-9 September 2015 | Construction Industry Council | Construction Industry Summit: Government and Industry in Partnership – London | |
| New | 10-11 September 2015 | Int’l Symposium on Geohazards & Geomechanics | Warwick University – abstracts due 1st February 2015. Full details at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/news/?newsItem=094d434549f0dad4014a3dc5a4b218ed |
| NEW! REMINDER | 16 January 2015 | Cooling Prize 2015 | Entries to be submitted to Shelagh.fleming@ice.org.uk; full details at http://britishgeotech.org/prizes/cooling-prize/ |
| Report | EYGEC 2014 | Read the BGA Sponsored delegates’ report of the Conference in Barcelona last September in Ground Engineering | |
| 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 | |
| ICE Textbooks | for undergraduates | ICE Textbooks have been created as concise introductions to 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. |
| New | 2-4 December 2014 | ISSMGE – TC 213 | Report on 7th Int’l Conf on Scour and Erosion which took place in Scarborough near Perth, Western Australia will shortly be available at www.britishgeotech.org.uk. |
| EXTENDED DEADLINE | 15 January 2015 | 2nd Int’l Course on Geotechnical and Structural Monitoring | “Castle of Poppi,” Tuscany, Italy (4-6 June 2015). Run by John Dunnicliff, Consulting Engineer; 10% discount for BGA members. For more information, visit: www.geotechnicalmonitoring.com contact:secretariat@geotechnicalmonitoring.com; |
| ISRM | 12-13 March 2015 | VIETROCK 2015 | Hanoi, Vietnam; see http://www.vietrocknet.org/ for further information |
| NEW! (Rocks etc) | 31 March 2015 | 2015 Stanford Online Geomechanics Course | Mark Zoback, immediate past president of ARMA and professor of earth science and geophysics at Stanford University, will again present his reservoir geomechanics class online starting on 31 March 2015 via Stanford Online. The course is free but online registration is essential - further information at https://class.stanford.edu/courses/EarthSciences/ResGeo202/Spring2015/about |
| Registration now open | 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 | |
| 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 |
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New |
Latest bulletin | ISSMGE | http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/issmge-bulletin/680-vol-8-issue-6-december-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 | ||
| New | 9th Newsletter | ISSMGE – TC211
Ground Improvement |
See BGA Website; topics covered are:
- nomination of the TC members by the Member Societies - International Symposium ISP7 PRESSIO 2015 - organization of WORKSHOP TC211 in Edinburgh (September 2015) - recent and upcoming events and activities related to TC211 |
| New | Volume 8
Serial 15 |
International Journal of GEOMATE | published and available to download full papers free of charge from: |
| 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 months to go! | 16th European Conf on Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering | The three Keynote Lecturers have appointed as have the six Invited Lecturers. A draft technical programme is available on the website and Registration is Now Open. http://xvi-ecsmge-2015.org.uk/ |
| Paper submission | The deadline for papers submission is closed and we have a record number of 700 papers submitted. The review process is now well underway and authors are beginning to receive feedback. Do not be concerned if you have not done so as yet – it is in hand. | |
| 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 |
| 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 |