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
| Wednesday 11 May | Joint BGA ECG meeting with BTSYM | Kathmandu Soil: Obstacles and Opportunities: recording now available at https://vimeo.com/167432540 | |
| Wednesday 18 May – 6.00 pm | Joint evening meeting with OES | Blue Piling Technology by Jasper Winkes – recording now available to BGA and OES members only: contact shelagh.fleming@ice.org.uk or katherine.coldwell@ice.org.uk for link | |
| 2016 Annual Conference & Exhibition | Wednesday 15 June | A full day conference showcasing the best of British research and practice in geotechnical engineering, with leading speakers from research and industry, an academic poster display, and an industry exhibition.
Thanks are due to our many corporate sponsors for their support which enabled us to offer this event free to BGA members and friends and provide extensive and enjoyable networking opportunities. |
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| BGA AGM - Elections | Wednesday 15 June | Executive Committee Changes | Ray Hobbs, Patrick Cox and Sergio Solera elected as Profs Kenichi Soga and Gopal Madabhushi both retired and Prof Stephan Jefferis assumed chairmanship; John Coggan of University of Exeter now represents ISRM interests in place of Gareth Swift. |
| BGA AGM - Subscriptions | 2017 Subscriptions - held at 2016 rates | £66 for ICE UK based members, £71 for non-ICE UK based members; £40 for standard students and retired members; add £10 for dual international membership; add £21 for overseas membership; £20 for Concessionary Students (first year only); free for Retired Life Members. | |
| BGA AGM – Prizes | BGA Medal 2015 | Quality and quantity created problems for the Review Panel but after much deliberation the 2015 Medal was awarded to Prof Hai-Sui Yu, Alec Marshall and Pin-Qiang Mo for their paper “Centrifuge modelling of cone penetration tests in layered soils” published in Géotechnique 65 No 6. | |
| BGA AGM - Prizes | BGA Masters Prize 2015 | £500 won by Iona Richards of Oxford University for her dissertation on “The response of piles in clay to lateral loading” which she presented at the Annual Conference | |
| BGA AGM - Prizes | BGA Cooling Prize 2016 | Helen Dunne of Oxford University presented with engraved Crystal Decanter and other prizes for her presentation “Finite element limit analysis of rectangular mudmats subject to combined loads” given first in Cardiff on 10th March 2016 and at the Annual Conference |
FORTHCOMING UK EVENTS 2016 The ICE Bar will be open after all BGA 2016 Lectures to enable members to network with fellow participants – please support this initiative and make the most of the facilities available.It would be really helpful if you could let us know if your commitments prevent you from attending an event for which you have previously registered so that a) someone else may do so and b) we have a full theatre.
| New – deadline extension | 25 July 2016 | ICE Coasts, Marine Structures & Breakwaters Conference 2017 | 5-7 September 2017- Liverpool: https://www.ice.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-breakwaters |
| 1-2 September 2016 | MTGS 2016 | Meeting of Teachers of Geotechnical Subjects: Edinburgh Napier University: contact Dr Daniel Barreto - d.barreto@napier.ac.uk for further information | |
| 12-15 September | Int’l Conference on Scour and Erosion | Under the auspices of ISSMGE TC 213 at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford – see http://www.icse2016.com/ for further information. | |
| New: ICE West Midlands | 14 September 2016 | Re-engineering our cities’ conference | Coventry: further information at https://www.ice.org.uk/events/re-engineering-our-cities-coventry |
| Wednesday 28 September | BGA Evening Meeting | Chris Ford of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to speak on “Lessons from landslips affecting Network Rail infrastructure”. Further details in due course. | |
| 20-21 Sept 2016 | Construction Industry Summit: | full details at http://www.constructionindustrysummit.com/conference-programme/ | |
| New | Wednesday 12 October | Joint BGA/IGS invitational lecture | George R Koerner – “Geomembrane Performance in Landfill”; booking details available shortly. |
| New | Friday 28 October 2016 | ICE Transport Asset Management Conference 2016 | Full details at https://www.ice.org.uk/events/ice-transport-asset-management-2016 |
| NEW | 16 November 2016 | Geotechnical Engineering Lecture | “Geotechnical Engineering: the art of burying success” by Prof Jørgen S Steenfelt |
| NEW | 7 December 2016 | Fleming Award Competition | Keynote lecture: “Geotechnical Characterisation: Recent Developments and applications” by Tony O’Brien |
FORTHCOMING UK EVENTS 2017
| NEW | 11 January 2017 | ICE John Mitchell Award Lecture | Dr Andrew Ridley –further details to be announced |
| 5-7 September 2017 | ICE Coasts, Marine Structures & Breakwaters Conference 2017 | Liverpool: https://www.ice.org.uk/events/call-for-papers-breakwaters | |
| 6-7 September 2017 | 2nd Conf: Coupled phenomena in environmental geotechnics | Leeds: call for papers to be announced in September 2016 | |
| 12-14 Sept 2017 | SUT 8th Int’l Conf | Offshore Site Investigation & Geotechnics Committee: “Smarter Solutions for Future Offshore Developments” – London |
| New | 1 August 2016 | new system of Post Graduate Student Loans starts | Announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year, new master's students will be able to apply for Student Loans Company loans of up to £10,000 to pay for their courses. See Martin Lewis’ information and advice at http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/postgraduate-loans. |
| New | 26 August 2016 | Deadline for entry to NEC Graduate Awards | Graduates from a first or post-graduate civil engineering, or related, degree course in 2014 or 2015 and in the first two years of post-graduate employment are eligible to share in a £4,000 prize pot and act as an ambassador to the profession. Full details at graduates.newcivilengineer.com. Simply complete the FREE online entry form. Employers may also be recognised. |
| NEW | 20 October 2016 | BGA ECG Event | At ICE Westminster: The role of numerical modelling in the design of major rock engineering projects” by Anastasios Stavrou; further details available shortly |
| New | City University | new MSc Course in Temporary Works and Construction Method Engineering – see www.britishgeotech.org.uk for flyer or e-mail smcsepg@city.ac.uk for further information and to apply |
PUBLICATIONS
| Extended to 2016 | Special offer for BGA members | Canadian Geotechnical Journal | Access all content electronically from CGJ from 1996 to 2015 for just $50 US instead of $246 US. E-mail nrcresearchpress-csp@subscriptionoffice.com and type “CGJ_BGA personal subscription” in the subject field; you will need your BGA membership number. Full details on BGA website. |
| Digest on BGA website | ISSMGE | News & Information Circular and
Latest bulletin |
See BGA website and http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/issmge-bulletin/799-vol-10-issue-3-june-2016
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| Bi-monthly webinars | ISSMGE | Webinar series – appx every 2 months, usually towards the end of or beginning of the month http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/recorded-webinars. | |
| NEW | ISRM | International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Geomechanics for Gas Petroleum & Water | New journal exclusively dedicated to all ISRM members globally and all National Groups; see online version at http://ijrmg.upg-ploiesti.ro/index.php. Members encouraged to submit papers for peer review. For further information or contribute proposals and ISSMGE observations for the journal’s success, contact the Editor-in-chief at ijrmg.office@gmail.com. |
OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES 2016
| ISSMGE – abstract deadline | 15 June 2016 | 9th Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Constructions in Soft Ground | 4-6 April 2017: São Paulo, Brazil. Under the auspices of ISSMGE TC 204. Coinciding with 4th Brazilian Tunnelling Congress and Latin American Tunnelling Seminar. Full details at www.is-saopaulo.com.; abstracts due by 15th June but extension may be granted. |
| ISRM | 29-31 August 2016 | EUROCK 2016 | Cappadocia, Turkey - see www.eurock2016.org for details. |
| 4-7 September 2016 | 3rd Int’l Conf on Transportation Geotechnics | Guimarães, Portugal, full details at http://civil.uminho.pt/3rdEICTG2016$ | |
| 5-9 September 2016 | 5th Int’l Conf on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia: under auspices of TC102, ISSMGE; full details at www.ISC5.com.au | |
| 5 September 2016 | Flat Dilatometer and Seismic Dilatometer Workshop | At ISC’5, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia: www.ISC5.com.au | |
| ISRM | 12-14 September 2016 | Ground Support 2016 | 8th Int’l Symposium on Ground Support in Mining and Underground Construction at Kulturens Hus in Luleå, Sweden. Full details at http://groundsupport2016.com/ |
| Relocated | 25-28 September 2016 | 6th European Geosynthetics Congress | Ljubljana instead of Istanbul - Turkish chapter of IGS: http://www.eurogeo6.org. programme unchanged. |
| 11-13 October 2016 | 9th All Ukrainian Scientific Technical Conference | Dnipropetrovsk: “Soil Mechanics, Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering: Problems, Innovations and Implementation of Eurocodes in Ukraine”. See http://britishgeotech.org/?p=2524. Under the auspices of ISSMGE. | |
| 14-18 November 2016 | 13th Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies | EPFL, Lausanne – see www.ghgt.info for further information
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| 24-25 November 2016 | 3rd Int’l Conf GEOTEC 2016 | Hanoi: 24-25 November – keynote speaker list includes Dr Jamie Standing of Imperial College; see www.geotechn.vn |
overseas activities 2017
| 9-13 January 2017 | 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering | Santiago, Chile; full details at http://16wcee.com/ | |
| 18-20 January 2017 | Int’l Workshop | 2½ days on “Advances in Laboratory Testing and Modelling of Soils and Shales”, in Swiss Alps. Details at http://atmss.epfl.ch | |
| New | 4-6 April 2017 | 9th Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Constructions in Soft Ground | São Paulo, Brazil. Under the auspices of ISSMGE TC 204. Coinciding with 4th Brazilian Tunnelling Congress and Latin American Tunnelling Seminar. Full details at www.is-saopaulo.com.; abstracts due by 15th June but extension may be granted. |
| 4-6 June 2017 | Geo-Risk 2017
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Denver, Colorado: ASCE /Geo-institute conference on “Geotechnical Risk from Theory to Practice”; full details at www.georiskconference.org | |
| 21-22 June 2017 | EUROCK 2017 | Ostrava, Czech Republic – further details at www.eurock2017.cz shortly. | |
| 9-12 July 2017 | Grouting 2017 | Honolulu, Hawaii; full details at https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/NDvNBt2ORkSx?domain=submissions.mira | |
| 15-17 July 2017 | GeoMEast 2017 Int’l Conf | Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt http://www.geomeast2017.org/ | |
| 17-22 September 2017 | ICSMGE 2017 | Seoul, Korea: further details available in due course from http://www.icsmge2017.org/ | |
| 12-15 November 2017 | 2nd Pan Am Conf | Dallas: PanAm-UNSAT 2017: The Second Pan American Conference on Unsaturated Soils, |