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.
Dear BGA Member,
E-newsletters will now be distributed approximately every other month.
Flyers, booking arrangements and full details of all BGA events are available on the BGA website atwww.britishgeotech.org.uk.
Attending BGA Events in person: Please 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.
Corporate Sponsorship for Networking after BGA Lectures in London: members tell us they value mixing with other industry professionals when attending lectures in person and the BGA have been fortunate to secure corporate sponsorship for the ICE Café Bar to be open after Lectures – please support this initiative and make the most of the facilities available.
Recordings of past events on ICE website: for the first three months access is restricted to ICE and Society members who will need their membership number to do so.
International events are not generally listed in this newsletter unless organised under the auspices of ISSMGE Technical committees or ISRM; members are directed to http://britishgeotech.org/events/conferences/ or BGA social media (Linked In, Twitter and Facebook) for full details.
Headlines and Deadlines
NEXT YEAR
1. ANNUAL CONFERENCE – 19TH JUNE 2018
| AGM | Committee Elections | Chairman & Vice Chairman | Martin Preene and Kelvin Higgins serve as Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively for a further year |
| Treasurer and Secretary | Yvonne Ainsworth continues as Hon Treasurer and Nick Armstrong (who took over from Neil Smith in Autumn 2017) as Hon Secretary | ||
| Retiring Members | Kelvin Higgins (now VC), Rob Talby and Miguel Pacheco Andrade | ||
| Newly Elected Members | Hugo Wood, David Waring and Matthew Coop | ||
| Treasurer’s Report | 2019 Subscriptions | Agreed that Individual, standard student and retired member subscriptions increased by £3 concessionary student subscriptions remain at £20 retired life membership (electronic communication only and no int’l membership) remains free to those over 65 at 1st January if a paying member for more than 5 years; corporate membership increased by £10. | |
| Lectures | Wide range of presentations including Cooling Prize and Masters winners | ||
| Prize Giving | Cooling Prize | Joe Newhouse, Imperial College & Mott MacDonald | Ground movement due to shaft construction |
| BGA Medal | Olufemi Ajayi, Louis Le Pen, Antonis Zervos and William Powrie | A behavioural framework for fibre-reinforced gravel (Géotechnique, 67, No 1, 56-68) | |
| Masters Dissertation | Jack Templeton, University of Oxford | Numerical modelling of lateral buckling of subsea pipelines | |
| Skempton Medal | David J Hartwell | Awarded in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the practice ofgeotechnical engineering over a substantial periodof time. | |
| New Prize! | Best Annual Conference Academic Posters | (1)Deryck Chan (University of Cambridge) and (2)Hendarto Salim (Imperial College, London) | (1)Centrifuge modelling of basement heave in over-consolidated clay and (2)Land subsidence in Jakarta induced by water extraction in the last 100 years |
| Exhibition and refreshments in Great Hall | Networking opportunities during refreshment breaks with displays from 11 Commercial sponsors and exhibitors and 12 academic posters | ||
| Date for 2019 | Wednesday 19 June 2019 | BGA’s 70th Anniversary | Book it in your calendar! |
2. FUTURE EVENTS 2018
| New | Sunday 15 July | Short Course on Unsaturated Soil Mechanics | David Toll at the University of Cambridge.Part of the WindAfrica project (EPSRC Grant EP/P029434/1) investigating the behaviour of wind turbine foundations in unsaturated soils. Contact Talia da Silva with your name and affiliation (tsd30@cam.ac.uk) to see if any places remain. |
| New | 31 July 2018 and 12 September 2018 | AGS Event: early bird registration | Ground Risk: Why Take the Chance? A Lessons Learnt Conference:;Cavendish Conference Centre, London.early bird registration until 31st July;full details at https://www.ags.org.uk/2018/05/ags-ground-risk-con... |
| Newsletter No 9 now available | 17-18 September 2018 | Engineering in Chalk 2018 | BGA 2-day conference at Imperial College, London in association with the Engineering Group of the Geological Society; further details at http://www.chalk2018.org; registration open. |
| New! | Wednesday 26 September | Michael Jefferies of Golder Associates | “The Critical State of Soil Mechanics: 125 years of developments” at ICE Westminster – booking to open shortly |
| New! | Tuesday 2 October | BGA ECG | Around the World in 80 Minutes:ICE Westminster.Full details available soon |
| New! | Wednesday 17 October | Joint Evening meeting with IGS UK Chapter | Prof Jie Han on Geosynthetics in walls and roads: Recent US research and developments – booking to open shortly |
| New! | Monday 22 October | Global Engineering Congress | At ICE Westminster – Dr Jamie Standing of Imperial College speaking on tunnelling;see https://www.ice.org.uk/events/global-engineering-c... for full details |
| Wednesday 31 October | Geotechnical Engineering Proceedings Lecture | At ICE Westminster – topic and speaker to be advised | |
| New! | Wednesday 14 November | Glossop Lecture | At The Royal Institution;19th Glossop medalist, Dr Kevin Privett, on “The lines of evidence approach to challenges faced in engineering geological practice”; full details are available on the website https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/engineering |
| New | Wednesday 21 November | BGA Evening Lecture | Grouting and Strengthening of Low Permeability Soil Using Biocalcis by Annette Esnault Filet of Soletanche Bachy;further details available shortly |
| New | Thursday 6 December | Fleming Award Competition | Invitation to enter this event celebrating the life of Dr Ken Fleming and emphasising project teamwork will be circulated shortly. |
3. FUTURE EVENTS 2019
| New! | Wednesday 23 January | John Mitchell Award Lecture | Clif Kettle of Clif Kettle Consulting |
| New! | Wednesday 6 February | Joint evening lecture with EGGS | at Burlington House – topic and speaker to be advised |
| New! | Tuesday 19 February | Skempton Lecture | Special event – David Hartwell on aspects of his career |
| New! | Tuesday 5 March | 50th Cooling Prize Competition | Special event – Christine Cooling to give keynote address on the history of the Competition and her father’s work while the judges deliberate;rules and entry forms available in the autumn |
| New! | Wednesday 20 March | 59th Rankine Lecture and Dinner | Prof George Gazetas (National Technical University, Athens) at Imperial College London |
| New! | Wednesday 10 April | BGA Evening Lecture | Rory O’Rourke of Datum will speak on Monitoring to answer the requirements of SPERWall |
| New! | Tuesday 30 April | BGA ECG event | Topic and speaker to be advised |
| New | Wednesday 15 May | BGA Evening Lecture | European Codes and Development in the Design of Ground Anchors by Dr Devon Mothersille of Geoserve Global |
| New | Wednesday 19 June | Annual Conference and AGM | Celebrating the BGA’s 70th Anniversary |
4. YOUNG ENGINEERS
| 2-3 July 2018 | 15th BGA Young Geotechnical Engineers Symposium | YGES 2018|: University of Surrey:very successful event enjoyed by all;best presentation awarded to Sara Bandera from Imperial College London. | |
| Don’t miss out! | Early Career Group | Mailing List | Members and colleagues with an interest in ECG activities should email bga-ecg@britishgeotech.org.uk to join their mailing list – if you failed to confirm your consent to comply with GDPR regulations you may have “unsubscribed” accidently! |
| Play your part! | Early Career Group | Committee Officers required | Seeking new members to join the ECG committee, starting in October for a 1-2 year term, especially for Chair, Events Co-ordinator and Communications officer. Contact bga-ecg@britishgeotech.org.uk for information or express interest. |
| Next BGA ECG meeting | 2 October 2018 | BGA ECG event | At ICE Westminster:Around the World in 80 minutes – details to follow |
| Reminder - deadline | 31 May 2018 and 30 November 2018 | BGA Fund | Applications for a BGA Fund Award to assist students with expenditure such as field trips etc will be considered twice a year.Information and forms at https://www.britishgeotech.org/about-us/bga-fund |
| New | Tuesday 5 March | 50th Cooling Prize Competition | Special event – Christine Cooling to give keynote address on the history of the Competition and her father’s work while the judges deliberate;rules and entry forms available in the autumn |
5. GROUND FORUM
| Updated site http://www.ground-forum.org.uk/ includes changes to the home page and improved structure of the content, including non-BGA events of interest to ground engineers. | |||
| Brexit Digest | Brexit digest – a summary of articles from the media. Sign up for e-newsletter at http://cic.us6.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=6b20ea5b6c&id=f4c2b1fdc6 |
6. UK Register of Ground Engineering Professionals (RoGEP)
| Application Deadline | Result issued no later than | Apply to join the UK RoGEP if you are chartered with ICE; the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3); or the Geological Society London (GSL). | |
| 24 July 2018 | 02 October 2018 | Those becoming Chartered within the last 12 months can apply with a simplified application process at a reduced cost of £30 | |
| 23 October 2018 | 09 January 2019 | Visit ice.org.uk/rogep for further details or contact registers@ice.org.uk |
7. PUBLICATIONS
| New! | Until 20 July | Just launched - New ICE bookshop site | 30% Discount off all ICE Titles – but you will need to reset your password;contact bookshop@icepublishing.com if you have any issues |
| Online Access problems | Ground Engineering | If you are experiencing difficulty logging on to the GE Members’ Area please contact the GE Editor direct at Claire.Smith@emap.com; she will ask the corporate subscriptions department to resolve it for you. | |
| update | ICE Informs | June 2018 | Government Construction Strategy – ICE's 12 point plan How artificial intelligence can enhance infrastructure What does Brexit mean for infrastructure connectivity? ICE 200 – People and Projects Explore Engineering contact joanna.gonet@ice.org.uk for further information. |
| The Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists | AGS Magazine – March/April issue now available | AGS e-magazine, focussing on geotechnics, engineering geology and Geoenvironmental engineering as well as the work and achievements of the AGS, reviews topical issues, insights and concerns, publishes new guidance notes, working group activities and provides information on upcoming conferences and industry seminars. Contact ags@ags.org.uk for further information. | |
| 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.comand type “CGJ_BGA personal subscription” in the subject field; you will need your BGA membership number. Full details on BGA website. | |
| NOTE: Important information for members | ISSMGE | News & Information Circular and Latest bulletins | See BGA website and : https://www.issmge.org/news/issmge-news-information-circular-july-2018.Note items on: New TC 309 on Machine Learning and Big Data seeking new members – contact BGA if interested SSMGE Foundation – (applications by 1st August 2018) TCs and conferences |
| 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. |
8. OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES 2018
| Revised Date | 19-21 September 2018 | Int’l Conf on Geotechnical Engineering & Architecture | St Petersburg, Russia – under the auspices of ISSMGE TC 207 |
| 25-28 Sept 2018 | Int’l Symposium on Energy Geotechnics | Lausanne, Switzerland: under auspices of ISSMGE TC 308. full details at seg2018@epfl.ch; abstracts by 1st October 2017. | |
| 1-3 November 2018 | Symposium on advanced offshore engineering | Hanoi, Vietnam: under the auspices of TC 308 (Energy Geotechnics) and TC–209 (Offshore Geotechnics); call for papers now out. | |
| 24-28 November 2018 | GeoMEast 2018 | Cairo; full details and abstract submission by 15 December 2017 at http://www.geomeast2018.org/ | |
| 29 November 2018 | 40th Anniversary symposium | Vienna:launch of the roller integrated Continuous Compaction Control (CCC) celebration.Abstracts invited – http://www.igb.tuwien.ac.at/en/ccc/ | |
| Update available | 3-5 December 2018 | 2nd JTC1 Workshop | Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides in Hong Kong.http://www.hkges.org/JTC1_2nd/index.html |
9. OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES 2019
| 22-24 January 2019 | Winter School | "Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment",Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland;more information on program, venue and registration can be found on the dedicated webpage.Early bird registrations now open until 31st of October 2018. For further information contact gete-school@epfl.ch. | |
| New | 6-8 March 2019 | Energy Geostructures: Analysis and Design | Intensive Course at EPF Lausanne, 2nd Edition;full details at http://www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/en/form... |
| 26-28 June 2019 | 7th Int’l Symp on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials | IS-Glasgow 2019; ISSMGE TC101;Glasgow, UK: details athttps://www.is-glasgow2019.org.uk/abstract submission via website open now | |
| 1-6 September 2019 | XVII ECSMGE 2019 | Reykjavik, Iceland: details at www.ecsmge-2019.com | |
| 6-10 October 2019 | XVII ARCSMGE 2019 | 17thAfrican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa; Email: denis.kalumba@uct.ac.za | |
| 14-18 October 2019 | 16 ARC | Taipei:16th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering;abstracts due by 31 March 2018; details at www.16arc.org. |
10. 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 |