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.
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: From 2019 advance registration is no longer required for most BGA events which will hopefully encourage fuller theatres. But please check the start times for lectures on the BGA website to ensure you don’t miss anything!
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. PAST EVENTS 2018
| Wednesday 26 September | Critical State Soil Mechanics. | Patience please – we encountered technical difficulties with recording this lecture by Mike Jeffries but are working on it and will let you know as soon as it is available. | |
| Wednesday 17 October | Joint Evening meeting with IGS UK Chapter | Prof Jie Han on Geosynthetics in walls and roads: Recent US research and developments; this event was recorded but is not yet available. | |
| Monday 22 October | Global Engineering Congress | Dr Jamie Standing of Imperial College led the GEC Evening programme with a talk on tunnelling in London;all the GEC lectures were recorded and we will let you have details in due course | |
| Wednesday 31 October | ICE Geotechnical Engineering Proceedings Lecture | The recording of Dr Michael Pender’s Lecture on Shallow Foundation Capacity - Bearing Strength Surface Insights is available at https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/shallow-foundation-capacity-london. You will need your BGA or ICE membership number to access it for the next three months though. | |
| Wednesday 21 November | BGA Evening Lecture by Annette Esnault Filet of Soletanche Bachy | Grouting and Strengthening of Low Permeability Soil Using Biocalcis;recording available in due course. |
| Book here! | Thursday 6 December | Fleming Award Competition 2018, sponsored by Cementation Skanska | After close competition three teams have been chosen to compete live at this event celebrating the life of Dr Ken Fleming and emphasising project teamwork.Full details including shortlist on the BGA website at https://www.britishgeotech.org/prizes/fleming-award |
3. FUTURE EVENTS 2019
| Book here! | Wednesday 23 January; registration, refreshments at 18:00, lecture starts at 18:30 | John Mitchell Award Lecture | Clif Kettle of Clif Kettle Consulting Ground Treatment - 40 years from Black Art to Fully Engineered Solution |
| Deadline for entries | Thursday 31 January | BGA Medal 2018 | Rules and application forms for the 2018 competition will be posted on the BGA website shortly. |
| Deadline for entries | Thursday 31 January | BGA MSc/MEng Prize | Tutors are invited to nominate the best dissertation from their educational establishment;prize of £500 and the chance for the winning student to present their paper at the Annual Conference. |
| Booking not required | Wednesday 6 February:refreshments at 17:30, lecture starts at 18:00 | Joint evening lecture with EGGS at Burlington House | Mike Winter and Ian Nettleton speaking on “Innovative Geotechnical Slope Repair Techniques: Part of Highways England’s Geotechnical Resilience Programme” |
| Special event – booking not required | Tuesday 19 February;refreshments at 17:30, lecture starts at 18:00 | Joint BGA/BTS evening meeting | David Hartwell, awarded the BGA Skempton Medal in 2017, on aspects of his career |
| Special event – booking not required | Tuesday 5 March, refreshments at 18:00, presentations start at 18:30 | 50th Cooling Prize Competition | At ICE Westminster: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 at https://www.britishgeotech.org/prizes/cooling-prize |
| Booking not required | Wednesday 20 March;refreshments at 17:00, lecture starts at 17:30 | 59th Rankine Lecture | At Imperial College London;Prof George Gazetas (National Technical University, Athens);Free to attend but early arrival recommended. |
| Watch this space! | Wednesday 20 March:; pre-dinner drinks at 19:30, dinner served at 20:00 | 59th Rankine Dinner | At Imperial College London;application forms for individual tickets/tables and instructions will be sent to BGA members shortly and available to download from the BGA website in mid-December.Completed forms to be returned to bga@ice.org.uk by 31 December. |
| Booking not required | Wednesday 10 April; refreshments at 17:30, lecture starts at 18:00 | BGA Evening Lecture | Rory O’Rourke of Datum will speak on Monitoring to answer the requirements of SPERWall |
| Tuesday 30 April; refreshments at 18:30, lecture starts at 18:30 | BGA ECG event | Topic and speaker to be advised | |
| Wednesday 15 May; refreshments at 17:30, lecture starts at 18:00 | BGA Evening Lecture | European Codes and Development in the Design of Ground Anchors by Dr Devon Mothersille of Geoserve Global | |
| Booking required | Wednesday 19 June:all day event. | Annual Conference and AGM | Celebrating the BGA’s 70th Anniversary;full details available in due course. |
4. FUTURE EVENTS 2020
| Date for your Diary | September 2020 | Piling 2020 | University of Durham – further details available on BGA website shortly. |
5. YOUNG ENGINEERS
| 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! |
| Reminder - deadline | 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 |
| DEADLINE:18 JANUARY 2019 | 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 at https://www.britishgeotech.org/prizes/cooling-prize |
6. GROUND FORUM
| Updated site http://www.ground-forum.org.uk/includes 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 |
7. 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). | |
| 23 October 2018 | 09 January 2019 | Those becoming Chartered within the last 12 months can apply with a simplified application process at a reduced cost of £30 | |
| 22 January 2019 | 2 April 2019 | Visit ice.org.uk/rogep for further details or contactregisters@ice.org.uk | |
| 23 April 2019 | 2 July 2019 | ||
| 23 July 2019 | 1 October 2019 | ||
| 22 October 2019 | 8 January 2020 |
8. PUBLICATIONS
| Chalk 2018 | Proceedings | Electronic copies can be purchased via BGA Website; Hard copies via https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/ | |
| 2019 Geotechnique themed issue | Embedded foundations under complex loading | Abstracts were due in September but contact Dr Michael Brown at Dundee University http://www.dundee.ac.uk/scienceengineering/staff/profile/michael-brown to see if an extension is possible.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fv8auFoEVE2iyXrYxmmViFIOLLLtHxiO/view | |
| Online Access problems | Ground Engineering | If you are experiencing difficulty logging on to the GE Members’ Area please contact the GE Editor direct atClaire.Smith@emap.com; she will ask the corporate subscriptions department to resolve it for you. | |
| update | ICE Informs | October 2018 | contactjoanna.gonet@ice.org.ukfor further information. |
| The Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists | AGS Magazine – September/October 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. View at https://issuu.com/ags-magazine/docs/ags-magazine-september-october-2018?e=31942944/64797994 or Contact ags@ags.org.ukfor 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 | ISSMGE | News & Information Circular and Latest bulletins | For news and information about Webinars, Technical Committees, Conferences and ISSMGE Foundation Awards, you can find the latest news and information circular at https://www.issmge.org/news |
| 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. |
9. OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES 2018
| 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.http://www.igb.tuwien.ac.at/en/ccc/ | ||
| New – abstract deadline extended | 30 November 2018 | 2019 US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium | Deadline for abstracts extended to 30 November 2018; info atinfo@armarocks.org. | |
| 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. Participants are encouraged to submit a video abstract for promoting their research findings. Video abstracts are intended to emphasize the scientific contents of a contribution and provide an alternative means to publicise technical development work and innovative ideas. Please see details of the submission at http://www.hkges.org/JTC1_2nd/submission.html. The selected video abstracts will be displayed at the Worop and uploaded to the website of the Workshop. | ||
10. OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES 2019
| 2019 | ISRM Rocha Medal Award | Dr Qinghua Lei, Lecturer & Senior Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland has been awarded this prestigious Medal | |
| 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. | |
| 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/formation/energy-geostructures-analysis-design/ | |
| New | 23-26 June 2019 | 2019 US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium | Deadline for abstracts extended to 30 November 2018; info atinfo@armarocks.org. |
| 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. |
11. LinkedIn
| 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 |