BGA News

Ground Engineering's monthly round-up of events from across the geotechnical sector.

Chalk and solution features are some of the key geohazards that have been mitigated by extensive geotechnical studies and ground investigations on National Highways’ proposed Lower Thames Crossing scheme, a geotechnical expert has said.

The British Geotechnical Association Early Career Group (BGA ECG) has elected Anglia Ruskin University’s Cacin Wong and Ramboll’s Palak Shukla as its new co-chairs.

The British Geotechnical Association has awarded the 2022 BGA Medal to the authors of a paper describing characterisation research conducted to aid the interpretation of field experiments on piles driven at the St Nicholas-at-Wade test site in the UK.

Ground Engineering's monthly round-up of events from across the geotechnical sector.

The British Geotechnical Association is asking its members to cast their votes in this year’s executive committee election by 5 June.

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) has announced Danette Tan, who studied at Imperial College London, as the winner of the 2022 Masters Dissertation Prize for her submission on “Assessing life extensions of ageing infrastructure”.

At the British Geotechnical Association’s inaugural annual dinner, Imperial College London emeritus professor John Burland and ground engineering professor Jamie Standing will give a lecture on the historical underpinning of Winchester Cathedral.

University of Illinois' Youssef Hashash spoke about lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy and how geotechnical engineers can improve resilience and functional recovery of infrastructure systems at the British Geotechnical Association’s Geo-Resilience 2023 conference.

Ground Engineering's monthly round-up of events from across the geotechnical sector.