Author Archives: Nia Kajastie

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 Acciona and Ferrovial joint venture has launched the first two tunnel boring machines to build a section of the 24km Sydney Metro West line in New South Wales, Australia.

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.

The High Court will hear two legal challenges against a new metallurgical coal mine in west Cumbria as part of a three-day “rolled up” hearing in October, after initially rejecting them.

Software firms are working on bringing geotechnical and structural analysis capabilities closer together to fill the subsurface data gap.

Research body Ciria has released a good practice guide for geotechnical baseline reports, which are used to manage commercial risk on subsurface projects.

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

Ground engineering as a sector is made up of knowledgeable professionals and specialists – plenty of whom are also enthusiastic about the work that they do. And if you have been to any industry events recently, it is also clear that people are not afraid to ask though questions and…

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”.

Piling contractor Cementation Skanska has trialled the plug-in Bauer eBG 33 rotary drilling rig – that comes with a powerful electric drive instead of a diesel engine - on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Birmingham and London sites.