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The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) has invited University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) mineral engineering professor Kenichi Soga to deliver the next Rankine Lecture.

Ground Engineering's April 2024 issue features reports on surveys carried out by a robot dog in a live trial on a motorway embankment, and a retaining wall solution chosen for a landslide damaged road in Wiltshire.

National Highways’ £1.3bn scheme to upgrade a 29km stretch of the A66 between Cumbria and Yorkshire was last week given the go-ahead by the secretary of state for transport.

The Crooked House pub in Staffordshire it set to be rebuilt after it was gutted by fire and demolished last year, but an expert has warned of possible ground engineering issues at the site.

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) will soon ask members to nominate candidates for election to its executive committee.

Remediation work is set to begin to fill a 35m deep "sinkhole" -  identified as a bell pit - that formed last year in a field in Buckinghamshire.

A landslide at Lulworth Cove on the Jurassic Coast last month is likely to have been triggered by a period of “heavy, persistent rainfall”, a landslide specialist has said.

The Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) has created a new concrete blockage incident reporting system.

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

The GE Piling & Foundations conference is returning in April with a keynote address focused on what the industry looks like now and what to expect in the near future.