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Submissions for abstracts for the 21st International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE) to take place in Vienna in 2026 are now open.

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is inviting entries for this year’s Fleming Award competition by the deadline of 18 October.

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) will next month open its call for abstracts for its Earthworks 2025 conference taking place in Birmingham on 16 and 17 September next year.

Akela Ground Engineering gets a new managing director, the British Geotechnical Association makes new executive committee appointments, and VSL Systems adds five new people to its UK team in the latest people moves from across the sector.

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) has awarded its 2024 Case Histories Award to the authors of a paper on “Monitoring the construction of a deep energy-from-waste bunker in soft clay and peat”.

WSP Australia associate geotechnical engineer Thirimadura Supun Surendra Mendis has won the 2023 BGA Masters Prize for his dissertation at Imperial College London.

BFY Group consultant John de Bono and University of Nottingham geomechanics professor Glenn McDowell’s paper on “Particle-scale simulations of the compression and shearing of kaolin clay” has won the 2023 BGA Medal.

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) has put out a call for submissions for its Young Engineers' Poster Competition, run as part of its annual conference.

In her Rankine Lecture earlier this month, Imperial College London computational geomechanics professor Lidija Zdravković presented examples of her research that apply geotechnical analysis to address the sustainable development of society.

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