Awards Presented at BGA Annual General Meeting June 2025
The BGA presented awards at its Annual General Meeting during its Annual Conference on 25 June 2025.
BGA Medal
The paper authors received the 2025 BGA Medal from BGA Chair Yuli Doulala-Rigby . The 2025 BGA Medal has been awarded to the paper “Impact of Suction and Swell-Induced Softening on Pile Behaviour in an Unsaturated Expansive Clay” by Sonu Kumar, Ashutosh Kumar, Tiago A.V. Gaspar and Ashraf S. Osman. The paper was published in ASCE in 2025.
BGA Case Histories Award
The paper authors received the 2026 BGA Case Histories Award from BGA Chair Yuli Doulala-Rigby . The 2026 BGA Case Histories Award has been awarded to authors Kevin Briggs, Yuderka Trinidad González, Nick Sartain, Gerrit J. Meijer, William Powrie and Simon Butler for their paper “In situ shear modulus reduction with strain in stiff fissured clays and weathered mudstones” published in Canadian Geotechnical Journal in 2025. Further details HERE.
BGA Masters Prize
The winner received the 2025 BGA Masters Prize from BGA Chair Yuli Doulala-Rigby. Nicholas de la Maza of Imperial College London is the winner of the 2025 BGA Masters prize for his entry “Numerical assessment of the conversion from a conventional tailings dam to dry stacking”. Further details HERE.
BGA Cooling Prize
The winner received the 2026 BGA Cooling Prize from BGA Committee Member Christina Mavrommati. Marina Schnaider Bortolotto, Fellow in Civil Engineering at Imperial College London and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge won the 57th Cooling Prize for his presentation “Polymer support fluids permeating sands” Further details HERE.
BGA Poster Competition
The winner received the 2026 BGA Poster Competion Prize from BGA Chair Yuli Doulala-Rigby. Lantian Pinkney of the Imperial College London for the poster “A Framework for Modelling Groundwater Flow in Deep Heterolithic Sedimentary Sequences for Radionuclide Transport” Further details HERE.
