Celebrating the BGA’s 75th Anniversary
This year is 75 years since the origins of the British
Geotechnical Association. In 1948 the Council of the Institution of Civil
Engineers (ICE) decided to form a British National Society of the International
Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE) and the first
official meeting of the society was held on 19th October 1949. In 1998 the ICE approached
the then British Geotechnical Society (BGS) with a proposal to merge it with their
Ground Board and the name was changed to the British Geotechnical Association
(BGA) to make it clear that the newly formed body was different.
On 15th
October 2024, the BGA will officially celebrate its 75th Anniversary at One
Great George Street in London with a special event (details via this LINK) that will include the 55th
Cooling Prize, a lecture by Professor Lord Robert Mair titled “Unusual tunnel
collapses – the role of geotechnics” and concluding with the 2nd BGA
Annual Dinner in the Great Hall.
