Piling 2020

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) with support from the Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) hosted a major international conference on Piling as an on-line event in 2021.

There had not been a conference related specifically to piling for a number of years but recently there have been many technical developments in the field related to offshore and onshore projects namely the development of offshore wind farms and major infrastructure projects.

With the amount of work currently underway, it is appropriate to focus on this topic and to bring together the knowledge and experience gained in recent years. The conference had input from researchers and practitioners with the aim of sharing their experiences to develop new and novel solutions.

Piling 2020

Technical Themes
The conference will cover practice and research related to offshore and onshore piling. Topics will include the following:
- Temporary works including the design and construction of piling platforms
- Developments in Pile installation and methods of construction including support systems
- The design and construction of piled foundation systems for lateral and/or vertical loading
- Research on piling and piled systems.
- Embedded pile retaining systems
- Case histories of pile construction and performance
- Materials used in pile construction (environmental, sustainability, embodied carbon)
- Geological hazards
- Testing, related to pile performance and for design (integrity and load bearing)
- Instrumentation used in pile construction and testing
- Sustainability (wind farms, thermally active piles etc.)
- Use of digital technology
- Future engineering issues related to piling
- Health & Safety
- The management and procurement of piling contracts.
Keynote Speakers
- Professor Byron Byrne
  
  University of Oxford
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  Professor Byron Byrne
  
  University of Oxford
  
  Byron  is Professor of Engineering Science and Ørsted / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Advanced Geotechnical Design at the University of Oxford. He leads on research into the geotechnical engineering for offshore wind and other renewable energy structures. He was Principal Investigator for the Carbon Trust / Ørsted / Industry funded PISA project, which won the BGA’s Fleming Award for 2017, delivering new design methods for large diameter offshore wind turbine monopiles. He leads the Oxford–Ørsted Framework research project on cyclic loading for offshore wind monopiles, and is Co-Investigator on the EPSRC / Industry funded ALPACA Project exploring piles in chalk.
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- Steve Hadley
  
  Central Piling and Vice-Chair of the FPS
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  Steve Hadley
  
  Central Piling and Vice-Chair of the FPS
  
  Steve Hadley is Managing Director of Central Piling and will be Chair of the Federation of Piling Specialists from April 2020. Steve first fell in love with Ground Engineering during his dissertation at Loughborough University. Post-graduation, Steve worked at Rock and Alluvium, gaining Chartered Status and producing research papers on displacement piling along the way. In 2006 Steve took over at Central Piling, shortly after assuming majority ownership and set about revitalising them. He was a co-author of the latest revision of the ICE SPERW. Steve is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is passionate about improving diversity, health and welfare in Construction.
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- Professor Lidija Zdravkovic
  
  Imperial College London
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  Professor Lidija Zdravkovic
  
  Imperial College London
  
  Lidija Zdravkovic is Professor of Computational Gemechanics and Head of the Geotechnics Section at Imperial College London. She has led and managed several research projects in collaboration with industry and other academic groups, focusing on the development and application of numerical methods in geotechnical design and providing solutions to a wide range of geotechnical problems, including infrastructure resilience, renewable energy, nuclear waste disposal and offshore geotechnics. Lidija has authored and co-authored over 200 technical publications and received prizes from the ICE and BGA, including the Telford Medal and the BGA Medal on three occasions. She is active in the profession, advising on recent projects involving Heathrow Terminal 5 development, Crossrail excavations, and embankments and cut slopes on the high speed rail route in the UK.
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- Dr Martin Pedley
  
  GSS Piling
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  Dr Martin Pedley
  
  GSS Piling
  
  Martin graduated with BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering from Surrey University in 1987 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University in 1990. He is a chartered civil engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. For the majority of his career, he has worked as a specialist contractor in piling and deep foundations, He was with Cementation from graduate engineer to Managing Director between 1990 and 2014, Skanska from 2014 to 2018 and now GSS Piling, part of the Morrisroe Group. He has been involved in the delivery of many major deep basements and foundations solutions for building and infrastructure schemes in the UK and overseas.
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Committee
- Chairman: Kelvin Higgins (Geotechnical Consulting Group)
- Professor David Toll (Durham University)
- Professor Ashraf Osman (Durham University)
- Dr Jonathan Morris (Cementation)
- Dr Paul Morrison (Arup)
- Mark Pennington (Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, representing the FPS)
- Yvonne Ainsworth (JRL Civil Engineering)
- Dr Martin Preene (Preene Groundwater Consulting)
Programme

The programme is summarised below.
Sponsors
The Piling 2020 conference is grateful for the support of sponsors and exhibitors.
- SOCOTEC
  
  Tier 1 Sponsor
- Cementation Skanska
  
  Tier 2 Sponsor
- Central Piling
  
  Tier 2 Sponsor
- Huesker
  
  Tier 2 Sponsor
- Murphy Ground Engineering
  
  Tier 2 Sponsor
- BAM Ritchies
  
  Delegate Bag Sponsor
- John Lawrie Tubulars Limited
  
  Collapsible Coffee Cup Sponsor
- Bachy Soletanche
  
  Coffee Voucher Sponsor
Exhibitors
The conference on-line platform will include a Virtual Technical Exhibition, where you can exhibitor can display, provide downloadable material and have meetings with delegates.

Confirmed exhibitors are listed below.
- Aarsleff Ground Engineering Segment
  
  Exhibitor
- Bauer Equipment UK
  
  Exhibitor
- Cleveland Steel & Tubes
  
  Exhibitor
- DYWIDAG
  
  Exhibitor
- FK Lowry
  
  Exhibitor
- Geotechnical Observations
  
  Exhibitor
- Mincon International
  
  Exhibitor
- Tensar International
  
  Exhibitor

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