The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
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Cooling PrizeThe event will be held as an in-person event. Booking is required, via the button below.
Registration closes at Midnight on 8th October 2024.
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 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.
The British Geotechnical Association
15.10.2024
14:00 - 22:30
Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
BGA Conferences and Seminars
The BGA Annual Dinner and Lecture includes a drinks reception, and a three-course dinner.
Programme
13:00 – 14:00 Registration accompanied by coffee/tea in the Great Hall
14:00 – 15:00 Welcome and reflections on the past 25 years
15:00 – 16:30 Cooling Prize Competition
The Cooling Prize is held annually to celebrate the life of the late Dr Leonard Cooling, past chairman of the British Geotechnical Society Committee (forerunner of today's BGA), to encourage young ground engineers to hone their technical paper-writing and oral presentation skills.
The Cooling Prize Finalists and the subjects of their papers are:
Thomas Riccio – University of Dundee: Pile installation effects and plugging in soft rock
Hansini Mallikarachchi – Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions: Two-way Pressure Cycling during Installation of Suction Buckets in Cohesive Soil
Cheng Wei Kwang – Mott MacDonald: Enhancing Strain Gauge Data Interpretation through Fast Fourier Transform and Butterworth Filter
Further details can be found HERE
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Lecture by Lord Robert Mair
18:00 – 19:00 Reception in the Smeaton and Brunel Rooms
19:00 – 22:00 BGA dinner
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Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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