The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
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This is a joint meeting of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and the UK Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS).
This event is planned as an in-person event, and will also be webcast live for on-line viewing.
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The British Geotechnical Association
23.09.2025
18:00 - 19:30
Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
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Tea and Coffee will be available from 17:30
The second-generation Eurocode 7 brings significant changes to geotechnical design practice, not least in its extension to cover reinforced fill and soil nailed structures, ground improvement, rock bolt design, and groundwater control systems.
As Chair of the Eurocode 7 committee from 2010-19, Andrew Bond played a key role in defining the direction and magnitude of changes made in the new Eurocode 7. He was also intimately involved in the extension of the head Eurocode, EN 1990, to cover the basis of geotechnical as well as structural design.
The lecture will focus on the key changes that civil, structure, and geotechnical engineers (plus engineering geologists) should know about, with particular focus on the design of reinforced fill and soil nailed structures.
Want to know what Eurocode 7’s Design Approaches have been replaced with? Want to know why Eurocode 7 Part 2 now deals with ground properties and not ground investigation and testing, per se? Want to know when you must switch to the second-generation Eurocodes? All will be explained in this lecture.
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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