The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
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This is an Evening Meeting of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and is based on work in the 2022 BGA Medal winning paper – details of the paper can be found HERE.
This event is planned as an in-person event, and will also be webcast live.
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The British Geotechnical Association
16.05.2024
18:00 - 19:30
Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
BGA Meetings
Tea and Coffee will be available from 17:30.
Kendalls Cafe Bar (on the lower ground floor of the ICE) will be open after the lecture, serving alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
Three
presentations will be given drawing from the £2.5m value ALPACA and ALPACA Plus
research programmes conducted as two International Joint Industry projects
(JIPs) over 2017-22 that advanced the understanding of Chalk and developed new,
greatly improved, driven pile design methods for chalk sites. The JIPs and
their outcomes are revolutionising the approach the offshore industry is taking
to site investigations and driven pile design for several current multi-£bn
Offshore Wind Farm (OWF) developments. The research, which is equally
applicable to optimising the design of port, bridge and other onshore
infrastructure developments, has implications for most other geomaterials. It
has been published widely and one of the 1st papers (by Vinck et
al., 2023 in Geotechnique) from the research won the 2022 BGA Medal
Imperial College London
Imperial College London
University of Glasgow
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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