The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
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The BGA is pleased to announce that their 4th Biennial Conference in 2025 will be on the subject of Earthworks. The conference will be held at the University of Birmingham on 16 and 17 September 2025.
The main conference sessions will take place on the 16th and 17th September 2025.
On 15th September 2025, the event will open with a special lecture and evening reception, and site visits are planned for 18th September 2025.
All activities are included in the conference fee, with the exception of the Gala Dinner on the evening of the 16th, which will be ticketed separately.
Registration is now open via this LINK.
The conference website can be viewed HERE.
The conference programme is available HERE. Please note, the programme may be subject to amendment between now and the date of the conference.
The average annual spend on earthworks in the UK is believed to be in the order of
£1bn-1.5bn. Much of the knowledge base in practice was developed decades ago
and by people that have mostly long-since retired. Therefore, it is necessary
to relearn the basis of what is still used for successful modern earthworks
design and construction, and adapt it to the many new technologies, research
results, construction plant and modern contract requirements. Following on from
the BGA’s very successful Geo-resilience conference, Earthworks 2025 will focus
primarily on the design and construction of new earthworks, where future
performance in a changing climate is being explored and great benefits are
being realised from flexible technical advances.
The British Geotechnical Association
16.09.2025
09:00 - 17:00
University of Birmingham
BGA Conferences and Seminars
The conference will include lunches and refreshments
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.
The British Geotechnical Association is grateful for the support of Corporate Members, and the organisations that the BGA Executive Committee members belong to.
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