The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
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The John Mitchell Award is presented annually by the ICE, based on a nomination from the BGA, for significant contributions in the field of geotechnical engineering. The award was instituted in 2008 in memory of the prominent geotechnical engineer John Mitchell of Arup, who was killed while observing piling works at a central London site in 1990.
The British Geotechnical Association
26.01.2021
17:00 - 18:30
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BGA Meetings
The first part of the lecture will concentrate on technical aspects; technical competence being the primary attribute of an engineer. It will discuss the forces imposed on embedded retaining walls from the retained ground and groundwater, comparing theoretical and measured values. This will include specific examples from two key projects: The Jubilee Line Extension Project and the Copenhagen Metro. Several examples of pile design and performance from more recent projects will be reviewed, providing some avenues for future research. The lecture will include a reassessment of the partial factor approach to ultimate limit state geotechnical design. This section will conclude with a discussion on ‘value engineering’.
The second part of the lecture will broaden the subject matter to deal with some of the additional topics that are included as part of the Chartered Professional Review (CPR), discussing the role of the engineer in projects today and the role of the engineer in business. Important decisions about the procurement route and the type of contract are made at an early stage of civil engineering projects which strongly influence the outcome of the contracts. This will be discussed, based on personal experience, assessing the apparent success or otherwise of different contracts.
Byrne Looby
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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