The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
Keep up to date with BGA news and events via this page.
Tickets for the BGA 63rd Rankine Dinner in honour of the 2025 Rankine Lecturer, Professor Kenichi Soga, to be held at Imperial College London on Wednesday 19th March 2025, are now available.
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is pleased to announce that its website has been comprehensively updated.
The BGA is pleased to announce that the 2024 Fleming Award was won by Fehily Timoney and Company, Ramboll UK, John Sisk & Son Holdings Ltd, Menard UK and Transportation Infrastructure Ireland for their project presentation on the Dunkettle Interchange Upgrade Scheme in Cork, Ireland
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is pleased to invite Early Career Geotechnical Professionals to submit posters for the 56th Cooling Prize Competition on any topic dealing with the engineering behaviour of the ground. Deadline extended to 13 December 2024.
The BGA is pleased to announce the shortlisted entries for the 2024 Fleming Award. The finalists will present at the Fleming Award event on 3 December 2024, when a judging panel will select the winner.
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is pleased to invite Early Career Geotechnical Professionals to submit posters for the 56th Cooling Prize Competition on any topic dealing with the engineering behaviour of the ground. Deadline 1 December 2024.
The November 2024 issue of Ground Engineering is available on line. Online access to Ground Engineering (GE) is included in BGA subscriptions
Public consultation is open for UK National Annex to BS EN 1997-2:2024, Eurocode 7 – Geotechnical design – Part 2: Ground properties. Deadline 4th November 2024.
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is pleased to announce that the 55th Cooling Prize was awarded to Thomas Riccio of the University of Dundee for a presentation on Pile installation effects and plugging in soft rock
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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