The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal association for geotechnical engineers in the UK.
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The BGA is pleased to invite submissions for the 2026 Case Histories Award – Deadline for submissions is 31 January 2026. The objective of the award is to encourage and recognise the importance of exchange of exemplary geotechnical knowledge and experience of the performance of constructed works for the benefit of the geotechnical profession
The BGA invites submissions for the Masters Dissertation Prize – Deadline for submissions is 31 January 2026. The Masters Dissertation Prize is a prize of £500 awarded annually by the BGA for the best Masters’ degree dissertation on a geotechnical topic.
The BGA is calling for submissions for the BGA Medal – Deadline for Submissions is 31 January 2026. The BGA Medal is awarded annually to a paper written by a BGA member (or members) for “meritorious contributions to geotechnical science or practice”.
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is pleased to continue its partnership with the prestigious GE Awards for 2026, reaffirming its commitment to recognising and celebrating excellence across the ground engineering industry
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is pleased to invite Early Career Geotechnical Professionals to submit posters for the 57th Cooling Prize Competition on any topic dealing with the engineering behaviour of the ground. Deadline extended to 12 December 2025.
The BGA is pleased to announce that the 2025 Fleming Award was won by United Utilities, Stantec, and Keller for their project presentation on The challenges of maintaining a Bateman Embankment Dam
The December 2025 issue of Ground Engineering is available on line. Online access to Ground Engineering (GE) is included in BGA subscriptions.
An extension has been granted to all authors submitted papers for ICSMGE 2026 via the British Geotechnical Association to upload their corrected/final papers on the conference portal latest by 14 December 2025.
Dr. Ze Zhou Wang from the University of Cambridge was recently selected as the recipient and presenter of the ISSMGE Bright Spark Award Lecture at the Third Workshop on the Future of Machine Learning in Geotechnics in Florence this October.
Widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics and was first held in 1961.
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