The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal
association for geotechnical engineers in the United Kingdom.
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal
association for geotechnical engineers in the United Kingdom.
Dear BGA Member,
E-newsletters will now be distributed approximately every other month.
Flyers, booking arrangements and full details of all BGA events are available on the BGA website at www.britishgeotech.org.uk.
Attending BGA Events in person: Please let us know if your commitments prevent you from attending an event for which you have previously registered so that a) someone else may do so and b) we have a full theatre.
Corporate Sponsorship for Networking after BGA Lectures in London: members tell us they value mixing with other industry professionals when attending lectures in person and the BGA have been fortunate to secure corporate sponsorship for the ICE Café Bar to be open after Lectures – please support this initiative and make the most of the facilities available.
Recordings of past events on ICE website: for the first three months access is restricted to ICE and Society members who will need their membership number to do so.
International events are not generally listed in this newsletter unless organised under the auspices of ISSMGE Technical committees or ISRM; members are directed to http://britishgeotech.org/events/conferences/ or BGA social media (Linked In, Twitter and Facebook) for full details.
Headlines and Deadlines
NEXT YEAR
1. FUTURE EVENTS 2018
| Booking open | Wednesday 17 October Refreshments at 17:30, lecture starts 18:00 | Joint Evening meeting with IGS UK Chapter | Prof Jie Han on Geosynthetics in walls and roads: Recent US research and developments – booking at https://www.ice.org.uk/events/geosynthetic-reinfor... |
| Booking open | Monday 22 October Refreshments at 18:00, lecture starts 18:30 | Global Engineering Congress | At ICE Westminster – Dr Jamie Standing of Imperial College speaking on tunnelling;pre-lecture refreshments at 18:00, lecture at 18:30; bar sponsored by Geotechnical Observations afterwards; book at https://www.ice.org.uk/events/investigating-the-ef...;see for full details of Congress events at https://www.ice.org.uk/events/global-engineering-c... |
| Booking Open | Wednesday 31 October Refreshments at 18:00, lecture starts 18:30 | ICE Geotechnical Engineering Proceedings Lecture | At ICE Westminster – Shallow Foundation Capacity - Bearing Strength Surface Insights by Dr Michael Pender of the University of Auckland, New Zealand;pre-lecture refreshments at 18:00, lecture starts at 18:30.Book at https://www.ice.org.uk/events/shallow-foundation-c... |
| Wednesday 14 November | Glossop Lecture | At The Royal Institution;19th Glossop medalist, Dr Kevin Privett, on “The lines of evidence approach to challenges faced in engineering geological practice”; full details are available on the website https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/engineering | |
| Wednesday 21 November | BGA Evening Lecture | Grouting and Strengthening of Low Permeability Soil Using Biocalcis by Annette Esnault Filet of Soletanche Bachy;further details available shortly | |
| Deadline now midnight on 14th October 2018 | Thursday 6 December | Fleming Award Competition | Invitation to enter this event celebrating the life of Dr Ken Fleming and emphasising project teamwork on BGA website at https://www.britishgeotech.org/prizes/fleming-awar... |
2. FUTURE EVENTS 2019
Wednesday 23 January Refreshments at 18:00, lecture starts 18:30 | John Mitchell Award Lecture | Clif Kettle of Clif Kettle Consulting | |
| Note venue | Wednesday 6 February | Joint evening lecture with EGGS | at Burlington House – topic and speaker to be advised |
| Tuesday 19 February | Skempton Lecture | Special event – David Hartwell on aspects of his career | |
| Tuesday 5 March | 50th Cooling Prize Competition | Special event – Christine Cooling to give keynote address on the history of the Competition and her father’s work while the judges deliberate;rules and entry forms available in the autumn | |
| Wednesday 20 March | 59th Rankine Lecture and Dinner | Prof George Gazetas (National Technical University, Athens) at Imperial College London | |
| Wednesday 10 April | BGA Evening Lecture | Rory O’Rourke of Datum will speak on Monitoring to answer the requirements of SPERWall | |
| Tuesday 30 April | BGA ECG event | Topic and speaker to be advised | |
| Wednesday 15 May | BGA Evening Lecture | European Codes and Development in the Design of Ground Anchors by Dr Devon Mothersille of Geoserve Global | |
| Wednesday 19 June | Annual Conference and AGM | Celebrating the BGA’s 70th Anniversary |
3. FUTURE EVENTS 2020
| Date for your Diary | September 2020 | Piling 2020 | University of Durham – further details available on BGA website shortly. |
4. YOUNG ENGINEERS
| Don’t miss out! | Early Career Group | Mailing List | Members and colleagues with an interest in ECG activities should email bga-ecg@britishgeotech.org.uk to join their mailing list – if you failed to confirm your consent to comply with GDPR regulations you may have “unsubscribed” accidently! |
| New Officers appointed | Early Career Group | Committee Officers required | Henry Tayler and Dimitrios Daskalopoulos retire; replaced by Francesca Waldron as Chairwoman and Tony Bowerman as Secretary. Contact bga-ecg@britishgeotech.org.uk for information or express interest in supporting the Committee. |
| Reminder - deadline | 30 November 2018 | BGA Fund | Applications for a BGA Fund Award to assist students with expenditure such as field trips etc will be considered twice a year.Information and forms at https://www.britishgeotech.org/about-us/bga-fund |
| Tuesday 5 March | 50th Cooling Prize Competition | Special event – Christine Cooling to give keynote address on the history of the Competition and her father’s work while the judges deliberate;rules and entry forms available in the autumn |
5. GROUND FORUM
| Updated site http://www.ground-forum.org.uk/includes non-BGA events of interest to ground engineers. | |
| Brexit Digest | Brexit digest – a summary of articles from the media. Sign up for e-newsletter at http://cic.us6.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=6b20ea5b6c&id=f4c2b1fdc6 |
6. UK Register of Ground Engineering Professionals (RoGEP)
| Application Deadline | Result issued no later than | Apply to join the UK RoGEP if you are chartered with ICE; the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3); or the Geological Society London (GSL). |
| Those becoming Chartered within the last 12 months can apply with a simplified application process at a reduced cost of £30 | ||
| 23 October 2018 | 09 January 2019 | Visit ice.org.uk/rogep for further details or contactregisters@ice.org.uk |
7. PUBLICATIONS
| NEW | Chalk 2018 | Proceedings | Electronic copies can be purchased via BGA Website; Hard copies via https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/ |
| New | 2019 Geotechnique themed issue | Embedded foundations under complex loading | Abstracts were due in September but contact Dr Michael Brown at Dundee University http://www.dundee.ac.uk/scienceengineering/staff/profile/michael-brown to see if an extension is possible.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fv8auFoEVE2iyXrYxmmViFIOLLLtHxiO/view |
| Online Access problems | Ground Engineering | If you are experiencing difficulty logging on to the GE Members’ Area please contact the GE Editor direct atClaire.Smith@emap.com; she will ask the corporate subscriptions department to resolve it for you. | |
| update | ICE Informs | July and September 2018 | Project 13 Soft & digital skills both needed by civil engineers ICE State of the Nation: Investment out 18 October Infrastructure on the party conference agendas Global Engineering Congress Royal Approval for Shaping the World and much more contactjoanna.gonet@ice.org.ukfor further information. |
| New | The Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists | AGS Magazine – September/October issue now available | AGS e-magazine, focussing on geotechnics, engineering geology and Geoenvironmental engineering as well as the work and achievements of the AGS, reviews topical issues, insights and concerns, publishes new guidance notes, working group activities and provides information on upcoming conferences and industry seminars. View at https://issuu.com/ags-magazine/docs/ags-magazine-september-october-2018?e=31942944/64797994 or Contact ags@ags.org.uk for further information. |
| Special offer for BGA members | Canadian Geotechnical Journal | Access all content electronically from CGJ from 1996 to 2015 for just $50 US instead of $246 US. E-mail nrcresearchpress-csp@subscriptionoffice.comand type “CGJ_BGA personal subscription” in the subject field; you will need your BGA membership number. Full details on BGA website. | |
| NOTE: Important information | ISSMGE | News & Information Circular and Latest bulletins | For news and information about Webinars, Technical Committees, Conferences and ISSMGE Foundation Awards, you can find the latest news and information circular at https://www.issmge.org/news |
| Bi-monthly webinars | ISSMGE | Webinar series | appx every 2 months, usually towards the end of or beginning of the month http://www.issmge.org/en/resources/recorded-webinars. |
8. OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES 2018
| 1-3 November 2018 | Symposium on advanced offshore engineering | Hanoi, Vietnam: under the auspices of TC 308 (Energy Geotechnics) and TC–209 (Offshore Geotechnics); call for papers now out. | |
| 24-28 November 2018 | GeoMEast 2018 | Cairo; full details and abstract submission by 15 December 2017 at http://www.geomeast2018.org/ | |
| 29 November 2018 | 40th Anniversary symposium | Vienna:launch of the roller integrated Continuous Compaction Control (CCC) celebration.http://www.igb.tuwien.ac.at/en/ccc/ | |
| 3-5 December 2018 | 2nd JTC1 Workshop | Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides in Hong Kong.http://www.hkges.org/JTC1_2nd/index.html. Participants are encouraged to submit a video abstract for promoting their research findings. Video abstracts are intended to emphasize the scientific contents of a contribution and provide an alternative means to publicise technical development work and innovative ideas. Please see details of the submission at http://www.hkges.org/JTC1_2nd/submission.html. The selected video abstracts will be displayed at the Worop and uploaded to the website of the Workshop. |
9. OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES 2019
| 22-24 January 2019 | Winter School | "Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment",Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland;more information on program, venue and registration can be found on the dedicated webpage.Early bird registrations now open until 31st of October 2018. For further information contact gete-school@epfl.ch. | |
| 6-8 March 2019 | Energy Geostructures: Analysis and Design | Intensive Course at EPF Lausanne, 2nd Edition;full details at http://www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/en/form... | |
| 26-28 June 2019 | 7th Int’l Symp on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials | IS-Glasgow 2019; ISSMGE TC101;Glasgow, UK: details athttps://www.is-glasgow2019.org.uk/abstract submission via website open now | |
| 1-6 September 2019 | XVII ECSMGE 2019 | Reykjavik, Iceland: details at www.ecsmge-2019.com | |
| 6-10 October 2019 | XVII ARCSMGE 2019 | 17thAfrican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa;Email: denis.kalumba@uct.ac.za | |
| 14-18 October 2019 | 16 ARC | Taipei:16th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering;abstracts due by 31 March 2018; details at www.16arc.org. |
10. linked-in
| Have you joined yet? | BGA LinkedIn Group | All BGA members pre-approved for membership of the Group | To preserve the group as a useful forum to discuss geotechnical matters and BGA business, please respect the rules: nothing political, nothing offensive, no job vacancies, no overt promotions – thank you! http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5061912 |