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BGA Annual Conference to be Held as an Online Event

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the British Geotechnical Association Annual Conference 2020 cannot be held as a physical event. Instead it will be held as three online sessions on 7th, 14th and 21 July 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the British Geotechnical Association Annual Conference 2020 cannot be held as a physical event.

However, the BGA is pleased to offer the planned programme online in three consecutive weekly sessions starting on Tuesday 7th July 2020 at 10.00 am. This is a new opportunity for the BGA which we hope will extend our reach beyond those able to travel to London (BGA Annual Conference has not previously been broadcast on line, due to the number of different presentations involved).

Session 1: Tuesday 7 July 2020, 10:00 to 11:15

Session 2: Tuesday 14 July 2020, 10:00 to 11:15

Session 3: Tuesday 21 July 2020, 10:00 to 11:15

Session 1, 10:00 Tuesday 7 July 2020

Challenges and opportunities of the next decade and beyond

Dr Jonathan Morris, Cementation Skanska

Evolution of design and construction of ground improvement techniques

Bob Essler, Managing Director RD Geotech Ltd

Response of soils to cyclic wet-dry and freeze-thaw processes

Professor Snehasis Tripathy, Cardiff University

Full details of Session 1 are available here.

Session 2, 10:00 Tuesday 14 July 2020

The COGAN initiative for numerical modelling

Andreas Zilles, NAFEMS

The work of the BGA Early Career Group

Francesca Waldron (Chair) and Tony Bowerman (Secretary)

COOLING PRIZE WINNER 2020: Engineering mitigation of a water bearing fissure in the chalk

Emily Riley, Thames Tideway

BGA MASTERS PRIZE 2020: Characterizing the Variability of London Clay. A Study of Tunnel Face Logs from the Jubilee Line Extension between Green Park and Waterloo

Geng Jie (Jay) Liang, Imperial College London

The future of ground investigation

Philip Ball, Socotec

Full details of Session 2 are available here.

Session 3, 10:00 Tuesday 21 July 2020

Geotechnical challenges of offshore pipelines

Dr Indrasenan Thusyanthan, Atkins

Lessons for geotechnical engineers from an expert witness

Neil Smith, Geotechnical Consultant

Harnessing sustainable energy from the ground: a geotechnical perspective

Dr David Taborda, Imperial College London

Full details of Session 3 are available here.

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