The latest news from the BGA.
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Please visit the new-look ISSMGE website – http://www.issmge.org/ for full details of all ISSMGE activities.
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.
The web link for online viewing of tonight's lecture is: https://ice-org.webex.com/ice-org/onstage/g.php?MTID=e6b5dfd86b8c7e3a534978c59b5fe38d7
Booking for the Fleming Award on Wednesday 7th December at 6.30pm is now open
The BGA held its September meeting last night with an excellent overview of six landslips that occurred on Network Rail infrastructure between June 2012 and February 2013 by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch's (RAIB) Chris Ford. Followed by a summary of Network Rail's actions in response to the report by Simon Abbot.
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.
The Association for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists and the British Drilling Association have combined to produce a position paper on the state of the ground investigation industry in the UK as part of their Spotlight on the Industry initiative. The paper may be downloaded here.
ISSMGE Members are being urged to sign up to GeoWorld, the professional networking platform for geotechnical engineers, so that they will appear in the 2016 Geotechnical Business Directory.
The Fleming Award is a prestigious prize awarded annually by the BGA to commemorate the life and work of Dr Ken Fleming and to recognise excellence in the practical application of geotechnics in a project or a part of a project, with a prize donated by Cementation Skanska. The 2016 Fleming Award Meeting will be held at the ICE, One Great George Street, London on 7 December 2016.