The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is the principal
association for geotechnical engineers in the United Kingdom.

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Awards Presented at BGA Annual General Meeting June 2019

  • 23.06.2019

​Awards Presented at BGA Annual General Meeting June 2019

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Result of 2019 Elections to the BGA Executive Committee

  • 23.06.2019

Result of 2019 Elections to the BGA Executive Committee

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BGA Annual General Meeting 2019

  • 17.06.2019

Agenda for 2019 BGA Annual General Meeting and Minutes of 2018 BGA Annual General Meeting

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Lisa Coyne of Golder Associates to give BGA Touring Lecture 2019

  • 17.06.2019

The British Geotechnical Association is pleased to announce that the BGA Touring Lecture 2019 will be given by Lisa Coyne of Golder Associates, Missisauga, Canada

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3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering & Seismology

  • 13.06.2019

3rd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering & Seismology (3ECEES) Bucharest, Romania 19-24 June 2022

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Ground Engineering’s latest issue available online

  • 12.06.2019

Ground Engineering’s latest issue available online

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Winner announced of 2018 BGA MSc/MEng Prize

  • 04.06.2019

The British Geotechnical Society is pleased to announce that Isabel von Celsing of the University of Oxford is the winner of the 2018 MSc/MEng prize for her dissertation entitled “Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Design Using 3D Finite Element Limit Analysis”.

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2018 BGA Medal Winning Paper Announced

  • 22.05.2019

The 2018 BGA Medal is awarded to a paper on ‘Micro mechanics of drained and undrained shearing’ published in Géotechnique by authors Dr John de Bono and Professor Glenn McDowell

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Voting for Election to BGA Executive Committee 2019

  • 30.04.2019

Voting for Election to BGA Executive Committee – Deadline 3 June 2019. The election to select three candidates to the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) Executive Committee is now in progress.

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