The John Mitchell Award is presented annually by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), based on a nomination from the BGA, for significant contributions in the field of geotechnical engineering.
The award was instituted in 2008 in memory of the prominent geotechnical engineer John Mitchell of Arup, who was killed while observing piling works at a central London site in 1990.
John Mitchell
The award criteria considered by the BGA include the following:
The Award winner gives the John Mitchell Lecture at a BGA Evening meeting the January following the year of the award.
Previous John Mitchell Award winners are listed below. Prior to 2013, the Award was given to a published paper. The criteria were changed in 2013, to present the award to a person.
Year of award | Winner | Title of lecture |
2020 | David Beadman (Byrne Looby) | A career embedded in the ground |
2019 | Stuart Marchand (Wentworth House Partnership) | The temporary support of excavations |
2018 | Clif Kettle (Clif Kettle Consulting) | Ground treatment: 40 years from black art to fully engineered solution |
2017 |
Len Threadgold (Geotechnics Limited) |
Re-thinking site investigation |
2016 |
Andrew Ridley (Geotechnical Observations) |
Monitoring the performance of clay slopes |
2015 |
Martin Pedley (Skanska) |
Developments in geotechnical engineering & construction during the last 25 years – a personal perspective |
2014 |
Colin Eddie (Morgan Sindall) |
The past, present and future of tunnelling |
2013 |
Mike Long (University College Dublin) and Chris Menkiti (GCG) |
Short and long term performance of retaining structures – transferable lessons from Dublin |
2012 |
Mourice Czerewko (URS) |
Assessment of pyritic lower Lias mudrocks for earthworks |
2011 |
Mike Hendry (University of Alberta) and David Hughes (Queen's University Belfast) |
Track displacement and energy loss in a railway embankment over soft foundations; comparative studies in Northern Ireland and Canada |
2010 |
No Award |
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2009 |
Mike Long (University College Dublin) and Michael Looby (Byrne Looby Partners) |
Deep excavations in Dublin: recent developments |
2008 |
Gareth Swift (University of Salford) and Russell Jones (Golder Associates) |
Design of a reinforced embankment on compressible soil |