Skempton Medal awarded to Professor Christopher Clayton
The BGA is delighted to announce that the Trustees have approved the award of a Skempton Medal to Professor Christopher Clayton. Chris is an eminent and internationally respected geotechnical engineer. His career has spanned both industry and academia. He spent the first eight years of his career as a soil engineer specialising in site investigation before joining the University of Surrey as a lecturer in geotechnical engineering in 1978. He became Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at Surrey (1992) and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering (1993-1998), before joining the University of Southampton as possibly the UK’s first Professor of Infrastructure Engineering in 1999. He served as Head of the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment from 2008 to2010 and is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Southampton. Chris was BGA Chair from 1991 to 1993 and gave the Rankine Lecture in 2010. Professor Clayton will receive his Skempton Medal at the BGA Annual Conference and AGM on 25th June.
The Skempton Medal is awarded by the BGA to commemorate the life and work of Professor Sir Alec Skempton of Imperial College London, who was a key figure in the development of the science and practice of soil mechanics.
The Skempton Medal is awarded to a BGA member who has made an outstanding contribution to the practice of geotechnical engineering over a sustained period of time. The individual will not normally have received other comparable recognition in this country. The individual’s work should be closely associated with, though not necessarily carried out in, the United Kingdom. It is expected that not more than four awards would normally be made per decade.