Previous News Releases from the British Geotechnical Association
2011
Call for papers for ICE Geotechnical Engineering themed issues: The geotechnical challenges for renewable energy developments.
Report on Geotec Hanoi Conference: Geotechnics for Sustainable Development.
New ECSMGE 2015 website now up and running.
BGA to host the European Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in 2015. The conference will be in Edinburgh between the 13th and 17th of September.
ISSMGE TC211 Conference - IS-Ground Improvement Brussels.
Notes from the recent one day symposium on instrumentation .
ICE memorial event for Michael Tomlinson, ICE Fellow and former BGA Chairman.
The Midland Geotechnical Society half day symposium on the new revision of BS8006.
Prof Malcolm Bolton has been named as the 52nd Rankine Lecturer.
Fundraising at the Rankine dinner raised in excess of £3000 for RedR.
The 2011 Cooling Prize has been awarded to Gabrielle Wojtowitz from the University of Southampton.
The 42nd Cooling Prize will be hosted by the East Midlands Geotechnical Group.
2010
ISSMGE December Bulletin.
2010 Touring Lecture by Serge Varaksin (warning: file size 24MB).
The draft BS 10175 � Investigation of Contaminated Land � Code of Practice available for comment.
"Lifed Panel" on Myths and Misconceptions in Ground Engineering established.
Report on the 2010 EYGEC.
A Client's Guide for reducing the risk of leaking substructures has been released.
Presentations from the SECED meeting "The Measurement of Dynamic Soil Properties Location".
2010 Cooling Prize Results.
Competition for place atEYGEC 2010 held in Brno. Competition rules.
Report on 4th IYGEC .
Fleming Award won by the One New Change team.
Nominations for the ISRM Rocha Medal Rocha Medal.
2010 YGES in Bristol from the 6th to the 8th July.
2009
The BGA has awarded the Skepmton Medal to Hugh St.John .
The new BGA Medal was awarded to Dr S Kontoe, Dr L
Zdravkovic, Prof D M Potts and Dr C O Menkiti for their paper 'Case study on seismic tunnel response'.
The 2009 iYGEC paper competition was won by Vicky Potts for her paper entitled "Design of Geosynthetic Reinforced Fill Layers to BridgeVoids'.
2009 Cooling prize won by Alice Berry of Arup.
Jubilee Symposium on Polymer Geogrid Reinforcement programme.
BGA Annual Conference 2009 schedule.
Call for nominations for BGA Committee
Young engineers competition
Launch of new open source modelling software.
2009 Cooling prize finalists announced.
Fleming Award won by Limerick Submerged Tube Tunnel Team
2007
The raffle for RedR at the 2007 Rankine Dinner raised �2300.
result. Copies of the papers are here: Mei Cheong's winning paper on negative skin friction and runner up Alex Lee's paper on flood bunds
BGA Annual Conference
Prediction Competition
Entry for the Cooling Prize 2007
2006
EYGEC Zagreb 2007 ReportFleming Award
Professor A Gomes Correia gives 2006 Touring Lecture
YGES 2006
BGA 4th Annual Conference.
Antonio Gens to be 2007 Rankine Lecturer.
Cooling Prizer Winner
Prediction Competition
Win a trip to Zagreb - YGEC 2006
Geotechnique Call for Papers
Rankine Dinner Tickets - 2006
2005
Buchanan LecturesCall for Fleming Award Entries 2005
Professor John Hudson next ISRM President
Eurocode Design Exercise
Professor Robert Mair announced as Rankine Lecturer 2006
Cooling Prize Winner
Call for Cooling Prize 2005 Entries - Rules
Rankine Lecture 2005 - Kerry Rowe
Report on European Young Geotech Eng Conf
Results of Pile Competition
2004
Call for Fleming Award 2004 entriesPile Prediction Competition
Cooling Prize Winner
Members' CD with March Ground Engineering
