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- Date
- 05 December 2023
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Overview
Attend the 2023 Fleming Award during which three shortlisted entries have been selected to present on 5 December 2023 with a chance of winning the award.
The competition is held annually 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.
The Fleming Award is awarded by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) to the project team which most demonstrates excellence in geotechnical design and construction. There will be an emphasis on teamwork across the different disciplines involved in the project. Consideration will also be given to teams which are innovative.
The event will consist of presentations from the finalists, and a keynote address, followed by the award presentation.
The finalists:
- 76 Southbank - Foundation re-use scheme
HTS, Arup, Keller & Keltbray - Hinkley Point C Tunnel Shaft Connections, GI Probing and Grouting Team
Balfour Beatty, EDF, Jacobs, BAM Ritchies and BeMo - Suction Caisson Supported Offshore Wind Farm, North Sea
GDG Ramboll, Seaway7, SSE, GDG Ltd, UWA, NGI, Ternan Energy Ltd, Oxford University Innovation Ltd and Dundee University Australia
This event has kindly been sponsored by Cementation Skanska:
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British Geotechnical Association
The BGA is the UK's main association for geotechnical engineers, organising key events annually.
Programme
18:30 - 19:00
Registration and welcome refreshments
[Registrations start at 18:30 for those attending in person. For those joining online, we recommend logging into the platform at 18:45 to check connections.]
19:00 - 19:05
Welcome from chair
19:05 - 20:20
Finalists' presentations
20:20 - 20:50
Keynote address/judges' deliberation
20:50 - 21:00
Award presentation
21:00
Event close
Speakers
Dr Andrew Ridley
Geotechnical Observations Ltd
managing director & owner
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Dr Andrew Ridley
Dr Andrew Ridley is Chair of the British Geotechnical Association and managing director of Geotechnical Observations Limited which he founded in 2000.
With over 40 years’ experience within the geotechnical sector of the civil engineering industry, he is known for his work on the measurement of soil suction (in situ and laboratory) for which he received a PhD from Imperial College London.
Andrew is currently the UK's representative on ISO TC182 WG2, which is writing international standards for geotechnical monitoring, a member of the British National Committee for standards in geotechnics B_526_3, Chair of ISSMGE TC220 Field Monitoring in Geomechanics and was Chair of the local organising committee for the 11th International Symposium on Field Monitoring in Geomechanics held at Imperial College London in September 2022.
In addition, Andrew was a member of the Steering Committee for CIRIA 550 Infrastructure Embankments – Condition Appraisal and Remedial Treatment, on the Editorial Panel of Geotechnical Engineering (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers) from 1998 to 2001 and was a member of the sub-committee to the Advisory Panel of Géotechnique for the 2011 Symposium in Print on Partial Saturation in Compacted Soils.
Prof David Richards
University of Southampton
professor of ground engineering
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Prof David Richards
Serving as head of the University of Southampton’s School of Engineering in 2018-23, Professor David Richards has technical interests including the geotechnical aspects of ageing infrastructure, the engineering behaviour of landfill waste and the mechanical characterisation of chalk.
He has conducted detailed studies into the rate loading effects of electricity transmission tower footing systems. More recently, he has addressed the costly foundation design problems affecting the delivery of overhead lines on Network Rail’s Great Western electrification project.
Richards was principal investigator for the government-backed £26m National Infrastructure Laboratory for the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities. He worked on a networked suite of national test facilities studying infrastructure performance, resilience and renewal.
He is a co-recipient of the ICE’s Telford Premium, Bill Curtin Medal and Geotechnical Research Medal.
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