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Lecture

BGA 63rd Rankine Lecture and dinner: from geo-monitor to geo-adapt

Event organised by The British Geotechnical Association

Date
19 March 2025
Time
17:30 - 23:00 GMT
Location
The Great Hall, Sherfield Building
Imperial College London
Exhibition Road
London, SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
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Overview

Join us for the 63rd Rankine Lecture and dinner. The lecture will be presented by professor Kenichi Soga from the University of California, Berkeley. This year’s lecture, titled From Geo-monitor to Geo-adapt: Leveraging Distributed Sensing and Data Analytics for Performance-Based Design, Construction, and Maintenance, will explore cutting-edge methods in geotechnical engineering.

Professor Soga will discuss advancements in distributed sensing and data analytics that are transforming how we monitor, adapt, and optimise the performance of infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.

The lecture will present three case studies (tunnels, pipelines, and deep foundations) to demonstrate how distributed sensing data and data analytic techniques can provide geotechnical insights, enabling us to adapt to ever-changing demands.

Booking information

Lecture: 

  • Attend in person - the 63rd Rankine Lecture is free to attend in person at Imperial College and no registration is necessary.
  • Attend online - the event will live be streamed and the link will be available on the BGA website the day before.

Dinner:

  • Tickets for the BGA 63rd Rankine Dinner in honour of the 2025 Rankine Lecturer are available to purchase. The dinner will be held at Imperial College on Wednesday 19 March 2025 and will include, pre-dinner drinks, 3-course meal, wine at the table, and coffee to follow. 
  • Companies may purchase a table of 10 or a table of 9. Tables with 9 guests will also host a student that the BGA will select and pay for.
  • If you are not an ICE/BGA member you must register as a non-member before booking and paying for tickets online. Bookings are not secured until the credit card payment procedure has been completed. Please note dietary requests are not required at this stage and you will be contacted before the event regarding any requirements. 
  • Places not paid for by 31 January 2025 will be released to individuals and companies on the waiting list, including those that have requested a second table after which any remaining places will be released on the open market. The BGA is not registered for VAT.
  • Dress code is smart casual.

Organised by

British Geotechnical Association

British Geotechnical Association

The BGA is the UK's main association for geotechnical engineers, organising key events annually.

Venue

Imperial College
Sherfield Building
Exhibition Road 
SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom

Dinner prices

Ticket Cost
Individual £120
Table of 9 £1080
Table of 10 £1200

Speaker

Prof Kenichi Soga

Prof Kenichi Soga

University of California, Berkley USA

distinguished professor

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Prof Kenichi Soga

Kenichi Soga is the Donald H. McLaughlin chair in mineral engineering and a distinguished professor at the University of California Berkeley. He earned his BEng and MEng from Kyoto University in Japan and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2016, he was a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He has authored more than 450 journal and conference papers and co-authored the book "Fundamentals of Soil Behavior". His research focuses on infrastructure sensing, performance-based design and maintenance of underground structures, energy geotechnics, and geotechnics from micro to macro.

He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He has received numerous awards, including the George Stephenson Medal and Telford Gold Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also a Bakar Fellow of UC Berkeley, working to promote the commercialization of smart infrastructure technologies.

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