2008

Flyers for some of the events held during 2008 are available via the folowing links.

5 February 2008: Infrastructure Asset Management Best Practice (.pdf345 Kb) IHT and Engineering Group joint conference held at the Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa. A meeting report is also available immediately below.
5 February 2008: Infrastructure Asset Management Best Practice (.rtf22 Kb) Meeting report
21 February 2008: Drill and Blast Tunnelling - Bristol City Centre Flood Alleviation Phase II (.pdf51 Kb) Informal discussion jointly convened by the British Tunnelling Society and the Institute of Materials.
11 March 2008 Reinforced Water - Engineering and Environmental Considerations in Construction over Peat (.pdf84 Kb) One day event Co-hosted by the Engineering Group and the Central Scotland Regional Group of the Geological Society, held at the British Geological Survey, Murchison House, Edinburgh.
13 March 2008 Waste Management: Dealing with Construction Waste (.pdf104 Kb) Evening lecture convened by the Engineering Group of the Geological Society and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), held at Halcrow, Swindon.
21 May 2008 The Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste (.pdf27 Kb) A joint meeting between the Engineering Group and the Hazards Forum, held at Burlington House, London.
17 June 2008 Engineering Geology through the Centuries (.pdf85 Kb) Engineering Group AGM and evening meeting held at Burlington House, London.
3 September 2008: Engineering Geology and Experience in the East London and the Thames Gateway Area (.pdf179 Kb) One day seminar jointly convened by the Engineering Group and the Ground Forum, held at Burlington House, London.
4 September 2008: Subsidence – Collapse: Occurrence, Impact and Mitigation (.pdf20 Kb) One day symposium convened by the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology in association with the Midland Geotechnical Society, held at the University of Birmingham. Available as a symposium-in-print.
7 - 10 September 2008 - Fourth European Geosynthetics Conference (.pdf43 Kb) The conference was organised by the IGS UK Chapter under the auspices of IGS and with the support of the British Geotechnical Society, The Scottish Geotechnical Group, The Engineering Group of the Geological Society of London and The Ground Forum and comprised three days of parallel technical sessions, training courses and trade exhibition covered all aspects of the use of geosynthetics in civil engineering.
6 November 2008: Geology: its Principles, Practice and Potential for Geotechnics (.pdf108 Kb) 9th Glossop Lecture presented by Dr. Michael H. de Freitas, Emeritus Reader in Engineering Geology at Imperial College London. Preceded by the 2008 Glossop Award presentation by Seth Pollak on ‘Geologic interpretation for design of caverns in an urban setting – A case study of the Seven Line Extension Project, New York.
9 December 2008: Developing the Ground Model - Field Techniques (.pdf80 Kb) Joint evening meeting convened by the engineering Group and the Environmental and Industrial Geophysics Group, held at Burlington House, London.