News
The second edition of the UK Specification for Ground Investigation has been in use since 2012. A Working Group of the Association…
May 11, 2021
Nova East substructure and core completed
GCG is proud to be providing geotechnical support (since 2012) for this technically challenging Nova Victoria project involving complex interfaces with sensitive…
May 10, 2021
Measured ground response to EPBM tunnelling in London Clay, an ICE webinar on 24 May 2021 17:30-18:45h (UK time)
GCG’s Associate Director Dr Michael Wan and Imperial College’s Dr Jamie Standing (and GCG’s Associate) will be presenting their key findings from…
May 7, 2021
Jackie and Justyna receive 2020 Richardson Award
GCG is pleased to announce that its Senior Consultant Jackie Skipper and GCG joint-sponsored PhD student Justyna Edgar will jointly receive the…
Apr 21, 2021
Announcement of promotions in GCG
GCG is very pleased to announce that Dr Gary Choy, Dr Apollonia Gasparre and Dr Angeliki Grammatikopoulou have been appointed as Senior…
Mar 26, 2021
Network Rail Earthworks Review Final Report – Prepared by a task force led by GCG’s Founding Partner Professor Lord Robert Mair
In the aftermath of the fatal derailment at Carmont near Stonehaven in August 2020, GCG’s founding partner Professor Lord Robert Mair was…
Feb 18, 2021
Dr Riccardo Scarfone has been shortlisted as a Finalist for the 2021 BGA Cooling Prize Competition
GCG is delighted to announce that one of our Geotechnical Engineers, Dr Riccardo Scarfone, has been shortlisted as a Finalist for the…
Feb 17, 2021
Watch Jackie’s talk “Sharing lessons from a decade of development at Nine Elms”, given at the 2020 GE Basements and Underground Structures conference
For the benefit of those who missed GCG’s Jackie Skipper talk titled “Sharing lessons from a decade of development at Nine Elms”…
Feb 15, 2021
GCG will be speaking at the international Piling 2020 conference (Online event, 23-26 March 2021 09:00-13:00h UK time)
Several GCG staff will be making presentations at the upcoming international Piling 2020 conference, organised by the British Geotechnical Association. The conference…
Feb 11, 2021
An article published in QJEGH on ‘Buried (drift-filled) hollows in London – a review of their location and key characteristics’
GCG’s Jackie Skipper and John Davis (together with A. L. Flynn, P. E. F. Collins, T. Pickard, N. Koor, and P. Reading)…
Feb 4, 2021
CIRIA announced publication of C796 – Assessing the impacts of construction-induced ground movement on framed buildings
CIRIA have announced the publication of a guide to “Assessing the impacts of construction-induced ground movement on framed buildings (C796)”, the production…
Dec 24, 2020
2020 Season’s Greetings from all at GCG
As we come to the end of a challenging year for everyone, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy festive period, and a fabulous, healthy and prosperous 2021. We thank you for being part of our world.
Dec 14, 2020
Congratulations to Eleonora for publishing some of her PhD research work!
GCG’s Eleonora Sailer published some of the results from her PhD research in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Energy Geotechnics (ICEGT) 2020,…
Dec 10, 2020
21 Moorfields project won the BGA’s Fleming Award
Congratulations to the 21 Moorfields project team for winning the BGA’s Fleming Award last night. GCG has provided specialist geotechnical support for…
Dec 7, 2020
Dr Jackie Skipper is giving a Keynote Lecture at the ‘GE Geotechnical Asset Resilience 2020′ on Wednesday 9th December
GCG’s Senior Consultant Dr Jackie Skipper will be presenting a Keynote Lecture at the ‘Ground Engineering Basements and Underground Structures and Geotechnical Asset Resilience’…
Nov 23, 2020
21 Moorfields project shortlisted as the Finalists of the 2020 BGA Fleming Award
We are delighted to have been shortlisted as the Finalists of the 2020 BGA Fleming Award for the 21 Moorfields project. https://www.britishgeotech.org/news/2020/11/2020-fleming-award-shortlist-announced…
Nov 12, 2020
Keynote lecture by Lord Mair at Virtual AGS Sydney Symposium (13 November 2020)
One of GCG’s founders, Professor Lord Robert Mair, is giving a keynote lecture entitled ‘Geotechnical insights into circular shaft performance in clay’…
Nov 9, 2020
Congratulations to Riccardo for publishing some of his research work!
GCG’s Riccardo Scarfone presented results of part of his PhD research work at the 4th European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-UNSAT 2020), which was…
Nov 9, 2020
Article on ‘The Harwich Formation in London – The legacy of Chris King’
GCG‘s Jackie Skipper and Imperial College London PhD student Justyna Edgar’s paper on the Harwich Formation of the London basin is now available online. The…
Oct 26, 2020
Congratulations to John Davis for publishing an important article on GBRs in QJEGH
GCG congratulates its Senior Partner John Davis for publishing a very important & useful article entitled “Geotechnical Baseline Reports (GBRs) – ground…