News
A CIRIA project is now underway to update CIRIA’s iconic piling guides. GCG are proud to be supporting this project as one of the sponsors. GCG’s Senior Partner Professor Kelvin Higgins is chairing the Project Steering Group, and Dr Apollonia Liana Gasparre, another of GCG’s Senior Partners, is also a member of the Steering Group.
Aug 20, 2021
GCG is delighted to be a finalist in the GE Awards 2021 in two categories
GCG is proud to have worked on the n2 Development, Victoria, London, which has been shortlisted as a finalist in the GE…
Aug 5, 2021
Webinar on New Good Practice Guidance “The management of advanced numerical modelling in geotechnical engineering (C791)”
On the 18th August 2021, CIRIA are broadcasting the launch event for the new good practice guidance “The management of advanced numerical…
Jul 23, 2021
Justyna Edgar successfully completes her PhD
GCG is delighted to hear that Justyna Edgar, who has been part- funded by the Geotechnical Consulting Group and Concept Engineering Consultants…
Jul 2, 2021
Tom Morgan successfully completes his PhD
We congratulate our new starter Tom Morgan for successfully completing his PhD in Engineering Geology at Imperial College London. His PhD thesis…
Jun 23, 2021
GCG warmly welcomes Tom Morgan
We are delighted to announce that Tom Morgan has joined us as a Geotechnical Engineer. Tom recently finished his PhD at Imperial…
Jun 22, 2021
GCG Associate is giving the prestigious 60th Rankine Lecture
GCG is delighted that its Associate, Professor Stephan Jefferis, is hoping to give the prestigious 60th Rankine Lecture on Wednesday 20th October…
Jun 17, 2021
UK Specification for Ground Investigation – Draft for public comment
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,…