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Nov 7, 2022
GCG’s Senior Partner John Davis’ interview with Ground Engineering Magazine
GCG’s Senior Partner John Davis recently spoke with GE Magazine to highlight his role, aspirations, and priorities as chair of the Engineering…
Oct 7, 2022
GCG’s Senior Partner John Davis presents at the British Tunnelling Society Conference
GCG Senior Partner John Davis, together with Antony Drake from Mott MacDonald, will be giving a preview of the forthcoming CIRIA guidance…
Sep 26, 2022
GCG’s Associate Director Dr Michael Wan appointed as Chair of the UK Chapter of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
We congratulate our Associate Director, Dr Michael Wan, for being appointed by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) as the Chair…
Sep 15, 2022
GCG’s Associates Dr James Lawrence and Dr David Taborda have been promoted to Readers at Imperial College London
GCG is delighted that our Associates, Dr James Lawrence and Dr David Taborda, have been promoted to Readers at Imperial College London….
Sep 12, 2022
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 1926 – 2022
We join the nation, the Commonwealth and, the World in mourning the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our sincere condolences are…
Sep 12, 2022
GCG contribute at 11th ISFMG2022, London
It was a privilege for GCG to have contributed to the success of the 11th International Symposium of Field Monitoring in Geomechanics…
Jul 26, 2022
Drs Jenny Huggett and Jackie Skipper publish an article on Clay Stratigraphy of the Lambeth Group
GCG is pleased to announce that the long-awaited article “Clay Stratigraphy of the Lambeth Group of Borehole IOD8R”, has been published online…
Jul 19, 2022
Announcement of promotions in GCG
GCG is pleased to announce that Dr Riccardo Scarfone and Dr Tiago Dias have been promoted to the position of Senior Geotechnical…
Jul 14, 2022
GCG’s Senior Partner John Davis appointed as Chair of the Geological Society ‘Engineering Group’
We are proud to announce that our Senior Partner, John Davis, was appointed Chair of The Geological Society ‘Engineering Group’ at the…
May 17, 2022
Congratulations to our Dr Michael Wan for becoming an ICE Fellow
We are extremely proud to announce that our Associate Director Dr Michael Wan has become a Fellow of the Institution of Civil…
Apr 26, 2022
GCG’s Tom Morgan to present on faulting under London to the Open University’s Geological Society
GCG’s Tom Morgan will be giving a talk entitled “Faulting under London” to the London branch of the Open University’s Geological Society…
Mar 1, 2022
GCG’s Associate Prof Richard Jardine has been invited to deliver the 6th McClelland Lecture
GCG is delighted to announce that its Associate, Prof Richard Jardine, has been invited to deliver the 6th McClelland Lecture. This is…
Feb 24, 2022
GCG’s Dr Gary Choy & Dr Barry New published a paper on construction impact assessment of utility assets
GCG’s Senior Partner Dr Gary Choy and Associate Dr Barry New have published a technical paper entitled “Tunnelling and general construction impacts…
Feb 22, 2022
GCG’s Dr Riccardo Scarfone published an article in Ground Engineering Magazine
As the runner-up of the 2021 BGA Cooling Prize, GCG’s Dr Riccardo Scarfone was invited by Ground Engineering to submit a paper…
Feb 4, 2022
Benjamin Guo successfully completed his PhD
We congratulate our Geotechnical Engineer Benjamin Guo for successfully completing his PhD on ‘Reuse and Sustainability of Flood Defences’ at Imperial College…
Feb 2, 2022
GCG’s Riccardo Scarfone published an article in Acta Geotechnica
GCG’s Geotechnical Engineer, Dr Riccardo Scarfone, together with his PhD Supervisor, Prof. Simon Wheeler from University of Glasgow, have published a paper on ‘Analytical…
Dec 22, 2021
Season’s Greetings
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our clients, collaborators and connections for their support and friendship throughout 2021….
Dec 20, 2021
Moisture-induced instability of bulk cargoes – a loss prevention note
GCG’s Senior Partner, Dr Chris Menkiti, and Birketts LLP’s Nicholas Woo have written an article on moisture-induced instability of bulk cargoes during…
Dec 17, 2021
Dr Way Way is giving a webinar on “An introduction to Soil Mechanics” to Construction Lawyers
GCG’s Principal Engineer, Dr Way Way Moinet, will be giving a webinar entitled “An introduction to Soil Mechanics” at an event hosted…
Dec 6, 2021
Climate change increases risk of liquefaction of bulk cargoes
GCG’s Senior Partner Dr Chris Menkiti and shipping solicitor Nicholas Woo of Birketts’ recently spoke to Nidaa Bakhsh of Lloyd’s List Intelligence…
Nov 24, 2021
GCG warmly welcomes Benjamin Guo
GCG is delighted to welcome Benjamin into its team. He joins as a Geotechnical Engineer. Benjamin recently submitted his PhD thesis at…
Nov 19, 2021
GCG’s John Davis is appointed to the European Federation of Geologists
GCG Senior Partner John Davis has been appointed to the European Federation of Geologists ‘Panel of Experts’ on Geotechnics. The European Federation…
Oct 25, 2021
ICE David Hislop Award Winners 2021
The prestigious Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)’s David Hislop award (also known as the Offshore award) has been won by our Senior…
Oct 21, 2021
Announcing new Associates
GCG is delighted to welcome three new Associates. Dr James Lawrence, Senior Lecturer in Engineering Geology/ Geotechnics, Imperial College London (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.lawrence) Dr…
Oct 20, 2021
Annual Team Review
We were delighted to be able to perform this years’ annual review meeting in person. All our team members that were available…
Oct 6, 2021
GCG warmly welcomes Serena Che
GCG is delighted to welcome Serena into our team. She joins as a Geotechnical Engineer. Serena recently completed her MSc at Imperial…
Sep 30, 2021
Congratulations to Professor Byrne, our Associate, for being elected as FREng!
We are pleased to share the news that one of our Associates, Professor Byron Byrne of University of Oxford, has been elected as…
Sep 23, 2021
The Geologists’ Association new field guide for the Chalk in SE England by Prof. Rory Mortimore – available for purchase
GCG were pleased to support the publication of The Geologist’s Association’s new two volume guide on “The Chalk of the South Downs…
Sep 10, 2021
Updating CIRIA Piling Guides (P3198) – Good Practice Guidance
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…