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We are extremely proud to announce that our Associate Director Dr Michael Wan has become a Fellow of the Institution of Civil…

GCG’s Tom Morgan will be giving a talk entitled “Faulting under London” to the London branch of the Open University’s Geological Society…

GCG is delighted to announce that its Associate, Prof Richard Jardine, has been invited to deliver the 6th McClelland Lecture. This is…

GCG’s Senior Partner Dr Gary Choy and Associate Dr Barry New have published a technical paper entitled “Tunnelling and general construction impacts…

As the runner-up of the 2021 BGA Cooling Prize, GCG’s Dr Riccardo Scarfone was invited by Ground Engineering to submit a paper…

We congratulate our Geotechnical Engineer Benjamin Guo for successfully completing his PhD on ‘Reuse and Sustainability of Flood Defences’ at Imperial College…

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…

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our clients, collaborators and connections for their support and friendship throughout 2021….

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…

GCG’s Principal Engineer, Dr Way Way Moinet, will be giving a webinar entitled “An introduction to Soil Mechanics” at an event hosted…

GCG’s Senior Partner Dr Chris Menkiti and shipping solicitor Nicholas Woo of Birketts’ recently spoke to Nidaa Bakhsh of Lloyd’s List Intelligence…

GCG is delighted to welcome Benjamin into its team. He joins as a Geotechnical Engineer. Benjamin recently submitted his PhD thesis at…

GCG Senior Partner John Davis has been appointed to the European Federation of Geologists ‘Panel of Experts’ on Geotechnics. The European Federation…

The prestigious Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)’s David Hislop award (also known as the Offshore award) has been won by our Senior…

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…

We were delighted to be able to perform this years’ annual review meeting in person. All our team members that were available…

GCG is delighted to welcome Serena into our team. She joins as a Geotechnical Engineer. Serena recently completed her MSc at Imperial…

GCG were pleased to support the publication of The Geologist’s Association’s new two volume guide on “The Chalk of the South Downs…

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.

GCG is proud to have worked on the n2 Development, Victoria, London, which has been shortlisted as a finalist in the GE…

On the 18th August 2021, CIRIA are broadcasting the launch event for the new good practice guidance “The management of advanced numerical…

The second edition of the UK Specification for Ground Investigation has been in use since 2012. A Working Group of the Association…

GCG is proud to be providing geotechnical support (since 2012) for this technically challenging Nova Victoria project involving complex interfaces with sensitive…

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…

GCG is pleased to announce that its Senior Consultant Jackie Skipper and GCG joint-sponsored PhD student Justyna Edgar will jointly receive the…

GCG is very pleased to announce that Dr Gary Choy, Dr Apollonia Gasparre and Dr Angeliki Grammatikopoulou have been appointed as Senior…

In the aftermath of the fatal derailment at Carmont near Stonehaven in August 2020, GCG’s founding partner Professor Lord Robert Mair was…

GCG is delighted to announce that one of our Geotechnical Engineers, Dr Riccardo Scarfone, has been shortlisted as a Finalist for the…

For the benefit of those who missed GCG’s Jackie Skipper talk titled “Sharing lessons from a decade of development at Nine Elms”…

Several GCG staff will be making presentations at the upcoming international Piling 2020 conference, organised by the British Geotechnical Association. The conference…

GCG’s Jackie Skipper and John Davis (together with A. L. Flynn, P. E. F. Collins, T. Pickard, N. Koor, and P. Reading)…

CIRIA have announced the publication of a guide to “Assessing the impacts of construction-induced ground movement on framed buildings (C796)”, the production…

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.

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,…

Congratulations to the 21 Moorfields project team for winning the BGA’s Fleming Award last night. GCG has provided specialist geotechnical support for…

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’…

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…

One of GCG’s founders, Professor Lord Robert Mair, is giving a keynote lecture entitled ‘Geotechnical insights into circular shaft performance in clay’…

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…

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…

GCG congratulates its Senior Partner John Davis for publishing a very important & useful article entitled “Geotechnical Baseline Reports (GBRs) – ground…

GCG is proud to announce that one of its founding directors, Prof Lord Robert Mair, has been appointed as the Board Chair…

GCG is pleased to announce that, in addition to his responsibilities for individual projects, Dr Felix Schroeder has assumed the role of…

As part of GCG’s commitment to providing the highest possible quality of service to our clients, we seek to play an active…

GCG congratulates two of its most recent recruits (Eleonora Sailer and Riccardo Scarfone) for the successful defence of their PhD theses. Eleonora’s…