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| February 2010: The Ground Engineering Award 2010 for Technical Excellence went to the Cannon Place project. GCG acted as geotechnical advisors to Foggo Associates for this project and in the words of Tony Taylor (Foggo Associates' project designer): "This award owes a great deal to GCG." | |||
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| January 2010: Professor Robert J. Mair was awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year's Honours List for services to Engineering. | |||
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June 2009: At its AGM on 9th June 2009, the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) awarded the Skempton Medal to Hugh D. St John in recognition of his long standing contribution to the practice of geotechnical engineering. Also presented at the AGM was the newly constituted BGA Medal awarded to Dr Stavroula Kontoe, Dr Lidija Zdravkovic, Prof David M. Potts and Dr Chris O. Menkiti for their paper 'Case study on seismic tunnel response', published in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal 45: 1743-1764 (2008). |
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| March 2009: On 18th March 2009 Professor Tom O'Rourke, one of GCG's Associates, presented the 2009 Rankine Lecture. The title of his lecture was "Geohazards & Large Geographically Distributed Systems". An abstract of the lecture can be found here. | |||
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| May 2008: Professor Peter R. Vaughan, one of our founding Directors, passed away on Friday 16 May 2008. | |||
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October 2007: A joint NGI/GCG workshop was held at GCG's offices in London on the 4th and 5th of October 2007. | ||
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| March 2007: On 21st March 2007 Professor Antonio Gens, one of GCG's Associates, presented the 2007 Rankine Lecture. The title of his lecture was "Soil-environment interactions in geotechnical engineering". | |||
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| March 2006: On 22nd March 2006 Professor Robert J. Mair presented the 2006 Rankine Lecture. The title of his lecture was "Tunnelling and Geotechnics - New Horizons". An abstract of the lecture can be found here. | |||
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| since May 2005: GCG and NGI have been exchanging staff since May 2005. In 2005, Ragnar Moholdt of NGI joined GCG’s offices in London and Felix Schroeder spent six months at NGI in Oslo, Norway. More recently, Tonje Eide Helle, Morten Saue and Veslemoy Garda worked on GCG’s Crossrail team for periods of around 6 months each. | |||
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April 2005: A joint NGI/GCG workshop was held at NGI's offices in Oslo, Norway on the 7th and 8th of April 2005. | ||
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| 2004: The East Midlands Merit Award 2004 was awardeded for the design and construction of Keadby Lock Strengthening Works. GCG provided specialist advice to Cementation Foundations Skanska for this project. | |||
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| November 2004: GCG was part of the Fleming Award 2004 winning team for the project: Moorhouse Draught Relief Shaft for Crossrail, London. | |||
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| November 2003: GCG was part of the Fleming Award 2003 winning team for the project: Dublin Port Tunnel. | |||
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March 2002: A group photo of all GCG's staff at the celebration of Professor Dave Potts' Rankine Lecture - 'Numerical Methods - Practial reality or virtual dream?'. | ||
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