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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 October 2004
Midland Geotechnical Society 50th
Anniversary
Professor John Burland, the man who masterminded the stabilisation of the Tower of Pisa, will help the Midland Geotechnical Society celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Prof Burland will be speaking on ground/structure interaction at a Symposium at Birmingham University on 3 November, followed by a celebration dinner More than 200 members are expected to attend the event
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The Society has a long-standing reputation for the eminence of its speakers and, as well as Prof Burland, other leading speakers will include landslides expert Prof Eddie Bromhead, former Birmingham University lecturer Prof Dick Chandler of Imperial College, who has done extensive work on the soils and rocks which underlie much of the Midlands, Prof Chris Clayton of Southampton University, a specialist in site investigation and tunnel collapse, Viv Troughton, who has been involved with the modernisation of the West Coast Main Line and Birmingham University's Prof Chris Rogers, an expert in trenchless technology and lime stabilisation of soils.
The event will be chaired by Len Threadgold, managing director of Geotechnics Limited and a member for more than 30 years and the after-dinner speaker will be former Birmingham University lecturer Dr John Billam, who has been a member for most of the Society's 50 years.
Len Threadgold said: "The Society has always thrived with a high proportion of members attending all meetings.
This event will be really special and the demand for tickets has been exceptional.
It should be a great day and it is good that the MGS is working together with the Institution of Civil Engineers Midlands to ensure its success." The Society was founded in 1954 as the Midlands Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Society to promote ideas and disseminate research findings.
It also provides a vital forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience between practitioners in the Midlands.
In the 1970s, the society changed its name to the Midland Geotechnical Society to embrace the broader issues arising from an understanding of geological and, more recently, geoenvironmental perspectives.
Some years ago, a prestigious annual Environmental Lecture was inaugurated, the first of which was given by Jonathan Poritt and was followed by Sir Hugh Rossi, among others.
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