Engineering the future

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This page is part of the Geology for Society publication.

Understanding ground conditions and how buildings, infrastructure and people interact with their geological environment is essential to assuring public safety and well-being, delivering value for money and meeting the challenges of living with environmental change.

Engineering the Subsurface

British Geological Survey: The UK National Geological Model

Past Meetings & Lectures

Reconciling past and future worlds: geology and ground engineering - Video - Shell Lecture with Jackie Skipper, March 2013

Exploring the subsurface using the Earth's hum - 2008 London Lecture

Engineering the Surface

Past Meetings & Lectures

Landslides and subsidence: engineering geology in an age of austerity - Shell Lecture, David Shilston, Atkins, March 2013

LUSI: the Geology and Engineering of a Mud Volcano in Java - London Lecture, David Shilston, January 2014

Geoscientist Magazine

Aberfan and Institutional Memory - Article, Feb 2017
Tipping point - Article, Oct 2016
Aberfan's engineering legacy - Article, Oct 2016
Quakes, deformation and nukes - Article, Oct 2016
Cracking up in Lincolnshire - Article, March 2014
Desert Song - engineering in the desert - Article, September 2012
Crossrail - the engineering geology - Article, July 2012
Operation Tethys – On repairing irrigation systems in Afghanistan, July 2011, article

The National Geological Model (NGM) team's objective is to construct an accurate, multi-scalar, geospatial model of the subsurface arrangement of the rocks and sediments of the UK .

BGS Website

Aimed at policy and decision-makers as well as the wider public, 'Geology for Society' outlines the importance of geology to our society.

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