Call for entries for the 56th Cooling Prize Competition

Call for Entries – 56th Cooling Prize Competition

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) is pleased to invite Early Career Geotechnical Professionals to submit posters on any topic dealing with the engineering behaviour of the ground, whether it be a description of an industrial design or construction project, development of a new piece of equipment, or state-of-the-art research.

Entrants must submit a poster, and those shortlisted will present their poster at the Cooling Prize event. The winner will be invited to prepare a 2000-word paper for publication.

The poster must be prepared using the template available on the BGA Association website and must be submitted with a completed application form and short CV by Midnight on 1 December 2024.

Full rules and eligibility are available HERE on the Cooling Prize page. Deadline for submissions is 1 December 2024.

Prizes include:

• a cheque for £200 donated by Ground Engineering (donated on presentation of the paper before November 2025 for publication);
• BGA sponsorship to the next European or International Conference on Soil Mechanics the following year (2026), noting that to be eligible to present at the conference you must be aged 35 or under at the time of the conference;
• publication of the winning paper in Ground Engineering;
• a cut-glass decanter or an alternative trophy, and much more.