Celebrating Award-Winning Papers in 2025

We’re proud to announce that papers published in Géotechnique have won prestigious awards from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)!

Each year, outstanding research from across all ICE Publishing journals is recognised, with additional awards dedicated to specific subject areas within each journal.

The ICE Awards Ceremony will take place at ICE’s headquarters at One Great George Street, London on Thursday 3 July 2025. ICE President Professor Jim Hall will present awards to the top papers published in Géotechnique in 2024. These selections were made by the journal’s editorial panel and finalised by an awards committee chaired by Professor Tim Broyd.

Bonus: All winning papers will be free to read for a whole year —so you can dive into the best of the best!

Prestige prize
Telford Gold Medal – first overall
Effects of solid fraction of saturated granular flows on overflow and landing mechanisms of rigid barriers
Charles W. W. Ng, Usman Majeed, Clarence E. Choi

Subject prizes
Real world impact
Destabilisation of seawall ground by ocean waves
Hidenori Takahashi, Lidija Zdravković, Aikaterini Tsiampousi, Nobuhito Mori

David Hislop Award (best offshore project)
Upper-bound solutions for inclined capacity of suction caissons in a trenched seabed
Liqiang Sun, Yurong Zhang, Xiaowei Feng, Susan Gourvenec, Sa Li

Journal prize
Geotechnical Research Medal
Insight into contact forces in crushable sand using experiments and predictive particle-scale modelling
John M. Harmon, Dawa Seo, Giuseppe Buscarnera, José E. Andrade