Outstanding Technical Committee Award

Outstanding Technical Committee Award

• ISSMGE IT Administrator
• Awards
• 14-07-2026

Purpose

To reward an ISSMGE Technical Committee in recognition of one or more of the following achievements:

• Conducting work in aggregating and disseminating the knowledge on topics that are within the Technical Committees sphere of activity.
• Effectively enhance current geo-engineering practice through up to date and innovative solutions concerning guidelines, standards, technologies, laboratory methods or recommended laboratory apparatus.
• Providing education and training with emphasis on current geo-engineering issues.

Nomination

Award nominations for particular committees are to be submitted to the ISSMGE Secretariat by the announced date by the chairs of the ISSMGE Technical Committees who wish to nominate for this award.  The nomination package should include the following: 

• A written motivation, not more than two pages in length, which should include relevant attachments (publications, patents, reviews, confirmations of implementation, etc.) concerning the subject of the award.
• Information regarding active participation in conferences, seminars, workshops as well as other meetings concerning the Technical Committees work which is presented in such a way as to document and confirm that the Technical Committees outstanding activities entitle it to an award.
• Information as regards to the organising of conferences, seminars and other types of meetings concerning the Technical Committees activities since the last quadrennial ISSMGE conference (regular meetings, internet conferences, etc.).
• Demonstration of the effectiveness of organisational meetings for scientific, engineering, educational and training purposes.

Exposure

Presentation of the activity on ISSMGE website and social media channels, as well as in the ISSMGE Bulletin.

Outstanding Technical Committee Awardees

The 2026 Awardee

TC 106 – Unsaturated soils

https://www.issmge.org/committees/technical-committees/fundamentals/unsaturated-soils

• active for over 30 years,

• significant contributions by organizing and sponsoring specialized conferences, symposiums, and workshops to gather and share knowledge and practices on unsaturated soils.

• collaborations with other technical committees involved in important issues related to unsaturated soils

• increased visibility, currently representing 40 countries

• organizing the evaluation committee through the Task Force Leader on Awards (following ISSMGE selection protocols) for nine Bright Spark Lectures (BSLs) since 2018

• Recent activities include:

  • targeted efforts to increase the visibility at the 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ICSMGE 2022 in Sydney, featuring State-of-the-Art Lectures and reports on Unsaturated Soils, along with two TC106 sessions.

  • participation in the 17th Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering PANAMGEO Chile 2024 in La Serena, which includes a pre-conference course on unsaturated tailings and the 2nd Pan-American Distinguished Lecture of TC106,

  • 18th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ECSMGE 2024, in Lisbon, with a one-day pre-conference workshop.

  • ISSMGE Interactive Technical Talk No. 6, Unsaturated Soils (TC106), held in April 2023

  • workshops have been organized to promote collaborative panel sessions and joint publications with other technical committees (TC 308) addressing important issues related to unsaturated soils