SPG Events

The Portuguese Environmental Geotechnical Commission (CPGA) of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society, with support from the National Civil Engineering Laboratory, invited Carlos Costa, from eGiamb – Consultoria Geoambiental, Lda, to deliver the 6th Lecture of the “Cycle of Geotechnical Lectures to Thinking about the Environment “, with the title Contaminated Land Management in Urban Operations.. The...

The 5th International Seminar on Underground Space will be held at the annual BEFIPS partnership meeting, jointly organized by LNEC and CPT of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society. The theme of this issue will be Health & Safety in Underground Space. The topics to be addressed at the seminar will be as follows: • Historical evolution...

It will take place on December 5 and 6, 2019, at the Academy of Sciences, in Lisbon, the Seminar Excavations in Urban Environment, a joint organization of SPG and the Lisbon City Council, with the support of the Order of Engineers. On December 6th, in the morning, the Seminar will include a session dedicated to...

Under the auspices of the Portuguese Environmental Geotechnical Commission of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society and ISSMGE TC307 – Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering, the National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC) is organizing the 1st International Conference on Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering – Geodiversity & Resilience ( 1st ICSGE’21), which will take place at the LNEC Congress Center...

The 4th. Technical Session on Geosynthetics, which was scheduled to take place in March 2020, will finally take place, in person, on July 1, 2022, at LNEC, Lisbon, from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm. Please find the program and registration form.

The 16th National Geotechnical Congress, under the theme “Geotechnics, Natural and Geotechnical Risks and Sustainability”, organized in partnership with the Regional Laboratory of Civil Engineering of the Azores. The event took place between May 27 and 30 in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, benefiting from direct contact with specific geological and geotechnical conditions of that...

The 9th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE 2018) was held from June 25 to 27, 2018 at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, with the joint organization of FEUP and SPG, under the auspices of ISSMGE. The conference followed a series begun 32 years ago (Stuttgart, Germany, 1986,...

A large set of events around the XIX COBRAMSEG – Brazilian Congress of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering was held in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, between August 28 and September 1, which also included the VIII Luso-Brazilian Congress. The VIII Brazilian Symposium on Rock Mechanics, the V Pan American Sliding Symposium and the VIII Brazilian Symposium...

The 8th Meeting of Young Geotechnical took place on the morning of October 13, 2017, during the 1st Seminar on Geotechnics in Transportation, at the Main Auditorium of the National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC). In the meeting has been presented communications in English and portuguese competing for the Awards Young Geotechnicals. The Jury was composed...

The Portuguese Committee of Geotechnics in Transportation and the Portuguese Commission of Gessynthetics organized the 1st Seminar on Geotechnics in Transport with the theme “Improvement, Reinforcement and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructures”. The seminar was held on October 12 and 13, 2017, in the Auditorium of the Congress Center of National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC),...

The Portuguese Geotechnical Society (SPG) and the Association of Old Student Geotechnics of the New University of Lisbon (AGAA / UNL) organized the XXIV MANUEL ROCHA LECTURE, which was given by Professor Paul W. Mayneof the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA , in the Auditorium 2 of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, under the...

Cycle of Geotechnical Lectures thinking about the environment “Impacts of climate change and global solutions” Prof. Franscisco FerreiraFaculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of LisbonPresident of ZERO – Sustainable Terrestrial System Association A CPGA / SPG and LNEC organized the lecture by Prof. Francisco Ferreira, who addressed the need to adapt to...