At an awards ceremony at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) on Tuesday 25 October, six members of the Department received awards for research papers published in 2004, as follows:
T K Hsieh Award (established 1979): Subhamoy Bhattacharya, Professor Malcolm Bolton and Dr Gopal Madabhushi for the Geotechnique paper 'An alternative mechanism of pile failure in liquefiable deposits during earthquakes'
Howard Medal (instituted 1872): K.Baskaran and Dr Chris Morley for the Structures and Buildings paper 'Using yield line theory for interior panels of flat slabs'
Geotechnical Research Medal (founded 1989): Dr David White and Barry Lehane for the Geotechnique paper 'Friction fatigue on displacement piles in sand'