Fifty, or so, years of engineering geology in the British Geological Survey, 1967 to 2019

This report attempts to summarise the main activities in the initially named Engineering Geology Unit (EGU) from its creation in 1967 to 2019, after which the BGS structure shifted from discipline to challenge based groupings. The abbreviation ‘EGU’ is used throughout the report though the actual name of the management grouping for engineering geology changed many times between 1967 and 2019. Only four of the authors were employed by the Natural Environment Research Council at the British Geological Survey (BGS) until October 2019 when the management structure changed completely; they were Dave Gunn and Pete Hobbs, who both retired at the end of June 2021, Marcus Dobbs and Claire Dashwood. Stuart Duncan left at the end of February 1979, Dave McCann at the end of April 1997, Martin Culshaw at the end of March 2008, Kevin Northmore in April 2012, June Page in February 2013, Tony Cooper in March 2014, Tom Dijkstra in September 2017, Dave Entwisle in March 2019 and Jon Busby in May 2021. Richard Ellison was never a member of EGU but collaborated on many projects from the 1970s onwards. Consequently, there are more details covering the years up to around 2010 than on the work in the last decade. The EGU paper records have been examined and sorted out by Kevin Northmore, Martin Culshaw and Stuart Duncan and form part of the BGS’s paper archives. However, these documents only cover the ‘paper’ rather than the ‘digital’ years and, in any case, are not complete.