Emeritus ProfessorRichard Jardine

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Richard Jardine is a Senior Research Investigator, Emeritus Professor of Geomechanics in Civil and Environmental Engineering and co-chair of the Imperial's Artworks Group. A former Senior College Consul and Proconsul, Richard was elected Fellow of the the Royal Society in 2024, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in 2018, the City and Guilds Institute in 2008, the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and the UK’s Institution of Civil Engineers in 2001.

Richard continutes to undertake teaching and research. His recent work includes being Principal Investigator on the ALPACA and ALPACA Plus international Joint Industry Projects, investigating offshore renewable energy foundations for chalk sites with Oxford, EPSRC and Industry; being a Co-I on the ALPHA numerical analysis chalk foundations project, the PAGE pile ageing project with Cathie Associates and GCG as well as the Unified Pile Design Method JIP with Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Fugro and UWA (Australia) and the PISA offshore monopile project with Orsted, Oxford and University College Dublin. His Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship with Zhejiang University (ZJU, China) covered renewable energy and transport systems and added to his laboratory-based research into the static and cyclic constitutive behaviour of sands, clays and soft rocks. Richard has led multiple studies into a wide range of geomaterials and he is a Visiting Professor at ZJU, where he was appointed Distinguished International Scholar by the Chinese Ministry of Education. He was an adviser to the French national SOLCYP cyclic loading programme and is currently working on offshore pile design in Triassic sediemnary rocks as well as improving design for flood embankments on very soft organic soils with Deltares in The Netherlands . 

Richard Jardine has written over 350 academic papers, winning 30 UK and International Awards including a top RAEng Medal (in 1997), Prizes from the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1985, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2019 and 2021, the British Geotechnical Association Medal (1990, 2015, 2021 and 2023), Imperial College's President's Medal for External Collaborative Research in 2015 and the Canadian Geotechnical Society's Quigley Award in 2019. He chaired ISSMGE TC-101 for ten years and now sits on three TCs as well as API, ISO and SUT Committees. He has held Visiting Professorships in Japan and Singapore and gave the first BGS-Geotechnique lecture in 1990. He gives keynotes to conferences regularly and distinguished named lectures given since his Coulomb Lecture (Paris, 2006) include the Zeng Lecture (Hangzhou, 2008), William Mong Lecture (Hong Kong, 2011), the ISSMGE Bishop Honour Lecture (Paris 2013), the American Society for Civil Engineering's Sowers (Georgia 2014), Lovell (Purdue 2016) and Wissa (Tampa 2017) Lectures, the BGA's Rankine Lecture in 2016 and the Canadian Milligan Lecture in Kingston (2016). He gave in 2023 the ISSMGE McClelland Honour Lecture and recent plenary/keynote talks in Bremen, Hanoi, Kalrsruhe, Porto and Tokyo.

Richard has prepared UK Government guidance reports on offshore geotechnics and has given advice to contractors, consultants and energy companies on a wide range of major onshore and offshore projects, including recent large-scale experiments conducted offshore in the Baltic Sea and Strait of Taiwan, as well as current renewable energy projects offshore the UK, France, Taiwan Strait and Japan.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Soil properties, advanced laboratory and field measurement techniques, soil characterisation; offshore geotechnics, foundation analysis, slope stability, driven pile behaviour, soft ground engineering, full-scale monitoring, geotechnical instrumentation and cold region geotechnics.