Richard Jardine has undertaken over 40 years of geotechnical research to aid robust, economical, and sustainable offshore energy, urban, transport and flood defence developments in geologically difficult regions.
He has developed new laboratory methods to investigate geomaterial constitutive behaviour and undertaken fieldwork through extended North Sea assignments and large-scale collaborative testing campaigns in the UK, Baltic Sea, France, The Netherlands and Taiwan Strait. Development, with colleagues, of greatly improved, often numerically-based, design tools, led to his Royal Academy of Engineering Medal in 1997. His 28 other awards include giving the British Geotechnical Association’s 2016 Rankine Lecture, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering's 2012 Bishop Lecture on advanced laboratory research and their 2023 McClelland Lecture on offshore geotechnics; his team's work on analysing climate change and Siberian permafrost led to the Institution of Civil Engineer’s Manby Medal in 2010.
Richard has engaged in worldwide application of his research, leading to more cost-effective foundation designs for multi £bn offshore windfarms and more representative approaches for other underwater slope stability, flood defence and soil-structure interaction problems.
Professional position
- Professor of Geomechanics, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
- Imperial College Proconsul and Visiting Professor, Zhejiang University
Subject groups
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Engineering and Materials Science
Engineering, civil, Instrumentation, Materials science (incl materials engineering)
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
Soil science
