• Provide technical leadership to advance geotechnical engineering research, education, and practice for sustainable and responsible development.
• Develop transformational technologies for large-scale space creation and generation.

• Assistant Professor Chew Soon Hoe
• Associate Prof Darren Chian Siau Chen (Director)
• Prof Chow Yean Khow
• Prof Goh Siang Huat
• Assistant Professor Ku Taeseo
• Prof Lee Fook Hou
• Emeritus Prof Leung Chun Fai
• Adjuct Assistant Professor Elita Li Yunyue
• Honorary Adjunct Prof Phoon Kok Kwang
• Honorary Fellow Prof Harry Tan Siew Ann
• Prof Yong Kwet Yew

• Geotechnical Centrifuge with In-flight excavator, in-flight pile driver, and in-flight base-shaking facilities etc.,
• 3D Numerical Capability for stresses and flow problems.
• Advanced Geotechnical test laboratory including facilities such as:
  • advanced stress-path controlled triaxial test apparatus with small strain measurement;
  • Bromhead ring shear apparatus;
  • Resonant column for dynamic soil testing;
  • Biaxial testing cell;
  • State-of-art hydraulic triaxial stress path apparatus;
  • GDS 10Hz Dynamic Testing System to facilitate the measurement under cyclic loading conditions

• Standard and advanced testing facilities for geosynthetics
  • Cyclic flow test apparatus for geotextile filters;
  • Rain simulator for erosion control materials;
  • Wide-specimen tensile test machine with advanced non-contactable strain measurement;
  • Geotube Inlet-port tensile test apparatus;
  • Geotextile dewatering test apparatus

• Enabling Technologies for Large-Scale Urban Subterranean Space Exploitation in Soft Soil Conditions
• Shear Wave Velocity Characteristic of Singapore Marine Clay and its Geotechnical Implications
• Enhancing the use of unwanted soils for land reclamation purpose
• Reuse of Excavated Soft Clay Material for Land Reclamation Works

Seminars (Jointly organised with GeoSS):

• Dr Ku Taeseo, National University of Singapore: Geophysical Site Characterization-Some Advanced Geotechnical Applications, 15 June 2015
• Prof Huang An-Bin, National Chiao Tung University: FBG Sensored Field Geotechnical Monitoring, 12 Feb 2015
• Prof Guy Houlsby, University of Oxford: Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design, 02 Dec 2014
• Dr Stuart Haigh, University of Cambridge: Atterberg Limit Revisited, 01 Dec 2014
• Prof Roger Frank, École des Ponts ParisTech: Eurocode 7 on ‘Geotechnical Design’ – A Code for Soil-Structure Interaction, 14 Nov 2014
• Prof Jim Graham, University of Manitoba: Analysis of Slope Instabilities, 05 Nov 2014
• Prof Lee Fook Hou, National University of Singapore: A Framework for Characterizing and Designing for Spatial Variability in Cement-Soil Treatment for Urban Underground Construction, 23 July 2014
• Dr Louis Wong, Nanyang Technological University: Proper Use of Geological Map for Underground Engineering Work, 15 May 2014
• Dr Lars Andresen, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute: Application of Finite Element Analysis in Offshore Geotechnical Engineering, 31 Mar 2014
• Prof Andrew Whittle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Importance of Undrained Behaviour in the Analysis of Soil-Structure Interactions, 20 Jan 2014

• International Conference on Soft Ground Engineering, 3-4 Dec 2015 (co-organised with GeoSS)
• Underground Singapore 2014, 25-26 Sep 2014 (co-organised with TUCSS)
• International Symposium on Advances in Foundation Engineering, 5-6 Dec 2013 (co-organised with GeoSS)
• Underground Singapore 2011, 8-9 Dec 2011 (co-organised with TUCSS)
• Ground Technology and Geo-Information, 1-2 Dec 2011 (co-organised with GeoSS)
• Underground Singapore 2009, 3-4 Dec 2009 (co-organised with TUCSS)
• International Symposium on Ground Improvement Technologies and Case Histories, 9-11 Dec 2009 (co-organised with GeoSS)
• 2nd International Workshop on Characterisation and Engineering Properties of Natural Soils, 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2006