John Burland Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2016, Burland was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to geotechnical engineering and the design, construction, and preservation of civil infrastructure and heritage buildings.

His contribution to soil mechanics has been greatly acknowledged and he was invited to deliver the 30th Rankine Lecture of the British Geotechnical Association titled “On the compressibility and shear strength of natural clays”. Moreover, he was awarded the Institution of Structural Engineers Gold Medal in 1997. In 2002 he presented the Higginson Lecture and the Victor de Mello Lecture. He was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and appointed CBE in the 2005 New Year Honours. In 2016 he was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Burland also received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1994

John Burland attended Parktown Boys’ High School and then received a First Class Honours BSc degree in Civil Engineering from Witwatersrand University in 1959. Then he moved to the University of Cambridge where he carried out research in Soil Mechanics under the supervision of Professor Kenneth H. Roscoe which led to the award of a PhD degree in 1967. His thesis title was Deformation of soft clay. He then moved to Imperial College London where he served as Professor of Soil Mechanics for over 20 years and Head of the Geotechnics Section.

John Boscawen Burland CBE FRS FREng (born 4 March 1936) is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London.