Time has flown since I graduated in Civil Engineering at Loughborough University in 1995.  This was a fun time where I learnt a great deal about myself.  My mind pleasantly drifts back to the year industrial placement with Balfour Beatty on the Supertram system in Sheffield where I was an Engineer working on structures, rail and road construction (Jack of all trades). It was tough initially but great fun. After a short break I returned to Loughborough to read for my doctorate in the field of chemical treatment of contaminated soils.

Whilst putting the finishing touches together for the thesis in 1998 I spent a year at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne working as a Research Assistant on a number of contracts including cement stabilisation and solidification and investigating the consolidation and pull out resistance characteristics of draining geotextiles. After yet another short break to see in the new millennium I was off to the University of Birmingham as a Research Fellow funded by NERC investigating the collapse mechanisms of Loess. Before anyone asks, Loess is a material constructed of cemented silt particles which collapses under load when wetted. 

Having supervised 5 successful PhDs, I now balance research and my roll as the Business Development Manager for Civil Engineering. Through this role I am a Knowledge Transfer Manager for the national DTI and DEFRA funded Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network and act as the Deputy Technical Director of the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme funded by DEFRA. This high level of contact between national programmes, and simplified networking, facilitates significantly increased added value and research opportunities.    

Research Interests

Primarily my interests lie in the field of contaminated land remediation, ground improvement and resource efficiency, specifically chemical treatments of contaminated soil. On this basis I am interested in the physico-chemical properties of Loess specifically during hydrocollapse.

External Appointments

As part of my activity, I spend a considerable amount of time working with Government departments related to knowledge transfer and resource efficiency such as DTI, DEFRA, EA Technology Strategy Board, 2012 Games

Selected Publications and Downloads

All downloads are in portable document format (pdf) and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. All pdf files apart from the 'read me first' file downloaded from this site require a password to view. To obtain the password free of charge please email d.i.boardman@bham.ac.uk with your name and company/establishment name. Please note that this password will enable you to view and print the PhD Thesis. I hope that you find this source of information valuable.

BOARDMAN, D I (1999).  Lime stabilisation: clay-metal-lime interactions.  PhD Thesis, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK.

• PhD READ ME FIRST - 9KB
• PhD Thesis Access Form - 312KB
• PhD Certificate of Originality - 104KB
• PhD Title Page - 7KB
• PhD Dedications -7KB
• PhD Abstract - 10KB
• PhD Contents - 23KB
• PhD Chapter 1.0 - Introduction - 14KB
• PhD Chapter 2.1 - Mineralogy - 168KB
• PhD Chapter 2.2 - Stabilisation - 587KB
• PhD Chapter 2.3 - Leaching - 134KB
• PhD Chapter 3.0 - Research Philosophy - 15KB
• PhD Chapter 4.0 - Methodology - 840KB
• PhD Chapter 5.0 - Results - 265KB
• PhD Chapter 6.0 - Discussion - 412KB
• PhD Chapter 7.0 - Conclusions - 41KB
• PhD References - 70KB
• PhD Appendix 1 - Batch Tests - 965KB
• PhD Appendix 2 - Energy Models - 52KB
• PhD Appendix 3 - Clay-Contaminant-Lime Mix -  21KB

Conference Contributions - Refereed

Glendinning, S and Boardman, D I (1996) “Lime Treatment of Metal Contaminated Clay Soils”, Annual Conference of the Geological Society, University of Portsmouth, p. 249-258.

Boardman, D I, Rogers, C D F and Glendinning, S (1998), "Fixation of Inorganic Contaminants in Clays Using Lime Stabilisation", Proc. of Fourth Int. Symp. on Environmental Contamination in Central and Eastern Europe, Warsaw, Poland.

Barker, J E, Rogers, C D F and Boardman, D I (2001) "Physico-Chemical Changes in Clay Soils surrounding Lime Piles", Proc. of Int. Conf. on Underground Infrastructure Research, Waterloo, Canada, June, p.185-190.

Boardman, D I, Rogers, C D F, Jefferson, I F and Rouaiguia, A (2001), "Physico-Cemical Characteristics of British Loess", Proc. of XV International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Istanbul, August, Vol. 1, p. 39-42.

Boardman, D I, Jefferson, I F, Rogers, C D F and Smalley, I J (2002), "Behaviour of Loess from the Danubian Basin", Proc. of 9th Congress of the Int. Assoc. of Engineering Geologists, Durban,16-20 September.

Rogers, C D F, Barker, J E, Boardman, D I and Peterson J (2002) "Electro-Kinetic Stabilisation of a Silty Clay Soil", Proc. of 4th Int. Conf. on Ground Improvement Techniques, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April, Vol. 2, p. 621-628.

Rogers, C D F, Liaki, C and Boardman, D I (2003), "Advances in the Engineering of Lime Stabilised Clay Soils", Keynote Paper to Int. Conf. on Problematic Soils, Nottingham, UK, July.

Zourmpakis, A, Boardman, D I and Rogers, C D F (2003), "Creation of Artificial Loess Soils", Proc. Int. Conf. From Experimental Evidence Towards Numerical Modelling of Unsaturated Soils, Weimar, Germany, September (CD ROM).

Antemir, A, Hills, C D, Carey, P J, Spear, J, Gardner, K, Boardman, D I and Rogers, C D F (2005), "Performance Assessment of Stabilised/Solidified Wasteforms: Initial Results from Site Characterisation, Sampling and Testing", Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Stabilisation/Solidification Treatment and Remediation, Cambridge, UK, p. 133-138. Published by Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Barnard, L H, Boardman, D I, Rogers, C D F, Hills, C D, Carey, P J, Canning, K and MacLeod, C L (2005), "Influence of Soil and Binder Properties on the Efficacy of Accelerated Carbonation", Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Stabilisation/Solidification Treatment and Remediation, Cambridge, UK, p. 285-296. Published by Balkema, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Edited Works: Contributions

Boardman D I and Maclean J A (1996), “Lime Treatment of Metal Contaminated Sludges”, in Lime Stabilisation, Rogers, C. D. F., Glendinning, S. & Dixon, N. Eds. Thomas Telford, 115-126. (ISBN 0-7277-2563-7).

Glendinning, S, Rogers, C D F, and Boardman, D I (1998), "Stabilisation of Inorganic Contaminants in Clays", in Contaminated Land and Groundwater: Future Directions, Engineering Geology Special Publication No. 14, ed. DN Lerner and NRG Walton, Eds. London, Geological Society, p.19-28.

Journal Papers - Academic Journals

Boardman, D I, Glendinning, S and Rogers, C D F (2001), "Development of Stabilisation and Solidification in Lime-Clay Mixes", Geotechnique, Vol. 51, No. 6, p. 533-543.

Boardman, D I, Glendinning, S, Rogers, C D F and Holt, C C (2001), "In Situ Monitoring of Lime-Stabilized Road Subgrade", Transportation Research Record 1757, TRB, National Research Council, Washington DC, USA, p. 3-13.

Boardman, D I, Glendinning, S and Rogers, C D F (2004), " The Influences of Iron (III) and Lead (II) Contaminants on Lime-Stabilised Clay", Geotechnique, Vol. 54, No. 7, p. 467-486.

Barker, J E, Rogers, C D F and Boardman, D I (2005), "Physio-Chemical Changes in Clay caused by Ion Migration from Lime Piles", paper accepted by Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Barker, J E, Rogers, C D F and Boardman, D I (2005), " Ion Migration associated with Lime Piles – A Review", paper submitted to Ground Improvement, Thomas Telford.

Jackson PD, Northmore KJ, Entwisle DC, Gunn DA, Milodowski AE, Nelder LM, Raines MR, Boardman DI, Zourmpakis A, Rogers CDF, Dixon N, Jefferson I and Smalley IJ (2005), "Resistivity Monitoring of a Collapsing Metastable Soil ", paper accepted by Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrology.

Milodowski AE, Northmore KJ, Kemp SJ, McKervey JA, Bouch, Entwisle DC, Gunn DA, Jackson PD, Boardman DI, Zourmpakis A, Rogers CDF, Dixon N, Jefferson I and Smalley IJ (2005), "The Mineralogy and Fabric of Brickearths and their Relationship to Engineering Properties", paper submitted to Engineering Geology.

Northmore KJ, Jefferson I, Jackson PD, Entwisle DC, Milodowski AE, Raines MR, Gunn DA, Boardman DI, Zourmpakis A, Nelder LM, Rogers CDF, Dixon N, Smalley IJ, Karri RS, Rouaiguia A and Derbyshire E (2005), "On-Site Characterisation of Loessic Brickearth Deposits at Ospringe, Kent, UK", paper submitted to Geotechnical Engineering, Proceedings on the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Rogers, C D F, Boardman, D I and Papadimitriou, G (2005), "Stress Path Testing of Realistically-Cured Lime and Lime/Cement Stabilized Clay", paper accepted by Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Zourmpakis A, Boardman DI, Rogers CDF, Jackson PD, Gunn DA, Northmore KJ, Entwisle DC, Dixon N, Milodowski AE, Raines MR, Nelder LM Jefferson I, Smalley IJ, Rouaiguia A, Karri RS and  Derbyshire E (2005), "A Case Study of Loess Collapse in a UK Field Trial", paper accepted by Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrology.

Hills C D, Carey P J, Barnard L H, Bone B D and Boardman D I (2005) “Solidification/Stabilisation Technology and its Industrial Application in the UK, Part 1 : Rationale for Guidance”. Paper submitted to Science of the Total Environment.

Other Publications – Industrial

Bone B D, Barnard L H, Boardman D I, Carey P J, Hills C D, Jones H M, MacLeod C L and Tyrer M (2004), “Review of Scientific Literature on the Use of Stabilisation/Solidification for the Treatment of Contaminated Soil, Solid Waste and Sludges” EA Science Report P5-064/SR2, ISBN: 1844323196.