Welcome to Volume 53 of the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (QJEGH). I (Fig. 1) am looking forward to 2020, building on a successful year in 2019, with four full issues and a substantial number of excellent papers for future issues, already available through Online First. Those who subscribe to the paper version will have noticed that the QJEGH is growing thicker and heavier, increasing from 512 pages in 2018 to 580 in 2019 and 640 in 2020.

We continue to work towards the improvements identified in the journal development plan, as outlined in...

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