AGS Newsletters Index

Newsletter Issue 60 - Jul 2010

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• Builders Profile
• Retention of Documents
• The Importance of Keeping Good Written Records
• CSCS Cards - Explained!
• Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

Newsletter Issue 59 - Dec 2009

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• Why AGS4?
• Successful Tender
• First Aid in the Workplace
• Geophysics and the Search for Homer's Ithaca
• Not So Super Market
• The Big Question

Newsletter Issue 58 - May 2009

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• Sign off Responsibility
• Water Testing Cost Amendments
• Payment and Protection
• Putting Safety First
• Understanding Bandings
• Weighing up the Risk
• EN 1990 Alteration

Newsletter Issue 57 - November 2008

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• Recruitment Aided!
• Apprentices - back in vogue
• FPS Electronic Pile Schedule
• Unexploded Ordnance - a Construction Industry Guide
• Do your engineers know their quick hitches from their Direct Attachment Couplings?
• The Dangers of Trial Pitting

Newsletter Issue 56 - May 2008

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• Establishing Ground Rules
• Construction Waste... and how to make it disappear
• Defence cost in criminal prosecutions
• AGS manual handling
• A new system for migrant workers
• Environmental Permitting regulations
• Eurocode 7 letter
• Are your e-mails and websites legal

Newsletter Issue 55 - December 2007

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• Diggs ploughs on in quest for improved data handling
• Managing residual risks of land contamination
• Construction (Design and Management) Regulations2007 ("CDM") - Questions and Answers
• Ground investigation industry urged to take heed of new EC regulations - Tachograph and working time regulations
• Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls Errata
• Underground services and utility plans
• Use of Standard Laboratory Tests in the Assessment of Slope Stability of Peat

Newsletter Issue 54 - May 2007

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• Electronic tenders - What has changed in the last three years?
• Drilling competence - what's the current proof?
• BDA audited drilling operatives
• Update on the Freedom of Information Act 2000
• Smooth as SiLC
• New Construction Industry Scheme
• Classification and testing in BS 5930 and BS 1377-9
• Two new guidance documents on ground gases

Newsletter Issue 53 - January 2007

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• Benchmarking Survey Results
• Drilling into Coal Authority's assets
• Single Point Project (Financial Loss) Insurance (SPPI)
• Supporting the contaminated land community
• Guidance on the use of HBM in working platforms
• Equitable contribution clauses
• Soil Classification
• Reinforced Fill
• Age Discrimination Regulations

AGS Newsletter July 2006

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• AGS training takes First Steps
• What could training do for your company?
• Deadline looms as the ICE introduces the 3000 series
• AGS guides the way
• Semple Fraser adds Scottish dimension to Loss Prevention
• BS10175: Investigation of potentially contaminated sites, code of practice (2001) due for review
• The problem of made ground
• Modernising Waste Regulation - Environment Agency Update
• Testing times for soils
• A new perspective in geological mapping
• AGS data: improving the flow
• Electronic tendering protocol for geotechnical works
• Drilling down into industry safety
• Annual meeting comes to London

AGS Newsletter December 2005

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• AGS Benchmarking Initiative gets underway
• MCERTS 
• EA's position on MCERTs
• Meet NHBC Requirements with MCERTS
• Contaminated Land Analysis - Introducing Doubt Into An Uncertain World
• Eurocode EC7 National Application Document NAD
• PID Instruments: Read the Manual - Understand the Risks
• A national archive of site investigation data
• Management of Risk Associated with Ground Reports
• Guidelines for the Preparation of the Ground Report / Management of Risk Associated with Ground Reports
• BRE SD1:2005 - Implication for SI & Specifications
• CLAN 02/05
• Copyright Regulations Potential Loss Risk or a Hidden sources of Revenues

AGS Newsletter July 2005

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• Work Permits to involve less Red Tape
• Definition of Geotechnical Engineer
• The site investigation industry is launching a series of initiatives to improve client awareness, says Jim Cook
• The Role of an Expert Witness 
• Consultants Vulnerable to a Conviction?
• SGV Task Force
• Working on Another's Land 
• Hand Arm Vibration
• New Pile Cutting Method
• Environmental Alert New Hazardous Waste Regulations
• Mobile Plant Licences to become "Simpler, Faster, Lower-cost & Consistent"
• Depositing AGS Format Data with the NGDC
• Letter to The Editor

AGS Newsletter March 2005

• AGS PI Survey
• AGS Format 3.1 now available for download
• MCERTS Implementation still set for 1 March 2005
• Letters:  Integrating archaeology into geotechnical surveys
• Letters: Unexploded Ordnance
• Report of AGS Chairman's visit to ASFE Conference
• Bothered by unwanted telemarketing calls?
• Reinforced Soil Design Code to be Revised (BS806)
• Book review: "The Geology of Site Investigation Boreholes from Hong Kong"
• ISO/TC190 Meeting, Paris

AGS Newsletter May 2004

• CSCS - What you need to know
• Cover systems for land regeneration
• Electronic Tenders and Email
• Notes on Asbestos liability and Insurance Issues
• Code of practice for legal admissibility and evidential weight of information stored electronically
• Charging Interest on Late Payments
• The Landfill Directive - Nightmare or Opportunity
• MCERTS
• An introduction to the Specialist in Land Condition Registration Scheme
• A Low Cost Support Tool for Single Manning Site Safety

AGS Newsletter January 2004

• AGS Response to Nigel Griffiths, MP
• PCC Site Reports - Change in EA Policy
• The Extension of MCERTS to Chemical Testing of Soils - An Update
• The CML Initiative - how does it affect Geo-Specialists?
• What is Finalling?
• Letter to the Editor - Japanese Knotweed
• Managing PI Insurance
• CDM - Client Obligations in Ground Investigation Contracts

AGS Newsletter July 2003

•  ICRCL 59/83 - Beyond 20 December 2002
• A Safe Pair of Hands - Responsibility, Safety and Operative Competence in the Geotechnical Industry
• Electronic Tenders - The Future?
• Insurance Questions
• At Last! Holeside Logging
• Users Guide to Adjudication
• Guidelines for the Preparation of the Ground Report
• Soil Quality - BS EN ISO 14507:2003 - Pretreatment of samples for determination of organic contaminants
• Soil Quality  - BS ISO 17155
  

AGS Newsletter January 2003

• Results of the Contractual Risk Questionnaire issued by the AGS Loss Prevention WG
• AGS Format - are you undermining its use?
• A New Look at Geophysics
• Ground Forum - A Summary for AGS Members
• InSite for Schools
• Insurance Corner
• Safety Manual for Investigation Sites
• The Extension of MCERTS to Chemical Testing of Soils
• New BS ISO Soil Standards
• IT & e-Commerce Report
• Environment Agency Draft Policy on Building on or Adjacent to Gassing Landfill Sites
• EU Environmental Liability Directive
  

AGS Newsletter June 2002

• PI Insurance - Does the Claims Experience Explain the Increased Premiums?
• Environmental Insurance
• Site Investigation should be for concrete durability in addition to soil strength parameters
• CLEA Launch
• 'Late payment legislation' coming into force

AGS Newsletter January 2002

• Report on Remediation and Waste Management Regulation Regime Seminar
• Could you be a SILC?
• Our Man in Europe - Report of ISO TC 190 Committee - Denmark
• New Guidance from the Environment Agency

AGS Newsletter September 2001

AGS Newsletter  May 2001

• New Chairman's Acceptance Speech
• AGS Strategic Plan
• CIRIA Publications
  

AGS Newsletter March 2001

• Serious skill shortages likely to increase
• The Role of the Geotechnical Adviser
• Letters:  What DO Piling Contractors Want?
• Membership Survey
• ASFE
• DD175
• Desk Study - Ordnance Survey Maps
  

AGS Newsletter October 2000

• Site Investigation in the UK -A summary of the requirements of piling contractors as end-users
• BENCHMARKING - What is it?
• Eurocode 7 - Parts 2 and 3, 'Design assisted by laboratory testing', and 'Design assisted by field testing', respectively
• Report on 15^th TC250/SC7 Meeting in Lisbon
• Environmental Damage - Who should pay?
• Keynetix
• Mobile Metrology Services

AGS Newsletter May 2000

• The Mott MacDonald vs E.P Case
• IPPC
  

AGS Newsletter March 2000

• Drilling Skills for Life
• Geosynthetics Hotline
• Bringing Home the Benefits from Around the World
• Keeping in Training
• Training Co-Ordination Committee

AGS Newsletter November 1999

• The Demise of the Geododo?
• Innovation in Ground Investigation
• SI - the Clients Perception
• Quarry Regulations 1999
• Notes on the October 1999 Draft of the Statutory Guidance on Contaminated Land
• BS5930 Finally Makes its Appearance

AGS Newsletter July 1999

• BDA Driller  Accreditation - The Facts  Explained
• AGS Format Third Edition available free on web site
• The End of Collateral Warranties?
• Cautionary Tales
• Waste Licensing and Contaminated Land
• Bentonite threat from proposed EC Directive
• The Forgotten Contaminant - Explosive Ordinance
• Rigs do not meet PUWER requirements, says HSE
• CLAIRE
• Value of Geotechnics in Construction
  

AGS Newsletter May 1999

• ENTRUSTS Explained
• Construction Spoil - From Questionnaire to Westminster
• AGS Guide to the Selection of Geotechnical Soil Laboratory Testing
• Working Group Update - Membership & Publicity
• Working Group Update - Contaminated Land
• Working Group Update - Business Practice
• Working Group Update - Training
• Working Group Update - Electronic Format
• New Members
  

AGS Newsletter January 1999

• Successful launch of AGS Code of Conduct for Site Investigation
• The Value of Geotechnics in Construction
• New Members
• Geotechnical Adjudicators Needed
• Geotechnical Third-Party Reliance on the Move
• The Construction Act
• Bontddu Incident
  
  

AGS Newsletter September 1998

• AGS Guide: The Selection of Geotechnical Soil Laboratory Testing
• Working Group Reports
• AGS Authorised Representatives
• New AGS Members
• AGS Chairman meets Nick Raynsford
• BG meets AGS
• Are you adequately insured ?
• Continued Professional Development (CPD) for Chartered Geologists
• Contracts Hotline
  

AGS Newsletter February 1998

• AGS at Civils'98
• Review of the Operation and Level of Landfill Tax
• The Education Time Bomb for Engineering Geology
• NVQ and SVQ's for the Drilling Industry
• CIRIA's Ground Engineering Research Programme
• Advice on Contractual Problems
• Norwest Holst take-over of ECoS
  

AGS Newsletter November 1997

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AGS Newsletter August 1997

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