Working Group Geotechnical

The Geotechnical Working Group aim to promote technical excellence to the wider geotechnical engineering professional community and to raise general awareness of the need for geotechnical engineering input to all construction projects and land asset management to clients and asset owners.

Strategic Plan

These aims are achieved through the Group’s activities in respect of:

  1. promoting the activities of the GWG to the AGS Membership and to the wider industry;
  2. maintaining a watching brief on the geotechnical activities of the wider national and international engineering communities, and reporting these to the membership;
  3. organising and running GWG initiatives and events on behalf of AGS;
  4. being involved closely in the drafting and reviewing of national and international standards, codes of practice and other definitive guidance;
  5. striving to become a leading national authority on geotechnical engineering matters affecting the AGS Membership and the wider industry.

AGS Geotechnical WG – Terms of Reference

Publications

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How Can We Achieve an Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Industry?

The AGS are hosting a webinar this autumn entitled, How Can We Achieve an Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Industry? This virtual event…

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We Need to Talk About Groundwater

The need to consider the impact and effect of groundwater during all stages of the design and construction process is of paramount…

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Guidance

AGS Guide to the Selection of Geotechnical Pressuremeter Testing

Published April 2024 Pressuremeter testing (PMT) is a recommended in situ testing technique for ground investigation, referenced in Eurocode 7 (EN 1997-2).…

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[SAVE THE DATE]: AGS Annual Conference 2025

We’re pleased to announce that the AGS Annual Conference will return once again to One Great George Street in London’s Westminster in…

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Early Careers Video: Discover a Rewarding Career in the Geo-Industry

  Our new early careers video discusses the many different career paths which are open to graduates entering the geo-industry. If you’re…

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AGS Awards 2024

We’re delighted to announce this year’s AGS Award winners! Chosen from a select number of AGS Working Group Members, these winners were…

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Bitesize Guide – Geotechnical unit, Ground models and Geotechnical Design Models– what are these, what do they cover and who is responsible?

Introduction This note has been prepared based on a review of the draft prEN 1997 dated August 2022. Geotechnical Unit A geotechnical…

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AGS Bitesize Guides – Introduction – prEN 1997:202x

The second-generation of Eurocodes is proposed as the first major revision of the Eurocode suite of standards since original publication in 2004.…

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Early Career Professionals: Call for Posters

The AGS is holding a sustainability-themed poster competition at this year’s Annual Conference, and we’d like to see how Early Career Professionals…

Members

AGS Geotechnical WG Leader Alex Dent WSP
Andy O’Dea Cognition Land and Water Limited
Angus Wilson Soiltechnics
Binod Amatya RSK Environment Ltd
Carla Stephen National House Building Council
Chris Raison Raison Foster Associates
Christos Botsialas TRC Companies Limited
Daniel Stannard High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd
Emma Anderson Royal HaskoningDHV
Emma Cronin SOCOTEC
Gary Walker Arcadis (UK)
Georgina Donbroski RSK Environment Ltd
Jai Shah Ramboll UK Ltd
James Harrison Specialist member
Janice Windle COWI UK Ltd
Katharine Barker CampbellReith Hill LLP
Lee Ashworth Geo-Integrity Ltd
Luke Wilkinson Soils Limited
Matthew Penfold Geotechnical & Environmental Associates
Morwenna Corry
Neil Chadwick Digital Geotechnical
Nigel Pickering Buro Happold, Ground Engineering
Paul Roberts AECOM Limited
Paul Yates COWI UK Ltd
Peter Hepton Independent
Peter Reading
Richard Grainger WSP
Robert Terrell Ground and Water
Robert West Cementation Skanska
Samantha Finch Fugro Limited
Stephen West Ramboll UK Ltd
Twana Haji RSK Environment Ltd
Vincent Nyambayo AtkinsRéalis
Will Capps Lucion Delta-Simons Limited
Yuli Doulala-Rigby Tensar International Limited