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Working Group
Laboratories
The Laboratories group deals with issues surrounding testing, safety and quality that relate to the accurate analysis of the fluids, soils, gases and materials found in the ground.
Strategic Plan
To provide a focus for promoting best practice. To facilitate a group approach to identifying and resolving issues faced by laboratories. To be a forum for formulating unified industry responses to proposed changes in legislation and standards.
To encourage and assist Members to provide high quality, appropriate and reliable testing services.
Permanent objectives
- Provide a forum for discussion of commercial issues.
- Provide a forum for discussion of issues affecting the testing sector of the ground industry (eg Health and Safety accreditation training
- Facilitate co-ordination of industry views and comments on new legislation, regulations and standards. (eg current work in CEN/TC 341)
- Support external accreditation.
Publications
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Guidance
An Introduction to Geotechnical Laboratory Testing for Routine Construction Projects
Published August 2024. This document replaces the version published in December 2008. This guide explains the purpose of laboratory testing, and highlights…
Position Paper
Laboratory Proficiency Testing
Published August 2024. This paper sets out the AGS position on Laboratory proficiency testing and replaces the version published in August 2013.
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…
AGS Annual Conference 2024
Registration for this event has now closed. The AGS Annual Conference 2024 will be taking place on Thursday 25th April at…
Annual Conference 2023
The AGS Annual Conference took place on Thursday 27th April 2023 at the Barbican Centre in London. This full day, networking event saw…
Articles
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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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Calibration of Whatman Grade 42 filter paper for soil suction measurements
Abstract The correlation between the water content of filter-paper disks and the porewater suction in soil samples is used to determine soil…
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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…
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Use of chemical preservation – the importance of quality in sampling and analysis
Geraint Williams, ALS Laboratories and Tim Rolfe, YES Engineering, both members of the AGS Contaminated Working Group, discuss how representative samples should…
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Coal Tar: Analysis and Detection
The analysis of and detection of coal tar has seen a significant increase in the last few years. This is linked, primarily,…
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