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Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering MSc courses – what is the problem? A recent meeting arranged by the AGS on behalf of…
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Eurocode 7 the Attachments
An update on progress John Powell – Technical Director Geolabs and Independent Consultant David Norbury – Independent Consultant We trust that by…
BS 10175 Updated
BS 10175:2011 (Investigation of Potentially Contaminated Sites – Code of Practice) was published in March 2011. It is much improved compared to…
Be On Your Guard
During recent years our industry has made great progress in providing rig guarding for piling and drilling rigs. Responding to the well…
Apprentices – back in vogue
Equipe Training Limited has delivered its’ first courses in September from their newly established Drilling AcademyTM near Banbury, Oxfordshire. The courses were…
Diggs ploughs on in quest for improved data handling
The DIGGS (Data Interchange for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists) working group is continuing. DIGGS is an international initiative to extend the data…
Classification and testing in BS 5930 and BS 1377-9
The BSI Committee for Geotechnical Testing has been working to help provide guidance on the changes to geotechnical testing methods introduced by…
Drilling competence – what’s the current proof?
BDA Driller Accreditation is dead and buried. Its passing away went largely unannounced but it no longer exists. The British Drilling Association…
Soil Classification
BS EN ISO 14688-2, together with BS EN ISO 14688-1, establishes the basic principles for the identification and classification of soils on…
Electronic tendering protocol for geotechnical works
All electronic information provided on an extranet shall be properly indexed and organised with all information relevant to the geotechnical works being…
AGS data: improving the flow
Mark Shaw of the Business Practise Working Group recently attended a meeting of the Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) Technical Committee to…
The site investigation industry is launching a series of initiatives to improve client awareness, says Jim Cook.
The need, quality and sufficiency of site investigations has been of paramount importance since the early 1960s and the issue of client…
Work Permits to involve less Red Tape
There is big news for the Industry with a new addition of Geotechnical Engineers to the Shortage Occupations List for Work Permit…
ISO/TC190 Meeting, Paris Note prepared by Peter Rodd
For the fourth year running I attended the ISO/TC190 Soil Quality meeting, this year in Paris. The meeting comprises sessions of the…
Reinforced soil design code to be revised
When BS 8006, the code of practice for Strengthened / Reinforced soils and other fills, was first published in 1995, it was…
AGS PI Insurance Survey
In an endeavour to discover AGS Members’ experience with PI insurance and their claims history, the Loss Prevention WG asked all Members…
What Is Finalling?
In future the NHBC will adopt a consistent approach to determining what will and what will not prevent the necessary confirmation that…
Electronic Tenders – The Future?
A survey of Members in January/February 2003 revealed that a majority have some experience of tendering based on information provided electronically. Responses were…