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The Big Question

Q&A:  Liabilities of The Qualified Person Arising from Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice Introduction The Definition of Waste: Development…

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Geophysics and the Search for Homer’s Ithaca

An extract from the paper presented at SAGEEP 2009 Greg Hodges, Fugro Airborne Surveys, Mississauga, CA David Kilcoyne, Fugro-Aperio, Wallingford, U.K. Rod…

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Successful Tender

Question- Can a successful tenderer for a publicly procured project negotiate the terms of the contract post acceptance, but prior to contract…

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Why AGS4?

The AGS data format is being upgraded to version 4, this note explains the thinking behind the changes, gives the reasons for…

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EN 1990 Alteration

EN 1990 Altered to Avoid UK Liability Problems The head code, EN 1990, has been changed to make sure that civil and…

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Weighing up the Risk

Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) A new framework for assessing risks to ecological systems from contaminants in soils was published by the Environment…

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Understanding Bandings

This article has been superseded by Safety Guidance – Classification of Potentially Contaminated Sites for Intrusive Investigation Activities which was published in March…

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Putting Safety First

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 Introduction This new Act came into force on 6th April 2008.  An offence is…

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Payment and Protection

Introduction In the present economic climate every business is feeling the pressure and it has never been more important to take all…

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Water Testing Cost Amendments

DEFRA’s Water Classification Directions to the Environment Agency Could water testing costs (either as part of due diligence work or operationally in…

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Sign off Responsibility

It is common for Clients to request that their consultant obtains “sign off” of proposals for site investigation, risk assessment and in…

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The Dangers of Trial Pitting

This is Alex Wright. Alex was a 27 year old experienced geotechnical engineer. He lost his life on Friday 5th September 2008…

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FPS Electronic Pile Schedule

The long nights of re-typing pile schedules could be a thing of the past as the Federation of Piling Specialists launches a…

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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…

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Recruitment Aided!

The Ground Forum is delighted to announce that 19 ground engineering job titles have been included in the new ‘Shortage Occupations List’…

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Are your e-mails and websites legal

Requirements of the Companies Regulations 2006 From 1st January 2007 external business emails issued by public and private companies and limited liability…

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Eurocode 7 letter

Dear Editor I have been delivering lectures on EC7 parts 1 and 2 for a while now, and I remain amazed and…

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Environmental Permitting regulations

The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations came into force on the 6th April 2008.  They merge Waste Management Licensing (WML) and…