AGS Benchmarking Initiative gets underway
After several false starts, the Business Practice WG has finalised plans for an AGS initiative to evaluate the quality of site investigations…
After several false starts, the Business Practice WG has finalised plans for an AGS initiative to evaluate the quality of site investigations…
Sir, Richard Thomas’ letter published in last month’s edition of the AGS Newsletter opens up an interesting debate on how we quantify…
The National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) contains data gathered or generated by the British Geological Survey (BGS) as part of its national…
A joint Government and Industry Task Force established towards the end of 2004 has now reached agreement on the best way to…
NEW REGULATIONS The Hazardous Waste and List of Wastes Regulations have been introduced replacing the existing Special Waste Regulations 1996 and come…
A Federation of Piling Specialist’s Member has reported a new Pile Cutting method that appears particularly efficient. Details about The Cropper can…
HSE are becoming seriously concerned about hand arm vibration while breaking down piles. Members of the Federation of Piling Specialists have experienced…
Following the publication of Loss Prevention Alert 33, which concerns the matters to which specialists should have regard when working on another’s…
The Soil Guideline Values Taskforce (SGV TF) is a joint initiative between Government Departments, local authorities and other private and public sector…
I suspect that many of you are aware that there has been increasing concern about the number of fatalities and serious accidents…
Introduction Experts play an important and unique role in the adversarial court process as they are required to provide an independent opinion…
The need, quality and sufficiency of site investigations has been of paramount importance since the early 1960s and the issue of client…
There is big news for the Industry with a new addition of Geotechnical Engineers to the Shortage Occupations List for Work Permit…
For the fourth year running I attended the ISO/TC190 Soil Quality meeting, this year in Paris. The meeting comprises sessions of the…
AGS (Hong Kong) have announced the publication of the above title. The author is Chris Fletcher but in an effort to promote…
When BS 8006, the code of practice for Strengthened / Reinforced soils and other fills, was first published in 1995, it was…
Under Government legislation introduced on 1st May 1999 and replaced on 11th December 2003 by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)…
At the invitation of the President of ASFE, I attended the ASFE Autumn Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. The conference was held over…
Integrating archaeology into geotechnical surveys Dear Colleague Unexpected archaeological discoveries can cause costly construction delays. There are number of things which AGS…
In view of the fact that many companies will find that no laboratory has MCERT accreditation for all the tests they require,…
The AGS Data Format committee wishes to announce the publication of Revision 1 to the third edition of the AGS Data transfer…