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The Business Practice WG would like to thank all those who contributed to the site investigation benchmarking survey initiative. The survey ran…
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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…
AGS guides the way
AGS Client Guides are intended to help Members get their message about good practice across to clients and to reassure Clients that…
Deadline looms as the ICE introduces the 3000 series
Members with agreed training schemes need to get these rewritten by Autumn 2006 in order to accommodate the changes being made by…
What could training do for your company?
Whether you want to improve your relationship with a client, find ways of reducing the cost of your Professional Indemnity, retain your…
Management of Risk Associated with Ground Reports
Michael Joyce, a chartered engineer, chartered geologist and chartered arbitrator, has written to the AGS in connection with some of our observations…
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…
New Pile Cutting Method
A Federation of Piling Specialist’s Member has reported a new Pile Cutting method that appears particularly efficient. Details about The Cropper can…
The Role of an Expert Witness
Introduction Experts play an important and unique role in the adversarial court process as they are required to provide an independent opinion…
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…
Bothered by unwanted telemarketing calls?
Under Government legislation introduced on 1st May 1999 and replaced on 11th December 2003 by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)…
Report of AGS Chairman’s visit to ASFE Conference
At the invitation of the President of ASFE, I attended the ASFE Autumn Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. The conference was held over…
Notes on Asbestos liability and Insurance Issues
From ABI Seminar on the availability of insurance for asbestos related risks and the impact of the new asbestos regulations The ABI…
Electronic Tenders and Email
Both the Loss Prevention WG and the Business Practice WG have raised questions about e-business and email that highlight a degree of…
Cover systems for land regeneration
The report prepared by RSK ENSR on behalf of the AGS in partnership with the BRE is now available. Cover systems are…
CSCS – What you need to know
The CSCS Scheme was set up in 1995 and there are currently more than 600,000 card holders covering more than 170 occupations.…
The CML initiative – how does it affect geo-specialists?
In order to prevent homes being sold and occupied before completion, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) initiative was implemented in April…
AGS Response to Nigel Griffiths, MP
On his appointment as Minister for Construction, Nigel Griffiths wrote to all trade associations and professional bodies and invited them to submit…
Soil Quality – BS ISO 17155:2002
Determination of Abundance and Activity of Soil Microflora Using Respiratory Curves This standard specifies a test method for determining the activity of…
Guidelines for the Preparation of the Ground Report
When the late Sir John Knill spoke to the AGS Committee in May 2000, he was less than complementary about the quality…