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AGS Client Guide for Ground Investigation Activities – Trial Pitting
The Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists’ (AGS) Guidance on ground investigation activities provide advice for Clients, specifiers and procurers to direct…
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AGS Code of Business Conduct
Published March 2022. This document is the AGS Code of Business Conduct.
AGS Glossary of ‘Need to Know’ Intellectual Property Terms
Published in August 2015. Brief definitions of common intellectual property expressions that all AGS Members need to know and understand. Many are…
AGS Glossary of Need to Know Legal Terms
Published in August 2013. Here are some brief definitions of common legal expressions that all ground engineering professionals need to know and…
AGS Guidance on Lyme Disease
Published in February 2016. There are around 900 reported cases of Lyme disease in the UK each year, although estimates suggest there…
AGS Guidance on the Description of Anthropogenic Materials – A Practitioners’ Guide
Published 3rd September 2018 BS:5930:2015 and BS EN ISO 14688-1 provided the basis for the description of soils in the UK; however,…
AGS Guidance on Waste Classification for Soils – A Practitioners Guide
Published 13th February 2019 It is apparent that the classification of waste soils (as either hazardous or non-hazardous) is not always completed…
AGS Guide to Environmental Sampling
Updated guide published in January 2019 (Original guide published in May 2010) This document is intended to provide practical guidance on the…
AGS Guide to Ground Investigation Reports
Published February 2017. The publication of recent British Standards has introduced new terms and requirements for reporting ground investigations. In particular these…