NZGS News
Posted Friday, 23 July, 2010
NZGS Seismic Design Guidelines
The NZGS is pleased to announce the publication of the “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Practice ” guideline. This 1st Module is a guideline for the identification, assessment and mitigation of liquefaction hazards.
The technical material supporting this document contains clear statements for making assessments, whilst plainly differentiating between methods for different soils. The material is presented in [...]
Posted Friday, 2 July, 2010
New Zealand Geotechnical Society Inc. – Student Prize 2010
Invitation to participate – Closing date 30 August 2010
The New Zealand Geotechnical Society wishes to recognise and encourage student participation in the fields of rock mechanics, soil mechanics, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology.
Two regions: North Island and South Island
Two awards: One for each region valued at NZ $1,000 plus certificate
Requirements:
- Candidates are required to present [...]
Posted Friday, 18 June, 2010
Reminder – IAEG2010 Early Bird Registration
REMINDER!
Earlybird Registrations for the 11th Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment, IAEG2010 close 30 June!
Engineering geology now extends into a host of linked fields: disaster risk management and climate change, preservation of lifelines, geophysics, interpretation of satellite imagery, communication, instrumentation, mining, tunnelling, groundwater, rehabilitation and brown-field development, wine, recyclable materials, [...]
Posted Tuesday, 8 June, 2010
CETANZ Report – Scala Penetrometer Irregularity
It has come to the attention of the Civil Engineering Testing Association of New Zealand (CETANZ) through its Technical Working Group that there is an irregularity in the size of the shoulder (cylindrical length) of the New
Zealand manufactured scala cones. CETANZ has therefore taken it upon itself to investigate the significance of the difference in [...]
Posted Wednesday, 12 May, 2010
Richard Wolters Prize – Announcement of Finalists
The Richard Wolters Prize specifically recognises meritorious scientific achievement by a younger member of the engineering geology profession and is awarded to honour Dr. Wolters’ many contributions to international understanding and co-operation.
The Executive of the IAEG has confirmed that Kate Williams, the NZGS candidate for the Richard Wolters Prize, has been nominated to contest this [...]
Posted Thursday, 22 April, 2010
ISSMGE – New VP South America
Distinguished Colleagues, Dear Friends,
I regretfully accepted the resignation of Jorge Bonifazi as Vice President for South America a few days ago. This came as a great surprise to me but Jorge told me that he had to do it for personal reasons and I respect his decision. I will miss his valuable comments during our [...]
Posted Thursday, 1 April, 2010
Short Course – Unsaturated soils/ground movement control in deep excavations and tunnelling
Dear NZGS Members,
Professor Antonio Gens, from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain, will be visiting New Zealand in May and presenting a one day course in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The topic of the course is:
UNSATURATED SOILS / GROUND MOVEMENT CONTROL IN DEEP EXCAVATIONS and TUNNELLING
Please see attached for more details about the [...]
Posted Wednesday, 17 March, 2010
Recent announcements
Dear NZGS members,
Management Committee 2010
The new Committee was confirmed at the AGM on Tuesday 1st March 2010. The two new Committee members are Charlie Price from Christchurch, and Sjoerd Van Ballegooy from Auckland. Two members leaving this year are Richard Young, our Treasurer, whom we thank for being such a great Treasurer, and Ann Williams, [...]
Posted Tuesday, 16 March, 2010
Abstract Submission – Extended
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2010 – Bulgaria
The SGEM Organizing Team have informed us that they have decided to EXTEND the deadline for ABSTRACT SUBMISSION to 29th of March 2010, due to numerous requests from scientists from several Academies of Sciences and other Universities.
They believe that this will meet all requirements and all authors will [...]
Posted Monday, 1 March, 2010
11th IAEG Congress – Super Earlybird Reminder
It is now just 30 days until the close of super earlybird registrations for the 11th IAEG Congress at SkyCity Convention Centre, Auckland, New Zealand from 5 – 10 September 2010!
There has been a HUGE response to the call for abstracts and papers, with over 900 abstracts and almost 600 papers received.
With this level of [...]
Posted Thursday, 18 February, 2010
Notice for the AGM of NZGS
Dear NZGS Members,
Please find attached the Notice for the Annual General Meeting of NZGS to held on 2nd March 2010 at the University of Auckland in Room 401.401 (Lecture Theatre on ground floor beside main entrance to Engineering School).
Download Notice for the Annual General Meeting of NZGS.
The AGM will be followed by an Auckland Branch [...]
Posted Thursday, 18 February, 2010
BS 5930 – Ten year revision
To all those interested in investigation and testing as part of site investigation (senso lato)
As you will be aware there are a number of Standards coming out of Europe which will affect the way we investigate sites. Some of these changes are incorporated into Amendments 1 and 2 to BS 5930 but there are more [...]
Posted Tuesday, 9 February, 2010
NZGS Logo Competition
Dear NZGS members,
We are holding a design competition for a new logo! If you are feeling creative – please give it a go. Also, feel free to pass on to friends and family – you don’t have to be a member to enter.
$500 Cash Prize
See attached for more information – competition closes 31st March 2010.
Looking [...]
Posted Tuesday, 9 February, 2010
ISSMGE President 90 Day Progress Report – 10 January 2010
Distinguished Colleagues, Dear Friends,
This is my third progress report after 90 days as your President. In this report, I would like to tell you about the progress we have made with The ISSMGE Foundation. As you may recall, creating The ISSMGE Foundation was one of my campaign promises. I attach a document that we have [...]
Posted Friday, 5 February, 2010
Richard Wolters Prize Nomination – Extension of Deadline to 8am Monday 15th February 2010.
The NZGS is calling for nominations for a Richard Wolters Prize finalist to represent New Zealand. The Richard Wolters Prize was recently advertised in the December Geomechanics News and the closing date for applications for this award has been extended.
The Prize is awarded for meritorious scientific achievement by a younger member of the engineering geological [...]
Posted Monday, 25 January, 2010
Rocha Medal 2012
An invitation is now being extended to the whole Rock Mechanics community, for nomination for the Rocha Medal 2012.
Each nomination shall conform to the ISRM By-law No. 7, to be found at the ISRM website www.isrm.net namely as concerns Article 3, and shall be received by the ISRM Secretary-General not later than 31 December 2010.
Download [...]
Posted Monday, 28 December, 2009
AGM Notice and Call for Nominations for the 2010 NZGS Management Committee
The NZGS will hold its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday March 2nd, at the Engineering School, University of Auckland. Full notice of the AGM will follow closer to the date, however, the Committee members for 2010 need to be finalised prior to the AGM.
Attached is documentation outlining the background to next year’s committee requirements with [...]
Posted Sunday, 27 December, 2009
Design and Analysis of Deep Excavations by Professor Wong Kai Sin (Slides)
Slides used at the NZGS Short Course presentations by Professor Wong Kai Sin in November/December 2009.
Download slides – Session 1, Overview
Download slides – Session 2, Design (Part 1)
Download slides – Session 3, Design (Part 2 – Mohr-Coulomb Soil Model & Design)
Download slides – Session 4, How to reduce wall deflection
Posted Friday, 20 November, 2009
International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley (Kyrgyzstan)
The annual International Summer School supported by ICL (www.iclhq.org) has been organized since 2006. Previous field training courses were attended by participants from Czech Republic, Italy, USA, Germany, France, Belgium, New Zealand, Austria, Switzerland, Russia and Kyrgyzstan.
The 2010 training course will be carried out from July 30 till August 14.
The participation fee is EURO 400, [...]
Posted Monday, 16 November, 2009
Memorandum of Understanding between Technical Societies
An agreement has been signed by the following Technical Societies which entitles members to a 10% discount off non-member fees to attend seminars held by each group;
The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Inc.
The Structural Engineering Society New Zealand Inc.
The New Zealand Timber Design Society Inc.
The New Zealand Geotechnical Society Inc.
This is a new initiative [...]
Posted Wednesday, 30 September, 2009
Short course – Design and Analysis of Deep Excavations
with Professor Wong Kai Sin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
This short course focuses on issues related to deep excavations in fine grained soils. It provides an overview of deep excavation in soil and an understanding of the uncertainties and variables affecting the performance of the earth retention system. Its main emphasis is on the design and [...]
Posted Tuesday, 29 September, 2009
NZGS Branch Meetings – Evening Lecture: The Nicoll Highway Collapse in Singapore – A Technical Perspective
On 20 April 2004 at around 3:30 pm, a construction disaster struck Singapore. A section of the 20m wide cut-and-cover tunnel that was underconstruction collapsed. The excavation was about 30 m deep at the time of collapse. The tragedy left 4 workers killed and 3 injured. It rendered the highway impassable for many months and [...]
Posted Thursday, 24 September, 2009
NZGS 2009 Photo Competition
The Year 2009 Theme is: What we do best
Show us the things that geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, and technicians in the profession get up to!!
Win $250
A perfect chance to win some drinks money for the office. The winning photo will be printed in the December 2009 issue of the NZ Geomechanics News and [...]
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Membership
Engineers, scientists, technicians, contractors, students and others who are interested in the practice and application of soil mechanics, rock mechanics and engineering geology can join NZGS.
To join, download the form, fill it up and follow the instructions by sending a hard copy to:
The Management Secretary, NZ Geotechnical Society Inc., IPENZ, PO Box 12-241, Wellington
