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		<title>Recording of Peter Robertson&#8217;s Lecture on 5th January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Peter Robertson delivered a lecture in Auckland on 5th January entitled “Evaluation of soil liquefaction and post earthquake deformations using the CPT”. With the help of the University of Auckland we were able to have the lecture recorded (as well as streamed live at the time). Please see below for links to a stream [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9th ANZ Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9th ANZ Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference (9YGPC) will be in Melbourne from 11-14th July 2012. The 9YGPC is for geotechnical professionals from Australia and New Zealand 35 years old and younger with a maximum of ten years experience. The EQC and NZGS have consistently supported our YGP members with financial sponsorship to attend these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANZ 2012 Conference &#8211; Registration Now Open!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EARLY BIRD PRICES AVAILABLE! Register now for the Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics from 15 &#8211; 18 July 2012 at the Crown Conference Centre in Melbourne, Australia. The committee is currently assembling an excellent technical program. Each day will include keynote and concurrent sessions incorporating elements of the conference theme &#8216;Ground Engineering in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canterbury Technical Clearinghouse Final Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meeting: 18:00-1930, Tuesday 13 December Venue: Lecture theatre E8, College of Engineering, University of Canterbury Presenters: Engineering Advisory Group and others Hosts: NZSEE, NZGS Canterbury, Canterbury Structural Group Social: 17:30-18:00 &#8211; Engineering Common Room Yesterday, the Department of Building and Housing announced that it has published its &#8220;Revised guidance on repairing and rebuilding houses affected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons and Recommendations from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following link is a summary of the East Japan Great Earthquake Disaster on March 11, 2011. “Geo-hazards During Earthquakes and Mitigation Measures-Lessons and Recommendations from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake-” can be download here www.jiban.or.jp/e/disaster-survey-information-of-2011-tohoku-earthquake-2/ Osamu Kusakabe (Prof./Ph.D) President of Japanese Geotechnical Society Yoichi Watabe (Dr.) Secretary of Japanese Geotechnical Society]]></description>
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		<title>Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enfocus Report: Management of Earthquake Risk by Canterbury Regional Council and Christchurch City Council This week the Royal Commission has web published a report by Enfocus Ltd entitled ‘Management of Earthquake Risk by Canterbury Regional Council and Christchurch City Council’, dated November 2011.  The Royal Commission sought this report to assist it with its analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Request from Technical Committee on Underground Construction in Soft Ground (TC204) for nominations to give the Inaugural ‘Keiichi Fujita Lecture’ at the next TC204 symposium in Seoul, South Korea in 2014.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the death of Professor Fujita at the end of July 2010, our previous TC204 chairman, Professor Richard Kastner, proposed the idea of introducing a prestigious lecture to be entitled the ‘Keiichi Fujita Lecture’. The intention with the lecture is to recognise the enormous contribution made by Professor Fujita in setting up TC 28 (as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Royal Commission has web published William Holmes&#8217; peer review of the Department of Building and Housing&#8217;s technical investigation reports on the PGC, Forsyth Barr and Hotel Grand Chancellor.  Mr Holmes is from the San Francisco-based engineering consultancy Rutherford &#38; Chekene.  He reviewed the Department&#8217;s investigation for the Commission.  The report will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REMINDER &#8211; Waikato Branch Presentation &#8211; Cirtex 22 November 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.nzgs.org/nzgs-news/reminder-waikato-branch-presentation-cirtex-22-november-2011</link>
		<comments>http://www.nzgs.org/nzgs-news/reminder-waikato-branch-presentation-cirtex-22-november-2011#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please refer to Waikato Branch page for details about a presentation by Michael Sorenson of Cirtex Industries on Tuesday 22nd November at 6pm.  Refreshments will be from 5:30pm. Venue now confirmed: Wintec Hamilton City Campus, A Block, Room A.205. Note: Parking Building access is off Ward Street. See attached Campus Map Thanks Kori Lentfer Branch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finite Element Analysis &#8211; Auckland Branch Live Streaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Blakey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear NZGS members, Reminder about the Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch presentations on Finite Element Analysis by Denis Waterman.  Please see branch pages for more details. If you cannot make any of these presentations, the Auckland event is going to be live streamed – please use the following link: http://live.auckland.ac.nz/nzgs.htm Kind regards, Amanda Blakey]]></description>
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