Update provided by Paul Burton – TC220 Secretary In 1977 an International Symposium on Field Measurements in Rock Mechanics was organised by Professor Kalman Kovari and held in Zurich, Switzerland. A second symposium, also organised by Professor Kovari was held in Zurich in 1983 and…
If you enjoy using this website, and would like to see it improved for the future, this opportunity might be the one for you. In 2015 the New Zealand Geotechnical Society undertook a major re-build of our website. It changed from a static site with…
If you enjoy Geomechanics News and want to be more involved in the society, this opportunity is for you. The New Zealand Geotechnical Society is justifiably proud of our bi-annual publication, NZ Geomechanics News. First published in November 1970, it has been providing a fantastic…
An important new paper from Misko Cubrinovski, Brendon Bradley, Rick Wentz and Ananth Balachandra has been published in Vol 54 No 2 (2021) of the Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. We recommend that all geotechnical engineers operating in New Zealand read…
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is consulting on proposed changes to the occupational regulation of engineers. The NZGS management committee has been working with Engineering NZ, SESOC, NZSEE and SFPE to develop feedback. Because of the limited timeframe for this we have not…
Introduction The NZGS management committee manages the affairs of the society on behalf of the members. We aim for representation on the Committee that is as broad as possible both geographically and between engineers and geoscientists to ensure that all views are well represented. The…
JW Ridley was the first chair of the “New Zealand National Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering” which later became NZGS. He was also the first recipient of the NZ Geomechanics Award, for which he gave a lecture on The Economics and Correct Use…
The NZGS management committee is delighted to announce three new Young Professional representatives. Earlier this year we asked for expressions of interest for three new roles representing each of the three international societies. The NZGS is the affiliated organisation in New Zealand of the International…
Dear SESOC and NZGS Members, As most of you are aware, during late 2019 a Panel of Experts was jointly appointed by the SESOC and NZGS National Management Committees to review and update the Auckland Structural Group (ASG) “Piling Specification” document. The last version of…
Call for expressions of interest The NZGS is planning to run a series of short local mini-conferences in June or July this year with the aim of identifying how the geotechnical sector can play its part in meeting our national targets for greenhouse gas emissions….
