The YGP group extending an invitation to fellow YGP’s to assist in the production of Geotechnical Engineering – Basics Posters. The idea of these posters is to provide a summary of how we typically perform 80% of the most common Geotechnical engi...

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE 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. The 2021 Student Presentation Aw...

We are delighted to report that NZGS committee member Sally Hargraves has been appointed to the foundations working group of the committee that will revise NZS 3604:2011 Timber-framed buildings. Committee participation provides the opportunity to dev...

Our members may be interested in the new regular spot for Michelle Grant, President of SESOC, on RNZ nights. You can listen to the first episode here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018808971/engineering-in-an-earthquake-zone...

NZGS have identified an area for which we would like to develop a short Practice Note to assist the geotechnical profession in NZ.  The design and use of subsoil drains in earthworks projects varies around the country with different practitioners, d...

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 engin...

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 ...

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...

Standards NZ are completing a review of NZS 4431:1989 and NZGS have several members on the review committee.  Attached is an update from the review committee. Please provide any feedback to Sally Hargraves, Tony Fairclough or Ross Roberts. Chair upd...

Update from Ioannis Antonopoulos – 20 May 2021 TC103 (Numerical Methods in Geomechanics) was active in: Working on the virtual time capsule project ( https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule/time-capsule) preparing the material. For this...