The draft Chartered Professional Engineer (Geotechnical) Body of Knowledge and Skills was distributed to our NZGS members and also to the IPENZ membership over the last six months. The BOKS is intended to define the minimum technical capabilities that a CPEng (Geotechnical) is expected to…
Abstract Retaining wall design does not typically differentiate between levels of importance, particularly for static design. Walls that are more important, for example supporting importance level four buildings, are often designed to the same safety margins as relatively unimportant walls. Indeed, it can be argued…
1 Introduction This letter describes the development of a document intended to define the minimum technical capabilities that a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) (Geotechnical) is expected to have in order to competently investigate, design and supervise the construction of geotechnical works in New Zealand. This…