Sketch on a cardboard box results in world first and Gold Award An idea that began as a sketch on a cardboard box to expedite the Canterbury rebuild, then developed into an important world first, has just won a prestigious gold award. From September 2010,…
Gold Coast, 5-9 Sep 2016 Keynote speakers during conference dinner (L-R): Prof R Boulanger, Dr N Stark, Dr K Mori, Prof M Randolph, Prof P Mayne, Prof C Santamarina and Prof. A-B Huang. Absent: Prof A Gens and Dr K Been. The Australian Geomechanics Society…
Top Major NZ Engineering Projects were recognised at Annual Awards The ACENZ (Association of Consulting Engineers) INNOVATE Awards acknowledge and honour innovative and exceptional consulting engineering projects in New Zealand and Australasia. This year’s Awards of Excellence, held on Friday, 2nd September at the Ellerslie…
In Ross’ outgoing editorial in June he talked about the great advances industry, academia and government have been making in geotechnical engineering in New Zealand. He also talked about the challenge of incorporating this research into practice. We created this special feature to highlight some…
25 to 28 October 2016 Above: Philippa Mills (centre) presented with the New Zealand Geotechnical Societies Youth Fellowship Award. With Charlie Price (left) and Darren Paul (right) Committee Report The 11th biennial Australia New Zealand Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference (11YGPC) was held recently in Queenstown….
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Lecture Summary There is a growing emphasis on Displacement Based Earthquake Design (DBD) analysis for buildings, retaining walls and bridge structures. DBD is specified as the preferred design method for highway structures in a draft revision of Section 5 of the Bridge Manual (NZ Transport…
This article introduces reinforced soil structures, their ductile characteristics, research and full-scale trials carried out on the rockfall impact ability. Two recent projects in Christchurch involving Green Terramesh reinforced soil bunds are presented. They are designed with the aim to withstand dynamic impacts caused by…
The Bodies of Knowledge and Skills (BOKS) project is a joint IPENZ, MBIE, SESOC and NZGS initiative to develop bodies of knowledge and skills initially for two fields of engineering – structural and geotechnical. It is envisaged the BOKS will form the basis for future…
The rationale behind the Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) Body of Knowledge and Skills (BOKS) was to define the core knowledge and skills that a recently qualified CPEng working as geotechnical engineer should be able to do in order to investigate, design and supervise the construction…
