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Above: Great turn out at the Auckland round of the 56th Rankine Lecture by Professor Richard Jardine. Professor Jardine is perched ready for questions post talk, at the front in the blue suit, as local branch representative James Johnson manages the eager crowd. Waikato On…

IAEG NZ LIAISON As I’m sure most are already aware Doug Johnson from Tonkin & Taylor in Auckland has taken over as the NZ Liaison for the IAEG. The purpose of the Liaison role is to provide a local contact for communication and to coordinate…

The next Board and Council meetings will be in Cape Town on 01 and 02 October 2017 in association with the AfriRock regional symposium. Membership ISRM individual membership worldwide remains at 7,800, with two new recently joined National Groups – Macedonia and Tunisia, making for…

IAEG Vice-President for Europe 1998/2002

Above: Third place Francesca Spinardi

Introduction Ground remediation methods have been used for many years to improve ground conditions to enable development. Ground remediation has become increasingly common as industrialisation has caused rapid development of cities. Areas within cities, previously undeveloped due to adverse ground conditions, can now be remediated…

SUMMARY Queenstown, New Zealand, is a known seismically-active area. A major soil type overlying the flat lands in and around the city is the varved micaceous clayey silt / sandy silt laminated lake sediment overlying the schist bedrock. In-situ (boreholes, CPTu, sCPTu, DMT, Vs and…