Auckland Auckland has been treated to a continued series of exciting talks this year. John Begg, a geologist from GNS, spoke on the urban mapping project which will see more detailed geological maps produced for the area. An exciting prospect which drew great interest. Bruce…
This report mainly covers ISRM-related information from the Board and Council meetings held on 30 September /01 October and 02 October 2017 respectively in association with the Afrirock 2017 conference in Cape Town, South Africa. 54 of the 62 ISRM National Groups attended the Council…
I took up my new role as Vice President for Australasia in September, at the closing ceremony of the 19th ICSMGE. I took over from Professor Mark Jaksa, and am grateful for his work and for the support that Professor Mick Pender provided as NZGS…
The NZ Geotechnical Society awards a number of prizes and scholarships on a variety of different timeframes. Full details of each of the awards available, along with details of how to apply or how to nominate someone, their frequency of repetition and a list of…
NZGS organised and carried out in late August – early September 2017 a successful two-day short course on “Principles and Practice of Engineering Geology”. The course was held in the three main centres, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and was very well attended. It was the…
Terzaghi Oration Peter Day, University of Stellenbosch and consultant (Jones, Wagener, Pty Ltd), South Africa Challenges and shortcomings in geotechnical engineering practice in the context of a developing country Peter Day, a South African consulting engineer and academic, presented the Terzaghi Oration, an excellent paper…
Above: An Immediate Past Chair contemplating dinner, Gangnam Style Lastly, as has been common at these events, the NZGS was poorly represented. We were able to give a significant proportion of our allocated pages to the AGS. With the next ICSMGE being held next door…
Abstract There is a commonly known golden rule regarding services to clients under the title Good- Cheap-Fast. The rule is that services provided can ultimately comprise two of the options at any one time. For example, if the client wants the service good and cheap…