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Letter to the Editor

28 April 2021 To New Zealand Geotechnical Society members, Understanding Expansive Soils within the New Zealand Building Code Framework: A Structural Engineer’s View I am an Auckland structural engineer from Markplan Consulting. Our company has been involved in the design of tens of thousands of…

Shallow replacement of Expansive or Swelling Soils

In the June 2020 issue of NZ Geomechanics News ‘The Shrink Swell Test: A Critical Analysis’, Rogers et al., 2020, was published. This article provided an overview around the use of the Shrink Swell Test and current design practice for foundation design in NZ’s expansive…