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Joint MBIE/NZGS geotechnical engineering guidance, Module 1: “Overview of the Guidelines” of the ‘Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Practice’ series, has now been published as Building Act s 175 guidance; refer to: https://www.building.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/building-code-compliance/b-stability/b1-structure/geotechnical-guidelines/module-1-overview-of-earthquake-geotechnical-engineering-practice-guidelines-version-1.pdf It is also available on both the New Zealand Geotechnical Society (NZGS) and MBIE…

This year QuakeCoRE and NZSEE join with Applied Technology Council (ATC) and the Japan Structural Consultants Association (JSCA) to organise this tri-national workshop on Improvement of Structural Engineering and Resiliency in Nara, Japan  on June 27-29, 2016. This Workshop is intended to discuss and develop…

Joint MBIE/NZGS geotechnical engineering guidance, Module 3: Identification, Assessment and Mitigation of Liquefaction Hazards of the `Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Practice’ series, has now been published as Building Act s 175 guidance. This replaces the NZGS document published in July 2010 (Module 1 – Guideline for the identification,…

Auckland Council have set up a LinkedIn group to provide a discussion forum for geotechnical and land development professionals working in Auckland principally to provide a communication channel between industry and council.  The goals of this are: Making the development process quicker, easier and more…

Two new joint MBIE/NZGS geotechnical engineering guidance documents have now been published as Building Act s 175 guidance: Module 2 “Geotechnical investigations for earthquake engineering” and Module 4 “Earthquake resistant foundation design” You can see all the items in this series in our Library. These…

For those of you who have registered your interest in producing a poster for the annual NZGS Student Poster award, please be reminded that the finished posters are due in on Friday 11th November. Please forward the finished poster to secretary@nzg.org.

Thanks to everyone who submitted an application – we had lots of interest this year with eight applications being submitted from a wide range of locations and across a range of topics: Auckland, Waikato,  Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Central Otago; 3 x geotechnical…

Thanks to everyone who submitted a poster.  The judging panel will process these over the next few weeks.

A reminder that registrations for the NZGS poster competition close today.  If you intend to submit your poster we need to know by end of today.  The poster itself is not needed until 11th November. Registration forms can be found here.  Please forward the finished…

Please note that applications for the 2016 NZGS Scholarship will be closing at the end of Monday, 31 October 2016. More details about the process and eligibility criteria can be found here. Please get your applications in asap!!