Following relatively energetic debate on the NZGS LinkedIn page earlier this year (under the title Limitations in Geotechnical Reports), the NZGS has drafted a letter to MBIE expressing the Society’s concerns around the misuse of geotechnical reports and encouraging them to educate Councils to more…
Congratulations go to Phillipa Mills who was recently presented with the NZGS Young Geotechnical Professionals Fellowship award. This is awarded to the author of the best paper by a New Zealand representative at each Australia-New Zealand Young Geotechnical Professionals conference. Pip presented her paper at the…
Although Module 4 was offline for a short time, it’s now back up on the website (in our library section) as well as being available via the MBIE Geotechnical Education webpage. Please have a read and review, sending any feedback or Qs through to modulefeedback@nzgs.org….
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…