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…
Introduction The Scott Base Redevelopment Project (SBR) aims to modernise the facilities at Antarctica New Zealand’s Scott Base with extensive reconstruction of most of the current infrastructure. Golder was engaged to provide a geotechnical assessment to support detailed design of the proposed redevelopment. This article…
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sandf.2019.05.004 Dr Stringer received the 2018-2021 JW Ridley Geomechanics Paper award, for his paper “Separation of Pumice from Soil Mixtures“, originally published in Soils and Foundations in August 2019. Abstract Pumice-rich deposits are found in a number of locations around the world, and in particular…
Simon Nathan (s.nathan@xtra.co.nz) This article was previously published in the Geoscience Society of New Zealand Journal of the Historical Studies Group 68, January 2021 The Clyde Dam on the Clutha River (Fig. 1), which started generating power in 1993, was the last major hydro-electric scheme…
As they flew along the newly formed Greendale Fault in September 2010, there were many things that Dr Simon Cox and his GNS Science colleagues could see were clearly awry during the first aerial reconnaissance. But among the offset roads, bent hedgerows and fences, torn…
Introduction The Auckland Unitary Plan (AUP) introduced new regulations for groundwater take and diversion in the Auckland Region. Whilst the authors of the rules unquestionably had the correct intentions, the interpretation and application of the regulations has been overly conservative and lacking in context. The…
A large number of very high-quality posters were submitted to the annual competition. After careful evaluation and much discussion, the judges decided that the winning posters for 2020 are: 1st place Olivia ROSS / Julia YOUNG: Seismic and 1-D Compressibility Properties of Gravel-Rubber Mixtures (BE(Hons)…
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Eleni Gkeli and Ross Roberts opening the Symposium. Morning of Thursday 24 March – The main event begins!! The first online keynote speech by Sissy Nikolaou. MBIE and the Geotechnical Module update project panel answer the questions of the delegates. The…
2021 JW Ridley Geomechanics Paper Award (every 3 years) The call for nominations ended in 20 December 2020, and we received 6 papers for consideration. These were sent to the panel consisting of Mick Pender, Kevin McManus and CY Chin. Based on careful assessment, the…
The geotechnical community has sadly been hit by tragedy in the last few weeks, with rope access contractor Tom Arnold falling victim to a fatal rockfall incident in Fiordland on April 20. Tom was undertaking geotechnical work in the Fiordland National Park when he died….
