Auckland The Auckland Branch finished 2022 on a high note, with a great mini-symposium where we heard from speakers about a range of interesting technical developments and projects occurring across the Auckland and Northland regions. As always, the event led on to an evening with…
2023 is off to a great start and we have some exciting opportunities for YGP’s to get involved coming up. Regional Symposia Our four regional symposia planning are underway. Current dates are Look out for the call for abstracts in the NZGS newsletter and get…
Rotorua, New Zealand In a time honoured tradition, the 14th ANZ Young Professionals symposium was held in Rotorua in November 2022. It was NZ’s turn to host and being the smaller of the nations and being the first international YGP event post covid, we were determined…
2022 End of Year report 2022 has been another challenging year for YGP’s. So much has happened and the start of the year and borders shut, Covid lockdowns and traffic lights feels like years ago, not the couple of months that it has been in…
Introduction I have been working in the geotechnical industry for eight years. In that time, I have known numerous people who have sustained serious crush injures to their hands and fingers from using a Conventional Scala Penetrometer. After a recent injury at my current company,…
The project The New Dunedin Hospital (NDH) comprises two main buildings, the 11 storey Inpatient Building and the smaller five storey Outpatient Building, located on two adjacent city blocks on a new site near the existing hospital. With a price tag greater than $ 1…
National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) The updated NSHM incorporates revised ground shaking parameters based on new information and improved scientific techniques. The modelled outputs do not require an automatic change, however, to how our infrastructure is designed. The position of Waka Kotahi is that the…
ABSTRACT The Standard Penetration Test (SPT) is used worldwide and is perhaps the most common in situ soil test. A recent paper published in the June 2022 edition of Geomechanics News highlighted the use of the test in current New Zealand practice. This paper explores…
1. Introduction Further to the paper presented in NZ Geomechnaics News, Issue 98 in 2019 (Brook et al., 2019), there has been further progress in our research into naturally-occurring zeolitic mineral fibres such as erionite in New Zealand. This article is in response to several…
YGP Wellington Symposium In October we hosted the Wellington YGP Symposium. The symposium included a total of 14 young geotechnical professional delegates from across the industry, including geotechnical engineering, engineering geology and contracting. Presentations included design and construction case studies, thesis and research topics, and…