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Day 3 of the NZGS Climate Change Symposium View HERE

This is day two of the Symposium Webinar View HERE

This is part one of a three day webinar View HERE

Kia ora koutou I am deeply honoured, and it is with great pleasure that I address the New Zealand Geotechnical Society members through this corner for the first time, as the newly elected Chair of the Management Committee. I have taken over the role from…

A state of constant change As Christmas approaches we look back on a year of changes, and can no doubt look forward to many more! Key changes affecting NZGS this year have included a new Committee and Chair, a change in the Editors, loss of…

Thank you and Farewell to Past Committee Members Tony Fairclough  Tony Fairclough stepped down as a member of the NZGS National Management Committee (NMC) on 30 September 2021. Tony, who was elected to the NMC during the 2010 election process, has provided eleven years’ service…

Re: Cantilever Pole Retaining Walls, John Wood I read John Wood’s excellent feature article on the above topic with interest and found that John has provided answers to many questions that, as a designer, I have been keen to see addressed and where possible resolved….

This time we had more entries than we have had in a long time so thank you to everyone who sent photos through, you made the judging quite tricky — we could not agree and so expanded the size of the judging panel to not…

Keywords: Geogrid, Geosynthetic, Bridge Abutment, GRS Design, Bridge Foundations Abstract This study investigated the performance of geogrid reinforced bridge abutments for their use in New Zealand. Over the past couple of decades geosynthetics, and geogrids in particular, were employed to create a reinforced soil block…

Geology, risk, hypothesis, model, investigation Introduction First of all, what is a hypothesis? You might remember writing a hypothesis in high school chemistry class or a science fair, like ‘will chilling an onion before cutting it keep you from crying’? As defined by Google Dictionary…