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Advertorial This New Zealand Drillers presidents report was published in the latest edition (August /September) of the Australian Drilling Magazine and highlights the need for vigilance on the part of your members as per your expectations from your contracted Geotechnical Drilling provider. Forty years ago…

Sumner geotechnical remediation project, Christchurch. Photo: Regan King, Jacobs, Christchurch Abseilers working to remove a block from the face using an airbag, State Highway 1, Kaikoura. Photo: Jono Claridge, Opus, Christchurch ‘The lazy geologist’, taken in 2013 during my first year of working. The site…

Free rapid assessment workshops for geo-professionals Geotechnical professionals who are interested in applying their skills in a civil defence response are invited to attend a free MBIE workshop in early 2018. The workshops will be run in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and provide training on…

The following graphics are some key statistics that may be of interest to NZGD users.  The NZGD is co-funded by MBIE and EQC. The makeup of the NZGD users by profession and year is varied, but dominated by geotechnical engineers (Figure 1), as would be…

The NZGS and the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) have jointly released two new geotechnical engineering guidance documents as part of the Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Practice series. This joint guidance has been published as Building Act s175 guidance. The two new modules are:…

Introduction Guidance on the design of passive rockfall protection structures, such as rockfall fences and embankments, which act as barriers to intercept and capture or divert falling rock to prevent it from impacting a critical structure. Contents This joint guidance has been published as Building…

Ask a team member about Health and Safety Compliance and you’ll get a shuffle of feet, sideways glances and perhaps a pained expression. We are going to outline one approach we’ve seen work in the field with geotech engineers. Above: Build your Health and Safety…

AutoCAD Civils 3D Geotechnical Module Updated Keynetix developed the update of Autodesk’s Geotechnical Module for AutoCAD Civils 3D 2017, which now allows borehole locations to be selected using the drawing filter; has redesigned menus, including colour coding of strata, for easier navigation; and automatic scaling…

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