Our members may be interested in the new regular spot for Michelle Grant, President of SESOC, on RNZ nights. You can listen to the first episode here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018808971/engineering-in-an-earthquake-zone We’ll keep this post updated with future episodes.
NZGS management committee election I’m delighted to report that our election is now closed, and results are in. We had one of the strongest fields of candidates for years, giving you the difficult task of choosing between 11 really great people. As a result we…
The New Zealand Geotechnical Society Climate Change Symposium will take place on 30 September in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and online. We are delighted to have confirmed some excellent key-note speakers for you and have received a great selection of presentation abstracts. We had a few…
Introduction As with all incorporated societies, the NZGS activities are limited by the Incorporated Societies Act and the rules the society adopts for itself. The Incorporated Societies Act 1908 s6 requires that the rules cover, among other things: the society’s objects (aims) how a person…
Our AGM is coming up in September, which means that it’s time to elect your new management committee. Our committee members are elected for two years, and normally we have equal numbers of members who are at the end of their first year (i.e. rolling…
Standards NZ are starting an update of NZS3604 (Residential timber-framed buildings). The NZ Geotechnical Society will be represented on the main committee by Sally Hargraves. There will also be a ‘Foundations’ sub-working group who as part of their scope are looking at foundations on expansive…
Update from Misko Cubrinovski – TC203 chair TC203 (earthquake geotechnical engineering and associated problems) was quite active at three levels, through the overall TC203 membership, the TC203 Advisory Group composed of previous Ishihara lecturers and TC203 chairs, and the current leadership team. In 2020 TC203 selected…
Update from Phil Robins Members of the ISSMGE Technical Committee on Physical Modeling in Geotechnics (TC104) gathered to attend the virtual workshop on Frontiers for Hypergravity Experiments and Model Tests over two days late last year (7 and 9 December 2020). The Frontiers for Hypergravity…
Update from Ioannis Antonopoulos – 20 May 2021 TC103 (Numerical Methods in Geomechanics) was active in: Working on the virtual time capsule project ( https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule/time-capsule) preparing the material. For this work, we will be happy to have any idea or contribution from TC members. Encouraging…
Update provided by Paul Burton – TC220 Secretary In 1977 an International Symposium on Field Measurements in Rock Mechanics was organised by Professor Kalman Kovari and held in Zurich, Switzerland. A second symposium, also organised by Professor Kovari was held in Zurich in 1983 and…