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AGS Members' Day 2015 - Chairman's Address Presentation
- 1. WELCOME TO THE 27th AGS MEMBERS DAY Seamus Lefroy-Brooks AGS Chairman …to promote and enhance the quality of geotechnical and geoenvironmental professional practice.
- 2. AGS Members 1. < 150 AGS members 2. 20% of members employ more than 20 specialists 3. 50% of members employ fewer than 5 specialists 4. >1500 individual specialists in the present AGS membership 5. ?3000 graduates out there who don’t yet qualify as specialists 6. ?500 other employees --------- ?5,000 individuals presently represented by the AGS …to promote and enhance the quality of geotechnical and geoenvironmental professional practice.
- 3. AGS STRUCTURE THE AGS COMPRISES A MAIN COMMMITTEE AND SIX WORKING GROUPS • CONTAMINATED LAND • LOSS PREVENTION • BUSINESS PRACTICE • SAFETY • DATA MANAGEMENT • LABORATORIES
- 4. OUR MISSION • Uphold the AGS reputation as a world-renowned technical organisation • Continue to set and communicate best industry practice • Communicate better with our members • Provide support and guidance to ?10,000 individuals working in our industry …to promote and enhance the quality of geotechnical and geoenvironmental professional practice.
- 5. What are the others thinking about? Texas - March - Foundations and Equipment Expo
- 6. What are the others thinking about? Paris - March - Polluted Sites
- 7. What are the others thinking about? Tunisia - April - Pressuremeter
- 8. What are the others thinking about? Canada - May - Rock Mechanics
- 9. What are the others thinking about? California - June - Deep mixing and mass mixing
- 10. What are the others thinking about? June Norway - Offshore Geotechnics Rome -Flat dilatometer
- 11. What are the others thinking about? Brazil - June – Foundation Engineering and Geotechnics
- 12. What are the others thinking about? Korea - June - Geosynthetics
- 13. What are the others thinking about? Colombo - August - Geotechnics for Sustainable Development
- 14. What are the others thinking about? Australia - August - Rock Blasting
- 15. What are the others thinking about? Japan - September- Geohazards and Engineering Geology
- 16. What are the others thinking about? Austria - October - Rock Mechanics
- 17. What are the others thinking about? India - October - Engineering Geology
- 18. What are the others thinking about? Cape Town - October - Slope Stability
- 19. What are the others thinking about? Buenos Aires - November - Soil Mechanics & Geotechnical Engineering
- 20. Edinburgh - XVI ECSMGE 13-17 September
- 21. INTRODUCTION TO THE DAY AFTERNOON A PRESENTATION BY MIKE COHEN ON CHEMICAL TESTING A PRESENTATION BY HS2 ON GROUND INVESTIGATION A PANEL DISCUSSION ON ASBESTOS IN SOILS
- 22. INTRODUCTION TO THE DAY MORNING REPORTS FROM EACH OF THE SIX AGS WORKING GROUPS • CONTAMINATED LAND • LOSS PREVENTION • BUSINESS PRACTICE • SAFETY • DATA MANAGEMENT • LABORATORIES PLUS A PRESENTATION FROM THE NHBC ON BASEMENTS PLUS A PRESENTATION ON THE NEW AGS WEBSITE AGM
- 23. Enjoy!