Diary of Events
Date: 20/03/2013AGS Members Day AGS Members Day will be taking place on Wednesday 20th March 2013 at the Royal Geographical Society. Presentation topics include- Copyright issues, Christchurch Earthquakes, The London Basin Atlas, Electrokinetics for the Stabilisation of Slopes, BIM and many AGS updates.
If you are interested in attending this event, please contact Gemma at the AGS- gemma@ags.org.uk.
Date: 25/05/2010AGS The AGS Data Format Seminar will be taking place on the 25th May 2010 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham. Programme details and booking form can be downloaded below.
Download a booking form. Date: 17/03/2010AGS Members Day and AGM The AGS Members Day and AGM will be taking place on Wednesday 17th March at the Royal Geographical Society. Programme details to be posted in due course. Date: 25/03/2009Seminar: How to carry out Fit for Purpose on Site Water Testing The SCI Environment Group are holding a seminar entitled How to carry out Fit for Purpose on Site Water Testing on 25th March 2009. Full details are available by searching the events page of the SCI website at www.soci.org/events. Date: 18/03/2009AGS Members Day and AGM The AGS Members Day and AGM will be held on 18th March 2009 at the Council Room, Imperial College, South Kensington, London
See the attached programme for further information. Date: 05/09/2008Deep Basements and Underground Structures Thursday 25th September 2008
Inmarsat, London EC1
Ground Engineering?s Deep Basements and Underground Structures conference will showcase the latest cutting edge design and construction techniques to help you master underground construction. Benefit from expert advice on how to overcome the geotechnical challenges of digging deep in tight urban spaces.
For more information please visit www.gebasements.co.uk
Date: 18/06/2008AGS Data Format Conference - Motor Cycle Museum, Birmingham The conference will give details of the numerous initiatives underway to further improve and widen the use of the Format. Of particular interest will be the DIGGS project to which the AGS team are making a significant contribution. This initiative, which is based in the United States, embraces the principles of the Data Dictionary developed in the UK but uses the xml language to potentially widen the use of the Format and render it suitable for use in piling, in the first instance but later to base the records of any linear construction feature.
There will be adequate discussion to enable users to air their views and concerns or even to just ask technical questions about the Format and its use.
The meeting will appeal not only to the technical users of the Format, but also to Civil Engineers, Geologists, Chemists and Environmental Scientists who work with geotechnical, geoenvironmental and foundation data. In particular it will be relevant to managers within companies who produce or receive data and who need to structure their methods of working around data-handling procedures and storage, creating sustainable data records for the future.
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Conference Abstracts >>
Exhibitor booking form >> Date: 11/07/2006Slope Engineering, Central London SLOPE ENGINEERING
Practical solutions for effective slope stabilisation, reinforcement and remediation
11th July 2006, Central London
To register Tel: 0845 056 8069 Fax: 020 7505 6001
Email: constructconferences@emap.com
Programme for the day:
08.30 Registration and refreshments
09.10 Opening address from the Chair
Dr Devon Mothersille, Director
Geoserve Global
09.20 Network Rail?s requirements for effective slope
engineering (Derek Butcher, South East Territory
Earthworks and Drainage Engineer, Network Rail)
9.50 Developing best practice in remediating failed
slopes (Eddie Bromhead, Professor of Geotechnical
Engineering, Kingston University)
10.20 Question and answer session
10.30 Morning refreshments
10.55 Soil slope failure remediation using tyre bails
(Dr Mike Winter, Regional Director, Scotland, TRL)
11.25 Recent developments in UK soil nailing guidance
(Dr Martin Pedley, Design Manager, Cementation
Foundations Skanska)
11.55 Assessing the durability and degradation of soil
nails (Dr Tony Barley, Director Single Bore
Multiple Anchor Systems)
12.25 Question and answer session
12.35 Lunch
13.35 The Highways Agency perspective on managing
geotechnical assets and embankment engineering
(Alex Kidd, Senior Geotechnical Advisor Highways
Agency)
14.05 The management of debris flows on the Scottish road
network (Forbes Macgregor, Consultant to Transport
Scotland)
14.35 Practical aspects of rockfall hazard mitigation
(Jim Shields, Geotechnical Manager, Ritchies)
15.05 Question and answer session
15.15 Afternoon refreshments
15.40 Case study: Preventing the failure of flood
embankments (Mark Dyer, Professor of Civil
Engineering, University of Strathclyde)
16.10 Landslides and debris flows: Engineering geology
hazards and risk management (Ian Nettleton,
Technical Director EDGE Consultants)
16.40 Question and answer session
16.50 Closing remarks and end of conference
Date: 31/05/2006DFI / EFFC 10th International Conference on Piling and Deep Foundations - 31st May - 2nd June 2006 The three day conference will bring together consultants, contractors and manufacturers active in the global foundation business. There will be plenty of networking and learning opportunities, making this a truly vibrant and informative event for the whole foundations industry.
For more information go to: http://www.pilinganddeepfoundations.com
Date: 22/03/2006AGS Members' Day AGS Members? Day + AGM
Wednesday 22nd March 2006
British Geological Society, South Kensington
Start: 10.15am (coffee)
11.00am (programme)
Finish: 4.00pm (in time for the Rankine lecture at Imperial College)
Attendance is free to AGS Members.
Put the date in your diary now!
Information in PDF file: View Information in HTML file: View Date: 19/10/2005Production, Management and Application of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Data in Electronic Format The event will provide the background and details of the developments embodied in AGS 3.1, deal with management of data, present case histories, discuss problems and solutions and, through discussion and presentation, consider further applications and what the characteristics of future formats should be.
PAPERS
Details of the changes embodied in AGS 3.1
Peter Whittlestone (Soil Mechanics)
Problems with using the AGS Format as a Working Database Structure
S. Carrona (gINT Software, USA) and P. Wade (Leeke Associates)
Information engineering ? Adding value to geotechnical and geoenvironmental data
Dr N. Swindells (Ferroday Ltd), Dr.ing Anna Morena (ENEA)
Use of the AGS-M Electronic Data Transfer Format for Large Scale Instrumentation Schemes
Dr R.J. Chandler (Key Systems Geotechnical) and Dr. D.J. Richards (University of Southampton)
Managing and Analysing Contamination Data
T.C. Ball (CL Associates)
Synergy between AGS and NGDC
J. Giles (British Geological Survey)
The Advantages of AGSML for Institutions Working with ?Long? Lived Large Databases
A Bosch (TNO-NITG, National Geological Survey, The Netherlands)
CIRIA Research Contract CON 125 (Phase 1) A Review of Electronic File Formats for the Exchange of Geotechnical Information in Transportation Schemes
T. Spink (Mott MacDonald)
International Collaboration to Develop a Geotechnical Data Schema for Transportation
M. Hoit (University of Florida), M. McVay (University of Florida) R.J. Chandler (Key Systems Geotechnical)
views and concerns or put technical questions about the Format and its use.
VENUE
National Motorcycle Museum (conveniently situated close to the M42, M6, Birmingham International Railway Station and Birmingham Airport) Information in PDF file: View Information in HTML file: View Date: 02/12/2004The Landfill Directive and How it Affects You Great Barr Hotel, Birmingham - Half Day Seminar
The Landfill Directive came into force in July 2004 and is impacting on the development and construction industries more than any other recently introduced regulation.
The seminar will cover:
- What has changed?
- Waste Classification Categories - what is now classified as hazardous?
- What are Waste Acceptance Criteria?
- What needs to be done about testing of waste?
- Requirements to pretreatment prior to landfill
- What are the alternatives to landfill (including waste licensing and exemptions)
- Longterm storage on site
- Advice to Developers
- What is MCERTS?
Speakers will include the Environment Agency, Ged Duckworth (until recently a member of the DEFRA Waste Permitting Review and now a Member of the Cabinet Office Task Force); Ian Heasman (Taylor Woodrow Developments); Rupert Adams (Principle EHO, Vale Royal Borough Council); Clive Boyle (QDS Environmental)
This seminar will be of interest to anyone involved in construction, development activities on brownfield sites, local authority planning officers and environmental health officers
Information in PDF file: View Information in HTML file: View Date: 02/12/2004The Landfill Directive and How it Affects You Great Barr Hotel, Birmingham - Half Day Seminar
The Landfill Directive came into force in July 2004 and is impacting on the development and construction industries more than any other recently introduced regulation.
The seminar will cover:
- What has changed?
- Waste Classification Categories - what is now classified as hazardous?
- What are Waste Acceptance Criteria?
- What needs to be done about testing of waste?
- Requirements to pretreatment prior to landfill
- What are the alternatives to landfill (including waste licensing and exemptions)
- Longterm storage on site
- Advice to Developers
- What is MCERTS?
Speakers will include the Environment Agency, Ged Duckworth (until recently a member of the DEFRA Waste Permitting Review and now a Member of the Cabinet Office Task Force); Ian Heasman (Taylor Woodrow Developments); Rupert Adams (Principle EHO, Vale Royal Borough Council); Clive Boyle (QDS Environmental)
This seminar will be of interest to anyone involved in construction, development activities on brownfield sites, local authority planning officers and environmental health officers
Information in PDF file: View Information in HTML file: View Date: 20/03/2003AGS Members Day AGS members and other interested parties are invited to come to Members' Day on Wednesday 20 March 2003.
Speakers include Lorna Walker speaking on 'Sustainability - Terror Incognito' and Christopher Clayton on 'Quality Site Investigation - An Oxymoron?'
The new AGS Guides on Interpretative Reports and Collateral Warranties will be launched and the results of a survey of AGS Member's experience with e-tendering and e-tender data will be revealed.
There is no charge, but delegates must register in advance their intention to attend .
Venue: Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Information in PDF file: View Information in HTML file: View Date: 18/04/2002AGS Format – User Group Meeting Thursday 18 April 2002 – Motor Cycle Museum, Birmingham
Full day meeting to review the operation and use of AGS 3 and to introduce the new AGS-M for monitoring data of all kinds. Essential for all users of the AGS Format, those considering greater use of electronic SI data, and those involved in data from monitoring operations.
Information in PDF file: View Information in HTML file: View Date: 20/03/2002AGS Members Day Wednesday 20 March 2002 - Imperial College
Topical presentations relevant to Members ? in conjunction with the AGM
Date: 06/02/2002Changing Contractual Relationships in Ground Investigation – Implications of New Methods of Procurement and Contractual Relationships Wednesday 6 February 2002 – Geological Society (Half day – afternoon)
An examination of the practical, legal and insurance implications of consultants taking on responsibility for SI and contractors undertaking design and reporting functions.
Information in PDF file: View Information in HTML file: View Date: 15/11/2001BROWNFIELD Developments - a wasted opportunity BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENTS
- A Wasted Opportunity
15th November 2001 at 1.30pm
One Great George Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3AA
The Environment Agency has published an internal guidance note ?the Application of Waste Management Licensing to Remediation? (Version 2.0, January 2001). This aims to interpret the EC Waste Framework directive in the context of land development. It produces useful guidance on a decision process for determining when a licence is required and the application of mobile plant licenses to site remediation. However the document classifies contaminated soil arisings as waste with resultant significant problems for straightforward regarding operations. The AGS has held discussions with EA officers on the subject and has also been advising the HBF of the potential consequences of the guidance.
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