AGS Newsletters Index

Newsletter Issue 54 - May 2007 (click here to view and download the newsletter in PDF format)

• Electronic tenders - What has changed in the last three years?
• Drilling competence - what's the current proof?
• BDA audited drilling operatives
• Update on the Freedom of Information Act 2000
• Smooth as SiLC
• New Construction Industry Scheme
• Classification and testing in BS 5930 and BS 1377-9
• Two new guidance documents on ground gases

Newsletter Issue 53 - January 2007 (click here to view and download the newsletter in PDF format)

• Benchmarking Survey Results

• Drilling into Coal Authority's assets

• Single Point Project (Financial Loss) Insurance (SPPI)

• Supporting the contaminated land community

• Guidance on the use of HBM in working platforms

• Equitable contribution clauses

• Soil Classification

• Reinforced Fill

• Age Discrimination Regulations

AGS Newsletter July 2006 (click here to view and download the newsletter in PDF format)

• AGS training takes First Steps

• What could training do for your company?

• Deadline looms as the ICE introduces the 3000 series

• AGS guides the way

• Semple Fraser adds Scottish dimension to Loss Prevention

• BS10175: Investigation of potentially contaminated sites, code of practice (2001) due for review

• The problem of made ground

• Modernising Waste Regulation - Environment Agency Update

• Testing times for soils

• A new perspective in geological mapping

• AGS data: improving the flow

• Electronic tendering protocol for geotechnical works

• Drilling down into industry safety

• Annual meeting comes to London

AGS Newsletter December 2005 (click here to view and download the newsletter in PDF format)

• AGS Benchmarking Initiative gets underway

• MCERTS 

• EA's position on MCERTs

• Meet NHBC Requirements with MCERTS

• Contaminated Land Analysis - Introducing Doubt Into An Uncertain World

• Eurocode EC7 National Application Document NAD

• PID Instruments: Read the Manual - Understand the Risks

• A national archive of site investigation data

• Management of Risk Associated with Ground Reports

• Guidelines for the Preparation of the Ground Report / Management of Risk Associated with Ground Reports

• BRE SD1:2005 - Implication for SI & Specifications

• CLAN 02/05

• Copyright Regulations Potential Loss Risk or a Hidden sources of Revenues

AGS Newsletter July 2005 (click here to view and download the newsletter in PDF format)

• Work Permits to involve less Red Tape

• Definition of Geotechnical Engineer

• The site investigation industry is launching a series of initiatives to improve client awareness, says Jim Cook

• The Role of an Expert Witness 

• Consultants Vulnerable to a Conviction?

• SGV Task Force

• Working on Another's Land 

• Hand Arm Vibration

• New Pile Cutting Method

• Environmental Alert New Hazardous Waste Regulations

• Mobile Plant Licences to become "Simpler, Faster, Lower-cost & Consistent"

• Depositing AGS Format Data with the NGDC

• Letter to The Editor

AGS Newsletter March 2005

• AGS PI Survey

• AGS Format 3.1 now available for download

• MCERTS Implementation still set for 1 March 2005

• Letters:  Integrating archaeology into geotechnical surveys

• Letters: Unexploded Ordnance

• Report of AGS Chairman's visit to ASFE Conference

• Bothered by unwanted telemarketing calls?

• Reinforced Soil Design Code to be Revised (BS806)

• Book review: "The Geology of Site Investigation Boreholes from Hong Kong"

• ISO/TC190 Meeting, Paris

AGS Newsletter May 2004

• CSCS - What you need to know

• Cover systems for land regeneration

• Electronic Tenders and Email

• Notes on Asbestos liability and Insurance Issues

• Code of practice for legal admissibility and evidential weight of information stored electronically

• Charging Interest on Late Payments

• The Landfill Directive - Nightmare or Opportunity

• MCERTS

• An introduction to the Specialist in Land Condition Registration Scheme

• A Low Cost Support Tool for Single Manning Site Safety

AGS Newsletter January 2004

• AGS Response to Nigel Griffiths, MP

• PCC Site Reports - Change in EA Policy

• The Extension of MCERTS to Chemical Testing of Soils - An Update

• The CML Initiative - how does it affect Geo-Specialists?

• What is Finalling?

• Letter to the Editor - Japanese Knotweed

• Managing PI Insurance

• CDM - Client Obligations in Ground Investigation Contracts

AGS Newsletter July 2003

•  ICRCL 59/83 - Beyond 20 December 2002

• A Safe Pair of Hands - Responsibility, Safety and Operative Competence in the Geotechnical Industry

• Electronic Tenders - The Future?

• Insurance Questions

• At Last! Holeside Logging

• Users Guide to Adjudication

• Guidelines for the Preparation of the Ground Report

• Soil Quality - BS EN ISO 14507:2003 - Pretreatment of samples for determination of organic contaminants

• Soil Quality  - BS ISO 17155
  

AGS Newsletter January 2003

• Results of the Contractual Risk Questionnaire issued by the AGS Loss Prevention WG

• AGS Format - are you undermining its use?

• A New Look at Geophysics

• Ground Forum - A Summary for AGS Members

• InSite for Schools

• Insurance Corner

• Safety Manual for Investigation Sites

• The Extension of MCERTS to Chemical Testing of Soils

• New BS ISO Soil Standards

• IT & e-Commerce Report

• Environment Agency Draft Policy on Building on or Adjacent to Gassing Landfill Sites

• EU Environmental Liability Directive
  

AGS Newsletter June 2002

• PI Insurance - Does the Claims Experience Explain the Increased Premiums?
• Environmental Insurance
• Site Investigation should be for concrete durability in addition to soil strength parameters
• CLEA Launch
• 'Late payment legislation' coming into force

AGS Newsletter January 2002

• Report on Remediation and Waste Management Regulation Regime Seminar

• Could you be a SILC?

• Our Man in Europe - Report of ISO TC 190 Committee - Denmark

• New Guidance from the Environment Agency

AGS Newsletter September 2001

AGS Newsletter  May 2001

• New Chairman's Acceptance Speech

• AGS Strategic Plan

• CIRIA Publications
  

AGS Newsletter March 2001

• Serious skill shortages likely to increase

• The Role of the Geotechnical Adviser

• Letters:  What DO Piling Contractors Want?

• Membership Survey

• ASFE

• DD175

• Desk Study - Ordnance Survey Maps
  

AGS Newsletter October 2000

• Site Investigation in the UK -A summary of the requirements of piling contractors as end-users

• BENCHMARKING - What is it?

• Eurocode 7 – Parts 2 and 3, ‘Design assisted by laboratory testing’, and ‘Design assisted by field testing’, respectively

• Report on 15^th TC250/SC7 Meeting in Lisbon

• Environmental Damage - Who should pay?

• Keynetix

• Mobile Metrology Services

AGS Newsletter May 2000

• The Mott MacDonald vs E.P Case

• IPPC
  

AGS Newsletter March 2000

• Drilling Skills for Life

• Geosynthetics Hotline

• Bringing Home the Benefits from Around the World

• Keeping in Training

• Training Co-Ordination Committee

AGS Newsletter November 1999

• The Demise of the Geododo?

• Innovation in Ground Investigation

• SI - the Clients Perception

• Quarry Regulations 1999

• Notes on the October 1999 Draft of the Statutory Guidance on Contaminated Land

• BS5930 Finally Makes its Appearance

AGS Newsletter July 1999

• BDA Driller  Accreditation – The Facts  Explained

• AGS Format Third Edition available free on web site

• The End of Collateral Warranties?

• Cautionary Tales

• Waste Licensing and Contaminated Land

• Bentonite threat from proposed EC Directive

• The Forgotten Contaminant - Explosive Ordinance

• Rigs do not meet PUWER requirements, says HSE

• CLAIRE

• Value of Geotechnics in Construction
  
  

AGS Newsletter May 1999

• ENTRUSTS Explained

• Construction Spoil - From Questionnaire to Westminster

• AGS Guide to the Selection of Geotechnical Soil Laboratory Testing

• Working Group Update - Membership & Publicity

• Working Group Update - Contaminated Land

• Working Group Update - Business Practice

• Working Group Update - Training

• Working Group Update - Electronic Format

• New Members
  

AGS Newsletter January 1999

• Successful launch of AGS Code of Conduct for Site Investigation

• The Value of Geotechnics in Construction

• New Members

• Geotechnical Adjudicators Needed

• Geotechnical Third-Party Reliance on the Move

• The Construction Act

• Bontddu Incident
  
  

AGS Newsletter September 1998

• AGS Guide: The Selection of Geotechnical Soil Laboratory Testing

• Working Group Reports

• AGS Authorised Representatives

• New AGS Members

• AGS Chairman meets Nick Raynsford

• BG meets AGS

• Are you adequately insured ?

• Continued Professional Development (CPD) for Chartered Geologists

• Contracts Hotline
  
  

AGS Newsletter June 1998

• AGS Contaminated Land Working Group

• AGS Electronic Transfer of Data from Ground Investigations Working Group

• AGS Membership and Publicity Working Group

• New AGS Members

• Outgoing AGS Chairman's Reflections

• NHBC's Land Quality Initiative

• DETR Managing Geotechnical Risk Project

• Contracts Hotline
  
  

AGS Newsletter February 1998

• AGS at Civils'98

• Review of the Operation and Level of Landfill Tax

• The Education Time Bomb for Engineering Geology

• NVQ and SVQ's for the Drilling Industry

• CIRIA's Ground Engineering Research Programme

• Advice on Contractual Problems

• Norwest Holst take-over of ECoS
  

AGS Newsletter November 1997

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AGS Newsletter August 1997

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