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Sustainability
The Sustainability Working Group promotes and encourages sustainable practices and decision making in the field of geotechnical and geoenvironmental science.
Strategic Plan
- To advocate and promote sustainable good practice within geotechnical and geoenvironmental industry.
- To influence and educate the AGS Membership and its clients on sustainability benefits, interventions, risks and aspirations within the field of geotechnical and geoenvironmental science to the benefit of both its members and the UK in general.
- To provide and signpost best practice sustainability guidance to the AGS Membership and its clients.
AGS Sustainability WG Terms of Reference and Modus Operandi
The Sustainability WG has identified a list of references which can be viewed here.
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AGS Awards 2024
We’re delighted to announce this year’s AGS Award winners! Chosen from a select number of AGS Working Group Members, these winners were…
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Early Career Professionals: Call for Posters
The AGS is holding a sustainability-themed poster competition at this year’s Annual Conference, and we’d like to see how Early Career Professionals…
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Assessing the Possible Sustainability Benefits of using Instruments and Monitoring on Site
Overview The AGS has asked each of its working groups to discuss sustainability issues at their meetings and the Instrumentation and Monitoring…
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COP27 and a ‘Way Forward’
Between 6-20 November 2022, the COP27 (‘27th Conference of Parties’) conference was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. This built on discussions…
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Net Zero – The Use of Timber Piles
Introduction As the construction industry works towards a ‘Net Carbon Zero’ future, we are asked to take a hard look at current…
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Responding to the UK’s Soil Crisis – Sustainable Soil Management & the Future of Soil Reuse
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself” President Franklin D Roosevelt, February 1937. Summary Humans have relied on soil for millennia…
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