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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Brownfield and Biodiversity Net Gain – opportunities and risks
Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is an approach to development that aims to leave biodiversity in a measurably better state than before. BNG…
New SoBRA Guidance on the Incorporation of Future Climate Change Effects into Controlled Waters Risk Assessments of Land Contamination
Overview In May 2021 a SoBRA sub-committee was established to develop guidance to help practitioners in the land contamination sector to account…
The impact of ‘Net Carbon Zero’ on the Geo-Engineering Industry
The UK Government has committed to Net Carbon Zero by 2050 Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Underpinning this…
Climate Change and Land Contamination Risk Management: A multi-disciplinary crisis management challenge
Article provided by Paul Nathanail (GHD), Claire Dickinson (Geo Environmental Matters) and Dr. Tom Henman (RSK Geosciences) Climate change is causing extreme…
Sustainability in Ground Engineering – Good Design or Good Marketing?
Stephen Lawrence West of Ramboll, this year’s winner of the Sustainability Award at the GE Awards discusses sustainability in Ground Engineering. The…