SearchBRE SD1:2005 – Implication for SI & Specifications
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has recently revised Special Digest 1 “Concrete in aggressive ground”. This new edition (SD1: 2005), funded by…
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A national archive of site investigation data
As aired at the recent AGS Format discussion session following the presentation by Jeremy Giles from BGS, the concept of a national…
Contaminated Land Analysis – Introducing Doubt Into An Uncertain World
Let’s be honest, to most of us in the ground engineering community, chemistry is something of a black art. It’s a subject…
Depositing AGS Format Data with the NGDC
The National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) contains data gathered or generated by the British Geological Survey (BGS) as part of its national…
SGV Task Force
The Soil Guideline Values Taskforce (SGV TF) is a joint initiative between Government Departments, local authorities and other private and public sector…
The Role of an Expert Witness
Introduction Experts play an important and unique role in the adversarial court process as they are required to provide an independent opinion…
The site investigation industry is launching a series of initiatives to improve client awareness, says Jim Cook.
The need, quality and sufficiency of site investigations has been of paramount importance since the early 1960s and the issue of client…
Bothered by unwanted telemarketing calls?
Under Government legislation introduced on 1st May 1999 and replaced on 11th December 2003 by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive)…
AGS 3.1 publication now available for download
The AGS Data Format committee wishes to announce the publication of Revision 1 to the third edition of the AGS Data transfer…
The CML initiative – how does it affect geo-specialists?
In order to prevent homes being sold and occupied before completion, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) initiative was implemented in April…
AGS Response to Nigel Griffiths, MP
On his appointment as Minister for Construction, Nigel Griffiths wrote to all trade associations and professional bodies and invited them to submit…
Guidelines for the Preparation of the Ground Report
When the late Sir John Knill spoke to the AGS Committee in May 2000, he was less than complementary about the quality…
Users Guide to Adjudication
Adjudication was made a feature of all construction contracts by the ‘Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1966’ . Section 108 of…
At Last! Holeside Logging
By now we are all aware that the AGS data interchange format saves having to re-key borehole data, and that the earlier…
Electronic Tenders – The Future?
A survey of Members in January/February 2003 revealed that a majority have some experience of tendering based on information provided electronically. Responses were…
IT & e-COMMERCE REPORT
E-Procurement Extranets, intranets, e-commerce, e-procurement – all words we see regularly in the civil engineering press and hear more frequently in the…
AGS FORMAT – ARE YOU UNDERMINING ITS USE?
One of the benefits of using the AGS Format for the transfer of SI data is that it can be used in…
‘LATE PAYMENT’ LEGISLATION IS COMING INTO FORCE
The revised ‘late payment legislation’ is coming into force on the 7 August 2002, from this date all businesses and public sector…