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A Client’s Guide: The Purpose and Use of Geoenvironmental Reports
Published December 2022 A good ground investigation should help delivery to clients of well-designed projects, that can be properly planned and constructed…
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AGS Guidance on the Description of Anthropogenic Materials – A Practitioners’ Guide
Published 3rd September 2018 BS:5930:2015 and BS EN ISO 14688-1 provided the basis for the description of soils in the UK; however,…
AGS Guidance on Waste Classification for Soils – A Practitioners Guide
Published 13th February 2019 It is apparent that the classification of waste soils (as either hazardous or non-hazardous) is not always completed…
AGS Guide to Environmental Sampling
Updated guide published in January 2019 (Original guide published in May 2010) This document is intended to provide practical guidance on the…
AGS Quick Start Guide to Contaminated Land Investigation
Published in August 2011 This document is intended to provide practical guidance on the investigation of potentially contaminated land in order to…
Assessment and Control of Asbestos Risk in Soil – Part 1: Protection of Personnel working on Ground Investigations
Published May 2021 This aim of this guidance is to assist employers in their duty to protect personnel undertaking ground investigations against…
Assessment and Control of Asbestos Risk in Soil – Part 2: Protection of Personnel working in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Laboratories
Published May 2021 This guidance is split into two parts; Part 1 provides information on the assessment and control of asbestos risk…
Bioavailable Environmental Quality Standards for Metals
Published December 2015 This is short information note on Environmental Quality Standards for some heavy metals (manganese, copper, zinc, nickel and lead)…
Client Guide: The Purpose and Use of a Ground Condition ‘Desk Study’
Published August 2022. This version replaces ‘Client’s guide to desk studies’, which was published in December 2006. This guide is for clients…
Issues of Scale and the Potential Impact of SGVs for Land Remediation
Published in 2006 This short paper has been prepared by the AGS for the SGV Task Force. Its objective is to illustrate…