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Proceedings of the 18
th
International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
Technical reports/ professional advice
Details of reports produced or planned. Dissemination of information
via web or other means (e.g. workshops):
Video presentations from branch meetings on website at
http://www.nzgs.org/about/presentations.htm
Fact Sheets: Why Buildings Respond Differently to Earthquakes;
Canterbury (Lyttelton) Earthquake
Geotechnical Engineering Practice – Module 1 – Guideline for the
identification, assessment and mitigation of liquefaction hazards,
published July 2010 and freely available from our website.
Electronic transfer of geotechnical and geoenvironmental data
(AGS4 NZ v1.0)developed and released 2012
NZGS Seismic Design Guidelines: “Geotechnical Earthquake
Engineering Practice”
Module 1: Identification, assessment and mitigation of liquefaction
hazards - review underway in light of recent seismic events, release
planned for Q3 2013
Module 2: Foundations – draft being circulated for comment,
release planned for Q3 2013
Module 3: Retaining Walls – under development
Workshops are planned for August 2013 in several centres to
launch Modules 1 and 2.
N.B. Christchurch earthquakes have dominated the geotechnical
engineering community since 2010
Formal submission to the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal
Commission (CERC) on geotechnical matters around formal
guidance following the Christchurch earthquake sequence.
Formal submission to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and
Employment (MBIE) on the Earthquake Prone Buildings policy
following the Christchurch earthquake sequence.
Contribution to the Engineering Reference Group established by
MBIE to provide a governance role in relation to government’s
response to the CERC recommendations.
Contributing to the NZSEE Building Assessment Guidelines
Review (there is an NZGS representative on the study group)
Conferences organised by NZGS (held since 2011)
9th ANZ Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference, 11 to 14
July 2012, Melbourne (organised jointly by ANZ and NZGS)
Seminars organised (held since 2011)
Quantitative Risk Assessment in Geotechnical Engineering –
Professor D.V. Griffiths -3 July 2013
Short Course on In Situ Testing: Use and application of the CPT for
Geotechnical Engineering Practice - Prof Peter Robertson - August
2012
Short Course on In Situ Testing: CPT (Cone Penetration Test)
DMT (Flat Dilatometer Test) and Tee-bar - Ernst Wassenaar and
Diego Marchetti - July and August 2012
Seismic stability of deep excavations in dense urban - Professor
Nick O’Riordan - July 2012
Training courses etc.
Title of
course
Date(s) and
location
Name of
organising
organisation
and other co-
sponsor (if any)
Comments
Field Mapping
Course
April 2012
Auckland
University of
Auckland
Delivered by
Dr Warwick
Prebble and
Paul Salter
Ground
Behaviour
December
2010
Auckland
University of
Auckland
Delivered by
Professor John
Atkinson
International and other distinguished speakers (since 2011)
Name
Date of visit
Title of talk or
seminar
Comments
Professor Scott
W Sloan
April 2013
Geotechnical
Stability
Analysis
Institution of
Civil
Engineers
(UK) and
NZGS
Presentation of
the 51st BGA
Rankine
Lecture
Professor
Michael
Davies
November
2012
Plant Root
Reinforcement of
Slopes
Dr Brian
Simpson
November
2012
Numerical
Analysis in
Geotechnical
Design – don’t
forget the soil
mechanics!
Professor
Jonathan D.
Bray
October 2012 Building Near
Faults
Professor Nick
O’Riordan
July 2012
Seismic stability
of deep
excavations in
dense urban
areas
Professor Jean-
Louis Briaud
July 2012
Unsaturated Soil
Behaviour for
the Practicing
Engineer
Dr Gopal
Madabhushi
April 2011
Seismic Design
of Pile
Foundations
Conferences and seminars being planned in next few years (with NZGS
as main or co-sponsor)
Title
Date(s) of
conference or
seminar
Name
of
organising
organisation
and
other co-sponsor (if
any)
19
th
New Zealand
Geotechnical
Society
Symposium Hanging by a
thread?
Lifelines,
Infrastructure and Natural
disasters
20-23
November 2013
Queenstown
10th ANZ Young
Geotechnical
Professionals Conference
2014
Brisbane,
Australia
AGS
ANZ 2015 - The
Changing Face of the
Earth: Geo-Processes &
Human Accelerations
2015
Wellington
AGS [the 12
th
ISSMGE
regional
conference
for
Australasia]
6th
International
Conference
on
Earthquake Geotechnical
Engineering
13-16
September 2015
Christchurch
ISSMGE (TC203)
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