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Table 2. The composition of sub-committees responsible for the evaluation of the various ISSMGE awards
Award
AWAC Member
AWAC Core
member
Invited ISSMGE
Member
AWAC Secretary
AWAC Chair
Technical
Committee
Eugeniusz Dembicki Werner BILFINGER Suzanne Lacasse
Esve Jacobsz
Francois Schlosser
Geotechnical
Project
Bob Holtz*
Werner BILFINGER Michael Lisyuk
Esve Jacobsz
Francois Schlosser
Innovator
Werner BILFINGER Bob HOLTZ*
Dimitrios Zekkos**
Esve Jacobsz
Francois Schlosser
Member
Society
Budhima Indraratna Bob HOLTZ
Neil Taylor
Esve Jacobsz
Francois Schlosser
Case Histories
Journal
Tadatsugu Tanaka
Budhima Indraratna Pedro Pinto
Esve Jacobsz
Francois Schlosser
YGEC (3)
Yujun Cui
Budhima Indraratna Jennifer Nicks
Esve Jacobsz
Francois Schlosser
*Replaced by Dr Peter Day (South Africa) due to conflict of interest
** Replaced by Prof Charles Ng (China – Hong Kong) due to conflict of interest
Outstanding Member Society. To award the most
outstanding Member Society and to encourage young and
smaller Member Societies to be active.
Outstanding Paper. To award the most outstanding paper in
the International Journal of Geo-Engineering Case
Histories.
The initial deadline for the nominations was 31 August 2012
for the five new awards and 28 February 2013 for the Young
Member awards. The deadline for nominations for the new
awards was, however, extended to 31 January 2013.
At the Board meeting in Lagos on 29 April 2012, a summary
of AWAC activities and progress was presented by Charles Ng
using a presentation prepared by Esve Jacobsz.
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SELECTION OF SUBCOMMITTEES (MAY-JULY 2012)
Since the establishment of AWAC, each member in, addition to
the secretary and chair, was responsible for one new award as
listed below:
Outstanding Technical Committee: Eugeniuz Dembicki
Outstanding Geotechnical Project: William Marcuson
Outstanding Innovator : Werner Bilfinger
Outstanding Member Society :Budhima Indraratna
Outstanding Paper in the I.J.G.E. Case Histories: Tadatsugu
Tanaka
At the request of the Board, sub-committees were
established to evaluate all nominations received and to
recommend two potential recipients per award to the Board who
would decide on the final award recipients.
The President requested that the following key persons be
included in the various sub-committees: Suzanne Lacasse,
Michael Lisyuk, Dimitri Zekkos, Neil Taylor, Jonathan Bray
(replaced by Pedro Pinto) and Jennifer Nicks (for the three
Young Geotechnical Engineer Awards).
AWAC decided on the following generic composition for
each award sub-committee (five members each):
AWAC member responsible for the award,
Invited Board member,
Core AWAC member,
AWAC Secretary,
AWAC Chair.
Table 2 above presents the composition of the AWAC
selection sub-committees. It must be noted that William
Marcuson who resigned from AWAC was replaced by Prof
Robert Holtz (USA).
In his thirty days Progress Report of 9 June the President
called for award nominations, listing the following deadlines:
2012/08/31 for the five new awards and 2013/02/28 for the
three Young Geotechnical Engineer Awards.
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NOMINATIONS RECEIVED AND SELECTION OF
AWARD RECIPIENTS (SEPT 2012 – APRIL 2013)
Due to some delays in receiving nominations, the deadline for
the five new awards was extended to the end of September
2012. In October the AWAC chair received the nominations
from the ISSMGE Secretariat General. The sub-committees
responsible for the evaluation of nominations began its work.
The following nominations were received:
Eight nominations for an Outstanding Technical
Committee Award.
Eight nominations for an Outstanding Geotechnical
Project Award.
Five nominations for an Outstanding Member Society
Award.
Three nominations for an Outstanding Innovator
Award
In the case of the award for Outstanding papers in the Case
Histories Journal, the Editorial Board members of this journal
were requested to send nominations to the Secretary General.
Only two nominations were received which were sent directly
sent to the Board for a decision.
The selection of two nominees per award required some time
due to the high quality of the nominations received, but also
because AWAC faced some conflicts of interest due to
committee and sub-committee members sometimes being
nominated for awards. These members had to be replaced by
other ISSMGE members. AWAC was for instance grateful to
Dr Peter Day and Prof Charles Ng for accepting to replace for
certain core members.
In February 2013 the President informed AWAC about two
additional awards:
Outstanding Public Relation Award for awarding an
individual or a group (preferably ISSMGE members)
who has contributed to public knowledge of the
ISSMGE.
Outstanding Young Geotechnical Engineer Award for
awarding an engineer or a team who has made
outstanding contributions to practice and research in
the geotechnical field.
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