AGS Brisbane Symposium 2024

Geotechnical Ingenuity for a Sustainable Future

The Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) Queensland Chapter is holding its Annual Symposium 2024 titled “Geotechnical Ingenuity for a Sustainable Future” on Tuesday 29 October 2024. The event will be combined with the QLD Chapter’s 2024 AGM.

The symposium, a full-day event, will feature a morning break, lunch, an afternoon break, and networking drinks. It will commence with updates on the Chapter’s activities and the presentation of the 2024 report, as well as the chapter’s plan for 2025, followed by a series of technical presentations.

The symposium forms part of the continuing program of events organised by the AGS Queensland Chapter. It seeks to foster ideas and discussions concerning one of the fundamental aspects of design, construction, and research that are increasingly gaining traction in both industry and academia.

Symposium Speakers

Keynote

Glenn Hedges CPB Contractors

What’s Driving the Sustainability Agenda for Principal Contractors?

Glenn is CPB Contractor’s Sustainability Manager on the Cross River Rail RIS project in Brisbane and a co-founder and Member Director of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council.

Whilst his days of rolling mud snakes and postulating over whether to describe a soil as ‘clayey silt’ or ‘silty clay’ are long over, he has been in the environmental management, sustainability and innovation fields both in the UK and Australia since the mid-90’s (you do the maths). Much of that experience has involved rail, road, tunnelling and other public infrastructure as a principal contractor, though fun fact he started his career as a contaminated land assessment and remediation subcontractor mostly supporting petroleum clients.

Glenn believes that business has an important role in solving the significant climate and ecological challenges we face in a way which creates value to both shareholders and society. He also believes that sustainability in its simplest is another lens to innovate and doing things cheaper, faster, better, safer and greener.

Speakers

Chris Bridges Aurecon

Conflicts between sustainability and resilience in Geotechnical Engineering

Diane Mather Queensland Hydro

Borumba Pumped Hydro Project

Allan McConnell Insitu Geotech Services (IGS)

Brisbane Based Sustainable World Recognised Ingenuity in In Situ Site Investigation

Amir Shahkolahi Global Synthetics; International Geosynthetics Society (IGS)

Quantifying the Sustainability Benefit of Geosynthetic Solutions for Geotechnical Designs

Thayalan Nall AECOM

Geotechnical challenges associated with slope remediation works in an environmentally sensitive site

Jessica Dalton WSP

Case study comparing embodied carbon emissions in two road-over-rail bridge foundation designs

Russell Denny Wagstaff Piling

Sustainable project performance achieved by customised specialty grouting

Adnan Sahyouni & Oceane Criton Menard

Ground Improvement – Sustainable by nature

Bronte Board TMR

Applications of the updated Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR) Climate Change guidelines in Queensland

Nick Dewar Arup

Embodied Carbon Assessment of Geotechnical Works

Sponsorship Opportunities

A range of sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please contact Arsh Kaur via [email protected]

Organising Committee

Vincent Blanchet, WSP
Andy Doe, BGC Engineering
Arsh Kaur, Aurecon
Bindumadhava Aery, Aurecon
Amir Shahkolahi, Global Geosynthetics
Natalie Murphy, WSP
Leah Huxley, Klohn Crippen Berger

Program

8:00 – 8:30 — Registration

10:20 – 10:40 — Break

12:15 – 13:05 — Lunch

14:40 – 15:00 — Break

16:35 – 17:30 — Networking Drinks

Registration

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