AGS Sydney 2016 Debate Night

Professor David Airey, Professor Nasser Khalili, Dr Richard Kelly and Mr Sergei Terzaghi

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Debate topics

  1. Publications from academia have become almost irrelevant to industry. There are significant gaps between “State of the Art” from academic research and “State of Practice” adopted by practitioners in geotechnical engineering.
  2. We don’t learn from our professional mistakes. Mistakes are being buried in legal disputes.
  3. There is no positive outlook for geotechnical engineering in the next 15 years and beyond, if geotechnical engineers do not catch up with advanced technologies and IT.

Expert panel

Professor David Airey Acting Head of School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney

Professor Nasser Khalili Head of Geotechnical Engineering, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW

Dr Richard Kelly Chief Technical Principal: Geotechnical, SMEC

Mr Sergei Terzaghi Principal, Arup

 

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