Queensland Chapter Meetings

International Women in Engineering Day: AGS Technical Breakfast

Natalie Murphy, Sayteng Seah and Liz Elphick

Developing Engineering Intuition

John Eckersley

International Women’s Day: Walk + Talk

Why is a reliability-based design framework beneficial for industry?

Dr Burt Look, OAM

AGS QLD Social Event – Bringing in 2025! 🥳

Geophysical Investigation Methods

Dr Tariq Rahiman

Rock Mechanics: Practical application of hydromechanically coupled simulations in engineering projects

Dr. Sevda Dehkhoda

QLD Chapter 2024 AGM

AGS Brisbane Symposium 2024

Geotechnical Engineering for a Sustainable Society

Prof. Lidija Zdravković

Site Tour: Mass Soil Mixing

Happy Soil Mechanics Father’s Day 2024 – Celebrating Karl Terzaghi’s Birthday

Dr. Julian Seidel

AGS Townsville 2024 Symposium

Cynthia De Bok, Martin Devonald, Tim Donovan, Dr John Eckersley, Roderick Haselden, Allan Herse, Graeme Jardine, Camila Lebron, Walter Mastenbroek, Cameron Ryan, Ian Shipway and Pramod Thakur

IAEG 60th Anniversary Event

Ann Williams

International Women in Engineering (+ Geology) Day

Diane Mather, Jan Stirling and Emma Maxwell

Dynamic Compaction State-of-the-Art

Dr Babak Hamidi

AGS 4.1.1 AU1.2 National Roadshow

Tim Swavley

Walk + Talk at South Bank Parklands

The Unusual and the Unexpected in Geotechnical Engineering: Observation – Analogy – Experiment

Professor Stephan Jefferis

Flow Failure Assessment for Dams and Embankments

Prof. Timothy D. Stark

AGS Queensland Symposium 2023

Three decades of soft soil engineering in SE Queensland

Dr Jay Ameratunga

Let’s show our kids what Engineers can do !!!

Rockfall Mitigation Using Flexible-Net Systems

Ahren Bichler

International Women in Engineering Day: Technical Evening

Elisabeth Simbolon & Michelle Philipson, Adelaide Fielden and Ramathi Gunasekera

AGS QLD Cruise Night on Brisbane River

AGS-University Joint Academic Seminar and Networking event

The Probability of Failure in Geotechnical Analysis

Prof. Vaughan Griffiths

Computational Slope Stability Analysis

Prof. Vaughan Griffiths

Earthworks: Theory to Practice – Design and Construction

Dr Burt Look

Women in the AGS Networking Breakfast – QLD

Queensland AGM and Annual Symposium

Happy Soil Mechanics Fathers Day: Celebrating Karl Terzaghi’s Birthday

Harry Asche and Sergei Terzaghi

Geoenvironment: Protecting the Environment using Geosynthetics

Prof. Kerry Rowe

AGS QLD Regional Symposium 2022

Inland Rail – N2NS Rail Formation from design to construction

Andrew Doe, Li-Ang Yang and Vincent Blanchet

Load carrying geosynthetics reinforced bridge abutments

Prof. Jorge Zornberg and Jan Kupec

Foundations for Tall and Heavy Buildings

Prof Harry Poulos

AGS QLD Breakfast

Hannah Amos, Sally Roberts-Kelly, Meera Creagh and Lianne McKenzie

Students Meet Industry Night

The Evolution of Identifying Construction Materials Sources

James Wilson

Solar Farm Foundations

Dr. Richard Kelly

2021 Queensland Symposium

Ross McDonald, Henry Unwin, Chaminda Gallage, Benoit Wentzinger, Graeme Jardine

Legal View of Geotechnical Issues

Heidi Schweikert and Sean Brady

Cognitive dissonance in geotechnical engineering

Dr Burt Look

Challenges of tunnelling in an urban area with shallow cover

Senthilnath G T

Australian Geomechanics Society, Queensland Chapter 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner

Women’s Coffee Catch Up

Pressuremeter Test and Design Applications

Jean-Louis Briaud

QLD Field Testing Expo and AGM / Annual Dinner

Geotechnical risk on large scale infrastructure projects

Chris Bridges

Technical And Economical Optimisation Of Foundation And Ground Improvement Systems

P. Adam Zakrzewski, MSc.Eng (Civil) MIEAust, RPEQ, NER

Real-time monitoring and wireless data transmission to predict rain-induced landslides in critical slopes

Chaminda Gallage

Quality Management of Earthworks with Deflection-Based Devices

Soheil Nazarian and Andy Doe

High-speed Railway Geotechnical Problems

Distinguished Professor Daichao Sheng

2019 AGS QLD AGM and Annual Dinner

Seismic Pile Design – Australia

Rob May

The strengths and limitations of imaging technologies for geotechnical applications

Marc Elmouttie

Trying to make a difference – and why sometimes we can’t

Rob Day

2019 Queensland AGS Symposium

Dr Tim Mote, Deryk Forster, Dr Bindumadhava Aery, Ian Shipway, David Folan, William Eom, Greg Anderson, Amir Shahkolahi, Mehdi Davari, Stephen Buttling and Jun Sugawara

Slope design process in a mining context

William Sarunic

Student Networking Night

Dr David Lacey, Krystle-Rae Biram and Allan McConnell

Design of Foundations Using The Cone Penetration Test

Barry Lehane

The Queensland Geotechnical Database

Timothy Thompson and Jared Priddle

Tailings Dam Failures

Sean Sullivan, Dr Bruce Brown, Wade Ludlow and Prof David Williams

Application of geophysics for marine geohazard assessment

Tariq Rahiman and Nicola Manche

Sydney Heads Rail Tunnel

Ted Nye

Critical State Soil Mechanics

Mike Jefferies

2 Day Seminar: Developing Confidence in Critical State Soil Mechanics

Mike Jeffries

58th Rankine Lecture

Dr Nick O'Riordan

Panel discussion

2018 AGM and Annual Dinner

Darren Paul

Design and construction of driven piles on the East Coast of Australia

Henry Zhang

National Terzaghi lecture

Dr. R. Kerry Rowe

57th Rankine Lecture, Brisbane

Eduardo Alonso

AGS QLD Symposium 2018

Geoff Burns, Clinton Chan, Matthew Dews, Ajith (Diss) Dissanayake, Scott Fidler, Pat Gibbons, Greg Hackney, Jared Lester, Rick Martin, Graham Rose, Tiasha de Silva, Greg Anderson and Amir Shahkolhi

Geotechnical Design Innovations from the Waikato Expressway project

Mark Argent

Workshop on Intelligent Compaction

Construction methods and quality outcomes for bored cast-in-situ piles – A review of current practice

Dr Ben Collingwood

Soil mechanics principles applied to the stability of ore cargoes

Dr David Hight

Natural hazards, risk, and the resilience of U.S. transportation infrastructure

Scott Anderson

AGS QLD Symposium 2017

Harry Poulos, Richard Herraman, David Starr, John Braybrooke, Stephen Buttling and Allan McConnell

Geosurveys innovation

Dr Andi Pfaffhuber

Mechanics of unsaturated soils and applications

Professor Daichao Sheng

The Impact of recent high profile Tailings Dam Failures

David Williams

56th Rankine Lecture, Brisbane:
Geotechnics and Energy

Professor Richard Jardine, Imperial College London

Insights from the Ballina bypass prediction exercise

Dr Richard Kelly

AGS QLD 2016 AGM & Annual Dinner

Pawan Sethi, Coffey Senior Principal

Geotechnical Mapping Course – Brisbane

Student Evening

55th Rankine Lecture:
Hazard, Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Practice

Dr Suzanne Lacasse, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)

The opportunities for a borehole database in Brisbane

Tim Thompson

E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture – Queensland

Professor Malek Bouazza

AGS QLD Symposium 2016 – Presentations

Evening lecture on Legal Issues

Tim Sullivan, Pells Sullivan Meynink (PSM), Adjunct Professor UNSW

Masterclass 2016: Legal Aspects of Geotechnical Engineering Practice

Tim Sullivan

AS 1726 : 2016 Seminar – Brisbane

Members of the SA CE-15 Committee

USQ Workshop No. 1 – Recent Trends in Geotechnical Engineering and Education

Retrogressive Flow Slides in South-East Queensland

Konrad Beinssen and Ian Shipway

AGS QLD AGM & Annual Dinner

Dr Chris Browitt & Ms Alice Walker, British Geological Survey

Monitoring Equipment & Interpretation Workshop

Various Presenters

AGS QLD Chapter Symposium: Problem Ground

Joint AGS-QLD / ATS Technical Presentation:
The future of TBMs and the tunnel linings they leave behind

Escaping the Golden Cage: Learning to Practise the Art of Observational Geotechnical Engineering

John Simmons

Masterclass focused on Aspects of Piling (FULL)

The Manefay Failure at Bingham Canyon Mine:
investigation outcomes and lessons

Martyn Robotham, Chief Geotechnical Advisor Rio Tinto

54th Rankine Lecture (2014):
Interactions in Offshore Foundation Design

Professor Guy Houlsby, University of Oxford

Laboratory Testing, Theory and Practical Application (COURSE FULL)

Rebuilding Angola – Geotechnical Challenges

Robert May, Golder Associates Principal Geotechnical Engineer

14th Glossop Medal Lecture Tour – Brisbane

AGS QLD – Monthly Seminar: Rock of Brisbane

Annual AGS Symposium – The geotechnical life cycle, from investigation to delivery

Suzanne Lacasse, Oliver Batchelor, Richard Evans, Jody Todd, Mike Straughton, Fred Baynes, Allan Mcconnell, Martin Silec

Monthly Lecture Student Presentations

Young Geotech Conference – Noosa

AGS & WIEQ Joint Event

AGS/WIEQ joint event

Monthly Seminar – Open cut Mining/Slope stability

BBOCGS joint event

Distinguished Lecture

David Daniel

Monthly Seminar – Jack Box Tunneling

Jeremy Kruger-Thiess

Digital Photogrammetry, a Practical Tool for the Modern Geotechnical Practitioner – Applications for Mining and Civil Geotechnics

Peter Booth

Foundation Workshop – Logging of Core for Civil Geotechnical Purposes

Joe Gough

Foundation properties of variably weathered rock beneath a heavy mineral processing plant

David Starr

Introducing Geotechnical Design to Shallow Geothermal Systems

Professor Ian Johnston

AGS Committee Annual Dinner

10th Monthly Lecture

Amir Shahkolahi

Geosynthetics in Road Pavement Design Methods

Annual AGS Dinner

Peter Hollingsworth

Student Research Projects

Biyanvilage Dareeju, Daniel Mellish and Adrian Kho

Introducing Geotechnical Design to Shallow Geothermal Systems

2013 AGS QLD Boat Cruise

Laboratory Testing, Theory and Practical Application

YGP Jack Morgan Award Presentation

Pablo Toro, Rick Walsh, & Jared Fetherston

52nd Rankine Lecture: Performance-Based Design In Geotechnical Engineering

Malcolm Bolton

Queensland One Day Symposium: “Geotechnical Challenges and Lessons Learned”

Groundwater in Mining

Ian Hair & Detlef Bringemeier

Combined Loading Of Offshore Foundations

Prof Mark J. Cassidy

Soil & Rock Logging Course – AS1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations

Fred Baynes

Use And Abuse Of Springs To Model Foundations

Rob Day and Joe Muccillo

Barangaroo South Development, Sydney

Frances Badelow

WIEQ joint event

Development in Pile Testing

Fitri Jones & Stephen Buttling

Geotechnical site exploration and geo-engineering education in 2013 and beyond

Dr Paul Mayne

Geotechnical Site Exploration and GeoEngineering Education in 2013 and Beyond

Dr Paul Mayne, Distinguished Speaker

The Foundation Lectures: In-situ Testing

Dr. Paul W. Mayne, Stephen Buttling, Glen Fergus, Yvo (Evo) Keulemans and Allan McConnell

Bowen Basin Open Cut Geotechnical Society and Australian Geomechanics Society Joint Event

Various

Foundation Lecture – Instrumentation

AGS Research Award

Various

Joint event with BBOCGS

Seismicity

Rahiman Tariq

National Committee Meeting Adelaide

Simulation Aided Geotechnical Engineering

Dr David Beck

First Committee meeting of 2013

TBC

Reinforced Soil Structures – BS 8006-1 2010

Steve Corbet

Women that rock!

Dr Katharine Brown, Dr Sevda Dehkhoda, Dr Nazife Erarslan and Sarah Marsanich

AGM / Annual Dinner

David A. Hood

Fundamental Issues in developing a code of practice for Geotechnical Design – Eurocode 7

Brian Simpson

Geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures for railways and highways in Japan

Prof. Fumio Tatsuoka

Young Engineers Boat Cruise, “Why I love my job – as a geotechnical engineer”

Allan Mcconnell

Reducing CAPEX by Managing Geotechnical Risk on Projects

Andrew Leventhal, Maurice Frazer, Patrick Wong, Jim Luo, Bruce Brown and Burt Look

Laboratory Testing, Theory and Practical Application “Mistakes and Problems with Laboratory Testing”

Professor David Williams, Stephen Buttling, Colin Bruce and Dean Sawyer

Geotechnical Stability Analysis

Prof Scott Sloan

Joint AGS / Women in Engineering Event

Various

Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring

Stephen Darmawan and Colin Viska

UGC & Gas To Liquids, technical and socio-economic considerations

David Smith, LINC Energy

Capital and Operational Carbon in Ground Engineering

Nick O’Riordan

Logging of Core for Mining Purposes Introducing the New CoalLog Manual

Joe Gough, Insite Geology

Geomechanics & Engineering

Prof Robert Lytton

Geotechnical Design and Construction of Port of Brisbane Motorway Upgrade Project

Andrew Hammill & Richard Evans

Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil: From the Experimental to the Familiar

R. D. Holtz

AGM / Annual dinner

Various speakers

Mini Symposium: Flood Related Impacts on Mining Geotechnics

Various speakers

Industry Forum

Various speakers

Geohazards & Large Geographically Distributed Systems

Professor Tom O’Rourke

Recent Development in Seismic Hazard Assessment in Australia

Dr Paul Somerville

Soil and Rock Logging – AS 1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations

Dr Fred Baynes

Highwall Slope Stabilisation by the Softwall Method

Ian Kelso, Thiess

Geotechnical Work associated with the Construction of MONA

Delia Sidea

Joint Technical Presentation / Social Evening, Women in Engineering and AGS

Various presenters

Suvarnhabhumi Airport – from Cobra Swamp to Golden Land

Stephen Buttling

2011 YGP Boat Cruise & Geo–aspects of Recent Brisbane Flooding

Dr Burt Look

Sustainable Development of Underground Space and the Reuse of Existing Foundations

Dr Fiona Chow

Joint Presentation with Structural Branch

Various speakers

Geotechnical Risk, Uncertainty, Ignorance & Vagueness – Another Industry-Wide Forum

GFWA Prize (17th annual event)

UWA, Curtin & WASM students

Technical Forum

Various speakers

Geological Constraints and Geotechnical Issues in Mechanized Tunnelling

Dr Paul Marinos the 2010 Jahns Distinguished Lecturer

Joint Presentation with Women in Engineering

Sarah Hateley, Kirralee Rankine & Sarah Elkhatib

Designing With High Strength Geosynthetics

Dr. Patrick Naughton

2009 EH Davis Memorial Lecture – Recent Advances In The Application Of Vertical Drains And Vacuum Preloading In Soft Soil Stabilization

Professor Buddhima Indraratna, University of Wollongong

The Mystery of Unsaturated Soils

Professor David Williams

AGM & Annual Dinner

Various speakers

The SRM Criterion And Its Application To The Stability Of Deep Slopes In Open Pit Mines

John Read

Boat cruise

Les McQueen

The relevance of developer costs in geotechnical risk management

Tim Chapman

Joint session with Women in Engineering

Various speakers

On making the earth move!

Professor Sarah Springham

Geomechanics: Its Cardinal Role In The Analysis Of Major Geological Processes

Peter James (formerly Brisbane City Council)

Geotechnical Investigations and Reporting – An Industry-Wide Forum

Various speakers

Joint session with ATS

Various speakers

Site visit: Geology of Brisbane

Garth Foster

Brisbane Slope Rehabilitation

Chris Thorley

Unsaturated soil mechanics – critical review of physical foundations

Professor Samuel Frydman

Estimating the Mechanical Properties of Rock Masses: Reflections on a career in Rock Mechanics

Emeritus Professor E T (Ted) Brown AC

The Basic Theories of Soil Mechanics

Professor John Atkinson

Geothermal Exploration and Development in Australia

Professor Richard Hillis

Instrumentation in Civil Engineering and Tunnelling Projects

Dr Richard Bassett

Joint presentation

Denholm Brown and Michael Wells

Soft Ground Stabilisation – Vacuum Consolidation via Vertical Drains

Prof Buddhima Indraratna

Collapse of a Deep Excavation in Asia – Lessons Learnt

Dr Preba Nadarajah

The Evolution of East Coast Australian Estuaries and Implications for Geotechnical Investigation

Daniel Bishop

Foundations (piles) in Rock-Serviceability Rules

Dr Chris M. Haberfield

Tunnelling and Underground Excavations: The Importance of the Design Process and the Role of Monitoring in This Process

Professor Dick Stacey

Mini Symposium – Cone Penetrometer Testing

Allan McConnell, Yvo Keulemans, Steve Williams, Lachlan Bate

Young Geotechnical Professionals

Jason Williams, Cynthia De Bok, Alastair Grubb

Multichannel Analysis of Surface Wave (MASW):A New Tool for Investigation of Ground Competence

Koya Suto

AS4678-2002 “Earth-Retaining Structures” For Better or Worse?

Robert Day

Pipe Jacking – Case Histories, Design and Settlement Issues

David Huggins and David Lees

Two Geotechnical Mess-Ups At The Gold Coast – What Really Happened?

Allan McConnell

Soil Structure Interaction in Tunnelling – Theory and Practice (Joint Meeting with AUCTA)

Daniel Scott and Ardie Purwodihardjo

Legal Liability of Geotechnical Engineers

Bill Blake

2003 Darcy Lecture: Ground and surface water contributions to chemical mass discharge

Dr Richelle Allen-King, Washington State University