Sydney, NSW Chapter Meetings

Complex Systems in Slope Engineering

Tim Sullivan

Geotechnical engineering: Past, present, and future

Andrew Shirley

Managing Geotechnical Risk in Sydney’s Road Tunnel Projects

Peter Ng

Evolutionary intelligence (EI): AI solutions for geotechnical and mechanical engineering

Prof Amir Gandomi

2024 AGS Sydney Chapter AGM & Debate Night

AGS Sydney Symposium 2024

Keynote speakers: Prof Lidija Zdravkovic, Prof Jianhua Yin and Dr Richard Kelly

Peak, Fully Softened, and Residual Shear Strengths for Slope Stability Analyses

Timothy D. Stark, Ph.D., P.E., BC.GE, Dist.M.

Ground-Structure Interaction

Panellists: Jenny Austin, Idy Li, Dr Jason Surjadinata, Sam Mirlatifi, Colin Edmonds, Jarrod Grimshaw and Dr Kourosh Keyvani

Blue Mountains Field Trip

Anthony Bowden and Tim Rannard

2024 NSW Research Award Night

Waranga Habaraduwa Peellage, Penghao Zhang, Shashika Atapattu, Majid Jazebi and Jiawei Xie

Databases and data-centric geotechnics

Chair Professor Kok-Kwang Phoon

AGS Sydney Chapter, International Women in Engineering Event — Enhanced By Engineering

Rachel Fowler, Helen Baxter-Crawford and Caroline Snelling

Young Geomechanical Professionals’ Night (YGPN)

Davide E. Guccione, Peter Psarris, Juno Liang and Piyush Punetha

Smart, safe and sustainable land reclamation and geotechnical works in Hong Kong

S W Lee and Ir Dr Gavin TOH Seng-Huat

AGS 4.1.1 AU1.2 National Roadshow

Tim Swavley

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

Professor Stephan Jefferis

Education and training of graduates – challenges and opportunities

Prof David Airey, Mark Fowler, Elizabeth Barraclough, Giovanny Alvarado and Anthony Bowden

2023 AGS Sydney Chapter AGM & Debate Night

Philip Davies, Yvonne Almandinger, Dr. Ali Tolooiyan, Michal Krzeminski, Dr. Ali Parsa-Pajouh and Dr. Saman Zargarbashi

Benefits of Unconventional Seismic Foundation Design

Professor George Gazetas

AGS Sydney Symposium 2023

2023 NSW Research Award Night

Synergizing Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering

Philip Oldfield, Samuel Henwood, Cindy Liles and Robert Milagre

The role of engineering geology in delivering the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Jennifer Hambling

International Women in Engineering Event – Sydney Chapter

Miren Barinaga and Gina Pena Rincon

Monopile foundation subjected to cyclic lateral loading

Sarah Martin and Professor Byron Byrne

Rockfall Mitigation Using Flexible-Net Systems

Ahren Bichler

Geo-Conversation roundtable discussion on “Chat GPT and Geotechnical Engineering Practice: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges in the AI Era”

Mr Kenny Lam, Mr Alexander Osti, Mr Theodoros Galanos, Mr Sarath Somasundaram, Dr. Sujatha Manoj, Dr Ali Parsa, Professor Hadi Khabbaz and Associate Professor Behzad Fatahi

Young Geomechanical Professionals’ Night

Mehrnoush Rafiei, Michael Egan, Ken Chen and Hamid Mortazavi Bak

61st Rankine Lecture Repeat, Sydney

Building around existing tunnels

Recent research on pile load testing and bridge monitoring

Dr. Mônica Prezzi

Some Geotechnical Oddities

Philip Pells

Lithological character and structural geology of the Cooks River area with focus on the M8 Tunnels

Helen Baxter-Crawford

2022 AGS Sydney Chapter Debate Night

Dr. Sujatha Manoj, Mr. Kim Chan, Mr. David Jarred, Dr. Giovanny Alvarado and A/Prof. Behzad Fatahi

Sydney Symposium 2022

Keynote/Invited Speakers: Kok-Kwang Phoon, Jinsong Huang, Dr. Richard Kelly, Dr. Luis Fernando Contreras, Majidreza Nazem, Prof. Mark Jaksa and Ramtin Tajeddin

AGS Industry Day at University of Technology Sydney

Ali Parsa, Dena Gabbassova, Puvaneswary Rajarathnam and Navid Yeganeh

Simplified Geotechnical Analyses – “Back of the Envelope” Methods

Professor Harry Poulos, Kim Chan and Dr Tim Hull

Geo-Conversation roundtable discussion on “Confidence in Building Industry Sector – Geotechnical Perspective”

Pannellists: Ms. Jenny Austin, Mr. Jim Yang, Mr. Bruce McPherson, Mr. Woodie Theunissen, Mr. Ondrej Synac, Dr. Saman Zargarbashi, Mr. Mehdi Hajian and A/Prof. Behzad Fatahi

2019 E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture: Fill Design – It is a Thing

Garry Mostyn

Urban Underground Climate Change and the Use of Energy-geostructures

Dr Asal Bidarmaghz

A case study of a flexible reinforced soil wall (RSW)

Dr. Kourosh Kianfar

Simplified Geotechnical Analyses – “Back of the Envelope” Methods

Professor Harry Poulos, Kim Chan and Dr Tim Hull

IMPACT: Cloud-based software for stress-wave and drivability analysis of driven piles

Mark Randolph

Geo-Conversation roundtable discussion on “Excessive Number of Potholes in Roads and Highways Following Weeks of Floods and Heavy Rain — Reasons, Challenges and Solutions”

2022 NSW Research Award Night

Michael Jeffrey, Joseph Arivalagan and Chathuri Arachchige

Case Histories of Driven Tubular Steel Piles on Road Projects

Henry Zhang and Giammaria Gentile

Young Geomechanical Professionals’ Night

Unsaturated soil mechanics in engineering practice

Adrian Russell

AGS Sydney Chapter 50th Anniversary Celebration

AGS 2022 Industry Day at UNSW

Reducing whole-life carbon as a geotechnical designer

Alice Berry

2021 AGS Sydney Chapter Debate Night

Andrew Jackaman, David Airey, Emilie Lapointe and Mehdi Hajian

Sydney Symposium 2021

Andrew Leventhal, Prof. Buddhima Indraratna, Kim Chan, Patrick Wong, Dr David Och and AHM Kamruzzaman

Underground Construction Challenges in Urban Areas

Mariela Angeles

AGS 2021 Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Night

Ke He, Mairaj Soomro, Michael Crisp and Ruoshi Xu

Design of cantilever retaining walls for minimum tilting tendency

Ian Hooley and Dr Safat Al-Deen

Geotechnical Baseline Reports for Risk Management and Sharing in Australian Tunnelling

Alex Gomes and Dr Richard Kelly

AGS NSW Research Award 2021

Vienti Hadsari, Yuxiao Li, Dr Ebrahim Alaei and Rakesh Sai Malisetty

Design methods for geogrid reinforced flexible pavements

Amir Shahkolahi

Phenomenon of Mud Pumping in Rail Tracks

Distinguished Professor Buddhima Indraratna

Emerging sensing technologies for smart geotechnical structures

Professor Kenichi Soga

Rockfall mitigation design and hazard assessment in surface mining

Professor Anna Giacomini

AGS 2020 Debate Night

Mark Jaksa, Rachel Nicholls, Gina Peña Rincón and Daichao Sheng

Geotechnical Advances and Challenges in Urban Development

Prof Robert Mair, Dr Chris Haberfield, Paul Hewitt, Idy Li, Theva Muttuvel, Philippe Vincent, David Lees, Hashan Subasinghe, Helen Baxter-Crawford, Peter Sun, Antonio Ramirez Martinez and Bosco Poon & Rikito Gresswell

Remote Monitoring of an Urban Mud Volcano

Dr Andrew Hart

Leadership for Geotechnical Engineers & Geologists

Annette Woods

AGS NSW Research Award 2020

Davide Guccione, Aruni Abeywickrama, Navid Yeganeh and Ye Aung

2020 Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Night

Lavinia Lamipeti, Timothy Kelly, Janarthan Kumarakuruparan and Yun Bai

Canberra Event: Ground Improvement for International Container Terminal Project at Webb Dock Melbourne

Dr. Kejing Chen

Case Study Of Footing Settlement In Rock Foundation

Ian Hooley

Investigation on Failure of Geosynthetic Reinforced Walls

Amir Shahkolahi

High-speed Railway Geotechnical Problems

Distinguished Professor Daichao Sheng

AGS Debate 2019

Chris Harrison, David Oliveira, Frances Badelow and Rob Day

2019 Sydney Symposium

Harry Poulos and David Puller

TfNSW (formerly RMS) Geoscience challenges

Michael Hughes

Snowy 2.0

Damon Miller, Ben Chapman and Francisco Cortes

Geology of Canberra and its Engineering Implications

Dennis Dyer

Curtailing the Adverse Effects of Expansive Soils on Roads

Hadi Khabbaz

AGS NSW Research Award presentation

Design of Foundations Using The Cone Penetration Test

Barry Lehane

2019 Young Geotechnical Professionals

Lewis Harmsworth, Shenyan Yao, Manasi Wijerathna and Miriam Tawk

Bridging Research and Practice

Dr. S.R. Lo

The future of ground data sharing: challenges and opportunities

John Greenfield, Sven Thorin, Gretchen Darras, Phil Davies, Tim Thompson, James Searle and Sam Mirlatifi

Collapse of the Old Pacific Highway, Piles Creek, Somersby

Strath Clarke

58th Rankine Lecture

Dr Nick O'Riordan

Lessons from Failures

Weeks White

A Sydney Heads Rail Tunnel

Ted Nye

AGS Debate 2018

Kim Chan, Dr Adrian Russell, Dr Jeff Hsi and Philippe Vincent

2018 Sydney Symposium

Peter K. Robertson and Michael Nicholson

National Terzaghi lecture

Dr. R. Kerry Rowe

57th Rankine Lecture, Sydney

Eduardo Alonso

GIS for Geotechs Short Course

Colin Mazengarb, Senior Geologist, Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT)

What does GIS offer Geotechnical Investigations?

Colin Mazengarb, Senior Geologist, Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT)

AGS NSW Research Award 2018
for Research in Geotechnical Engineering or Engineering Geology Presentations

Dongli Zhu, Liet Dang, Ruoshi Xu, Subhani Samarakoon Jayasekara Mudiyanse and Xinyu Ye

2018 Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Night

Vera Li, Rebecca Szczurowski, Chamindi Jayasuriya and Douglas Warne

Geotechnical Challenges of Bridge Approach Embankments and Foundations in Poor Ground – Lessons Learnt from RMS Projects

Dr AHM Kamruzzaman (Zaman), FIEAust CPEng NER RPEQ, Specialist Geotechnical Engineer, RMS

Diversity in the science and practice of engineering geology

Mark Eggers

Recent Advances in Vertical Drains and Vacuum Preloading for Soft Ground Stabilisation

Distinguished Professor Buddhima Indraratna

Earth pressures in a landslide proximity

Alexander M. Puzrin, Professor and Chair of Geotechnical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Geotechnical Q&A

2017 Sydney Symposium: Geotechnical innovations and challenges for transport infrastructure

RMS Geotechnical Challenges and Opportunities in New South Wales

Sam Henwood

Insights from the Ballina bypass prediction exercise

Dr Richard Kelly

Geosurveys innovation

Dr Andi Pfaffhuber

Mechanics of unsaturated soils and applications

Professor Daichao Sheng

AGS NSW Research Award 2017
for Research in Geotechnical Engineering or Engineering Geology Presentations

Adnan Sufian, Chongpu Zhai, Kirti Choudhary and Thanh Trung Nguyen

Young Geotechnical Professionals Night – 2017

Pile performance and pile prediction events

Stephen Buttling

56th Rankine Lecture, Sydney:
Geotechnics and Energy

Professor Richard Jardine, Imperial College London

Christchurch Town Hall: Foundation Stabilisation Using Jet Grouting Technique

Mathias Delapille

Influence of wetting and drying cycles on the behavior of compacted materials

Dr Ana Heitor

AGS Sydney 2016 Debate Night

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

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

Dr Suzanne Lacasse, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI)

AGS Sydney Symposium 2016

Be careful with reactive clays – some case histories

Bruce Walker

2016 Young Geotechnical Professional’s Night

Geotechnical Mapping Course – Sydney

E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture – Sydney

Professor Malek Bouazza

Pitfalls in the Interpretation of Water Content Based Soil Water Characteristic Curve for Unsaturated Soils

Professor Nasser Khalili

AGS NSW Research Award 2016
for Research in Geotechnical Engineering or Engineering Geology Presentations

Danielle Griffani, Lam Dinh Nguyen and Sinniah Navaratnarajah

AS 1726 : 2016 Seminar – Sydney

Members of the SA CE-15 Committee

Use and Abuse of Springs to Model Foundations

Rob Day and Joe Muccillo

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

John Simmons

AGS 2015 Symposium: Recent Developments and Experiences with Groundwater and Excavations

Are these the greatest man-made caverns on earth?

Dr Philip Pells

Soil and Rock Logging Course – SYD

Dr Fred Baynes

Impact of Construction Induced Ground Movements on Performance of Existing Piles

Kim Chan

Quantifying quantitative rock fall risk – How many rocks? How far?

Garry Mostyn and David Piccolo

Young Geotechnical Professional’s Night

AGS NSW Research Award for Research in Geotechnical Engineering or Engineering Geology

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

Professor Guy Houlsby, University of Oxford

Reflections on Modern Geotechnical Investigation:
use of the Seismic Dilatometer for design

Sergei Terzaghi

Estimation of design earthquake ground motions in Australia

Dr Paul Somerville

14th Glossop Medal Lecture Tour – Sydney

Introducing Geotechnical Design to Shallow Geothermal Systems

Professor Ian Johnston

52nd Rankine Lecture (2012) Performance-Based Design In Geotechnical Engineering

Prof Malcolm Bolton

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

Malcolm Bolton

2013 – AGS Sydney Young Geotechnical Professional’s Night

Dane Lidgard, Ben Caruana, and Andrew McIntyre

Sustainability and Resiliency Implications of Underground Structures

Dr Raymond L. Sterling

Combined Loading Of Offshore Foundations

Prof Mark J. Cassidy

Remote sensing of terrain trafficability

Andrei Abelev

Low level construction vibrations in residential structures

Dr David Heath & Don Raisbeck

Tree Roots and the Slope Stability of River Banks in Eastern Australia

Tom Hubble

AGS NSW Research Awards

Various

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

Koya Suto

Mine Void Treatment on Hunter Expressway Alliance – A Success Story

Dr Olaf Stahlhut

Geotechnical Engineering and the Law

Nicholas Gallina

The Use of Geosynthetics as a Soil Reinforcing Element and BS8006 as a Design Standard

Steve Corbet

Fundamental issues in developing a code of practice for geotechnical design – Eurocode 7

Brian Simpson

Advances in Geotechnics of Roads and Railways

Various

Jointed Rock Engineering Workshop

Liquefaction Hazard in Australia

Tim Mote & James Dismuke

AGS Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Night

Farzad M Azad, M. S. Masoudian, S. Alireza (Sam) Mirlatifi and Jessica Dalton

Sustainable Resilient Ground Engineering

Professor Nick O'Riordan

Innovations in Ground Stabilisation

Jonathan Cook

Management of a Highway Pavement for Subsidence Impacts from Longwall Mining

Henk Buys, AECOM

Geomechanics & Engineering

Prof Robert Lytton

The NSW Research Award

Ana Paula Heitor and Chunshun Zhang

Probabilities of Failure and Factors of Safety in Geotechnical Engineering

Professor D.V. Griffiths

Ground Improvement in the Christchurch Rebuild – A Contractor’s Perspective

Mark Koelling, Keller Ground Engineering

46th Terzaghi Lecture – Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil: From the Experimental to the Familiar

R. D. Holtz, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington

46th Terzaghi Lecture Downunder – Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil: From the Experimental to the Familiar

Emeritus Professor R. D. Holtz, University of Washington

In-Situ Testing, CPTU: Theory, Application and Interpretation

Various speakers

Geotechnical Challenges and Lessons

Andrew Leventhal

Drilled Shaft Instrumentation for O-cell Tests

Haji Fitri Johari

2011 Symposium – Coastal and Marine Geotechnics: Foundations for Trade

Various speakers

Geohazards and Large Geographically Distributed Systems

Professor Tom O’Rourke

AGS Seminar on Geotechnical Near-Misses and Failures

E/Prof John Atkinson, Rob Simpson & John Foster

Geotechnical Stability Analysis

Laureate Professor Scott W Sloan

The Lessons From The Yallourn Enquiry

Tim Sullivan

AGS Young Geotechnical Professional’s Night

Various speakers

Salinity in Western Sydney

Bob Batchelder

Working Platform Assessments for Tracked Plant

Phil McKenzie & Bruce MacPherson

Building 3D models of rock strength using geophysical logs

Professor Peter Hatherly

Palmers Road Landslide: Investigation, Analysis & Remediation

Mark Adams

Stiffness at Small Strain: Research and Practice

Prof Chris Clayton

Seismic Engineering – Design for Management of Geomechanics

Various

Young Geotechnical Professional’s Night

Various

Rock Mass Characterization: a vehicle to translate geology into the design of engineering structures

Dr Paul Marinos

Highly Constrained Railway Widening Project within a Previously Unrecorded Diatreme at Hornsby, NSW

Greg Kotze and Benjamin Rouvray

Next Generation of Unsealed Roads

George Vorobieff

Ipswich Motorway Upgrade, Dinmore to Goodna: Remediation of Abandoned Coalmines

Barry Land & Bill Holz

A Practical Guide to Abandoned Mine Subsidence Assessment and Mitigation

David Knott

“Great Man-made River” Project

Cristian Rotariu

The NSW Research Award: Advanced research in Geotechnical Engineering

Various

E.H. Davis Memorial Lecture: Recent Advances in the Application of Vertical Drains and Vacuum Preloading in Soft Soil Stabilization

Prof. Buddhima Indraratna

The 2010 Poulos Lecture : Modelling of Erosion

Prof. David Muir Wood, University of Dundee, Scotland

Performance Based Aseismic Design of Rigid Retaining Walls

Professor Shamsher Prakash

Uncertain Geotechnical Truth and Cost-Effective High-Rise Foundation Design

Clyde Baker

Symposium: Geosynthetics: New materials for modern infrastructure

Various

YGP Night

Various

Geotechnical baseline reports as an underground risk management tool

Jim Rozek

AGS Young Geotechnical Professionals’ Evening Seminar and the 8th Dr Baden Clegg Award

Various speakers

Climate Change and the Challenges for Geotechnical Engineering

Peter W Mitchell, Geopractitioner of the Year 2008

Ground Treatment at Kooragang Island

Brett Hawkins

Insights into the behaviour of geotechnical structures through field observations

Professor William Powrie

Condor Tower

Various speakers

Landslide Risk Management

Bruce Walker

Soil and Rock Logging Course – AS1726 Geotechnical Site Investigations

Various speakers

Soft Soil Engineering

Richard Kelly

Pit Slope Design for Clermont Coal Mine, Central Queensland

Joe Gough

Remote Sensing and GIS Based Materials Information Management

Henk Buys

Young Geotechicnal Professionals’ Night

Various

Reducing Slope Risk on Lawrence Hargrave Drive

Alan Moon

Role of the Principal Contractor

Coreena Smith

A Brief Introduction to the Monitoring of Urban Tunneling Projects

Dr Richard Bassett

Brisbane Projects

Patrick Kidd and Charlie Jewkes

Engineering Geologists and Risk Management

Dr Sergio Mora-Castro

Technical Meeting – “Blasting in the Urban Environment”

Martin Adam

Lane Cove Tunnel Retaining Structures

Paul Hewitt

Design and Construction of Asphalt Concrete Core Embankment Dams

Vacuum Consolidation of Soft Clay via Vertical Drains

Prof. Buddhima Indraratna

AGM followed by the EH Davis Lecture: Foundations in Rock

Dr Chris M. Haberfield

Soil-environment interactions in geotechnical engineering

Mini-symposium: Engineering Advances in Earthworks. Sponsorship Opportunities

Symposium

Women in Geotechnical Practice

Karen Allan, Fiona MacGregor, and Frances Badelow

Anchor Retaining Wall Systems CPD Seminar Invitation

Allan Herse

Legal & Technical Problems for Practitioners in the Residential Construction Industry

Various

Embankment Construction using light-weight fill

Henk Buys

Poulos Lecture: Some Reflections on a Geotechnical Life

Max Ervin

Public Lecture – Engineering History in Cooma Rock

Walter B Mills

Ok Tedi Landslide

Mike Marley

Two Failures on Gold Coast

Alan McConnell

Dubai Experiences

Harry Poulos

Expounding the Bounds of Impact Roller Applications

Derek Avalle

Hydraulic Containment at Landfill Sites

Kane Mitchell, Environmental Scientist, Environ Australia Pty Ltd, Hunter Valley

Tunnels and Excavations: Ground Movements and the Construction Process

Prof. R. Neil Taylor

Poulos Lecture: Engineering Geological Challenges for the Active NZ Environment

Dr Warwick Prebble, University of Auckland

Construction of the Suez Canal

Mamdouh Hamza, Ph.D, Hamza Associates

Geotechnical Aspects of Kooragang Coal Terminal Stage 3 Expansion

Stephen Jones (Principal) and Chris Bozinovski (Associate) Douglas Partners Pty Ltd

Discrete Element Modelling in Soil Mechanics

Dr. Stephen van Baars, Postdoctoral research Fellow, University of Sydney