The Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) Sydney Chapter is holding its 27th annual Symposium on Friday 10 November 2023, ‘Sustainable Geotechnics in design, materials, construction and maintenance’. The symposium forms part of the continuing program of events organised by the AGS Sydney Chapter. It aims to encourage ideas and discussions about one of the key aspects of design, construction and research which are becoming more prevalent in industry and academia. Overview The symposium will showcase state-of-the- art practices, new research findings and case histories that demonstrate sustainable design, construction and development. The organising committee invites papers on reliability-based approaches covering various aspects of site investigations, interpretations, designs, specialised testing and technologies. The symposium presents an opportunity for professional engineers, researchers, specialist…
The Victorian Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) is pleased to announce the 2023 AGS Victorian Symposium titled “Novel Solutions in Geotechnical Engineering” to be held on 25 October 2023. The symposium forms part of the continuing program of events organised by the Victoria Chapter of the AGS. The event is designed to showcase recent novel solutions and innovations to address geotechnical challenges in practice. This symposium will be held as a face-to-face event in Melbourne. The event For the past decade, Australia and particularly Victoria has seen unprecedented boom in infrastructure investment involving mega-projects, transport and rail developments. These significant infrastructure developments have generated new geotechnical challenges due to complex geological conditions, spatial variability of the ground and…
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The XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment will be held in Chengdu Century City New International Convention and Exhibition Center, Chengdu, China from September 21 to 27, 2023. Based on the theme of “Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth”, the congress expects to enhance the disciplinary and research development of international engineering geology and the environment, and contributes to the advancement of major projects, ecological progress, and habitable earth with research and discussion in global climate change mitigation and adaption, geological hazard assessment and prevention, geotechnical properties of rock and soil mass, engineering geology applied to traffic, energy, urban and marine, ecological environment protection in major projects, and artificial intelligence, new theories and technologies in engineering geology, etc. We…
The next journal issue will be published in late-March 2023, and we are calling for papers from risk and resilience management professionals who would like to share their experience and insights with their colleagues. Aligning with the Australian CIS (Cyber and Infrastructure Security) Conference 2023, the theme for this edition is “Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure” – and we are looking to publish 18 papers in total. Papers will be chosen based on the grounds of relevance, quality, and significance. Papers may also be chosen, at the editor’s discretion, for inclusion in future journal issues. Deadline for Submission The deadline for submissions is Friday 24th February 2023. Submissions can either be opinion pieces or peer-reviewed articles, guidelines for which are…
Members are reminded that the society postal address has changed. All correspondence should be addressed to: P.O. Box 7The Gap QLD 4061 Mail sent to the previous address will no longer be received.
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