Best Practices

Best Practices

The GBA Best Practices series of monographs, available to members only, provides guidance on geoprofessional business-practice issues.

Note: GBA used to offer a series of Practice Alerts. Many of those have been updated and turned into GBA Best Practices. However, some Practice Alerts remain, and they are listed below.

GBA PROPOSED BEST PRACTICES: FOR ENGINEER OF RECORD (EOR) FOR TAILINGS DAMS

This document was prepared with input from the wor...

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PRACTICE ALERT 03: OUTSOURCING RISKS AND REWARDS

Providing client-outsourced services presents sign...

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PRACTICE ALERT 06: DESIGN AND DELIVERY IN AN ELECTRONIC WORLD

Automated systems are powerful tools that require ...

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PRACTICE ALERT 08: CHANGE ORDER MANAGEMENT

A number of design and environmental professionals...

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PRACTICE ALERT 11: RETAINING FIELD PERSONNEL

Retaining field personnel has become an increasing...

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PRACTICE ALERT 12: BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT: AN INTRODUCTION

Urban decay and sprawl are long-term national prob...

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PRACTICE ALERT 19: VIRTUAL WORKPLACE, REAL RISKS

GBA-Member Firms are contending with profound chan...

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PRACTICE ALERT 20: PAY FOR PERFORMANCE (PFP) CONTRACTING

Pay-for-performance (PFP) contracting was original...

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PRACTICE ALERT 23: SITE SAFETY AND THE FIELD REPRESENTATIVE

Construction sites are among the most hazardous of...

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PRACTICE ALERT 25: OPPORTUNITIES FOR MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT IDENTIFIED THROUGH ASFE…

Participating in GBA Peer Review does not necessar...

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PRACTICE ALERT 27: STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT PROFITABILITY

Low margins are somewhat commonplace among many GB...

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PRACTICE ALERT 28: DEALING WITH MOLD

"Mold?" That's the one-word-says-it-all question p...

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PRACTICE ALERT 29: REFERENCE: WHAT’S IN A WORD

"Incorporated by reference" is a legal term meanin...

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PRACTICE ALERT 33: LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: THE STATE OF THE PRACTICE

GBA introduced the limitation of liability (LoL) c...

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PRACTICE ALERT 41: DEALING WITH AGC 630, STANDARD FORM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN CONTRACTOR…

Contractors retain GBA-Member Firms to perform con...

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