GBA News

Read the latest GBA news here. GBA frequently offers new resources, issues new publications, and announces new events. Check back here often for the latest updates on these and more from GBA.

GBA provides hundreds of highly effective resources  developed to satisfy the unique needs of geoprofessionals,  giving members essential tools for achieving success.  However, we also know that it can be overwhelming to sort through them all. To ...

Jan 13, 2021

Don Roberts’ experience as a consulting civil and environmental engineer, for over 60 years, was a great asset to the geoprofessionals. He was a past ASFE president (1985-1986) and contributed in many ways, for many years, to ASFE/GBA. Mr. Roberts...

Dec 21, 2020

Call for Abstracts: GBA 2021 Spring Conference If you are a dynamic, engaging speaker with valuable content to share with industry leaders, the  Geoprofessional Business Association invites you to submit an abstract for GBA’s 2020 Spring Conferenc...

Dec 2, 2020

This is a great honor for me to be on the Board of Directors for the Geoprofessional Business Association and share my background and why GBA is so important to me. I was born and raised in Quebec City, Province of Quebec, Canada. The history of Queb...

Nov 16, 2020

GBA AWARDS RECIPIENTS GBA is a volunteer organization. Almost all the resources we produce for our members, our contributions to the geoprofessional community, and these conferences are mostly driven by volunteer leaders. Each Spring, during our conf...

Nov 3, 2020

During the 2020 Fall Conference, President Ken Johnston (GZA GeoEnvironmental) shared his review of the first 6-months of GBA’s fiscal year with our members. In his address, President Johnston shared his personal challenges and the challenges faci...

Nov 2, 2020

2020 Conference Videos Available Now: Those that attended GBA’s 2020 Fall  Conference agreed that the presentations were educational, entertaining, and inspiring. Now you can watch, listen to, and learn from these speakers too, on your own schedul...

Nov 2, 2020

Case History #101, the last of the archived real-life stories of member-firms’ projects that went wrong and how they overcame problems is now available. When a GBA-Member Firm realized it had committed a serious error while conducting construction-...

Oct 6, 2020

Possibly the most important of all GBA loss-prevention/risk-confrontation resources is its unique series of Case Histories. In February 2018, GBA volunteers embarked on a seemingly impossible challenge to refresh the first 101 Case Histories. We are ...

Oct 6, 2020

GBA is committed to promoting the value of geoprofessionals and for our 2020  photo contest we asked Members to share: “How do you depict the day in the life of a Geoprofessional?” The photos below capture our members in field activities, meetin...

Sep 21, 2020