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.

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

GBA Publications Committee   Learn from others. Don’t repeat the mistakes  of the past! GBA Case Histories are being used by our members for loss prevention discussions in support of professional development and mentoring. That is why GBA cas...

Sep 21, 2020

GBA Emerging Leaders Class GBA is legendary for engaging with amazing speakers at each of our conferences and in this series we reconnect with past keynotes that have become old friends of GBA to see where life has taken them and learn from their jou...

Sep 11, 2020

GBA has been a leader in documenting the professional conduct Phase I Environmental assessments since 1987. We have published many State of the Practice studies covering different time periods and these reports have been successfully used in court pr...

Sep 3, 2020

  GBA Past-President and Fellow, L. Edward Wilson, P.E. passed away  on August 30, 2020 after battling lung cancer.  He was a long-time contributor to GBA and to Terra Insurance Company.  His over 40-year career was half spent as a c...

Sep 2, 2020

GBA Emerging Leaders Class GBA is legendary for engaging with amazing speakers at each of our conferences and in this series we reconnect with past keynotes that have become old friends of GBA to see where life has taken them and learn from their jou...

Aug 25, 2020