Geotechnical Business Committee

The Geotechnical Business Committee (GBC) focuses on providing educational materials including case histories, practice alerts, webinars, and speakers for our spring and fall general membership meetings. GBC also interacts with other professional and standard producing organizations such as the International Building Code, ASTM, USACE, ASCE and others. Below is a partial listing of our initiatives:

• Prepare  best practices paper on bridging the gap in responsibilities between the geotechnical engineer of record and geotechnical specialty contractors based on a  special task force meeting held in Seattle, WA in October 2016,
• Provide speakers for upcoming GBA membership meetings
• Publish case histories demonstrating the value provided by geoprofessionals in outside publications
• Prepare model geotechnical specifications
• Update GBA’s document on the Geotechnical Engineer of Record
• Interact with various organizations producing geotechnical and geology standards to represent the interests of our membership
• Review current GBA educational materials to evaluate whether or not they are still relevant or need to be updated
• Prepare a practice alert on green infrastructure or climate change
• Prepare a practice alert on geotechnical software verification
• The Tailings Engineer of Record (EOR) Task Force: The mission of this task force is to, “Raise awareness among GBA member firms who perform tailings storage facility design services of the concerns and issues related to Engineer of Record (EOR) for these ever-changing facilities; outreach to industry, other organizations, and regulatory agencies, as appropriate, for feedback on the issues; and develop internal and outreach documentation on the issue, including defining roles/responsibilities of the EOR, and implementation of a transfer process for EOR for tailings storage facilities.”