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New GBA Business Brief: Financial-Performance-Survey Report For more than 15 years, GBA has been collecting key financial metrics from member-firms so our members can measure their success and improve business performance and optimize efficiency. The new...
Deposition Do’s & Don’ts for Fact Witnesses is Focus of Latest GBA Best Practices Lawsuit. Interrogation. Sworn testimony. All intimidating words that most people don’t like to hear. But as a geoprofessional, it’s possible that at some point in your career you will be asked to testify...
Testing Water…and Ethics, A GBA Supported Ethics Education Program: Testing Water…and Ethics depicts a realistic ethical problem in engineering within an organizational setting. Porter/Rodman Engineering Co. has been retained to drill water test wells on a property that will be sold for devel...
Two Important Legal Resources Updated The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) has published new editions of two important legal references, both prepared for design professionals without use of “legalese”; both available free of charge. Limitation-of-Liability Case Index and Economic-Los...
The word is out: GBA’s redevelopment of its case histories is a smashing success! Possibly the most important of all GBA loss-prevention/risk-confrontation resources is its unique series of case histories; over 100 examples of how projects begun with optimism can unexpectedly end in dispute. Each...
David P. Sauls P.E. Inducted into LSU Civil Engineering Department’s Hall of Distinction GBA would like to congratulate Mr. David P. Sauls, P.E. (GeoEngineers) for his induction into the Louisiana State University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) Hall of Distinctio...
Engineering and cycling may not seem to have a lot in common, but for Andrew Murray of Murray Engineers Inc., the two were a perfect combination. His passion for both sparked the idea for a unique and witty comic book series involving a new super heroine, GeoGirl. A story about the epic battl...
Those that attended GBA’s 2017 Spring Conference in Washington D.C. agreed that the speakers were among the best . Now you can watch, listen to, and learn from these speakers, too, on your own schedule, and without leaving your office or easy chair. The presentations that are available are...
GBA Publishes Business Brief – A Look Inside the Crystal Ball Over the past 15-years, the Geoprofessional Business Association’s (GBA’ s) Emerging Issues and Trends Committee (EIT Committee) has held a series of Crystal Ball Workshops (Workshops) to identify long-term emerging issues an...
GBA Case Histories #1 through #5 Are Refreshed Possibly the most important of all GBA loss-prevention/risk-confrontation resources is its unique series of case histories; 101 examples of how projects begun with optimism can unexpectedly end in dispute. Each provides details of the project, its back...
Charles L. Head, P.E., P.G. (Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc.) is the new president of the Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA), a not-for-profit association of geoprofessional firms. Accepting office during ceremonies at GBA’s annual meeting in Washington D.C. Mr. Head is th...
Over the past 15 years, the Geoprofessional Business Association’s (GBA) Emerging Issues and Trends Committee has held a series of Crystal Ball Workshops (Workshops) to identify long-term emerging issues and business trends, and their potential impacts on the organization’s member firms. Like ot...
GBA is a great organization, with great people, and a great legacy. For the entirety of GBA’s almost 50-year history, it has thrived under the tenets of openness and sharing so that all may understand the risks that face our businesses and learn from others how to mitigate them. The founders o...
Tailings Engineer of Record Workshop a Big Success The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) hosted over 50 industry leaders, including subject matter experts, regulators, owners, and practitioners for a Tailings Engineer of Record (EoR) Workshop on January 26, 2017, in Denver, Colorado. The ...
One-Day Seminar in the Boston Area April 28, 2017 ~ Boston, MA The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) and Lee James & Associates have teamed up to present a one-day seminar titled: Project Financials Management to be taught on April 28, 2017 in Boston, MA. This training program will arm...