New Year Resolutions for Geoprofessionals
The start of a new year offers geoprofessionals the opportunity to set goals for professional
growth and excellence. These resolutions are the waypoints on the roadmap of personal and professional growth. They will help you excel as a consultant, community member, and colleague and contribute to the elevation of geoprofessional value as a whole.
Here are some suggestions as you prepare to learn, grow, and improve in 2024:
Believe that all injuries are avoidable (there is no such thing as an accident) and act accordingly.
Be involved in community service.
Share a project story with GBA as a Case History.
Practice continual teaching (mentor/train), transfer knowledge.
Share a link to an article of interest for possible inclusion in GBA’s NEWSlog.
Attend a GBA con...
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the fifth-century BC Greek researcher and storyteller, is generally recognized as the world’s first historian. In his book The Histories, as translated by A.D. Godley in 1924, he supposedly wrote,
GBA CASE HISTORY # 59
Case History No. 59 Project risk is inversely proportional to project size, complexity and fee. The GBA-Member Firm conducted a Phase I ESA for a small area of a shopping center site, optioned to ano...
GBA CASE HISTORY # 60
Case History No. 60 What started out as a favor for a potentially big client, turned into a nightmare. To meet a short deadline, a GBA member located an underground tank on its own, obviating contrac...
GBA CASE HISTORY # 61
Case History No. 61 The owner of a gasoline station retained an environmental consultant to perform a Phase II ESA at the request of prospective purchasers, acting......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 62
Case History No. 62 The GBA member was retained by a general contractor for a major utility project. Corners were cut and failure occurred. Although the GBA member was......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 63
Case History No. 63 A GBA member assigned an inexperienced field representative to observe a grouting project. The field representative began giving......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 64
Case History No. 64 The GBA Member Firm's civil engineer client erred when transferring information from the member's report to a set of plans. Serious problems resulted....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 65
Case History No. 65 Knowing that its proposal was accepted as submitted, a Member Firm did not examine the contract it received from its client, a municipality....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 66
Case History No. 66 . By attaching the word "standard" to a recommended practice it had developed, a local contractors group gave the document a status it did not merit: it......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 67
Case History No. 67 . A Member Firm's written agreement with a contractor included a limitation of liability (LoL) provision. After the Member Firm completed its......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 68
Case History No. 68 . The Member Firm was retained by an owner to design a landfill and perform "related services" that included a variety of marketing functions. When the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 69
Case History No. 69. Although a Member Firm qualified its clean-up cost estimate of $525,000-$675,000, the qualifiers were not put into the form of clear warnings......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 70
Case History No. 70 "The design is more than sufficient to keep the ship permanently moored to the pier," the dry-dock engineer told the restaurateur, more or less......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 71
Case History No. 71 A geotechnical engineer submitted its flawless subsurface exploration report which referenced an ASTM standard on soil classification. When a cost......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 72
Case History No. 72 A Member Firm was negligent, its client said, because the firm had failed to follow the precepts of a draft version of the nascent GBA standard......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 73
Case History No. 73 A contractor's expert claimed that an engineer's faulty plans, not the contractor's workmanship, were the cause of problems experienced in an......