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Reinbold Addresses GBA Leaders on the Year Ahead
Welcome to the GBA Winter Leadership Conference.
ASFE Changes Its Name to Geoprofessional Business Association
Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) is the new name of the organization formerly known as ASFE/The Geoprofessional Business Association.
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 # 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......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 74
Case History No. 74 The GBA Member Firm, serving as a design/builder, retained a remediation contractor via an agreement that required the contractor to have written......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 75
Case History No. 75 A state OSHA inspector issued a number of citations to a Member Firm whose personnel were performing a caisson inspection. Most of the citations were......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 76
Case History 76. "No good deed goes unpunished" was the lesson learned by this Member Firm, whose project manager did a favor for a friend. When the friend failed to......
GBA Case History 115
A GBA-Member Firm was hired to assess whether a proposed facility was buildable. The original project scope did not include final design or construction observation services. The Member Firm was later contracted to assess the exposed subgrade at the project site, where static groundwater was observed, consistent with the Member Firm’s prior report. The Member Firm was told that they didn’t do enough to call out the issues related to the groundwater and that they were reserving the right to hold the firm responsible for the additional costs incurred.
The Member Firm remained involved in the project and took steps to strengthen the client relationship. The Member Firm’s suggestions along the way resulted in considerable savings and the project was finished within budget – and the Me...
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 100
Case History No 100. A civil engineer in 1992 contacted the GBA Member Firm asking if it could provide pile-driving criteria for a hotel to be located on a site the firm had studied three......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 101
Case History No 101. When a GBA-Member Firm realized it had committed a serious error while conducting construction-materials engineering and testing (CoMET) services for a new hospital building,......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 102
This case history chronicles what can go wrong when the design team is a team in name only, resulting in inadequate communication, and when the prime design professional — a civil engineer — applies t...
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 103
Case History No 103. If you own or operate nuclear densometer gauges, you must read this GBA Case History. After three destroyed gauges and numerous other violations, a Member-Firm was facing .......