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Geotechnical Business Committee
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GBA publications are at the core of how GBA provides its members with the unique business tools that geoprofessionals need to succeed.
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 NO. 97
Case History No. 97. A construction-management company retained the GBA Member Firm to perform a geotechnical engineering study for a simple structure that involved somewhat complex......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 98
Case History No. 98. The GBA Member Firm signed an owner-drafted contract, agreeing to provide construction materials engineering and testing (CoMET) services......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 99
Case History No. 99. The GBA Member Firm agreed to provide geotechnical engineering and construction materials engineering and testing (CoMET) services for a contractor hired......
GBA GUIDE TO THE IN-HOUSE REVIEW OF GEOPROFESSIONAL REPORTS
The publication provides step-by-step instructions - as well as overarching concepts - for report writers and reviewers. Organized into three principal content areas to help reviewers consider......
GBA GUIDE TO THIRD PARTY RELIANCE
Developed by GBA's Legal Affairs Committee, the GBA Guide to Third-Party Reliance provides comprehensive discussion of both authorized and unauthorized reliance....
GBA MEMBERSHIP BROCHURE: CONSTRUCTORS
Membership in GBA can be particularly beneficial for geoconstruction companies. This brief brochure explains why....
GBA MODEL CONTRACT SET
GBA Contract Set is available as an on-line download. The Set comprises five model......
GBA PROPOSED BEST PRACTICES: FOR ENGINEER OF RECORD (EOR) FOR TAILINGS DAMS
This document was prepared with input from the workshop and additional contributions of the Alberta Dam Integrity Advisory Committee (DIAC), Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO), Canadian...
GEOPROFESSIONALS’ VALUE PROPOSITION (Download)
This brochure will help you understand and explain the value of geoprofessionals and the benefits of demonstrating wise deployment....
GETTING PAID
This brief but comprehensive 19-page guide comprises 21 chapters, each focused on a specific technique to achieve prompt payment while avoiding some clients' efforts to avoid payment altogether......
GROWING PAINS OF A NEW PROFESSION: SOIL MECHANICS 1925-1940
The 11-page text of the presentation made by Ralph Peck at the GBA Annual Meeting in Boston, April 12, 1988. One of the best-known and most honored of all the nation's geotechnical engineering......
GUIDE TO ACHIEVING QUALITY IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (edition 4)
This booklet was designed and developed by the Peer Review Committee to help all firms help themselves, by presenting more than 150 best management practices addressed in terms of the eight core......
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT QUALITY ASSURANCE (PDF Version)
Important Information about Quality Assurance is a client advisory that relates a variety of important information to those with a need to know. Designed for inclusion in construction materials......
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS COMET QUALITY-ASSURANCE PROPOSAL (PDF Version)
Developed for insertion into CoMET proposals to help prevent misunderstandings and the disputes misunderstandings can lead to....
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS GEOENVIRONMENTAL REPORT
Important Information about This Geoenvironmental Report has been prepared exclusively for geoenvironmental applications, for various types of reports, including Phase I ESAs, Phase IIs, and others......