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Geotechnical Business Committee
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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 BUSINESS BRIEF: FINANCIAL-PERFORMANCE SURVEY 2018-2019
Prepared by GBA's Business Practices Committee, this GBA Business Brief conveys findings of the Committee's annual Financial Performance Survey. Topics covered include predistribution profit......
GBA BUSINESS BRIEF: FINANCIAL-PERFORMANCE SURVEY 2019-2020
Prepared by GBA's Business Practices Committee, this GBA Business Brief conveys findings of the Committee's annual Financial Performance Survey. Topics covered include predistribution profit......
GBA BUSINESS BRIEF: FINANCIAL-PERFORMANCE SURVEY 2021-2022
Prepared by GBA's Business Practices Committee, this GBA Business Brief conveys findings of the Committee's annual Financial Performance Survey. Topics covered include predistribution profit......
GBA BUSINESS BRIEF: FOCUS IN FUTURE
(GBAs) Emerging Issues and Trends Committee (EIT Committee) has held a series of Crystal Ball Workshops (Workshops) to identify long-term emerging issues and business trends, and their potential impac...
GBA BUSINESS BRIEF: RECESSION
What can you do to come out of an economic downturn stronger than when you went into it? That’s the focus of the October 13, 2000 Fall Meeting presentation that many Geoprofessional Business Associati...
GBA BUSINESS BRIEF: SALARY HISTORY INQUIRIES
STEM fields are not alone when it comes to pay disparity between men and women. And pay disparities are not solely reserved for men and women but also impact minority groups as well. Pay disparity is...
GBA BUSINESS BRIEF:FINANCIAL SURVEY FISCAL YEAR 2020-2021
Prepared by GBA's Business Practices Committee, this GBA Business Brief conveys findings of the Committee's annual Financial Performance Survey. Topics covered include predistribution profit......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 01
Case History No. 1 . A Member Firm performed a preliminary exploration for a housing development. Problems developed after the site and report were sold to a third-party....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 02
Problems occurred when the Member Firm's client failed to follow the firm's foundation recommendations for a single-family residence......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 03
When excavation for a new sewage treatment facility ran into difficulties, the contractor claimed that boring data were incorrect and sought compensation....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 04
Eleven of 32 caissons proved defective when the Member Firm's recommended procedures were not followed....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 05
Case History No. 5 from Derailed By Dispute. Changes to a foundation design resulted in a variety of claims....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 06
Twelve years of legal entanglements resulted from services that the Member Firm performed for the developer of a housing project....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 07
Problems ensued when a Member Firm failed to identify limitations on the use of its soil report and recommendations....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 08
A Member Firm's free advice proved costly. It resulted in five years of entanglements....