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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 CASE HISTORY # 24
The Member Firm developed an innovative design approach that the client decided to use. But then the client began cutting corners and serious problems......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 25
The project manager of a Member Firm assumed, incorrectly, that his mistaken judgment led to severe settlement of an elementary school. Subsequent......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 26
Case History No. 26 . Failure to warn its client - an electric utility - and failure to react quickly to a discrepancy resulted in problems on this fast-track......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 27
A member's ability to keep lines of communication open permitted a relatively small settlement cost after problems developed on an addition to an......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 28
When a geotechnical engineer's recommendations were ignored, the contractor made a ten-foot error in laying out the building. The engineer documented......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 29
Case History No. 29 . A corrugated metal pipe fabricator retained the GBA Member Firm to observe the installation of a culvert pipe. The manufacturer changed specs and......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 30
An architect retained the Member Firm on the owner's behalf. Although the Member Firm predicted "more than two inches of settlement," the owner filed......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 31
An architect requested a proposal from the geotechnical engineering firm whose office was next door to the site of a proposed newspaper......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 32
Case History No. 32 . A civil engineer failed to follow a geotechnical engineer's recommendation in order to save several hundred dollars....
GBA CASE HISTORY # 33
Case History No. 33 . The press of business forced a Member Firm to assign a somewhat new field representative to observe construction being performed by a tricky......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 34
Case History No. 34 . The owner's desire to save a relatively few dollars on a fast-track project resulted in innumerable problems and cost overruns. The Member Firm......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 35
Case History No. 35 A $4000, 17-day project was performed well, but the warning in the report could have been stated more strongly, especially so because follow-up contact......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 36
A GBA Member Firm performed a RCRA Facility Assessment at a site owned by a manufacturer that was not interested in cooperating with the firm or the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 37
A highway alignment project resulted in a resident suing the jurisdiction that was the GBA member's client. The engineer assumed he would be working......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 38
When the Member Firm's recommendations were not followed, the owner wound up paying high costs that could have been avoided had the member been......