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 # 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......
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Case History No. 32 . A civil engineer failed to follow a geotechnical engineer's recommendation in order to save several hundred dollars....
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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......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 39
When a construction problem arose, the client assumed the Member Firm was at fault. The firm immediately began an investigation which ultimately......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 40
Providing a low fee to a long-time client required the GBA member to rely on a number of reasonable assumptions. Information learned later revealed......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 41
When two geotechnical engineering firms failed to collaborate on a Southern California apartment project, the resulting oversight that turned......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 42
Case History No. 42 An environmental consultant with a limited amount of time to perform a Phase I ESA was forced to take a building owner's word about an air permit not......
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Case History No. 43 A Member Firm did a favor for one of its major clients and took on a project with inadequate oversight. Problems occurred during dewatering and, when......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 44
An environmental consultant performed a hurried Phase I ESA for a developer and found no serious problems. A chlorinated solvent was discovered later......