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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 # 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......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 43
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......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 45
An environmental consultant was retained to perform a Phase II ESA. When laboratory tests indicated unacceptable levels of a contaminant, the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 46
Four years after an environmental consultant conducted a Phase II ESA for the purchaser of a site, the client sued the consultant over an asbestos......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 47
A Member Firm was retained to perform a subsurface geotechnical exploration. During exploration, one of the firm's staff members noticed a gasoline......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 48
A Member Firm failed to note that client-revised general conditions eliminated the limitation of liability provision. Later, during the project, the......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 49
After a contractor used contaminated slag for an access road, the Member Firm used personal diplomacy to require the slag provider (a steel mill) to......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 50
An environmental consultant performed a RI/FS properly, but failed to follow all prescribed documentation requirements. To avoid litigation, the firm......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 51
Case History No. 51 . Although the Member Firm's CEO got personally involved and "saved the day," serious problems arose. The firm had to pay $180,000 to extricate itself......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 52
Case History No. 52 . The Member Firm was accused of an error it did not make, but its survey crew inadvertently said the firm was at fault. The survey crew chief's remark......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 53
Case History No. 53 . A GBA member performing bridge design ran afoul of changed conditions in a small area, causing failure of post-tensioning anchors. Nonbinding ADR......