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 # 74
Case History No. 74 The GBA Member Firm, serving as a design/builder, retained a remediation contractor via an agreement that required the contractor to have written......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 75
Case History No. 75 A state OSHA inspector issued a number of citations to a Member Firm whose personnel were performing a caisson inspection. Most of the citations were......
GBA CASE HISTORY # 76
Case History 76. "No good deed goes unpunished" was the lesson learned by this Member Firm, whose project manager did a favor for a friend. When the friend failed to......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 100
Case History No 100. A civil engineer in 1992 contacted the GBA Member Firm asking if it could provide pile-driving criteria for a hotel to be located on a site the firm had studied three......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 101
Case History No 101. When a GBA-Member Firm realized it had committed a serious error while conducting construction-materials engineering and testing (CoMET) services for a new hospital building,......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 102
This case history chronicles what can go wrong when the design team is a team in name only, resulting in inadequate communication, and when the prime design professional — a civil engineer — applies t...
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 103
Case History No 103. If you own or operate nuclear densometer gauges, you must read this GBA Case History. After three destroyed gauges and numerous other violations, a Member-Firm was facing .......
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 104
Case History No 104. Read the real-life saga of a landowner’s tenant who tries to swindle a member-firm for medical costs for his horse and for lost breeding opportunities....
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 105
Case History No 105 An experienced project manager assigned an experienced field representative to be on site full time to observe construction of the building pad and MSE wall. Confident in the fie...
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 106
Case History No 106 The GBA-Member Firm was retained by Client 1 to conduct a Phase I ESA on a 1000-acre tract of undeveloped land prior to the property sale. To save money, the client did not want...
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 107
After terminating an employee for attendance and poor job performance, a member firm is faced with alleged violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act...
GBA CASE HISTORY NO. 108
A GBA-Member Firm provided suggested changes to a sewer pipe design in order to keep construction moving forward on a five-story senior-living facility. Four years later, s...