John Masters, Director of Geolabs Limited attended an afternoon seminar given by the British Drilling Association on Emerging Best Practice in Ground Investigation for Linear Infrastructure Projects. Tim Chapman opened the afternoon giving an overview of possible future infrastructure projects. The seminar and exhibition was well attended and comprised of a series of presentations given […]
Our Technical Director, Dr John Powell, will be presenting the highly prestigious James K. Mitchell Lecture at the 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Seoul, South Korea on 18th September 2017. The subject of the lecture is “In-situ testing – Ensuring Quality in equipment, in operation and in interpretation”. If you […]
John Masters was invited to attend the BRE 20th Anniversary Open Day at BRE Watford on 8th September 2017. The day demonstrated some of BRE’s world leading facilities as well as visiting the latest offerings at the Innovation Park and the opening the new anechoic chamber and sound transmission suites. Peter Bonfield (CEO of BRE […]
The 2017 Proficiency and Interlaboratory Comparison Testing Scheme (PICTS) run by Geolabs Limited is now underway and all 52 participating laboratories have received their material for the testing that they will be performing. There are 24 different soils tests within the Scheme from classification and compaction related tests to oedometer consolidation and shear strength tests. […]
Michael Knott, attended the EG50 conference at the University of Portsmouth 5-7th July. The four days provided comprehensive lectures from the overview of Eurocode 7 in its current form to a field excursion to the Isle of Wight. Michael also enjoyed a dinner aboard the impressive HMS Warrior. If you would like to read Michaels […]
John Masters attended the British Measurement and Testing Association AGM and Seminar on the current position of the revision of ISO/IEC 17025 at the Cromwell Hotel, Stevenage on 28th June 2017. Presentations were given with regard to the latest situation regarding the proposed publication of ISO/IEC 17025 due to be issued later in 2017 were […]
Come and meet John Masters, Chris Wallace or John Powell at Geolabs Limited’s stand at the 2017 Annual British Geotechnical Association Conference and AGM at the Institute of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, Westminster, London on 21st June. Geolabs are BGA Conference sponsors and will be exhibiting throughout the day. We are keen to […]
John Masters, Director of Geolabs Limited attended an evening Geoforum event arranged and hosted by The Society for Underwater Technology at the SS Great Britain in Bristol on Tuesday 13th June 2017. The evening comprised of a series of presentations on a range of geo-related themes of particular interest to the south west region including […]
John Powell attended the latest meeting of an industry JIP project between Dong Energy, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute and Geolabs limited, on the development of new Procedures for the Determination of Maximum and Minimum Dry Density of Sands, primarily for offshore investigations. The previous study found substantial differences between the various methods in use, which […]
Geolabs raised £131 last week through our lunch time cake sale. All proceeds will be given to an ex-employee who has sadly been diagnosed with MND (Motor Neurone Disease). Scott Everett, who lives in Stevenage, worked at Geolabs from 2007 until 2011. Last month we learned that Scott was given the devastating diagnosis of MND […]
