Three members of Geolabs Limited’s technical staff (Chris Wallace, Phil Robinson and John Masters) attended a seminar at the offices of Ove Arup and Partners on the 7th September 2016 given by the Society for Underwater Technology on the subject of Chalk in the Offshore Environment. There was much interest and discussion on the papers […]
Geolabs Technical Director Dr John Powell will be heading to the Gold Coast in Australia next week where he will be attending the 5th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation (ISC5) from the 5th to 9th September. The ISC5 conference theme is ‘In Pursuit of Best Practice’ and aims to bring together the […]
Members of Geolabs rock testing team attended the Practical Laboratory Rock Mechanics Testing for Civil and Ground Engineering Course at Portsmouth University with Phil Benson (PhD CPhys FGS) and Pete Rowley (PhD). The course was aimed at geologists, civil and geotechnical engineers for their skills and rock mechanics theory and practise to be developed and […]
Geolabs Limited will be exhibiting at Geotechnica 2016 on the 6th and 7th July this year as well as making contributions to the ongoing conferences. Technical Director, Dr John Powell and Director of Innovation, Chris Wallace will be making presentations to the conference and Geotechnical Academy on both days. Come and see us to discuss […]
Geolabs Technical Director John Powell last week attended the meeting of SC7 Working Groups in Leuven, Belgium looking at the future revision of EN1997 to be published in 2020. The future structure and content of the next version of the documents were discussed. The new versions will hopefully be clearer and simpler to use. Several […]
Geolabs Limited will be sponsoring a table at the 56th Rankine Lecture at Imperial College, London on 16th March 2016. Our esteemed guests include Professor Marcos Arroyo, Maurizio Devincenzi, Professor David Norbury, Steve Branch and Emma Anderson. The 56th Rankine Lecture, delivered by Professor Richard Jardine on ‘Geotechnics and Energy’ will consider the urgent issue […]
Geolabs Limited is now accepting test schedules from clients using AGS Version 4. Digital data transfer is becoming an essential requirement for many medium and large scale projects to provide fast and efficient delivery of information. The ability to receive electronic testing schedules in AGS format ensures that testing requirements are delivered directly to the […]
On Tuesday 29th September 2015 Geolabs Ltd exhibited at course ‘Advanced Uses of CPT Data’ organised by In Situ Site Investigation and held at the Building Research Establishment (BRE). Over 80 delegates attended and Geolabs’ Technical Director Dr John Powell was one of the presenters. During the lunchtime break Geolabs had the pleasure of showing […]
Dr John Powell has recently been appointed Chair of ISO TC 182 Geotechnics with BSI now taking on the Secretariat. This now brings the two committees, one in ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and one in CEN (European Committee for Standardization, CEN TC341) that overlap on the subjects of Geotechnical Testing under a common chairmanship […]
