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Announcing
the "Geotechnical Safety Network" (GEOSNet)
Hosted by
Geoengineer.org website
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November 2007
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Geoengineer.org is pleased to
support the Geotechnical Safety Network. We believe that this new
activity may contribute to our profession and we are glad to support it
with all our resources. Please read the announcement below and consider
becoming part of this effort.
The Geoengineer.org Team
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 Join GEOSNet
This network is an open
collaborative platform that will hopefully serve to sustain, energize,
and regularize future events on geotechnical safety and risk. We would
like to extend a warm welcome to everyone who shares our mission
(researchers, practitioners, educators,
students) to join us as members or play a more active role as task group
coordinators.
You can join GEOSNet by visiting the website.
Fill in the application form and e-mail it to Dr. Marco Uzielli if you are interested to join our network.
Join GEOSNet now...
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Message from the GEOSNet
"There
is a need for geotechnical design codes and standards to keep pace with
the globalization pressure to harmonize across national boundaries, the
regulatory pressure to harmonize with structural design, rising public
expectations in health & environment, and increasing complexities of
big projects with their associated financial/insurance risks.
There are significant practical and research challenges. Examples include
the complexities of geotechnical variabilities,
the role of numerical methods in design, the roles of full-scale testing,
observational approach, etc. versus design calculations in the overall
assurance of safety. These challenges are unique to geotechnical
engineering, particularly for large complicated projects.
There is a groundswell of related activities taking place in national
code committees and international professional societies, within and
outside geotechnical engineering.
A series of thematic symposiums/workshops related to limit state design
has been organized since the early nineties (the first session on codes
and standards was organized in 1989). These events were organized by motivated
groups of individuals for different purposes. There is neither regularity
nor continuity to these events.
The time is ripe to form a network to promote coordination between
related groups, to broaden participation beyond geotechnical engineering,
to garner support from stakeholders from the industry and government
agencies, and to support a more regular series of activities.
The Geotechnical Safety Network (GEOSNet) was
formed during Taipei2006 with Dr CT Chin and Prof KK
Phoon as founding chair and co-chair,
respectively. The inaugural event for GEOSNet
is the First International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk,
which was chaired by Prof HW Huang and was successfully held in Shanghai,
China, between 18 and 19 Oct 2007".
Visit the Geotechnical Safety Network (GEOSNet)
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GEO-Website Network
Create/Maintain your website by joining our
family of geo-websites
The
GEO-Website Network aims to become a place in the internet where various
geo-related websites and activities will be hosted, supported and
promoted.
Currently, there are 10 independent websites hosted and supported by
Geoengineer.org:
- International
Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Portal
- Geo-Risk & Reliability
- JWG on Geotechnical
Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation
- NSF-funded
research project on Municipal Solid Waste Properties
- The Bimrocks Website
- JISSMGE Technical
Committee 39: Coastal Disaster Mitigation & Rehabilitation
- ISSMGE Technical
Committee 40: Forensic Geotechnical Engineering
- Berkeley Geoengineering Alumni Association
- GEOSNet - Geotechnical Safety Network
If you want to:
- Move your website
to a permanent internet home
- Eliminate or mimimize your website operation costs
- Increase your
website's exposure to the geoengineering community
- Attract traffic
- Create a content
website, an online database or a conference website
Geoengineer.org can support you. We can:
- create and maintain a website
- provide webspace so that you can operate and grow your
website at no cost
- promote your
website through the Geoengineer Newsletter and our Forums and
Bulletin Boards
- create online
searchable databases and surveys
- provide technical Support
Contact us to discuss how Geoengineer.org can help.
Join the GEO-Website Network
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