Chair’s Foreword

Welcome to the May issue of the AGS Magazine, which is the last edition published within my two-year tenure as Chair. It has been a pleasure to work with all involved in producing the magazine, which has a reach of over 5000 industry colleagues.

I also very much enjoyed meeting many of you at the AGS Annual Conference at the Barbican Centre in London last month and I hope that you found the event as fun and informative as I did. Many thanks to all those who attended and who contributed to making the conference such a successful day. In this issue we feature an overview of the conference, and we have more events lined up for you so read on for details of those and I hope to see you there.

In the meantime, in this edition our Safety Working Group Leader, Jon Rayner, reports on accident statistics in our industry and how we can improve. We are very grateful to AGS members for sharing data to inform this study and I encourage continued participation in this endeavour. Continuing the safety and security theme, we also feature an article on Cyber Insurance, which is unfortunately becoming an essential part of loss prevention within our industry.

It remains for me to thank all contributors to this publication over the last two years and to remind you to keep those entries coming in for our Photography Competition! Please keep up the engagement, as contribution by members and feedback are the only ways the AGS will continue to improve and stay an effective trade association for its members.

We are always on the lookout for additional, informative content for the magazine, so if you have a case study or technical article that you think the wider geotechnical and geoenvironmental public would find beneficial, please do get in touch.

We would be interested in your feedback on the magazine and our future plans. Please contact ags@ags.org.uk if you have any comments.

ABOUT THE AGS

The Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS) is a not-for-profit trade association established to improve the profile and quality of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. The membership comprises UK organisations and individuals having a common interest in the business of ground investigation, geotechnics, geoenvironmental engineering, engineering geology, geochemistry, hydrogeology, and other related disciplines.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Sally Hudson, AGS Chair

Caroline Kratz, Forum Court Associates (FCA)

Katie Kennedy, FCA

Julian Lovell, Equipe Group

Calum Spires, Equipe Group

David Entwisle, BGS

Chris Vincett, Hydrock

Lauren Hunt, Arcadis

Adam Latimer, Ian Farmer Associates

Dimitris Xirouchakis, Structural Soils

Emma Anderson, HaskoningDHV UK

Daniele Fornelli, Geotechnical Observations

EDITORIAL STORY

If you have a news story or event which you’d like to tell our editorial team about, please contact the AGS on 020 8658 8212 or ags@ags.org.uk. Please note that articles should act as opinion pieces and not directly advertise a company. The AGS is under no obligation to feature articles or events received.

CONTACT US

AGS

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Sally Hudson AGS Chair

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FEATURE

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COVER STORY PAGE 18 

Jon Rayner and the AGS Safety Working Group review and compare accident stats from 2022.

Cyber Insurance

The sophistication, frequency and severity of cyber losses are growing. As the economy has increased its dependency upon technology, exposure to Cyber losses has surged.

In this article, Griffiths & Armour provide an update on regulatory changes and advice of Cyber Policies.

AGS ANNUAL CONFERENCE REVIEW

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A brief review of the AGS Annual Conference which took place at the end of April.

AGS GROUND RISK CONFERENCE

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Details on the upcoming live event in November focussing on ground risk.

AGS WEBINAR - INSTRUMENTATION AND MONITORING: HOW NOT TO GET IT WRONG

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Details on the latest webinar from the AGS.

More Inside

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News in Short: Incl. upcoming AGS Events

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Standards Update: March 2023

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Upcoming Events & Courses