AGS Award Winners for 2023

For this year’s AGS Awards, a select number of AGS Working Group Members were nominated by their Working Group Leaders to highlight their contribution and dedication to the AGS over the past year.

We’d like to say a big thank you, and a welldeserved congratulations, to the following Award and Commendation Winners.

AGS Loss Prevention Working Group

Chris Hoskins (Award Winner)

Hugh Mallett (Award Winner)

Zita Mansi (Commendation)

AGS Safety Working Group

Liz Withington (Award Winner)

Adam Latimer (Award Winner)

AGS Publication Updates

AGS Geotechnical Working Group

Emma Cronin (Award Winner)

Katharine Barker (Commendation)

AGS Data Management Working Group

Tony Daly (Award Winner)

AGS Contaminated Land Working Group

Angela Haslam (Award Winner)

To view our AGS Awards Video featuring acceptance speeches from our winners please click HERE.

The top three AGS publications in last month:

1. AGS Loss Prevention Guidance 2022

2. AGS Guidance on Waste Classification for Soils – A Practitioners Guide

3. AGS Guide to Ground Investigation Reports

Recent AGS publications available on the AGS website:

• AGS Loss Prevention Guidance 2022

LPA 74 – The Building Safety Act 2022: Significant Changes to the Limitation Period Under The Defective Premises Act 1972

• LPA 75 – Safeguarding Contractual Caps on Liability

• Safety Share – Piling Contractor Strikes Water Main

• Client Guide for Ground Engineering and Project Timelines

• LPA 76 – Reliance on another Company’s Report

To download the publications for free; click here.

The SiLC Annual Forum took place virtually on Wednesday 29th March 2023.

This half day event (9:30am – 13:30), Chaired by Tom Henman (SiLC PTP Chair), bought together industry professionals for a stellar programme of presentations and discussions centred around Climate & Sustainability and Looking into the Future. Presentations on the day included:

• Delivering Effective and Sustainable Materials Management on National Infrastructure Projects (Carrie Rose, Associated Technical Director at Atkins and Ian Evans, Senior Technical Director at Arcadis Consulting (UK))

• The Development and Application of Carbon Calculator Tools to Sustainable Development (Sarah Cook, Associate Director, Leap Environmental)

Understanding the Relationship Between Soil Biodiversity and Soil Health (Dr Felicity Crotty, Senior Lecturer in Soil Science and Ecology at the Royal Agricultural University)

• Post-Brexit Regulation of Excavated Materials: Waste Not Want Not; Waste, Want or Not; Want, Not Waste; Not Want, Waste (Paul Nathanail, Director at LQM)

• Evolving Environmental Risks and the Insurance Market (Robert Wade, Environmental Underwriting Manager, The Hartford and Thomas Hughes, Senior Market Services Executive, International Underwriting Association)

• PFAS: What the UK can learn from Jersey and Guernsey approach to PFAS (James Lemon, Associate Technical Director, Arcadis)

In addition to the main programme of presentations, those who attended were able to enjoy insights from Early Careers Professionals on what sustainability means to them, as well as a moving poetry reading from The Scottish Centre for Geopoetics.

A panel discussion on the topic ‘What do land condition professionals consider they need to understand to tackle climate change and sustainability challenges?’ Chaired by Claire Dickinson, (Director, Geo-environmental Matters) also provided an interesting conversation amongst panellists Amy Juden (Associate at The Environmental Protection Group), Martin Ballard CEnv CMgr FIEMA (Group Head of Environment, Wates) , Robert Tyler (Environmental Quality Officer at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea), Nina Pimblett (Sector Guidance Lead, Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) Secretariat), and Mark Hill (Climate & Sustainability – Lead at The Pensions Regulator).

The event was sponsored by Jackson Remediation, Vertase FLI, AECOM, Statom Group, Element, Arcadis, Evonik, and Unyte Waste.

If you have any queries about this event or if you would like to access the event recording, please contact us via email on SiLC@SiLC.org.uk