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The BOHOGS committee would like to offer a big congratulations to the recipient of this year's Practitioner of the Year Award, Alison McQuillan. The BOHOGS practitioner of the year award recognises a practicing Geotechnical professional who has significantly contributed to the discipline through their involvement in the following areas: Lead or involvement in projects of new slope stability modelling or stabilisation techniques and advancements in the field of geotechnical engineering.Presenting and attending BOHOGS events and the presentation of conference papers.Thesis supervision and ACARP monitors.Relevant awards, scholarships and certificates.Mentoring of young geotechnical professionals. This year Alison completed her PhD on a new [...]

Technical Meetings After carefully planning out events for 2020 we had to shelve the planning and start from scratch again when we realised that large technical meetings and site visits would be very difficult for 2020. We’ve had to lean very heavily on technology this year but it has helped us achieve bigger events than ever before as we were able to have members from both QLD and NSW join in on meetings even those which were held in Brisbane.  In 2020 the BOHOGS committee planned a total of 7 events. The first two online meetings showcased a number of recent [...]

BOHOGS Presentation of the Year 2020 Voting is now open for the BOHOGS Presentation of the Year 2020. Please vote for your top 3 presentations from this year. Voting will close on Friday 27th November. The Presentation of the Year will be awarded at BOHOGS/BBUGS Suppliers Day 2020.  Please see below link for the survey to vote: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R7MW7DQ BOHOGS Practitioner of the Year 2020 Nomination criteria: Practicing Geotechnical Engineer who has significantly contributed to the discipline through their involvement in one or more of the following areas: Lead or involvement in projects of new slope stability modelling or stabilisation techniquesAdvancement in the field [...]

Thank you to everyone who attended the BOHOGS/BBUGS ACARP Day Presentations on Wednesday 14th October. Please see below for links to the presentations for the day. ACARP Day Open cut Presentations Session 1:- Reducing Risk Taking Among Australian Coal Mine Workers - Rebecca Allen https://vimeo.com/470397174 ACARP Day Open Cut Presentations Session 2: - Baseline Data for the Development of AutomatedCharacterisation of Waste Material - Stephen Fityus- Groundwater Pressures and Flows Within Spoil Dumps - Stephen Fityus- Guidelines to Improve Blasting Geotech Outcomes - Italo Onederra- True Vector From Slope Radar Monitoring - Marc Elmouttie- Automated Structural Mapping using a Mobile LaserScanner [...]

A few photos from the BOHOGS/BBUGS Suppliers Day 2019 in Moranbah! Thanks again to all our suppliers!

See below for the presentation slides from the BOHOGS 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM) that was held at the Suppliers Day on the 21st of November 2019. BOHOGS 2019 AGM Presentation Slides

Technical Meetings In 2019 the BOHOGS committee planned and/or attended a total of 9 events – two QLD chapter technical meetings, two NSW chapter technical meetings, attended two universities, and held one formal and one informal meeting in Brisbane, and shared Supplier’s Day again with BBUGS. BOHOGS events accounted for ~1000 hours of Chartered Professional Development for our members in 2019. Finances BOHOGS saw slightly increased sponsorship in 2019, and will have approximately broken even again in 2019 once end of year costs are accounted for e.g. Supplier’s Day. This was partly due to in-kind support from companies who hosted site [...]

See the blog post for a few photos from the Hail Creek Site Visit & Technical meeting held on the 24th of October 2019. Thanks again to all the event organisers, presenters and the BOHOGS cohort who attended the meeting. Look at those seam dips! Site Intro presentation Technical presentation Technical presentation Technical presentation Technical presentation

Hi All – SSAM (https://app.ssam.net.au/) is the product of my thesis at UNSW and ACARP.. Essentially, with your assistance of industry case studies, I have developed a new empirical slope stability assessment methodology (SSAM) for assessing the likelihood and consequence of excavated slope failure. With 10 questions, you can calculate your slope’s likelihood of failure (LOF) based on the past performance of slopes with similar geotechnical and geometrical conditions. A 60% likelihood of failure indicates that 6 out of 10 slopes with similar conditions has failed in the past. An equivalent FOS can also be calculated for those more comfortable with [...]

BOHOGS Practitioner of the Year 2019 Nomination criteria:  Practicing Geotechnical Engineer who has significantly contributed to the discipline through their involvement in one or more of the following areas: Lead or involvement in projects of new slope stability modelling or stabilisation techniques Advancement in the field of geotechnical engineering Presenting at BOHOGS meetings Attendance at BOHOGS meetings Council member of BOHOGS, BBUGS, AGS, ACG, AUSIMM or other relevant society Conference Papers or Presentations in 2018-2019 Organising committees for conferences ACARP committee, ACARP monitor University Lectures or Advisory Board Thesis supervision Relevant awards, scholarships of certificates Mentoring of young geotechnical engineers Nomination [...]