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The 11th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics ANZ2012 was held from 15 to 18 July in Melbourne’s Crown Conference Centre. The theme of the Conference was Ground Engineering in a Changing World and provided an opportunity to share our…

Babak Hamidi, GFWA’s marketing manager, has shared some of his vast experience is ground improvement by presenting a paper titled “Lessons Learned from Millions of Square Metres of Ground Improvement” at the International Symposium on Ground Improvement (IS-GI 2012) that…

Murray Yates has presented Sydney Airport’s Runway End Safety Area jet grouting project at the 4th International Conference on Grouting and Deep Soil Mixing in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The Title of the presented paper was “Overcoming Challenges with Jet…

International Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering (ICAGE2012) was held in Perth from 7 to 9 November. This conference was an opportunity to share the group’s ground improvement knowledge with geotechnical engineers from Perth, Australia and elsewhere. During this event…

The 19th annual GFWA Prize for final year undergraduate projects in geomechanics at universities in Western Australia was held on 11 October 2011 at Engineers Australia in Perth. During this year’s event Michael Smith from Water Corporation was the master…

The recently opened Southern Seawater Desalination Integration Project was the big (overall, infrastructure and building, management of engineering) winner at the 2011 WA Engineering Excellence Awards in Perth on Saturday September 17. The $955 million project is the largest integration…

Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS) held a seminar on Geotechnical Near Misses and Failures on 16 September 2011 at Curtin University. In continuation of its support of AGS and geotechnical engineering, as last year, GFWA became the gold sponsor of this…

One40william and State Theatre Centre of Western Australia are respectively winners of Master Builder 2011 awards for Best Commercial Building over $10 million and Best State Government Building – Metro. The diaphragm walls, CFA piles and anchors of both projects…

Babak Hamidi, GFWA’s marketing manager, has made a presentation at ISSGME TC211 (technical committee for Ground Improvement) Workshop on “validity of relative density for quality control of cohesionless soils” during the 14th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical…

Ennex 100 (aka 100 St Georges Terrace) and St Mary’s Cathedral are respectively winners of Master Builder 2010 awards for Best Commercial Building over $50 million and Best Historic Restoration or Renovation. GFWA has been involved in both of these…