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All our courses may count towards the professional requirements of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Geological Society of London, the Chartered Institute of Water Engineers and Managers and for CPD courses for Chartered Scientist.

Currently all courses have received CPD endorsement from the Geological Society London. The dates and locations for our current courses are listed in the table below. Please note that if you wish to attend a course, payment must now be received in advance. To do this a booking form must be completed and received by us before the start of the course. Failing to send a booking form can result in a place not being reserved for you.

Please note that courses in preparation are listed below this table and may cover the subject you are searching for.

Course Title Dates(s) Location Provider Cost
Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS 5930) 11/11/2009 Geotechnical Engineering Ltd., Gloucester Emerson and Moore Geosciences Ltd. £265 + VAT
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Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS 5930) 23/09/2009 Geotechnical Engineering Ltd., Gloucester Emerson and Moore Geosciences Ltd. £265 + VAT
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Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS 5930) 10/06/2009 Geotechnical Engineering Ltd., Gloucester Emerson and Moore Geosciences Ltd £265 + VAT
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Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS 5930) 22/04/2009 Geotechnical Engineering Ltd., Gloucester Emerson and Moore Geosciences Ltd. £265 + VAT
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Eurocode 7 - A time of change 18/03/2009 Blackhorse House, Reading University David Norbury Limited £265 + VAT
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Understanding contaminated land and groundwater pollution 10/03/2009 Geotechnical Engineering Ltd., Gloucester Bob Harris £265 + VAT
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Introduction to Soil Mechanics (Slopes and Retaining Walls) 19/02/2009 - 20/02/2009 Geotechnical Engineering Ltd., Gloucester Simon Ferley from Capita Symonds £265 + VAT per day per person
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Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS 5930) 18/02/2009 Geotechnical Engineering Ltd. - Gloucester Emerson and Moore Geosciences Ltd. £265 + VAT
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Developing geological knowledge for CGeol status 17/02/2009 STATS at St. Albans Paul Stearns £365 +VAT
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First Steps - Digital data for engineering, an introduction to the AGS format 10/02/2009 Blackhorse House, Reading University DataFlex Solutions £265 + VAT
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Glossop Workshops (Four post-Glossop Lecture workshops) November - December 2008 London Dr. Michael de Freitas (First Steps Ltd.) Free + cost of hosting
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Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS 5930) 25/11/2008 WWT Centre, Slimbridge, close to Bristol Emerson and Moore Geosciences Ltd. £265 + VAT
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Understanding ground water levels and their meaning for recharge, groundwater flow and contamination 20/11/2008 Civil Engineering Department (Skempton Building), Imperial College, South Kensington, SW7 2BP First Steps Ltd. £265 + VAT
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This list describes courses in preparation. Details will be advertised in the usual way. A list of courses recently provided is given at the end of this section.

Course Title 

Organising and managing site work: the key to guaranteeing Quality and Health & Safety (planned for October)

A course designed for young geotechnical engineers in contracting and consulting

Mechanical principles explained and illustrated by plotting data (planned for mid November)

Designed for those with no formal training in the mechanics commonly encountered in ground engineering

The value and use made of driller's information (planned for end of November)

A course for young supervising engineers and drillers

Right drilling for the job: converting specification to delivery

Designed for engineers specifiying ground investigation and for drillers

Chemical awareness for interfacing with EA documents and requirements

Designed for those with little or no formal training in chemistry

Sampling for contaminate studies

A course for those designing and executing an investigation of contaminated sites

EIA

EIA explained and illustrated for geotechnical requirements

Engineering Geomorphology

A course suitable for geologsits, geographers and engineers

 

The courses listed below have been presented and it is our policy to rerun them in due course. Please let us know if you are interested in a course that has been run and does not appear in our current programme of courses listed above.

Course Title                                                                                                                                    Date(s)

Introduction to Soil Mechanics (Slopes and Retaining Walls)                                             30th June - 1st July 2008

Field mapping in stratified rock, basic measurements and interpretation

for geotechnical and environmental purposes                                                                       20/06/2008

Geology for Engineers                                                                                                                 18th-19th June 2008

Eurocode 7 - A time of change                                                                                                   02/07/2008

Introduction to Soil Mechanics (Foundations)                                                                         9th-10th June 2008

Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS5930)                                                       10/06/2008

Interpreting geological maps and BH logs for writing geotechnical

and geoenvironmental reports                                                                                                   15/05/2008

Developing geological knowledge for CGeol status                                                              30/04/2008

Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS5930)                                                        23/04/2008

Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS5930)                                                        22/04/2008

Ground models from desk studies and their implications for the selection of

geotechnical parameters required in design and analysis                                                  16th -17th April 2008

Developing geological knowledge for CGeol status                                                              05/03/2008

Introduction to Soil Mechanics                                                                                                    25th-27th February 2008

Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS5930)                                                        20/02/2008

Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS5930)                                                        19/02/2008

Physical hydrogeology for geotechnical and geo-environmental engineers                     28th-30th November 2007

Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS5930)                                                        14/11/2007

Rock and Soil Logging Course (Eurocode 7 - BS5930)                                                        13/11/2007

An Introduction to Sampling Techniques                                                                                  08/11/2007

Should you be interested in related courses in Germany, please follow this link: www.geoberuf.de/seminaredb.php