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Geotechnical News • March 2012
ASFE NEWS
messengers of bad news, how much
better for clients to learn that news
before the project begins, rather than
later, when the anticipated insurance
coverage cannot materialize.
Watch either video free of charge
by clicking to
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com/RiskManagement/index.
cfm?ac=videos. Terra also offers a
variety of
also free of charge.
Foundation for the future honor
roll
We’re getting “there”; that place
where we need to be in order to
achieve our purpose; to combat the
commoditization and marginalization
whose symptoms make geoprofes-
sional risk management so continu-
ingly essential. The energy source?
The generosity of ASFE-Member
Firms and Associate Member individ-
uals who have volunteered to pay four
years’ worth of dues (or even more,
in some cases) over a three-year span.
If you haven’t yet stepped up to the
bar, fear not! It’s never too late to get
involved. Just contact EVP John Bach-
ner or Membership Director Colleen
Knight; telephone either at 301/565-
2733 or e-mail
or
In the meantime, let’s
all join in a round of applause for:
ASFE-Member Firms
Active Environmental Services, Inc.
AMEC Earth & Environmental
Anderson Engineering, Inc.
Blackburn Consulting
BSK Associates
Creative Engineering Options, Inc.
DiGioia, Gray & Associates, LLC
Dr. Clarence W. Welti, P.E., P.C.
EARTH SYSTEMS, Inc.
French & Parello Associates, P.A.
GAI Consultants, Inc.
GEI Consultants, Inc.
GeoEngineers, Inc.
Geotechnical Consultants, Inc.
Geotechnical Services, Inc.
Geotechnology, Inc.
Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
Hirata & Associates, Inc.
Hultgren-Tillis Engineers
Jeffers Engineering Services, LLC
Kleinfelder
Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd.
LAN Associates Engineering Planning
Architecture Surveying Inc.
Lee James & Associates
L. Edward Wilson and Associates, Inc.
Lourie Consultants
Northern Geotechnical Engineering -
Terra Firma Testing
NTH Consultants, Ltd.
Padre Associates, Inc.
Paradigm Consultants, Inc.
Richard T. Reynolds, P.E., Consulting
Geotechnical Engineer
S&ME, Inc.
Sanborn, Head, & Associates, Inc.
Schnabel Engineering, Inc.
SCI Engineering, Inc.
Shannon & Wilson, Inc.
Shepardson Engineering Associates
Inc.
Soils Engineering, Inc.
Soils & Engineering Services, Inc.
Soil and Materials Engineers, Inc.
Strata, Inc.
Synchropile, Inc.
Targus Associates, LLC
Terracon Consultants, Inc.
TTL, Inc.
Consultant Member
Gerald J. Salontai, P.E., Salontai Con-
sulting Group, LLC
Terry Scanlan, Skellenger Bender
Faculty Member
Dr. Charles C. Ladd, MIT
ASFE meeting app debuts for
Phoenix
There’s an app for that, and now that
almost-trite expression applies to
ASFE meetings, thanks to the debut of
the
ASFEFall11
meeting app. The next
one – likely to be called
ASFESpring
12
! – will be particularly useful for
meeting attendees and for those
unable to attend, as well. The app will
provide the latest information about
the meeting’s schedule, activity loca-
tions, attendees, speakers, and topics.
It will also provide links to speaker
presentations and handouts. Essential
to ASFE’s sustainability initiative, the
new app will be updated as premeet-
ing, last-minute changes are received,
a benefit paper materials cannot pro-
vide. (ASFE’s 2011 Fall Meeting was
the first where hard-copies of presen-
tation materials were provided only on
request.)
According to ASFE Executive Vice
President John P. Bachner, “The app
brings our meetings into the modern
age. We can keep attendees updated
in real-time with the latest informa-
tion at their fingertips. It also aligns
with ASFE’s commitment to pursue
sustainability in all we do.”
ASFEFall11
is available free for
Android, Blackberry, and Windows
Mobile devices, in addition to iPhones
and iPads. Get yours at
Better, thanks
So, why do firms undergo ASFE
Peer
Review
? Is it because they’re ill? No.
In fact, just the opposite usually is
true: They’re healthy and want to get
even healthier, because they under-
stand that, in almost any organiza-
tion of two people or more, problems
of one kind of another are bound to
exist, and many are kept below the
surface, growing in the dark. They
are the quintessential molehills that,
left alone, can grow into mountains.
Peer Review
helps firms identify
them and take action sooner rather
than later. But there’s more to it than
that, because Peer Reviewers are
peers; individuals who can identify
techniques and technology they know
you can apply because they under-
stand your firm and have applied
them successfully themselves, or have
