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Geotechnical News • December 2014
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CANADIAN GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY NEWS
Message from the President
This will be my last message to you
as your president since my two-year
term will finish the end of the year.
Your Executive Committee, Board of
Directors, Secretary General and CGS
Administrator have accomplished
much and I would like to take this
opportunity to summarize our accom-
plishments over the past two years.
• The French version of the
4
th
Ca-
nadian Foundation Engineering
Manual
was finalized, printed and
distributed.
• The plan for the
5
th
Canadian
Foundation Engineering Manual
was formulated. Future versions
will be in e-book format and will
be updated chapter by chapter to
ensure that the content reflects
current practice in Canada and that
revised chapters are made avail-
able to our members in a timely
manner.
• The name of the CGS
Hydrogeol-
ogy Division
was changed to the
CGS
Groundwater Division
to
better reflect its scope. The CGS
Computing Committee was retired
and its mandate collapsed into that
of the other Committees and Divi-
sions. The CGS
Sustainability
Committee
was formed with
Dr.
Dipanjan Basu
as chair.
• The Award Rules for the joint
Schuster Medal
of the CGS
and the Association of Engineer-
ing and Engineering Geologists
(AEG) were finalized. This award
recognizes in alternate years, the
Richard J. Bathurst, President of
Canadian Geotechnical Society