ISSMGE Bulletin – Volume 8 Issue 3 June 2014

MESSAGE FROM CAPG CHAIRMAN

Dr. Sukumar Pathmanandavel

Remarks by Editor-in-Chief
The Corporate Associates Presidential Group (CAPG) was created in 2011 following the initiative of ISSMGE President Prof. J.-L. Briaud in order to facilitate the activities of Corporate Associates of our society. The current chairman of this group is Dr. Sukumar Pathmanandavel of Coffey, Australia. This article is a message from him that reports on the current activities and the near-future aims of this group. The background of CAPG is described in what follows. For more details, please refer to http://www.issmge.org/capg/files/CAPG_Plan_2013%20to2017-Nov13.pdf.

Background of CAPG

The Objective – “the CAPG will assist in developing actions and activities that will enhance the commercial sector of the geotechnical profession”, as set out by Professor Jean- Louis Briaud, 6 Dec 2010, then President of the ISSMGE. From its inaugural meeting in St Petersburg on 2nd July 2012, the CAPG has developed a number of initiatives, including a dedicated web page, promotional case histories and a small core group of active Corporate Associates (CAs).

The CAPG has now set itself a direction for the period 2013 to 2017 – to help the commercial sector of the geotechnical engineering profession towards state of the art in geotechnical practice.

CAPG Plan 2013-2017 titled “Towards state of the art in geotechnical practice” was approved by the President of the ISSMGE, Professor Roger Frank and all the Board Members in December 2013. A copy of the paper is held in the CAPG area of the ISSMGE web site, and is readily accessible.

The planned activities set by CAPG for 2014

• Continue to hold regular (6 weekly) progress meetings for the CAPG core group – 1st scheduled meeting for 2014 was held on 14th February, and the 2nd on 28th March.
• Identify thirty companies/organisations in the world that are most appropriate for the first stage of targeting our activities. This is a most important aspect of the plan.
• Categorise various areas of geotechnical and geo-environmental practices and develop CAPG view of both State of the Art (SOA) and State of the Practice (SOP).
• Select key areas of geotechnical and geo environmental practices for development by CAPG.
• CAPG, with the assistance of ISSMGE, CA’s, technical and Board level committees and interested universities to develop a survey questionnaire.

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