ISSMGE Bulletin – Volume 2 Issue 1 March 2008

A Message from the President

By Professor Pedro Sêco e Pinto

Related the recent developments of FIGS the first meeting between the Presidents of the Sister Societies with the attendance of the IAEG Secretary General took place in Paris on 6 February 2003. Since then several other meetings have taken place between the 3 Presidents and 3 Secretary Generals in Prague on 22 August 2003, in Lisbon on 28 January 2004, in Paris on 6 September 2004 and in Ghent on 18 February 2005.

A Joint European Working group on Professional Practice, Responsibilities and Cooperation in Ground Engineering had been established in June 2002, with 3 representatives of each Sister Society, and produced a report by June 2004 in which as a first step had defined the professional competences and expertise of the Sister Societies and a diagram illustrating the relationship between Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics and Engineering Geology within the broader field of ground engineering.

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