Includes Tips for Geotechnical, Environmental and CoMET Report Writers and Reviewers
The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA) has published a new guide for the in-house review of geotechnical, environmental, construction-materials engineering and testing (CoMET), and other geoprofessional reports. It is titled “GBA Guide to the In-House Review of Geoprofessional Reports.”
The new publication provides step-by-step instructions and overarching concepts for report writers and reviewers, with a focus on a report’s ability to satisfy the contractual obligations it was intended to fulfill, the quality of its technical and risk-management content, and the clarity of presentation. The new guide is supplemented with a report-control log, copies of GBA’s report-insert sheets (geotechnical, environmental and CoMET), and three best practices monographs covering “taboo” words, absolutes, and “slipshod synonyms.”