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Geotechnical Lessons Learnt-Building and Transport Infrastructure Projects


Free Download Geotechnical Lessons Learnt-Building and Transport Infrastructure Projects: Proceedings of the 2022 AGS Sydney Annual Symposium by Hadi Khabbaz, Cholachat Rujikiatkamjorn, Ali Parsa-Pajouh
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 181 Pages | ISBN : 9819760313 | 44.9 MB
This book presents the select proceedings of the 26th Annual Symposium organized by the Sydney Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS). The symposium brought together key stakeholders of the Australian geological and geotechnical community. This book showcases state-of-the-art practices, new research findings, and case histories that demonstrate reliability-based designs and assessments. The papers on reliability-based approaches cover various aspects of site investigations, interpretations, designs, specialized testing, and technologies. This book presents recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the field. This volume will be a useful guide to those in academia and industry working in the fields of geotechnical engineering.

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Incident Management in Australasia Lessons Learnt from Emergency Responses


Free Download Stuart Ellis, "Incident Management in Australasia: Lessons Learnt from Emergency Responses"
English | ISBN: 1486306179 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Emergency services personnel conduct their work in situations that are inherently dangerous. Large incidents such as bushfires, floods and earthquakes often pose hazards that are not fully understood at the time of management, and the situation may be further complicated by the involvement of multiple agencies. To promote the safety of personnel and of the broader community, incident management skills must be constantly developed.

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In Search of Mr Darcy Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After [Audiobook]


Free Download In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CY3HQSQ6 | 2024 | 11 hours and 13 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 316 MB
Author: Christina Ford
Narrator: Christina Ford

Prince Charming? Happily Ever After? Childhood Fairy Tales Are Full of Promises, but the Reality – Life – is a Very Different Story. And That Story Has a Hell of a Lot to Teach Us. Writing with searing honesty, wry humour and endless warmth, Christina Ford takes us on a real-life Sex and the City-like journey as she looks back on four decades of dates, loves, marriages, friends, frenemies, affairs, divorces, parenting disasters and step-parenting nightmares. Bravely and candidly, she shares heartrending details of the betrayal and hurt caused by the end of her marriage, shows how she overcame her fears about starting again and lets us in on the secret of the perfectly timed fling that was more effective than years of therapy.

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