Fugro is offering free 1, 2 and 3-day classes on water investigation techniques, cone penetration testing, and engineering and environmental geophysics at several UK locations in the coming months. The water services course had it’s 1st offering this past October, the other two courses have been around longer. The next time you can catch all three appears to be in February, 2011 in Wallingford, Oxon with other offerings in Glasgow in January and Leeds in May. [Source: Fugro Water Services via New Civil Engineer. Image: Fugro and NCE]
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