In January 2017, GeoWorld introduced the "Geotechnical Business Confidence Index". The index is intended to measure quarterly the short-term (1 year) and long-term (5-yr) expectations for business conditions in your company. All GeoWorld members are invited to participate. We ask you to answer the following questions quarterly:

• Question 1 : What do you expect the business conditions* in your company to be in the next 1 year, compared to a "normal" year
• Question 2 : What do you expect the business conditions* in your company to be in the next 5 years, compared to a "normal" year

We analyze the data and process it spatially to make an assessment of the short-term and long-term confidence in geotechnical business globally. We make the analyzed data anonymously available through GeoWorld.

* We use the term “business conditions” broadly to describe qualitatively your assessment of the future conditions in your company. This may be based on an assessment of the volume of upcoming work, profitability, company growth, closed or expected contracts.