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Website links, new publications in geotechnical engineering and engineering geology and Google Earth related information can be found in this section. 

Construction Materials Testing Services
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ASFE Issues New Model Agreement for Construction Materials Engineering and Testing (CoMET)

March 22, 2012 rockman Comments Off on ASFE Issues New Model Agreement for Construction Materials Engineering and Testing (CoMET)

ASFE/The Geoprofessional Business Association along with Terra Insurance company have released a model agreement for construction and materials testing services (CoMET). This document was created for use by ASFE member firms based on the organization’s […]

Subsea piling frame from LDD
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Subsea Piling Frames – StabFRAME

March 6, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Subsea Piling Frames – StabFRAME

A new piece of equipment for deep ocean pile driving was recently used in 140m of water off the coast of Brazil. The StabFRAME is lowered to the sea floor and leveled to allow accurate […]

BBCs how leaning towers compare graphic
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Big Ben lean nothing to worry about

February 6, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Big Ben lean nothing to worry about

Here is another article on the lean of London’s Big Ben clock tower. According to Professor John Burland of Imperial College, it would take 10,000 years for the tower to match the lean of the […]

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Final Bimrocks Paper?

December 13, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Final Bimrocks Paper?

Bimrocks is a term coined by my colleague Ed Medley, a fellow geopractitioner (a term he also coined).  The former term refers to "block-in-matrix-rocks" where blocks of geotechnically significant rock "float" in a matrix of weaker […]