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Project RelatedThe Sumela Monastery in the Trabzon Province of Turkey dates to about 386 AD. This iconic building of great historical and cultural significance was founded by Greek Orthodox monks but has been an object of [...] -
Available ResourcesThe “speargun projectile penetrometer” (SPP) is sure to be on every geotechnical engineer’s Christmas list! PhD student Junlin Rong and his advisor, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering Majid Nazem, both of RMIT University, were the lead [...] -
Available ResourcesWhat would you ask Karl Terzaghi if you could talk to him? Maybe how he came up with his famous effective stress principles? What did he think of Ralph Peck? Duck Face or Kissy Face? [...] -
Comings and GoingsThe United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has partnered with Dataforensics to implement an enterprise subsurface data management system that will provide a myriad of benefits across their organization. The project involved the digitization of millions [...] -
Geologic HazardsA landslide blocked the Chilcotin River in BC, Canada about 285 km north of Vancouver on July 30, 2024 and subsequently breached on August 5, 2024. The landslide dam breach raised the level of the [...] -
Project RelatedSlabJack Geotechnical recently tackled a challenging project in Everett, Washington, where a two-year-old tilt-up panel building faced serious subsidence issues. The building, which featured a 30-foot fill CMU block retaining wall, had settled by 2.5 [...] -
Rockman's RamblingsDid you know there were geotechnical engineers evaluating the bearing capacity and settlement potential of the lunar surface for the Apollo 11 mission? There were some prominent scientists in NASA at the time that thought [...] -
Software UpdatesThe geotechnical software program, GEO5, has recently been updated with a host of new features as part of their mid-year 2024 update. This includes a significant update to their Prefab Wall program for modeling modular [...] -
Comings and GoingsGeotechnical software company Rocscience will present Professor Harry Poulos with a Lifetime Achievement Award at their 2025 Conference in Sydney. The Rocscience International Conference 2025 (RIC2025) will be held April 6-8, 2025 and will be [...] -
Geologic HazardsI recently came across some a fascinating EPIC video that captured a landslide more or less from start to finish, a span of around 6 minutes. The landslide occurred in San Diego County, California at [...]
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Available ResourcesThe March/April issue of Deep Foundation Magazine has an interesting article on deep soil mixing in Poland. The article is by Michał Topolnicki of Keller Polska, and is based on his keynote lecture presented at [...] -
Available ResourcesDebris flows are a significant geologic hazard that affect communities around the world. Their destructive potential has been evident in North America in recent years, but the Swiss have been at the forefront of debris [...] -
Available ResourcesThe FHWA’s Advanced Geotechnical Methods in Exploration (A-GaME) series of webinars is part of their Every Day Counts Initiative. For the past year and a half or so, they have been organizing these excellent webinars [...] -
Comings and GoingsWSP has entered into an agreement to acquire the Environment & Infrastructure business (“E&I”) of John Wood Group plc. (Wood). The Wood E&I group consists of approximately 6,000 experts in 10 countries, that originated from [...] -
FeaturedHanover, MD, June 16, 2022 — Keller announces new branch and area managers in North America. Ray Franz was promoted to Area Manager of Northern California. With over 30 years of experience in geotechnical consulting and specialty [...] -
FeaturedGeotechnical software company Rocscience announced the launch of a new cloud-based borehole data management software called RSLog. This web application can process geotechnical field and lab data, and run engineering analyses online. Some of the [...] -
Available ResourcesThe Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) has a new video / podcast series called DFI’s Rumble where they pit two representatives from the foundation industry who are typically on the oposite side of a project contract [...]
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