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Geologic HazardsThis is a great video by Vermont DOT that describes how scaling is used as part of their mitigation efforts for rockfall. If you have never seen how high scaling works, this gives you a [...] -
Available ResourcesSamuel Paikowsky, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and president of GeoDynamica Inc. delivered the 2019 DFI Osterberg Memorial Lecture at SuperPile ’19 in Seattle, May 2019. The title of [...] -
NewsMOUNT AIRY, NC—US Company, NCFI Polyurethanes, announced today Joshua Burcaw will join the company as executive vice president of its geotechnical division. Burcaw recently served as CEO of URETEK, ICR, a national soil and pavement [...] -
Comings and GoingsJean-Louis Briaud, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, DIST.M.ASCE is running for the office of President of ASCE. Briaud is a past president of the Geo-Institute, and a past president of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and [...] -
Comings and GoingsMatt Ryan has been announced as the CEO of geotechnical, civil, and environmental consulting firm S&ME. He was appointed as president of the firm in 2018 and now has assumed the role of president and [...] -
Geologic HazardsA rockfall event has closed Colorado Highway 145 in the southwest portion of the state after two house-sized boulders destroyed the full width of the highway pavement. The event occurred on Friday before the Holiday [...] -
Press ReleasesEXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the acquisition of Keynetix, a UK-headquartered provider of cloud-based [...] -
Geologic HazardsThe latest Geobruug newsletter talked about the variety of rockfall mitigation solutions they have installed at the Kanmantoo open pit mine in Australia in recent years. Those include flexible rockfall barriers, anchored mesh, rockfall attenuators, [...] -
NewsA 19m deep excavation for a landmark high-rise building known as Downtown One was recently completed in Tirana Albania. The building will feature 5 floors of underground parking. The deep excavation support system consisted of [...] -
Comings and GoingsEngineering News Record (ENR) has published their annual list of Top 500 Design Firms, and as is the tradition on GeoPrac, I have highlighted geo-companies that are involved in geotechnical engineering, geological consulting services, and [...]
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The homeowners of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco are expected to file a permit application for 50 new 24-inch diameter piles approximately 250 feet long to hopefully stabilize the building and perhaps even reverse [...] -
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report on how to utilize cone penetration testing (CPT) for a variety of geotechnical analysis and design tasks. These tasks, which are applicable both to state highways [...] -
GeoPrac.net is pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, Fine spol. s r.o., the makers of GEO5 suite of geotechnical engineering software. Fine began selling structural engineering software in 1987 and their geotechnical software offerings came [...] -
There was a major flash flood and debris flow event in the Swiss Town of Chamoson and the video is unreal. The videos below are pretty crazy! -
A dramatic video shows the collapse of a cliff at Navagio beach on the Greek island of Zakynthos earlier this month. The popular tourist destination is only reachable by boat and is also known as [...] -
A bridge over the Swan River in a rural area of eastern Saskatchewan collapsed just six hours after opening, and reportedly there was no geotechnical investigation done for the piers in the river. The Dyck Memorial [...] -
Anyone in the geotechnical field knows of Karl Terzaghi, and has probably read his work. But our colleages at Geoengineer.org have done our industry a great service by providing an audio recording of Terzaghi’s last [...] -
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck just 8 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska this morning causing widespread damage to buildings and infrastructure. The quake struck at 8:29 am local time and the focus of the earthquake [...]
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