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Geologic HazardsThe American Geosciences Institute is hosting a webinar on Identifying and Reducing Landslide Risk on April 17, 2019 at 1:00 pm EDT. In this webinar, experts in landslide characterization, mapping, and risk reduction discuss landslide impacts [...] -
MiscellaneousA Washington DOT geotechnical crew drilling along Highway 3 Near Chico, Washington narrowly avoided disaster when a semi-truck crashed into their work zone on March 19, 2019. The crew heard the semi bearing down on [...] -
Comings and GoingsGolder was a team member on three Best-in-State Gold and Silver award-winning projects at the ACEC Washington Awards Gala. Among these was the I-90 Snowshed to Keechelus Dam Phase 1C project, part of the Snoqualmie Pass [...] -
MiscellaneousEngineers for a 1,100 km (683 miles) transmission line in Newfoundland performed only a desktop geotechnical study with no field investigation or ground truthing. As you might expect, foundation conditions were not what they assumed [...] -
NewsHawthorne, N.J. (April 1, 2019): The DFI Educational Trust and the DFI Women in Deep Foundations Committee are awarding five grants of $1,750 each to women involved in design and/or construction of deep foundations to [...] -
Available ResourcesTensar is giving away a $500 Amazon gift card as part of their SpectraPave Design software challenge. All you have to do is download the free software for design of geogrid subgrade improvement beneath pavements, [...] -
ConferencesThe 2019 Geo-Congress Conference from ASCE’s Geo-Institute is underway in Philadelphia. It may be too late for you to attend in person, but you can livestream several of the keynote lectures! It looks like Sunday’s [...] -
FailuresA spectacular landslide/pit slope failure was caught on video in a marble quarry in the Orhaneli district of Bursa. The failure happened on March 13, 2019 (as far as I can tell), and fortunately, there [...] -
Comings and GoingsGeological engineers around the world recognize the name Ted Brown who, along with Dr. Evert Hoek, developed the Hoek-Brown failure criterion for characterizing the strength of heavily jointed rock masses. Brown recently turned 80 and [...] -
Geologic HazardsA Tennesee man was killed after his vehicle encountered a landslide and his truck rolled 200 feet down an embankment slope. The landslide occurred around 2am on February 21st, 2019 on Highway 70N in Hawkins [...]
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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 [...] -
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 [...]
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