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Available ResourcesIn case you missed it, Dr. Bob Bachus from Geosyntec is this year’s Geo-Institute Cross-Country Lecturer. He gave a live presentation on the G-I’s Youtube channel recently on Geotechnical Data Management. Read more about Bob’s [...] -
Project RelatedThere is a neat little blurb in Roads and Bridges magazine on a small mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) retaining wall at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Coast of Virginia. The wall was designed and [...] -
Forensics and FailuresThe Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association published their report last month on the January 7, 2020, Puerto Rico Earthquake. Here is the summary: A seismic sequence located along the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico [...] -
Available ResourcesWe as geotechnical and geological engineers are in the midst of a data revolution. The way we collect, manage, and use data has changed dramatically over the past five to ten years, and I have [...] -
Software UpdatesI’m a visual person, so having a nice way to look at and interpret my geotechnical data is something that is very important to me. I like the looks of NovoTech’s latest offering, NovoGIS, which [...] -
Standards and CodesThose of us in the geotechnical profession use ASTM Standards on a daily basis. It’s hard to keep up with changes, so I have brought back a GeoPrac.net feature I had a number of years [...] -
Available ResourcesSome friends at NHAZCA S.r.l. in Rome, Drs. Serena Moretto and Paolo Mazzanti, have been demonstrating their company’s technology to use satellite imagery to produce highly accurate displacement measurements and maps. Serena recently posted a [...] -
Available ResourcesGEOSLOPE will be hosting a free webinar on analyzing rapid drawdown conditions with SEEP/W and SLOPE/W on July 15, 2020 at two different times. You can follow the registration link to find the time that [...] -
Press ReleasesKeller is taking a lead role on the first Florida Department of Transport project for half a century to use auger cast piles. Dubbed ‘the mother of all highway construction projects’ by local media, the [...] -
Press ReleasesHawthorne, N.J. (June 19, 2020): The winner of the 2020 DFI Outstanding Project Award (OPA) is the team of Langan Engineering and Environmental Services (geotechnical and environmental services), Malcolm Drilling Company (foundation contractor), and Condon-Johnson [...]
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A house was completely crushed by a massive rockfall that is more of a cliff collapse than a proper rockfall. The event occurred on December 2, 2019 in the village of Les Mees, Alpes de [...] -
Many of you may be familiar with the Geoprofessional Business Association’s (GBA’s) document “Important Information about This Geotechnical-Engineering Report.” In my practice, we include it as an appendix in almost every geotechnical report we produce. [...] -
October 17, 1989 at around 5 pm, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake known as the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area causing significant damage and loss of life. Many remember the fact that [...] -
In Louisville, KY a large pit, 40ft deep, 300 yards long x 150 yards wide was dug to build an overflow facility for the city’s combined stormwater and sewage systems. A substantial amount of this excavation [...] -
Bentley has been on the radar for geotechnical professionals lately with their recent acquisition of Keynetix, the makers of HoleBASE SI. All of us have been eagerly awaiting the next moves in how the company [...] -
Dr. Misko Cubrinovsky was the Ralph B. Peck Award winner at the 2019 Geo-Congress conference of the Geo-Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His lecture was on Observations and Findings from Christchurch related to the devastating 2011 [...] -
Heavy rain triggered a landslide or debris flow that destroyed a 30-meter span of a bridge on the A6 motorway between Savona and Turin on November 25. Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries or [...]
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