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  • Sumela Monestary in 2009, prior to rockfall mitigation
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    Sumela Monestary Rockfall Mitigation

    The 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 [...]
  • Speargun Projectile Penetrometer
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    Speargun Projectile Penetrometer – Yes Please!

    The “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 [...]
  • AI Chatbot from Superprompt
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    An AI Chat with Terzaghi?

    What 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? [...]
  • 3D subsurface data for a USACE Dam Project
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    Dataforensics and USACE are Bentley Award Finalists for Subsurface Modeling

    The 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 [...]
  • Chilcotin Landslide Dam 2024
    Geologic Hazards

    Landslide Dam and Breach in BC

    A 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 [...]
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    Deep Injections Arrest Settlement of Tilt-Up Building and Retaining Wall

    SlabJack 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 [...]
  • Apollo 11 LM Pad
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    The Eagle Has Sunken Into the Lunar Surface

    Did 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 Updates

    GEO5 2024 Update Released

    The 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 [...]
  • Harry Poulos
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    Rocscience to Honor Harry Poulos

    Geotechnical 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 Hazards

    2023 Black’s Beach Landslide Video – EPIC!

    I 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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  • RSLog Web-Based Borehole Log Management
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    RSLog, A New Cloud-Based Borehole Software

    Geotechnical 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 [...]
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    DFI Rumble: Foundation Designer vs. Foundation Installer

    The 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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    Advanced Geotechnical Methods in Exploration (A-GaME) Webinars

    The 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 [...]
  • Screenshot of debris flow game MurGame by WSL
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    Debris Flow Game and New Design Manual

    Debris 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 [...]
  • Commercial plaza in Rybnik founded on DSM Columns
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    Deep Soil Mixing in Poland

    The 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 [...]
  • Keller staffing changes June 2022
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    Keller announces recent staffing changes in North America

    Hanover, 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 [...]
  • Comings and Goings

    WSP Acquires Wood E&I Business

    WSP 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 [...]