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  • Polyurethane 101: The Fundamentals. Webinar on March 31st, 2026
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    Polyurethane 101 Webinar Tomorrow, March 31

    Polyurethane is one of those technologies that seems simple on the surface. Drill, inject, lift. Done. But the performance really comes down to how it reacts in the ground and how it interacts with the [...]
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    Keller CEO Describes Their Business

    Keller Group CEO James Wroath has been on the job since August 18, 2025. In this video he describes the Keller business and what sets them apart from their competition. He comments on their diverse [...]
  • The landslide emjoji is part of Unicode 17.0 and will be included in iOS 26.4 (also Hairy Creature, Orca, Fight Cloud, and Distorted Face...and a few others)
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    Landslide Emoji Coming to iOS 26.4

    Geo-engineers rejoice: The landslide emoji is coming in the next major iOS update! The emoji showing a mountain with several rocks falling down it was one of a handful of new emojis announced by Apple [...]
  • Sealing water leaks beneath an active tunnel structure
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    Underground Leak Sealing Restores Coal Terminal Operations

    Coal handling facilities are tough environments for concrete, especially when long-term water intrusion begins to undermine operations below grade. In this NCFI case study, a coal terminal was dealing with persistent underground leaks in a [...]
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    Ground investigation for civil infrastructure gets more robust with integration of lab and field geotechnical data

    CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Seequent, the Bentley Subsurface company, has streamlined laboratory testing in OpenGround, the leading cloud-connected geotechnical data management solution. The new OpenGround Labs capability enables seamless transfer of soil and rock sample data from field [...]
  • Rock scaling after the Kaikoura earthquake
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    Young Engineering Geologists Gain Valuable Career Momentum Through New Zealand Alliance Projects

    A recent contribution to the Young Engineering Geologists (YEG) article series for the Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists (AEG) highlights how alliance‑delivery infrastructure projects in New Zealand provide unique professional development opportunities for early‑career [...]
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    Registration Open for DFI’s 51st Annual Conference

    Hawthorne, N.J. (January 22, 2026): Registration is officially open for DFI’s 51st Annual Conference on Deep Foundations (DFI51) taking place November 2–5, 2026, in Orlando, Florida. This year’s event spotlights the global implications of sea [...]
  • Construction scene from the Yangtze River tunnel project, where engineers executed the precision TBM rescue.
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    Yangtze River TBM Rescue

    China has set a new benchmark in underground rescue operations with its remarkable recovery of a stalled 16‑m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) beneath the Yangtze River. During construction of the 6.4‑km Jiangyin–Jingjiang Yangtze River [...]
  • Sunny Isles, Florida Beach skyline with new construction
    Geologic Hazards

    Satellite Data and Reporting Highlight Subsidence Patterns Along South Florida Barrier Islands

    Recent reporting by the Miami Herald and a new peer-reviewed satellite radar study have drawn attention to subsidence patterns affecting parts of South Florida’s barrier islands. The findings are likely to be of interest to [...]
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    Keller Shares 2025 Year in Review Video

    Keller, a long-time sponsor of GeoPrac.net, has released its 2025 Year in Review video, highlighting project achievements, technical milestones, and company activities from the past year. The video provides a look back at how Keller [...]

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  • 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 [...]
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    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 [...]
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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 [...]
  • 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 [...]
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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 [...]
  • 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 [...]
  • 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 [...]