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Geo-Institute Website Changes

January 22, 2008 rockman Available Resources Comments Off on Geo-Institute Website Changes

The Geo-Institute of the ASCE has made some changes to their online services. For starters, they have now posted online versions of the Geo-Strata magazine. The only catch is you have to be a member to read them. Additionally, they now have a blog with an associated RSS news feed. If you don’t use RSS feeds, you can always head over to our Outside News and Blogs page where we have already incorporated this new blog’s feed into our aggregated news.

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New ASCE 7-16 Seismic Design Standards – More Site-Specific Design?

March 23, 2018 rockman News, Standards and Codes Comments Off on New ASCE 7-16 Seismic Design Standards – More Site-Specific Design?

ASCE/SEI’s 7-16 publication, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, was published last year and contains some new seismic design standards.  According to an analysis by one group of industry professionals […]

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ASCE 2010 OCEA Award Finalist Projects Full of Geotechnical Engineering Challenges

February 3, 2010 rockman Project Related Comments Off on ASCE 2010 OCEA Award Finalist Projects Full of Geotechnical Engineering Challenges

Utah State Capital Seismic Base Isolation I was reading the ASCE News, January edition which announced the 5 finalists for the 2010 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) Award and I was struck by the significant geotechnical engineering and geoengineering components of these projects. Read on as I highlight some of things hidden beneath the ground of these remarkable projects. […]