New Cableway System Set For Hoover Dam Bypass
Failures
Landslide Just Misses Viaduct Piers in Turkey
A major landslide was captured on video narrowly missing piers for a viaduct under construction at the Yusufeli Dam site in Artvin, Turkey. The slide appears to be on an engineered cut slope benched into […]
Standards and Codes
UK railroad engineers now designing with Eurocodes
UK structural and geotechnical engineers have long used the British Standard codes for design of railroad bridges. Those days are now gone as all rail structures are required to use the Eurocode. This article is […]
Miscellaneous
‘Geotechnical Monument’ in St. Louis
An 11-foot diameter limestone core has become a ‘geotechnical monument’ of sorts according to the good folks at Dan Brown and Associates. DBA was the geotechnical designer for a new bridge carrying I-70 over the […]