New Orleans Levees Need to be Raised 11-ft
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DFI Announces 2020-2021 Traveling Lecturer: David B. Paul, P.E.
Hawthorne, N.J. (August 26, 2020): In 2018, DFI introduced the DFI Traveling Lecturer program to promote the field of geotechnical engineering and deep foundation construction by encouraging students to explore a career in the deep […]
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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 […]
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Army Corps Looking for 100 Million Cu Yd of Clay
The US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans district is looking for an unprecedented 100 Million Cubic Yards of Clay to be used for reconstruction and fortification of levees in the New Orleans area. Once borrow sources are approved by the Corps, they will likely be contracting directly with a USACOE contractor constructing one of the projects associated with New Orleans Hurricane Protection System. Material specs are USCS classification of CL or CH, <35% sand, PI < 10, organic content < 9%.