Crane topples over embankment after retaining wall fails

A crane using a pile driver to install new foundations for the Barnette Street Bridge project. A DOT (City of Fairbanks?) spokesman speculated that the crane overextended itself while installing piles about 40-ft away. The […]

Yesterday I received a forwarded email from a fellow geotechnical engineer and former coworker regarding a fatal accident involving a hollow stem auger drill rig in the Lindsay area of Ontario Canada on October 8th. […]

The Devil’s Slide Tunnels that bypass a landslide prone stretch of California coast will not open until late 2012, a full year later than anticipated according to Caltrans. The tunnels broke through back in October, […]