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Video: RPI Geotechnical Engineering Centrifuge
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Press Releases
Moretrench’s Keith LaRue, P.E. Promoted to Northeast Regional Manager, Geotechnical Operations
Moretrench is pleased to announce that Keith LaRue, P.E., has been promoted to Northeast Regional Manager for Moretrench’s geotechnical operations. A 1994 graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Civil Engineering, Mr. LaRue, […]
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Geo Photo Album
A very nice collection of photos of geotechnical failures, geotechnical construction projects and methods. Put together by Ross W. Boulanger at UC Davis and James Michael Duncan from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Visit Geo Photo Album
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Geotechnical Engineering Challenges of British Columbia’s Sea-to-Sky Highway, gateway to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been enjoying watching the 2010 Olympic Winter games over the past few days. If you have, you know that Whistler is the venue for many of the sports including alpine skiing, luge, skeleton, bobsled, ski jumping, biathlon and cross-country skiing among others. The Whistler area is located about 50-miles or so North of Vancouver. In order to get to Whistler, you need to drive along Highway 99, better known as the Sea-to-Sky Highway. This highway has a long history of geotechnical problems, including some significant structurally controlled rockslides and landslides. In the years leading up to these Olympic Games a fair amount of work was done on the highway with some significant geotechnical innovations.