- ATI Panamericana Completes Geophysical Survey for the Panama Canal Atlantic Bridge | Ambient Technologies, Inc.
- Natural gas shortages might be alleviated with underground salt caverns – Source: Arizona Geology
Break Through on Southeast Asia’s Longest Drill-Blast Rail Tunnels – Source: Tunnel Business Online- Deep underground Cleveland tunnel, including segment under Lake Erie, will cost $198 million, but help clean up pollution – Source: cleveland.com via AGC SmartBrief
- Niagara Tunnel Project Nears Breakthrough – Source: Ontario.ca via Geoengineer.org
- Famous Earthquakes: Chile 2010 – The Big Building Code Condemnation – Part 1 – Source: Ontario-geofish
- New guidance to combat wind turbine tower foundation grouting flaws – Source: New Civil Engineer
- Famous Earthquakes: Chile 2010 – The Big Building Code Condemnation – Part 2 – Source: Ontario-geofish
Key Panama Canal Cofferdam Takes Shape – Source: ENR- Seattle City Council overrides Mayor McGinn’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Tunnel veto – Source: Seattle Times Newspaper via ASCE SmartBrief
- Landslide surge in western North Carolina and Tennessee may prompt – Source: The Asheville Citizen-Times via USGS Landslide Events
This is a nice article describing some of the many landslide issues that have occurred in the Western North Carolina and Tennessee region. Various NC counties have enacted rules regarding development in landslide prone region, but as the election year approaches, there may be pressure to enact statewide laws for building on steep slopes.
In the last six months, landslides, mudslides and rock slides in WNC and east Tennessee have destroyed parts of three major highways and damaged at least five houses…
- Case History 2010 Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand – Dr. Misko Cubrinovski, Dr. Rolando Orense and Dr. Lis Bowman – Source: ISSMGE December 2010 Newsletter (Page 15)
- Plenary Lecture Topics for Geo-Frontiers 2011 Announced – Source: Geosynthetica.net
- Danger Is Pent Up Behind Aging Dams – Source: NYTimes.com via Geology.com
- $39.5 million change order for Lake Mead ‘Third Straw’ Tunneling Project – Source: ReviewJournal.com via ASCE SmartBrief
Unmanned helicopter to help find Turkish landslide victims – Source: Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review- Christchurch quake validates modern building methods, expert says – Source: ABC AU via ASCE SmartBrief
- Update: Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami in Numbers – Source: Natural Hazard Media Monitoring
Seattle unveils TBMs for Seattle light rail – Source: Seattle Times Newspaper via ASCE SmartBrief
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Tunnel Projects – Source: Tunnel Business Online