Shoring retaining wall failure in Virginia prompts apartment building evacuation

ATLANTA – April 16, 2012 –Tensar International, the leader in geosynthetic soil reinforcement and stabilization, announced Kokosing has begun construction on the $3 million contract to build Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining walls for one […]

Time to clear the queue a bit. Enjoy these gems!

• Pile Dynamics Releases Complimentary Update of GRLWEAP Program – Pile Buck Magazine – pile driving, marine construction, deep foundation
• North Salt Lake Passes Landslide Ordinance – Source: The Salt Lake Tribune via AEG Insider
• Rotting Oaks Lead to Hazardous Voids in Indiana’s Mount Baldy Sand Dune – Source: Terradaily.com via AEG Insider
• Soldier pile excavations in Seattle designed with DeepEX – Source: DeepExcav
• Santa Clarita Landslide Buckles Road, Prompts Indefinite Closure – Source: CBS Los Angeles
• The part of the SR 99 tunnel built without Bertha – Source: WSDOT Alaskan Way Viaduct Project Page
• China landslide: Man-made, 330-foot mountain of waste collapsed amid rains – Source: Chicago Tribune
• City of Burien releases full geotechnical report on Dec. 8 landslide – Source: The Highline Times / Des Moines News
• More sinkholes expected at Seawatch, District to debate next steps
• ‘Ask Fugro’ campaign celebrates Fugro’s global ingenuity

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The New York MTA is in the midst of a “golden era” of tunneling for the New York subway.  Three separate mega-projects are currently underway totaling some $15 Billion:  The Second Avenue Subway, The East Side Access Project (which features the new Grand Central Terminal), and The Number 7 Subway Line Extension Project.  The short video below was published by the NY Post and included in an AP Article.  It is tantalizingly short, but gives a great perspective on what the underground construction project at Grand Central looks like and a sense of the scale…the amazing huge caverns being constructed. The article says that from underneath Grand Central Terminal alone, the construction crews have removed enough material to cover Central Park almost a foot deep!

[Source: KOMO News (Seattle) via ASCE SmartBrief. Image: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer via KOMOnews.com]

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