It’s time for a little spring cleaning! Here are some articles I didn’t get to posting about over the last month or two. Have a great weekend!
- San Francisco 49er’s Find EPS Geofoam Useful in Future Home – Source: Insulfoam.com
- Technical Paper: 1/18/13 Describing Geopier GP3 System Support of Two 18-Story Buildings – Source: Ground Improvement Engineering
- 2013 Tunneling Industry Forecast – Source: Tunnel Business Magazine
- Video: Sinkhole swallows four buildings in the city of Guangzhou, China; no casualties – Source: Geoengineer.org
- Tennessee DOT Repairs Interstate Damage from Landslide Ahead of Schedule – Source: AASHTO Journal
- CBE builds world’s largest concrete tunnel segment – Source: ConstructionWeekOnline.com via ASCE SmartBrief
- Two more Crossrail TBMs bound for London – Source: New Civil Engineer
- DFI Educational Trust Appoints New Board Members – Source: Deep Foundations Institute
The DFI Educational Trust (www.trust.dfi.org) recently appointed three new members to the Board of Trustees. - New method for coping with shallow landslides – Source: LinkedIn
- LEED® Certification for Pile Dynamics and GRL Engineers building! – Source: Geoengineer.org
- Issue 29-1 Pile Buck Magazine – Source: THE BUCK
- tunnel boring machine used in crossrail construction project – Source: The Sun via ASCE SmartBrief
- ADOT Facebook Photo Gallery of Damage to US 89 – Feb. 20, 2013 – Source: ADOT Facebook
- Float-In, Huge Piles And Joint Risk Mark Virginia Bridge Job – Source: ENR: Engineering News Record
- Best Online Places for Deep Foundations Discussions – Source: Dan Brown and Associates, PC
- Exploring the Grand Canyon on Google Maps – Source: Google Lat Long
- Tensar Launches New Website with Enhanced Content for Registered Users – Source: geosynthetica.net
- LEED® Certification for Pile Dynamics and GRL Engineers Building – Source: THE BUCK
- Bermingham Foundation Solutions – Port of Miami – Source: THE BUCK
- Reinforced levees stand strong – Source: Geosynthetics
- A test pad guide to substantiate geosynthetic designs – Source: Geosynthetics
- Devil’s Slide tunnels undergoing final testing – Source: San Francisco Examiner
- InspectTech Collector Mobile – Useful for Field Data Collection for gINT? – Source: gINT Users LinkedIn Group
- US 89 – Arizona – Source: ADOT
- US 89 Landslide (Aerial View February 28, 2013) – Source: YouTube
- Geo-Congress 2013 in San Diego, CA, Live! – Source: Geoengineer.org
- Nicholson Completes Work at Two City Center in Allentown, PA – Source: Nicholson Construction Company
- Official opening for the UK’s National Geological Repository – Source: New Civil Engineer
- Crossrail cores to be stored in Cheshire salt mine – Source: New Civil Engineer
- Quake-maker shakes Christchurch – Source: NZ Herald News via ASCE SmartBrief
- Tunnel boring machine in pieces for voyage to Seattle – Source: KING5.com Seattle via AGC SmartBrief
- Kleinfelder selected for major wastewater treatment plant upgrade – Source: CE News
- ADOT Receives $2M in Federal Aid to Investigate US 89 Landslide – Source: ENR: Engineering News Record
- Damage Control – Source: ASFE: The Geoprofessional Business Association
- FHWA/FTA Rule Reduces Environmental Requirements for Emergency Projects – Source: AGC News
- Record revenues for Keller in 2012 – Source: New Civil Engineer
- Landslide oddities part 3: the ground moves in mysterious ways – Source: The Landslide Blog
- Strong geotechnics business supports Fugro growth – Source: New Civil Engineer
- Keynetix 2013 Exhibition Calendar – Source: Keynetix
- Jacson County NC debates restarting landslide mapping program – Source: Smoky Mountain News via AEG Insider
- Geotechnical Engineering RFPs and the Structural Engineer – Source: Ground Improvement Engineering
- Slope Repair Problem & Solution – Source: Insulfoam Blog via @InsulFoamGF
- Sustainable Stabilization of Sulfate-Bearing Soils with Expansive Soil-Rubber Technology – Source: TRB Geotechnology
- Carbon benefits of tunnelling demonstrated by new calculator – Source: NCE
- Study: port design, construction flawed – Source: Alaska Journal of Commerce via ASCE SmartBrief
- Crux Performs Drilling and Inclinometer Installation for U.S. 89 Failure – Source: Crux
- Iran launches construction of world’s largest concrete dam – Source: Trend.Az via ASCE SmartBrief
- The Rocks of Devil’s Slide – Source: KQED QUEST
- Cellular Concrete Use in the Tunneling Industry – Source: Tunnel Business Magazine
- $14 Billion twin water tunnels planned for Fresno CA Area – Source: CBS San Francisco
- Washington DNR releases preliminary report on Whidbey Island Landslide – Source: Washington DNR
- Corps assesses danger from big quake at twenty NW dams – Source: KMTR.com via ASCE SmartBrief