You know how it feels good to clean off your desk and have a fresh start? I’ve collected a number of articles over the past 6 months that I didn’t get a chance to blog about. There are certainly some gems in here! Hopefully you have some time off over the holidays, and maybe you check this list twice with a drink in hand!
- Update on Settlement Issue at Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Tunnel Project – Source: WSDOT Alaskan Way Viaduct Page
- Thermopolis WYDOT Employee caught in huge canyon slide, he escaped by a whisker – County 10™ – Source: County10.com via USGS Landslide Events
- Fugro to divest its multi-client data library to Spectrum – Source: Fugro
- Fugro awarded contract to investigate wind farm sites – Source: Fugro
- Kleinfelder Hires Davis Diggs, PE, as Transportation Program Manager – Kleinfelder – Source: Kleinfelder
- Fugro awarded ExxonMobil Alaska LNG Project – Source: Fugro
- Third straw at plunging Lake Mead nearly complete – Source: Las Vegas Sun News via AGC SmartBrief
- GE Awards 2015 Winners | GE Awards 2015
- Crossrail Tunneling Complete – Tunnel Business Magazine
- Atlas Copco Introduces MEYCO Versa Shotcrete Rig – Tunnel Business Magazine
- Moretrench Receives Innovations in Ground Improvement Award – Source: Moretrench
- Landslide threatens this year′s Tour de France | Sports | DW.DE | 19.06.2015
- County designs SRW abutments to replace failing bridge – Source: Roads & Bridges
- GSSI Updates GPR Offerings – Source: Tunneling Online
- MaineDOT Awards Kleinfelder Multi-Year Design and Inspection Contracts Totaling $10.1M – Source: Kleinfelder
- North Salt Lake homeowners deny allegations that water irrigation levels led to landslide – Source: Deseret News
- Why ICC Regulation is having opposite effect of its intended benefit for Foundation Repairs – Source: Arizona Foundation Repair
- Joel G. Carson To Succeed John Bachner as GBA Executive Director – Geoprofessional Business Association – Source: The GBA
- July 2015 Foundation Drilling Magazine – Source: ADSC
- New Features of Surfer 13 – Source: RockWare
- Robbins TBM Begins Hawaii’s Longest Tunnel – Source: Tunneling Online
- Tunneling Starts on Riyadh Metro Line 1 – Source: Tunneling Online
- With judge’s ruling, Yeager landslide removal could begin Monday – Source: The Charleston Gazette
- New Schedule Submitted for SR 99 Project: Tunneling to Resume in November – Source: Tunnel Business Magazine
- Collapsed beaver dam blamed for damaging debris flow that cut off 14 rural properties near Likely, B.C. – Source: TheProvince.com via USGS Landslide Events
- Researcher Discovers Groundwater Modeling Breakthrough – Source: University of Wyoming via The GBA NewsLog
- New schedule for completing SR 99 Tunnel Project – Source: Read more at WSDOT Alaskan Way Viaduct Project Page
- Press Release: Federal Highway Administration Launches New National Tunnel Inspection Program – Source: Federal Highway Administration
- Robbins TBM Begins Hawaii’s Longest Tunnel
- Tunneling Starts on Riyadh Metro Line 1
- Terracon’s Laura Reinbold Named President-Elect of GBA – Source: Terracon
- Kleinfelder to Receive Corporate Citizen Award from the Boy Scouts of America – Source: Kleinfelder
- Washington, DC sinking fast, adding to threat of sea-level rise: First-ever detailed estimate from geological drilling shows US capital faces half-foot drop by 2100 — ScienceDaily
- TBM Emerges after Completing Blue Plains Tunnel for DC Water
- Ogden Flooding: In need of a Geotechnical Engineer – Good4Utah.com
- Ogden Flooding: In need of a Geotechnical Engineer – Good4Utah.com
- Data Integrating System Turns 12,000 Dams Into a System of Intelligent Infrastructure – Source: ENR
- Boulders and mud close US89A north of Grand Canyon – Source: Arizona Geology
- ASU taking reins of new national geotechnical engineering research center | EurekAlert! Science News
- INTERVIEW: Polymeric Strap Reinforcement for MSE Walls – Source: Geosynthetica
- Ogden Flooding: In need of a Geotechnical Engineer – Good4Utah.com
- Over 60 missing after giant landslide buries mining dorms in Shaanxi: Shanghaiist
- Over 60 missing after giant landslide buries mining dorms in Shaanxi: Shanghaiist
- Preparing to put Bertha back in the access pit – Source: WSDOT Alaskan Way Viaduct Page
- Terracon’s Alfonso Soto earns distinguished ASCE Fellow Distinction – Source: The Monitor: Vida
- ASU taking reins of new national geotechnical engineering research center | EurekAlert! Science News
- Day Camp for Geotechnical Engineers of Tomorrow 2015 – Exploring Super Volcano! enhances students’ awareness of slope safety
- Black & Veatch Celebrates 100 Years
- Terracon’s Alfonso Soto earns distinguished ASCE Fellow Distinction – Vida – The Monitor
- Man who survived rock smashing into house says disaster was caused by road construction
- California drought causing valley land to sink – Source: ScienceDaily via AEG Insider
- North American Windpower: LEEDCo Takes Next Step For Icebreaker Offshore Wind Project
- What’s new in August 2015 Geo-Studio Update to Geo-Studio 2012 – Source: GEO-SLOPE International Ltd.
- Corps: Lessons from Katrina are being put to work – Source: Vicksburg Post
- See Every Landslide Caused By Rain Since 2007 | Popular Science – Source: Popular Science
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- Terracon Foundation Awards $110,000 in Grants – Source: Terracon
- Tunnel Achievement Award: The Bay Tunnel – Tunnel Business Magazine – Source: Tunnel Boring Magazine
- Massive rock threatening to crash into base of Arizona dam
- Fugro’s new GeoWing system detects UXO in challenging marine environments
- Transport Scotland awards £2.5 million contract for advanced ground investigation of A9 to Fugro
- FRA urges increased transparency about condition of privately-held railroad bridges | Roads & Bridges – Source: ROADS/BRIDGES
- Geotechnical Site Characterization Services – Source: Terracon
- Partnership Shows LiDAR’s Practical Use, Potential in Oregon – Source: LiDAR Magazine
- Tunnel Achievement Award: The Bay Tunnel – Tunnel Business Magazine – Source: Tunnelingonline.com
- Robbins Crossover TBM Begins Journey in Mexico City – Tunnel Business Magazine – Source: Tunnelingonline.com
- How Could a Pile of Dirt Cause a Major Interstate Bridge To Tilt? – Source: FHWA Public Roads Magazine
- Water authority’s new straw at Lake Mead starts to fill | Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Vital seconds: The journey toward earthquake early warning for all – Source: EARTH Magazine via @AZGEOLOGY on Twitter
- Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona – an interesting rockfall problem – Source: The Landslide Blog – AGU Blogosphere
- ASDSO awards Mark W. Pabst its 2015 National Award of Merit – HydroWorld – Source: Hydroworld.com
- Shannon & Wilson Hires New Director of Operations for Underground Services – Tunnel Business Magazine
- Halfway there: New Tappan Zee Bridge hits big milestone
- Grant for natural hazards research at UC Davis centrifuge | EurekAlert! Science News
- Rain flows through permeable concrete
- Boring machines about to begin big dig in Toronto – Source: Roads & Bridges
- Vertical headwalls and wing walls for precast arch bridge construction – Source: Roads & Bridges Magazine
- Soil test drilling underway for Broadway Subway
- Soil test drilling underway for Broadway Subway
- Thornton Reservoir will further improve quality of life in Chicago and southern Cook County – Source: Black and Veatch
- NSL landslide repairs on track for Nov. completion | KSL.com
- Mobile Web – News – Lorain Big Dig casts concrete to form giant underground tube
- Inskip Point ‘sinkhole’ salvage operations to begin | brisbanetimes.com.au
- Deep Excavations at New Los Angeles Subway Stations – Source: Deep Excavation
- Work underway to reduce risk of mudslides that halt train… | www.kirotv.com
- Rhino Linings Introduces GeoTech™ CC2TB Trench Breaker Spray Polyurethane Foam | Benzinga
- Guatemala landslide death toll tops 220 and another 350 missing | World news | The Guardian – Source: The Guardian
- Malcolm Drilling Standardizes on NoteVault for Daily Reporting Software – Source: TunnelingOnline.com
- Hayward Baker Acquires Ellington Cross – Source: TunnelongOnline.com
- New Los Angeles Subway stations – support of excavation designed with DeepEX software – Deep Excavation – Source: DeepExcavation.com
- City leaders consider stricter development ordinance after North Salt Lake landslide – Source: Deseret News via AEG Insider
- Guatemala ends search for landslide with missing toll at 280 | i24news – See beyond – Source: i24news.tv
- Robbins Workhorse TBM Forges Ahead in Ontario – Source: Tunnelingonline.com
- Hayward Baker Acquires Ellington Cross
- California highway clean-up crews remove debris after landslide leaves vehicles buried – video | US news | The Guardian – Source: The Guardian
- Owners of home destroyed by Wyoming landslide file lawsuit | Wyoming News | billingsgazette.com
- Geotechnical investigations into ‘sinkhole’ begin | Sunshine Coast Daily
- Gateway Project Takes Step Forward
- Mill Woods sewer trunk line now two years behind schedule and $33 million over budget | Edmonton Journal
- A cut slope failure on the Eskoriatza to Vitoria motorway in Spain – Source: The Landslide Blog
- Inskip Point campsites for between 300 and 400 campers closed over Christmas