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Conferences

Live Stream Terzaghi and Peck Lectures from Geo-Congress 2020

February 27, 2020 rockman Comments Off on Live Stream Terzaghi and Peck Lectures from Geo-Congress 2020

Couldn’t attend the Geo-Institute’s Geo-Congress 2020 conference in Minneapolis? You can still live stream the prestigous Terzaghi Lecture and Peck Lecture. For links to the streams, visit the Geo-Congress Live Stream web site. The remaining […]

Conferences

Fugro Wins Pile-Driving Prediction Contest With Machine-Learning

February 13, 2020 rockman Comments Off on Fugro Wins Pile-Driving Prediction Contest With Machine-Learning

Fugro defeated 60 other teams from industry and academia in a contest to predict pile driving blowcount vs. depth for jacket piles installed in the North Sea. The contest ran from April to December of […]

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Project Related

Stantec-Jacobs Team Wins $1.9B Corps Levee and Floodwall Project to Protect Texas Coast

February 13, 2020 rockman Comments Off on Stantec-Jacobs Team Wins $1.9B Corps Levee and Floodwall Project to Protect Texas Coast

The Galveston Coastal Services Joint Venture was recently awarded the design of a 26.7-mile long segment of levee and floodwall system along the Texas coast near Galveston. The overall project is slated to last 8 […]

Terracon and new DFI scholarship
Press Releases

DFI Educational Trust and Terracon Announce a New Scholarship Fund

February 12, 2020 rockman Comments Off on DFI Educational Trust and Terracon Announce a New Scholarship Fund

Hawthorne, N.J. (January 30, 2020):  Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust and the Terracon Foundation announce the establishment of the DFI Educational Trust/Terracon Consultants Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships to engineering students attending any […]

Boring Company TBM for Las Vegas People Mover Project
Project Related

Tunnel for Las Vegas Convention Center Nearly Half Done

February 11, 2020 rockman Comments Off on Tunnel for Las Vegas Convention Center Nearly Half Done

The Boring Company’s tunnel boring machine is nearly complete with the first half of the dual tunnel people mover system servicing the Las Vegas Convention Center. The secretive tunnel project is reported to cost $52.5M […]

Geologic Hazards

Washington State Route 706 Closed for Landslide

February 10, 2020 rockman Comments Off on Washington State Route 706 Closed for Landslide

A debris-laden landslide has closed SR 706, the popular road from Ashford, Washington to Mt. Ranier National Park. The road was first closed on February 6 as portions of the highway were covered with debris […]

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Standards and Codes

Rebuilding With FEMA Funds after Emergencies Requires New Standards

February 10, 2020 rockman Comments Off on Rebuilding With FEMA Funds after Emergencies Requires New Standards

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an Interim Policy that requires any rebuilding after an emergency to comply with a number of consensus-based codes and standards as a prerequisite for receiving emergency funds. […]

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