The late Ralph B. Peck PhD, PE, NAE, Hon.M.ASCE gave an interview to one of his former graduate students, University of New Mexico professor Fernando Moreu, sometime prior to his passing in 2008. The interview […]
Jim Cahill, a long-time executive with Case Foundation Company (now Keller North America) was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Association of Foundation Drilling (ADSC) at their annual meeting in January. Jim […]
Geotechnical and multi-disciplinary firm GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. (GZA) recently announced the acquisition of Vieau Associates Inc. (Vieau), an environmental services firm founded in Minneapolis-St. Paul over 20 years ago. Vieau provides a variety of environmental […]
Geo-Slope will be offering a free webinar on using three-dimensional seepage results in SLOPE/W analyses on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 12 pm EDT or 8 pm EDT. This webinar will review a complex three […]
This free webinar will show you the new features and applications of Rocscience’s 3D Pile Analysis Program, RSPile. The webinar will be conducted by Rocscience Geomechanics Specialist, Dr. Ahmed Mufty and Geotechnical Sales Engineer, Clarissa […]
There is a great video of a massive slope failure event at Niagara Falls Prospect Point from 1954. It’s amazing footage in it’s own right, and the vintage feel of the video is interesting as […]
The long-time president of Shannon & Wilson, Gerard Buechel, will be stepping down this spring after 16 years as president. Greg Fisher, Chairman of the Board for the past 15 years will be taking over […]
Dutch organization EcoShape is providing nature-based designs for a variety of coastal engineering challenges…working with nature instead of against it. The video below talks a bit about their approach in the context of two projects. […]
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 […]
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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