In honor of the GBA holding their Fall Meeting in Seattle, the City’s mayor, Edward B. Murray, has named October 14th Geoprofessionals’ Day. Pretty cool! [Source: The Geoprofessional Business Association (GBA). Image: GBA]
The tunnel replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct (SR-99) will pass beneath 158 existing structures requiring an extensive program of vibration and settlement monitoring as well as some remediation. Of the 158 buildings, WSDOT identified 20 […]
WSDOT announced on Valentine’s Day that the plan to repair the damaged Bertha TBM was not ready yet, as engineers from Hitachi Zosen, the machine’s manufacturer, would need until the end of the month to […]
Seattle’s Pier 57 will soon be home to a 175-foot tall Ferris wheel with 41 air-conditioned gondolas. The foundations for this soon-to-be-landmark consist of 150-ft long, 30-36" steel pipe piles driven through glacial till. The […]
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