It was a hectic summer it seems, less time for blogging than I would have liked. So here are some interesting geo-news items I didn’t have time to blog about. Geotechnical investigation for Flower Creek […]
Dan Brown and Associates, PC, is pleased to announce that Barry J. Meyer, P.E., has joined the firm as a Senior Principal. Mr. Meyer is a recognized expert in the design and construction of deep […]
Geotechnical consulting firm Shannon and Wilson based in Seattle, Washington was involved in the foundation engineering for a 360 ton sculpture by Michael Heizer at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The giant […]
I’ve collected a list of new, updated and otherwise updated ASTM standards that pertain to geotechnical engineering, construction and materials testing and laboratory testing of soil, rock, geosynthetics and related fields. This month’s updates contains a new standard for measuring hydraulic conductivity of recycled tire-derived aggregate, updates to leak detection standards and more. Click through for the list of updates to ASTM standards you can’t afford to ignore in your practice.
Keynetix are pleased to announce that as a result of the recent success of the KeyLAB program, Peter Keeton has joined Keynetix to further strengthen the KeyLAB team. Peter has over 40 years of experience working in and managing geotechnical laboratories for Soil Mechanics and has been an influential member of the CEN European standards working group on geotechnical testing. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release from Keynetix. [/Editor]
The newest version of desktop GIS mapping software, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a Beta 3 developed by SuperGeo, is available now.
Featuring plentiful GIS tools and user-friendly manipulation environment, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a allows GIS experts to display, edit, manage, query, and analyze diverse spatial data effectively.
The newest SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a enhances the manipulation of attribute table and map query, which enables you to easily navigate maps and export them to diverse formats. The whole new Graph add-on provided by SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a improves the interaction between the graph and the map selection. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release. [/Editor]
The Inhabitat article headline above might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but the technology is still very interesting. A 3-D robot arm uses a special spray to bind the sand together to create […]
Blasting for the New York MTA’s Second Avenue Subway project unexpectedly showered the street level with debris, damaging buildings. Fortunately there were no injuries. Some debris reached the height of a 5 story building. [Source: […]
A sinkhole formed at the beginning of August near a brine production operation in Bayou Corne near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The sinkhole, now referred to as a slurry hole, measures roughly 600 ft by 300 […]
Earlier this summer, there were several large landslides in B.C. Canada, including some with fatalities. Around that time, the landslide video below was captured by some boaters. [Source: WTVR.com]
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