Construction or maintenance personnel and a geotechnical engineer narrowly avoided being a victim of a new landslide at the site of a landslide cleanup. They were attempting to clean up a landslide on the State […]
My list of blog-worthy items is pretty long but my spare time is short. Here are a few I haven’t gotten to that you may be interested in. 2012 Geo-Congress and Other 2012 Deep Foundations […]
This post highlights recent changes to ASTM Standards affecting geotechnical engineers, materials testing engineers, soil and construction laboratory managers and related professionals. Updates for February include: a new standard for geospatial data at coal mines; standards related to pervious concrete; an updated standard for volumetric concrete batching; and an update to D5778 – Standard Test Method for Electronic Friction Cone and Piezocone Penetration Testing of Soils; among others. Click through for the list.
If Wolf Creek Dam in Kentucky fails, $6 billion in flood damage is projected to occur downstream. A dam foundation remediation project at Wolf Creek Dam to fix seepage and Karst solutioning problems is a […]
A new piece of equipment for deep ocean pile driving was recently used in 140m of water off the coast of Brazil. The StabFRAME is lowered to the sea floor and leveled to allow accurate […]
Structural Systems Inc. recently completed tieback anchor projects at two sites along the coast of Hawaii. Failing retaining walls were stabilized using a total of 93 anchors ranging in length from 50 to 65 feet. […]
Cleaning the tubes of some interseting content I didn’t have time to write about. Enjoy! San Vicente Dam Raise Time Lapse Video – Source: Govtech.com via ASCE SmartBrief TRB Committee on Engineering Geology (AFP10) – […]
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 […]
A couple walking on the beach narrowly missed being crushed by tons of sandstone crumbling from the cliff face. The incident took place in Dorset, UK at a beach that has been known for these […]
Dr. Robert M. Koerner has recently published the 6th edition of his industry standard text, Designing With Geosynthetics. He changed to a small publishing company to bring down the price, and the result is a […]
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