The EPA has released a ton of assessment reports on fly ash impoundments at coal burning power companies around the country. They have assessed a total of 228 fly ash disposal sites in 5 rounds […]
Dr. Gamez, a Principal with Schnabel and the firm’s Chief Engineer of the Geostructural Group, has more than 26 years of design and construction experience in geotechnical projects in the United States, South America and […]
A research project sponsored by the SE chapter of ADSC is back on track and preparing for more field tests of rock-socketed drilled shafts in rocks of the Piedmont. Click through to Dan Brown and […]
UK geotechnical contractor Bachy Soletanche, sister company to GeoPrac sponsor Nicholson Construction, has announced the creation of a carbon calculator for computing the carbon footprint of various geotechnical construction schemes. The calculator sounds as if […]
Carbon sequestration is a hot topic these days, and the Arizona Geologic Survey (AZGS) is working with a consortium of public and private agencies and non-profits to evaluate the potential of CO2 storage in Cenozoic […]
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 177: Evaluation of Bridge Scour Research: Geomorphic Processes and Predictions explores the impact of long-term aggradation and degradation, and lateral river channel migration, on highway structures. […]
The California Geologic Survey has published a new map of landslide susceptibility for the entire state of California. It addresses only deep-seated landslides, not shallow slides such as debris flows. The criteria used for developing […]
London, United Kingdom (18 May 2011) – AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announces today that it has agreed to buy MACTEC, a leading US engineering and environmental services company, from its private equity and other individual shareholders for a cash consideration of US$280 million. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and is expected by the end of June 2011. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release from AMEC. [/Editor]
This week, Seattle’s Sound Transit will start drilling a $2 billion, three-mile light-rail tunnel to connect the University of Washington, Capitol Hill and Westlake Center. The first TBM will be christened today near UW’s Husky […]
Here’s a press release from Rensselaer about their students winning the MSE wall competition at the Geo-Frontiers conference. Congratulations guys! [Source: Rensselaer via ASCE SmartBrief. Image: RPI]
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