The notorious landslide-prone stretch of California Highway 1 at Devil’s slide has only about one more year until traffic bypasses it completely thanks to the twin bore tunnels that have just completed excavation. They still […]
On the Big Sur coatline, the Pitkins Curve area of California Highway 1 (the PCH) is undergoing some improvements to help alleviate landslides and roadway instability. National Driller magazine reports on the project in their […]
The massive 13-mile wastewater tunnel project known as Brightwater is approaching the final stretch of tunneling, but perhaps the most difficult. This portion of the project has already claimed one contractor’s slurry TBM and put […]
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 676: Intelligent Soil Compaction Systems explores intelligent compaction, a new method of achieving and documenting compaction requirements. Intelligent compaction uses continuous compaction-roller vibration monitoring to assess mechanistic […]
This is a pretty nice little 3-minute news segment on the Caldecott Tunnel 4th Bore Project in the California Bay Area. Progress is slow, at only about 10-15 feet of progress per day, but work […]
Sports fans are eagerly awaiting the matchup between the Pittsburgh Steeler’s and the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV (That’s 45 for the roman numeral challenged). The venue for the Super Bowl is the new Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium in Arlington and it is certainly a show piece and engineering marvel worthy of this world class sporting event. And it required some very interesting geotechnical engineering design as well… (Photo: NFLTouchdown.com)
Super Bowl Geotech Geotechnical Engineering of Cowboy’s Stadium in Arlington, TX, Location of Super Bowl XLV! {!jomcomment}{addthis off}
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For emergency planning purposes, scientists unveiled a hypothetical California scenario that describes a storm that could produce up to 10 feet of rain, cause extensive flooding (in many cases overwhelming the state’s […]
5 of Santa Clara’s 10 reservoirs need seismic repairs and the anticipated cost is around $150M. These dams are kept at less than capacity, and the total maximim water supply for all 10 reservoirs is […]
"That means each year, the equivalent of one new Three Gorges Dam will be added in China over the next decade," said Shao Minghui, an analyst at China Post Securities, using the 2020 target […]
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