A home owner with a condemned piece of property containing a landslide scarp in his driveway contends that the landslide was caused by a developer excavating and blasting at the toe of the slope below […]
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 669: Models for Predicting Reflection Cracking of Hot-Mix Asphalt Overlays explores mechanistic-based models for predicting the extent and severity of reflection cracking in hot-mix asphalt overlays. [Source: […]
In their October 2010 cover story, Tunnel Business Magazine (TBM) had this article on the construction of the Washington, D.C. Metro system. They describe how this was the first use of the NATM in the […]
Landslide detector wins enterprise award – Source: TheEngineer.co.uk Bad economy unlikely to translate to a cheaper tunnel – Source: Seattle PI via ASCE SmartBrief New Publication Maps More Than 22,000 Landslides in Utah – Source: […]
The City of Zhengzhou is set to become a major rail crossroads for China, located at the intersections of China’s major North-South and East-West lines. Currently tunneling with tunnel boring machine (TBM) is taking place […]
In May, a retaining wall that ran from Little Beaver Trail to a Walgreens store failed after a water main rupture, sending debris into the street, closing the road for several months. Specialty geotechnical contractor […]
In July of 2005, cracks began forming in the concrete dam that created Duke Lake in Ryerson Station State Park in Pennsylvania that required officials to drain the 62-acre lake. The state’s Department of Environmental […]
Part of the dam collapsed in July during flooding by the Maquoketa River, draining a nine-mile lake. FEMA officials decided the dam wasn’t elligible for federal emergency funding because it is owned by a private […]
‘The Santa Clara Valley Water District has received preliminary findings from an ongoing seismic stability evaluation for Anderson Dam that detail part of the dam could experience “significant slumping” if a 7.25 magnitude earthquake were […]
This is the online version of an article that appeared n the September 2010 version of CE News Magazine. It has a nice set of tables summarizing various large transportation projects across the country, grouped […]
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