Dr. Harry Poulos of Coffey Geotechnics was recently awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Career Achievement Memorial Medal. This award is the highest honor given by Engineers Australia. Dr. Poulous has had a prolific career both […]
Seequent is hosting a webinar on January 27, 2021 at two different times entitled “Interoperability for Geotechnical Workflows”. This webinar will review the geotechnical workflow for analyzing pore water pressures and stability of a tailings […]
A TBM named for Eliza Leggett, an active participant on the underground railroad, and later a suffragist, has been tunneling for the past 6 months on the massive I-75 reconstruction project in metropolitan Detroit. The […]
The Geosynthetic Institute has published its list of webinars for the first half of 2021. As we all continue our strange pandemic work schedules, this is a great option for geotechnical engineers needing to get […]
President Trump signed into law H.R.8810 / S.529, also known as the “National Landslide Preparedness Act” earlier this month. The purpose of the bill is to “establish a national program to identify and reduce losses […]
UC Berkeley will offer an online short-course on “New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring” on January 22-23, 2021. Register by January 15, 2021! […]
Geotechnical software company Rocscience has had a very busy 2020 with significant updates across their product list. They summarized their achievements in a nice infographic reproduced below.
A landslide struck the village of Gjerdrum, which is about 25km (15 miles) north-east of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. The slide is already being called a “quick clay” landslide by officials. It occurred around 4 […]
A few weeks back I was a panelist on a webinar with Bentley as part of their Year in Infrastructure (YII) conference. The webinar was titled “YII ACCELERATE: REALIZE the benefits of a connected data […]
A static load test was being performed on (presumably) a group of piles at a construction site on Gilstead Road in Singapore in 2011 when the massive pile of concrete blocks toppled over, blocking the […]
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