This video shows a huge landslide appear to take out a portion of an entire mountain. It must have been a sight to behold…and the rumbling is quite ominous. The title of the video notes […]
Golder was the recipient of the 2020 Bentley Year in Infrastructure (YII) Award in the category of Going Digital in Geotechnical Engineering for their work on the Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link (TM-CLKL) Tunnel, Southern […]
A new Python package is available for performing a variety of geotechnical calculations. The package, called Groundhog, was created by Bruno Stuyts, a Belgian professor. Professor Stuyts describes his project in a LinkedIn article where […]
TRB has published a new Synthesis Report entitled Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring. From the official description: Geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring technologies have been used to inform safety, operational, and treatment decisions for […]
Every October 2, geotechnical engineers celebrate the birthday of Karl Terzaghi, generally considered to be the father of soil mechanics. So how will you celebrate this year? Need some ideas? The Geo-Institute will be hosting […]
Golder is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary this year! Speaking personally, this is an amazing company with some truly amazing and talented individuals in the organization. This video does a great job giving you a flavor […]
Those of us in the geotechnical profession use ASTM Standards on a daily basis. It’s hard to keep up with changes, so I attempt to post regular digest updates to the ASTM standards of importance […]
EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – September 15, 2020 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (“Bentley”) today announced the launch of the initial public offering of 10,750,000 shares of its Class B common stock. The shares of Class B […]
Keller posted a very cool drone video of a anchored bored pile wall in an urban area of Lisbon, Portugal. I don’t speak Portuguese, so I can’t read the captions, but the video speaks for […]
Novo Tech has released Bubble 3D, a new freeware application for visualizing foundation stress and settlement distribution. It does not use Finite or Discrete elements, but instead, it discretizes the model into many soil elements […]
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