A 19m deep excavation for a landmark high-rise building known as Downtown One was recently completed in Tirana Albania. The building will feature 5 floors of underground parking. The deep excavation support system consisted of […]
Engineering News Record (ENR) has published their annual list of Top 500 Design Firms, and as is the tradition on GeoPrac, I have highlighted geo-companies that are involved in geotechnical engineering, geological consulting services, and […]
Sumner Road in Christchurch, New Zealand is a critical infrastructure link between Christchurch, the Port of Lyttleton, and the communities of Sumner and Lyttelton. It was severely damaged in the 2010-2011 earthquakes that struck the […]
The Philippines was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake on April 22, 2019 and there is some interesting video of high-rise buildings swaying and of water from a rooftop pool cascading down to the ground. […]
Hawthorne, N.J. (April 5, 2019): Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and the European Federation of Foundation Contractors (EFFC) are pleased to announce the release of the EFFC/DFI Guide to Support Fluids for Deep Foundations, Edition 1. […]
A dashcam video caught a near miss with a huge boulder in the Taroko Gorge in Eastern Taiwan on April 18, 2019. The rockfall was triggered by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in the area, you […]
The American Geosciences Institute is hosting a webinar on Identifying and Reducing Landslide Risk on April 17, 2019 at 1:00 pm EDT. In this webinar, experts in landslide characterization, mapping, and risk reduction discuss landslide impacts […]
A Washington DOT geotechnical crew drilling along Highway 3 Near Chico, Washington narrowly avoided disaster when a semi-truck crashed into their work zone on March 19, 2019. The crew heard the semi bearing down on […]
Golder was a team member on three Best-in-State Gold and Silver award-winning projects at the ACEC Washington Awards Gala. Among these was the I-90 Snowshed to Keechelus Dam Phase 1C project, part of the Snoqualmie Pass […]
Engineers for a 1,100 km (683 miles) transmission line in Newfoundland performed only a desktop geotechnical study with no field investigation or ground truthing. As you might expect, foundation conditions were not what they assumed […]
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