Hawthorne, N.J. (April 1, 2019): The DFI Educational Trust and the DFI Women in Deep Foundations Committee are awarding five grants of $1,750 each to women involved in design and/or construction of deep foundations to […]
Tensar is giving away a $500 Amazon gift card as part of their SpectraPave Design software challenge. All you have to do is download the free software for design of geogrid subgrade improvement beneath pavements, […]
The 2019 Geo-Congress Conference from ASCE’s Geo-Institute is underway in Philadelphia. It may be too late for you to attend in person, but you can livestream several of the keynote lectures! It looks like Sunday’s […]
A spectacular landslide/pit slope failure was caught on video in a marble quarry in the Orhaneli district of Bursa. The failure happened on March 13, 2019 (as far as I can tell), and fortunately, there […]
Geological engineers around the world recognize the name Ted Brown who, along with Dr. Evert Hoek, developed the Hoek-Brown failure criterion for characterizing the strength of heavily jointed rock masses. Brown recently turned 80 and […]
A Tennesee man was killed after his vehicle encountered a landslide and his truck rolled 200 feet down an embankment slope. The landslide occurred around 2am on February 21st, 2019 on Highway 70N in Hawkins […]
In the next Small Steps Series Webinar by Keynetix, they are celebrating a big milestone with their 50th Small Steps Webinar. In this special hour-long event, the whole Keynetix Webinar team will be brought together […]
NHAZCA (Natural HAZards Control and Assessment) is a Spin-off Company of Sapienza University of Rome, an international leader in the analysis and monitoring of natural hazards and large infrastructures for the management and mitigation of […]
There is not much detail here, but the debris flow video of a truck getting swept off the road is pretty amazing to watch. The video notes that it occurred sometime this month in the […]
The City of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania has recently started a nearly $1M landslide remediation project on the City’s north side, but it is only one of nearly 20 landslide sites affecting public rights of way being monitored […]
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