The Terracon Foundation recently announced the award of $110,300 to grant and scholarship recipients. The Terracon Foundation was established as the community investment arm of Terracon with a goal to reach out and become a […]
Geosynthetic manufacturer, Tensar, has a new promotional video featuring Beau, the King of the Road. And he has an interesting way of demonstrating the effectiveness of their geogrid product…using a tank! To celebrate the launch […]
Geotechnical work has begun in Pacheco Pass, Santa Clara, as California moves ahead with planning for the United States’ first high-speed railway. This segment is 84 miles, spanning between San Jose and Merced. Kleinfelder is […]
You might have noticed that GeoPrac was offline for the majority of August…much to my dismay. I thought the website relaunch was off and running, but apparently, I was overusing my CPU resources according to […]
There is a nice article on slow moving landslides at Nature.com. They discuss the use of InSAR technology and point out how a number of landslides in the news over the past several years have […]
Swiss officials announced over the weekend that they would halt search operations for 8 missing hikers after a massive landslide near the small village of Bondo, Switzerland. Geologists toured the source area by helicopter and […]
The geotechnical drilling business is not an easy one to enter, just ask Michael Cox of PalmettoINSITU in Charleston, South Carolina. He recently celebrated two years in business and sat down with National Driller magazine […]
The Geo-Institute of ASCE is offering five days of live streaming technical case studies from August 14 – 18, 2017. The session will be presented for approximately 2 hours each day beginning at 12 PM […]
GeoPrac.net sponsor Keynetix hosts the Keynetix User Conference each year, and one of the unique things about it is their Geotechnical Data Management Awards. They celebrate their users that solve challenging geotechnical problems through better management […]
Golder Associates Global President and CEO, Dr. Hisham Mahmoud, recently gave a keynote address at the EA 2017 Summit in London. He shared candidly about the challenges faced by Golder since he took the reins […]
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