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[ April 11, 2019 ] Webinar: Identifying and Reducing Landslide Risk Geologic Hazards
[ April 9, 2019 ] Semi Crashes Into Geotechnical Drilling Site in Washington State Miscellaneous
[ April 8, 2019 ] Golder Brings Home Gold and Silver at ACEC Washington Awards Comings and Goings
[ April 5, 2019 ] Lack of Geotechnical Investigation Cause of Major Overrun on Muskrat Transmission Line Miscellaneous
[ April 5, 2019 ] Applications Being Accepted for DFI’s Women in Deep Foundations Professional Development Grants News

Webinar on Identifying and Reducing Landslide Risk

Webinar: Identifying and Reducing Landslide Risk

April 11, 2019 rockman 0

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 […]

Semi-truck strikes geotechnical drill rig near Chico, Washington

Semi Crashes Into Geotechnical Drilling Site in Washington State

April 9, 2019 rockman 0

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 Brings Home Gold and Silver at ACEC Washington Awards

April 8, 2019 rockman 0

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 […]

Miscellaneous

Lack of Geotechnical Investigation Cause of Major Overrun on Muskrat Transmission Line

April 5, 2019 rockman 0

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 […]

Driving precast concrete piles for a bridge abutment

Applications Being Accepted for DFI’s Women in Deep Foundations Professional Development Grants

April 5, 2019 rockman 0

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 Triax geogrid with separation geotextile

Tensar’s SpectraPave Design Challenge

March 27, 2019 rockman 0

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, […]

2017 Karl Terzaghi Award Lecture by Kerry Rowe

Livestream 2019 Geo-Congress Keynotes

March 26, 2019 rockman 0

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 […]

Pit slope failure in marble quarry in Turkey

Pit Slope Failure in Turkish Marble Quarry

March 20, 2019 rockman 0

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 […]

Ted Brown and Evert Hoek, creators of the Hoek-Brown failure criterion.

Golder Celebrates Retirement of Rock Mechanics Legend Ted Brown

March 13, 2019 rockman 0

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 […]

Landslide on Tennessee Highway 70N Kills Man

Motorist Killed by Landslide in Tennessee

March 5, 2019 rockman 0

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 […]