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A rock that traveled over 2,200 feet and stopped just short of a house in Springville, Utah

Watch Boulder’s 2,200′ Journey to Utah Resident’s Front Door!

August 22, 2019 rockman 0

A roughly 4-foot boulder traveled over 2,200 linear feet, losing about 1,000 feet in elevation and somehow stopped mere feet from a Springville Utah resident’s front door! And people were watching it unfold from the […]

Geology as Art – New Exhibit in Melbourne

August 20, 2019 rockman 0

The subsurface geology of the City of Melbourne and it’s arts precinct is becoming an art exhibit itself. Golder has been involved in a geotechnical investigation at the site of the Testing Grounds, a “temporary […]

2019 Keller Calendar Fly-Through

August 15, 2019 rockman 0

Keller / Hayward Baker’s calendars are very well known in the geotechnical world. In our industry, nearly all of our best work gets buried under the ground or never sees the light of day in […]

H-Piles on the Hurrican and Storm Reduction Project - Phase II in New Jersey

GRL Helps on Floodwall in Area Ravaged by Hurricane Sandy

August 15, 2019 rockman 0

GRL Engineers are providing wave equation analysis, dynamic pile testing (PDA), and CAPWAP analysis for a US Army Corps flood control and storm surge project on the New Jersey coast. They have been involved in […]

Terracon Foundation Awards $98,538 in Grants

August 15, 2019 rockman 0

OLATHE, Kan. – The Terracon Foundation is pleased to announce the award of $98,538 in community and university grants. The Terracon Foundation was established as the community investment arm of Terracon with a goal to […]

Failure of MSE retaining wall on US 36 between Denver and Boulder

Apparent Foundation Failure of MSE Wall on US 36 Impacts Busy Denver-Boulder Route

August 1, 2019 rockman 0

An MSE retaining wall at a bridge approach on US 36 suffered a failure that closed the entire highway for several days until a bypass around the destroyed eastbound lanes of the highway could be […]

View of Lunar Module footpad, subject of much geotechnical analysi

Geotechnical Engineering on the Moon? 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Landing

July 16, 2019 rockman 0

You might not think that geotechnical engineering would have anything to do with the Apollo 11 mission that put the first humans on the surface of the moon, but you would be wrong. The landing […]

COOLR landslide points (in orange) and NASA landslide susceptibility (blue = low susceptibility, red = high susceptibility), in Central America. Image by NASA.

NASA Building Crowd-sourced Landslide Inventory

July 15, 2019 rockman 0

NASA scientists are building an open global inventory of landslides with the goal of improving predictive models for landslides. The data is crowd-sourced and some are scraped from news sources as well. Anyone can download […]

Video: California SR-2 Slide Repair and Spider Excavator

July 11, 2019 rockman 0

In February of 2019 a rockslide on California SR-2, the Angeles Crest Highway, buried the road in 30 feet of rubble and closed the road indefinitely. Caltrans worked to clear the remaining landslide debris and […]

Keller is integrating all its foundation businesses in North America into one unified company, and rebranding to Keller, effective 1 January, 2020.

Keller to Restructure in North America

July 11, 2019 rockman 0

“We have a very proud history of success and market leadership in North America,” explains James Hind, President, North America. “Combining our capabilities will strengthen our position and give us the platform for further growth […]