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[ January 11, 2021 ] Online Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring Course Available Resources
[ December 31, 2020 ] Rocscience’s 2020 – Year in Review Software Updates
[ December 30, 2020 ] Quick Clay Landslide in Norway – Several Missing Failures
[ December 30, 2020 ] On-Demand Webinar on Geotechnical Data Management Available Resources
[ December 29, 2020 ] Video of 2011 Pile Load Test Failure in Singapore Failures

Automated total station for geotechnical monitoring (credit Geo-Instruments)

Online Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring Course

January 11, 2021 rockman 0

UC Berkeley will offer an online short-course on “New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring” on January 22-23, 2021. Register by January 15, 2021! […]

Rocscience’s 2020 – Year in Review

December 31, 2020 rockman 0

Geotechnical software company Rocscience has had a very busy 2020 with significant updates across their product list. They summarized their achievements in a nice infographic reproduced below.

Quick clay landslide in Gjerdrum, Norway

Quick Clay Landslide in Norway – Several Missing

December 30, 2020 rockman 0

A landslide struck the village of Gjerdrum, which is about 25km (15 miles) north-east of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. The slide is already being called a “quick clay” landslide by officials. It occurred around 4 […]

On-Demand Webinar on Geotechnical Data Management

December 30, 2020 rockman 0

A few weeks back I was a panelist on a webinar with Bentley as part of their Year in Infrastructure (YII) conference. The webinar was titled “YII ACCELERATE: REALIZE the benefits of a connected data […]

Video of 2011 Pile Load Test Failure in Singapore

December 29, 2020 rockman 0

A static load test was being performed on (presumably) a group of piles at a construction site on Gilstead Road in Singapore in 2011 when the massive pile of concrete blocks toppled over, blocking the […]

ASTM Geotechnical Updates by GeoPrac.net

ASTM Updates for December 29, 2020

December 29, 2020 rockman 0

Those of us in the geotechnical profession use ASTM Standards on a daily basis. It’s hard to keep up with changes, so I attempt to post regular digest updates to the ASTM standards of importance […]

2021 Lightweight Fill Conference – Call for Abstracts

December 29, 2020 rockman 0

A virtual conference on Lightweight Fill will be held on October 20-21, 2021. Lightweight fill materials are materials that have a lower unit weight than the unit weight of locally available compacted natural soil fill. […]

2017 Karl Terzaghi Award Lecture by Kerry Rowe

2021 Award Winners from the Geo-Institute

December 15, 2020 rockman 0

The Geo-Institute of ASCE presents a number of prestigious awards every year to deserving members of the geotechnical engineering community. Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Karl Terzaghi Lecturer – Gregory B. Baecher, Ph.D. P.E., NAE, M.ASCE […]

Golder Announces Entering Into Arrangement Agreement With WSP Global Inc.

December 3, 2020 rockman 0

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Dec. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Golder Associates Corporation’s parent company, Enterra Holdings Ltd. (“Golder” or the “Company”) announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement (the “Arrangement Agreement”) with a wholly-owned […]

Advanced Geotechnical Methods in Exploration (A-GaME)

Bring your A-GaME to Geotechnical Investigations

December 2, 2020 rockman 0

The FHWA’s Advanced Geotechnical Methods in Exploration (A-GaME) initiative is part of their EDC-5 Everyday Counts program. The FHWA Resource Center is hosting a webinar on December 8 regarding A-GaME. See below for more info, […]