Although nobody likes to see a failure, especially a catastrophic one, it is important to learn whatever we can from them so that the geo-community does not make the same mistakes again.
Back in July of 2018 bystanders recorded video of the failure of a combination retaining wall and braced excavation that undermined an apartment building, eventually causing its collapse as well. The incident was in the Beyoglu […]
A bridge over the Swan River in a rural area of eastern Saskatchewan collapsed just six hours after opening, and reportedly there was no geotechnical investigation done for the piers in the river. The Dyck Memorial […]
A preliminary investigation report notes that “land subsidence” was the cause of a June 7th pipeline explosion near Moundsville, West Virginia, in other words, a landslide. An 83-foot section of the 36-inch diameter pipeline was […]
On March 9, 2018 a “limited breach” of the tailings dam at the North Tailings Facility of the Cadia Mine tailings impoundment occurred in New South Wales, Australia. The area of the failure is approximately […]
An article by the NZ Herald reports that recommendations for slope monitoring and early warning made by a geotechnical consulting firm in a report 2 years before the initial failure were not adopted by Auckland Transport. The […]
A shoring retaining wall at a Rome construction site failed at around 5:30 pm local time on February 14, 2018, and swallowed 6 parked cars from the adjacent street and required evacuation of some 20 […]
The 645-foot tall Millennium Tower in San Francisco settled an incredible 16 inches, and tilted at least 2 inches to the northwest. Recently the City and County Department of Building Inspection (DBI) issued interim guidelines […]
Raghu on the Geotechnical Engineers Linkedin Group has a problem. A new school site (location not disclosed) was built with cut and fill methods at a location where the winter ground water table is only […]
A 20 foot section of a tunnel collapsed at the PUREX facility at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State. The PUREX facility was used to extract plutonium for weapons from spent […]
Earlier in February severe rain caused the Oroville Dam in Sacramento to reach capacity. The dam is an earth fill dam approximately 770 feet high, making it one of the tallest dams of this type […]
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