News

News, announcements, policy updates, spotlighted websites, software updates and other info that may be of interest to practicing geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, geophysicists, hydrogeologists and related professions.

American Society of Testing Materials Logo - ASTM
Standards and Codes

ASTM Updates for August 2012

September 18, 2012 rockman Comments Off on ASTM Updates for August 2012

American Society of Testing Materials Logo - ASTMI’ve collected a list of new, updated and otherwise updated ASTM standards that pertain to geotechnical engineering, construction and materials testing and laboratory testing of soil, rock, geosynthetics and related fields.  This month’s updates contains a new standard for measuring hydraulic conductivity of recycled tire-derived aggregate, updates to leak detection standards and more.  Click through for the list of updates to ASTM standards you can’t afford to ignore in your practice.

[…]

Peter Keeton
Press Releases

Peter Keeton Joins the Keynetix KeyLAB Team

September 18, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Peter Keeton Joins the Keynetix KeyLAB Team

Peter Keeton

Keynetix are pleased to announce that as a result of the recent success of the KeyLAB program, Peter Keeton has joined Keynetix to further strengthen the KeyLAB team. Peter has over 40 years of experience working in and managing geotechnical laboratories for Soil Mechanics and has been an influential member of the CEN European standards working group on geotechnical testing. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release from Keynetix. [/Editor]

[…]

clip_image002
Press Releases

SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a Beta 3 Now Available

September 7, 2012 rockman Comments Off on SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a Beta 3 Now Available

The newest version of desktop GIS mapping software, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a Beta 3 developed by SuperGeo, is available now.

Featuring plentiful GIS tools and user-friendly manipulation environment, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a allows GIS experts to display, edit, manage, query, and analyze diverse spatial data effectively.

The newest SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a enhances the manipulation of attribute table and map query, which enables you to easily navigate maps and export them to diverse formats. The whole new Graph add-on provided by SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a improves the interaction between the graph and the map selection. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release. [/Editor]

[…]