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Scour at Bridge Foundations on Rock
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Scour at Bridge Foundations on Rock

July 23, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Scour at Bridge Foundations on Rock

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 717: Scour at Bridge Foundations on Rock presents a methodology for estimating the time rate of scour and the design scour depth for a bridge founded on […]

Ground Engineering Magazine App
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Ground Engineering’s iPad edition is now live

July 20, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Ground Engineering’s iPad edition is now live

If you have an iPad, you can now read Ground Engineering magazine for free! GE Magazine is one of the industry’s most respected trade publications, affiliated with the UK’s New Civil Engineer organization. The app […]

SR 99 tunnel concept
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Seattle breaks ground on S.R. 99 tunnel

July 18, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Seattle breaks ground on S.R. 99 tunnel

FHWA Director Mendez was on hand last month as WSDOT broke ground on the SR 99 tunnel, also known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Tunnel. The project is expected to cost upwards of $2B […]

A frontage road just south of Paseo del Mar in San Pedro is in ruins after a November landslide.
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Weekend CUP for July 18, 2012

July 18, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Weekend CUP for July 18, 2012

The winners of the 2012 Ground Engineering Awards have now been unveiled – Source: Ground Engineering Magazine Mountain of a fight: TDOT uses novel engineering on I-75 project – Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Contractor Nails […]

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Press Releases

Dataforensics in development phase of the next version of PLog for iOS/Android/Windows 8

July 9, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Dataforensics in development phase of the next version of PLog for iOS/Android/Windows 8

Norcross, Georgia, June 2012 – Dataforensics, developer of PLog for geotechnical and geoenvironmental data collection, announces that it will be migrating the popular data collection tool to run on iOS, Android and Microsoft Windows 8 operating systems giving users the flexibility of hardware.

The evolution of PLog will allows users a nearly unlimited number of hardware options for field data collection, furthering the digital data collection model that Dataforensics has been a proponent of from the inception of the company.

The next iteration of PLog will greatly enhance usability by allowing users to leverage new hardware options with increased screen size, faster processors, greater storage capacity and faster real time data sharing with the availability of cellular network as well as WIFI connections. [Editor] Read on for the rest of the press release from GeoPrac sponsor, Dataforensics! [/Editor]

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TRB Publication: Cost-Effective and Sustainable Road Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control
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Cost-Effective and Sustainable Road Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control

July 9, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Cost-Effective and Sustainable Road Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 430: Cost-Effective and Sustainable Road Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control presents information on cost-effective and sustainable road slope stabilization techniques, with a focus on shallow or near-surface […]

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Miscellaneous

Ocean exploration

July 9, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Ocean exploration

 I received an email the other day about a graphic that someone designed to encourage interest in careers in ocean exploration, and I thought that it might be a nice change of pace coming off […]