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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.

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URETEK ICR restores concrete, but your golf game?!?!

June 14, 2012 Ty Taylor Comments Off on URETEK ICR restores concrete, but your golf game?!?!

Leaky Pipe Causes Soggy Fairway

Sometimes you need a geotechnical pro more than a golf pro to improve your game.

As a golfer, mechanics are a vital part of how you play the game… however, soggy course conditions can affect your game just as much as your golf pro. Click through to see how URETEK alleviated soggy fairway conditions at a premiere course in Texas.

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Geologic Hazards

City of Venice still sinking, study says

June 13, 2012 rockman Comments Off on City of Venice still sinking, study says

Most previous studies have indicated that the ground subsidence has stabilized under the famous City of Venice, Italy. However a recent study published in March indicates this may not be the case. The researchers used […]

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Standards and Codes

Geoengineering ASTM Updates for May, 2012

June 11, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Geoengineering ASTM Updates for May, 2012

American Society of Testing Materials Logo - ASTMGeotechnical engineers, geotechnical lab managers, CQA service managers and others utilize ASTM standards on a daily basis.  Here at GeoPrac.net, we monitor the periodic updates from ASTM and summarize changes to relevant standards that may be of interest to geoprofessionals.  Click through for a list of revised and reapproved standards from May of 2012.

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Kokosing Construction To Build ARES® Retaining Walls for One of Ohio’s Largest Highway Projects

June 11, 2012 rockman Comments Off on Kokosing Construction To Build ARES® Retaining Walls for One of Ohio’s Largest Highway Projects

ATLANTA – April 16, 2012 –Tensar International, the leader in geosynthetic soil reinforcement and stabilization, announced Kokosing has begun construction on the $3 million contract to build Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining walls for one […]