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Test boring at the rock-socket test site

ADSC Rock-Socketed Drilled Shafts in the SE Research Project Site No.2

May 31, 2011 rockman Comments Off

A research project sponsored by the SE chapter of ADSC is back on track and preparing for more field tests of rock-socketed drilled shafts in rocks of the Piedmont. Click through to Dan Brown and […]

Bachy Soletanche launches carbon calculator for plant & piling professionals

May 26, 2011 rockman Comments Off

UK geotechnical contractor Bachy Soletanche, sister company to GeoPrac sponsor Nicholson Construction, has announced the creation of a carbon calculator for computing the carbon footprint of various geotechnical construction schemes. The calculator sounds as if […]

Deep Cenozoic basins in Arizona targeted for further evaluation for carbon sequestration potential

Arizona Geologic Survey Releases Preliminary Report on Carbon Sequestration Potential

May 26, 2011 rockman Comments Off

Carbon sequestration is a hot topic these days, and the Arizona Geologic Survey (AZGS) is working with a consortium of public and private agencies and non-profits to evaluate the potential of CO2 storage in Cenozoic […]

Evaluation of Bridge Scour Research: Geomorphic Processes and Predictions

May 24, 2011 rockman Comments Off

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 177: Evaluation of Bridge Scour Research: Geomorphic Processes and Predictions explores the impact of long-term aggradation and degradation, and lateral river channel migration, on highway structures. […]

California Geologic Survey publishes deep-seated landslide susceptibility map

May 23, 2011 rockman Comments Off

The California Geologic Survey has published a new map of landslide susceptibility for the entire state of California. It addresses only deep-seated landslides, not shallow slides such as debris flows. The criteria used for developing […]

AMEC acquires leading US engineering and environmental services company MACTEC

May 20, 2011 rockman 1

London, United Kingdom (18 May 2011) – AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, announces today that it has agreed to buy MACTEC, a leading US engineering and environmental services company, from its private equity and other individual shareholders for a cash consideration of US$280 million. Completion is subject to regulatory approval and is expected by the end of June 2011. [Editor] Click through for the rest of the press release from AMEC. [/Editor]

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A welder attaches protective shields to one of the two 21-foot-diameter tunnel-boring machines at the north end of the project near Husky Stadium. The entrance to the northbound tunnel is at upper right.

Tunnel boring to begin on light-rail link in Seattle

May 20, 2011 rockman Comments Off

This week, Seattle’s Sound Transit will start drilling a $2 billion, three-mile light-rail tunnel to connect the University of Washington, Capitol Hill and Westlake Center. The first TBM will be christened today near UW’s Husky […]

Winning team for 2011 Geo-Challenge from Rensselaer

Rensselaer Civil Engineering Students Take First Prize at National GeoChallenge Competition

May 20, 2011 rockman Comments Off

Here’s a press release from Rensselaer about their students winning the MSE wall competition at the Geo-Frontiers conference. Congratulations guys! [Source: Rensselaer via ASCE SmartBrief. Image: RPI]

Rock mechanics legend Bernard Amadei honored for involvement in engineers without borders

May 16, 2011 rockman Comments Off

Bernard Amadei, the founding president of Engineers Without Borders – USA and the co-founder of the Engineers Without Borders-International network, received an honorary doctor of science degree at Clarkson University’s 118th Commencement last weekend. Amadei […]

UA Engineering Students Design ‘Laser Gizmo’ Device for Caterpillar Equipment

May 16, 2011 rockman Comments Off

The device created by University of Arizona senior engineering students is suspended from a mobile armature can be positioned over an excavation made by a backhoe or other excavator and accurately measure the depth and […]