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Project Related

Using geotextiles to repair earth dams

April 26, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Using geotextiles to repair earth dams

This paper presents how geotextiles were used to repair three dams in Texas, Arizona, and Colorado. The geotextile performs different functions in each of these three dams, all of which are dry structures. By Benjamin […]

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Geologic Hazards

Video: UC Davis team studies liquefaction in Japan

April 21, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Video: UC Davis team studies liquefaction in Japan

  "I’m a member of an organization, the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Organization," said U.C. Davis Professor Ross Boulanger, Ph.D. Boulanger recently led a team of researchers in Japan, looking at how the dramatic earthquake […]

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Press Releases

Digital Map Products to Discuss the Cloud GIS Revolution At GITA’s Geospatial Solutions Conference

April 7, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Digital Map Products to Discuss the Cloud GIS Revolution At GITA’s Geospatial Solutions Conference

(Irvine, CA – April 7, 2011) Digital Map Products (DMP) is excited to announce its involvement at the Geospatial Information & Technology Association’s (GITA) upcoming Geospatial Solutions Conference in Grapevine, TX. This industry leading conference, which brings together a cross-section of senior professionals from a wide variety of organizations that employ geospatial technology to solve problems and provide essential services, will take place April 10-13th.

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Press Releases

Insulfoam Opens New EPS Insulation Plant On East Coast

April 7, 2011 rockman Comments Off on Insulfoam Opens New EPS Insulation Plant On East Coast

Smithfield, Pennsylvania facility to be shared with sister company Hunter Panels

Carlisle, PA (March 17, 2011) – Insulfoam, North America’s largest producer of engineered expanded polystyrene (EPS) block-molded insulation products, announces its expansion into Western Pennsylvania. Manufacturing is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2011 in a 200,000 s.f. facility, located in Smithfield, PA. Insulfoam will strategically share the plant with sister company Hunter Panels (www.hpanels.com).

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Standards and Codes

ASTM Updates for March 2011

April 4, 2011 rockman Comments Off on ASTM Updates for March 2011

American Society of Testing Materials Logo - ASTMRead on for March 2011 updates to ASTM standards that relate to geotechnical engineering, soil and rock testing, concrete and asphalt testing, and various other related disciplines.  In this batch is a new standard for geospacial data related to abandoned mines, and revisions to standard test methods for ready mix concrete (C94/C94M), a few asphalt standards and a revised standard (D6274) for testing gamma borehole geophysics.

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