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Greg Fischer is new President of Shannon & Wilson

New President of Shannon & Wilson – Greg Fischer

March 3, 2020 rockman Comments Off

The long-time president of Shannon & Wilson, Gerard Buechel, will be stepping down this spring after 16 years as president. Greg Fisher, Chairman of the Board for the past 15 years will be taking over […]

Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Engineering

March 2, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Dutch organization EcoShape is providing nature-based designs for a variety of coastal engineering challenges…working with nature instead of against it. The video below talks a bit about their approach in the context of two projects. […]

Live Stream Terzaghi and Peck Lectures from Geo-Congress 2020

February 27, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Couldn’t attend the Geo-Institute’s Geo-Congress 2020 conference in Minneapolis? You can still live stream the prestigous Terzaghi Lecture and Peck Lecture. For links to the streams, visit the Geo-Congress Live Stream web site. The remaining […]

Fugro Wins Pile-Driving Prediction Contest With Machine-Learning

February 13, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Fugro defeated 60 other teams from industry and academia in a contest to predict pile driving blowcount vs. depth for jacket piles installed in the North Sea. The contest ran from April to December of […]

Stantec-Jacobs Team Wins $1.9B Corps Levee and Floodwall Project to Protect Texas Coast

February 13, 2020 rockman Comments Off

The Galveston Coastal Services Joint Venture was recently awarded the design of a 26.7-mile long segment of levee and floodwall system along the Texas coast near Galveston. The overall project is slated to last 8 […]

DFI Educational Trust and Terracon Announce a New Scholarship Fund

February 12, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Hawthorne, N.J. (January 30, 2020): Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust and the Terracon Foundation announce the establishment of the DFI Educational Trust/Terracon Consultants Scholarship Fund, which will provide scholarships to engineering students attending any […]

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New President of Shannon & Wilson – Greg Fischer

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Live Stream Terzaghi and Peck Lectures from Geo-Congress 2020

Fugro Wins Pile-Driving Prediction Contest With Machine-Learning

DFI Educational Trust and Terracon Announce a New Scholarship Fund

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