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[ February 9, 2026 ] Underground Leak Sealing Restores Coal Terminal Operations Project Related
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[ January 27, 2026 ] Registration Open for DFI’s 51st Annual Conference Conferences
[ January 27, 2026 ] Yangtze River TBM Rescue Project Related

Tensar Triax geogrid with separation geotextile

2021 GSI Webinar Schedule

January 19, 2021 rockman Comments Off

The Geosynthetic Institute has published its list of webinars for the first half of 2021. As we all continue our strange pandemic work schedules, this is a great option for geotechnical engineers needing to get […]

Trump Signs National Landslide Preparedness Act

January 19, 2021 rockman Comments Off

President Trump signed into law H.R.8810 / S.529, also known as the “National Landslide Preparedness Act” earlier this month. The purpose of the bill is to “establish a national program to identify and reduce losses […]

Automated total station for geotechnical monitoring (credit Geo-Instruments)

Online Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring Course

January 11, 2021 rockman Comments Off

UC Berkeley will offer an online short-course on “New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring” on January 22-23, 2021. Register by January 15, 2021! […]

Rocscience’s 2020 – Year in Review

December 31, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Geotechnical software company Rocscience has had a very busy 2020 with significant updates across their product list. They summarized their achievements in a nice infographic reproduced below.

Quick clay landslide in Gjerdrum, Norway

Quick Clay Landslide in Norway – Several Missing

December 30, 2020 rockman Comments Off

A landslide struck the village of Gjerdrum, which is about 25km (15 miles) north-east of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. The slide is already being called a “quick clay” landslide by officials. It occurred around 4 […]

On-Demand Webinar on Geotechnical Data Management

December 30, 2020 rockman Comments Off

A few weeks back I was a panelist on a webinar with Bentley as part of their Year in Infrastructure (YII) conference. The webinar was titled “YII ACCELERATE: REALIZE the benefits of a connected data […]

Video of 2011 Pile Load Test Failure in Singapore

December 29, 2020 rockman Comments Off

A static load test was being performed on (presumably) a group of piles at a construction site on Gilstead Road in Singapore in 2011 when the massive pile of concrete blocks toppled over, blocking the […]

ASTM Geotechnical Updates by GeoPrac.net

ASTM Updates for December 29, 2020

December 29, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Those of us in the geotechnical profession use ASTM Standards on a daily basis. It’s hard to keep up with changes, so I attempt to post regular digest updates to the ASTM standards of importance […]

2021 Lightweight Fill Conference – Call for Abstracts

December 29, 2020 rockman Comments Off

A virtual conference on Lightweight Fill will be held on October 20-21, 2021. Lightweight fill materials are materials that have a lower unit weight than the unit weight of locally available compacted natural soil fill. […]