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Chase Stadium (Jason O’Rear /Chase Center via CE Magazine)

Chase Stadium, A “Geotechnical Nightmare”

January 25, 2021 rockman Comments Off

Chase Stadium in San Francisco opened in 2019 as a cornerstone of the transformation of the Mission Bay Neighborhood (a former industrial zone) into a thriving entertainment and transportation hub. Home to the Golden State […]

Dr Harry Poulos awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Career Achievement Memorial Medal

Harry Poulos Receives Prestigious Award from Engineers Australia

January 25, 2021 rockman Comments Off

Dr. Harry Poulos of Coffey Geotechnics was recently awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Career Achievement Memorial Medal. This award is the highest honor given by Engineers Australia. Dr. Poulous has had a prolific career both […]

Webinar: Leapfrog and GeoStudio for analyzing Tailings Dams

January 24, 2021 rockman Comments Off

Seequent is hosting a webinar on January 27, 2021 at two different times entitled “Interoperability for Geotechnical Workflows”. This webinar will review the geotechnical workflow for analyzing pore water pressures and stability of a tailings […]

TBM Eliza is tunneling under I-75 in Michican

Eliza TBM Digs for Michigan’s $162M I-75 Project

January 23, 2021 rockman Comments Off

A TBM named for Eliza Leggett, an active participant on the underground railroad, and later a suffragist, has been tunneling for the past 6 months on the massive I-75 reconstruction project in metropolitan Detroit. The […]

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 […]