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[ March 27, 2026 ] Keller CEO Describes Their Business Available Resources
[ March 23, 2026 ] Landslide Emoji Coming to iOS 26.4 Available Resources
[ February 9, 2026 ] Underground Leak Sealing Restores Coal Terminal Operations Project Related
[ February 4, 2026 ] Ground investigation for civil infrastructure gets more robust with integration of lab and field geotechnical data Press Releases
[ February 4, 2026 ] Young Engineering Geologists Gain Valuable Career Momentum Through New Zealand Alliance Projects Geologic Hazards

Video: Mountain Scale Landslide in Kyrgyzstan

November 2, 2020 rockman Comments Off

This video shows a huge landslide appear to take out a portion of an entire mountain. It must have been a sight to behold…and the rumbling is quite ominous. The title of the video notes […]

Golder Wins Bentley YII Award for Hong Kong Tunnel Project

October 29, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Golder was the recipient of the 2020 Bentley Year in Infrastructure (YII) Award in the category of Going Digital in Geotechnical Engineering for their work on the Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link (TM-CLKL) Tunnel, Southern […]

Groundhog - A geotechnical Python Package

Geotechnical Python Package – Groundhog

October 29, 2020 rockman Comments Off

A new Python package is available for performing a variety of geotechnical calculations. The package, called Groundhog, was created by Bruno Stuyts, a Belgian professor. Professor Stuyts describes his project in a LinkedIn article where […]

Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring

October 13, 2020 rockman Comments Off

TRB has published a new Synthesis Report entitled Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring. From the official description: Geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring technologies have been used to inform safety, operational, and treatment decisions for […]

How Will You Celebrate Karl Terzaghi’s Birthday?

October 2, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Every October 2, geotechnical engineers celebrate the birthday of Karl Terzaghi, generally considered to be the father of soil mechanics. So how will you celebrate this year? Need some ideas? The Geo-Institute will be hosting […]

Golder Celebrates 60 Years of Excellence!

September 22, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Golder is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary this year! Speaking personally, this is an amazing company with some truly amazing and talented individuals in the organization. This video does a great job giving you a flavor […]

ASTM Geotechnical Updates by GeoPrac.net

ASTM Updates for September 20, 2020

September 20, 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 […]

OpenGround - The future of geotechnical software at Bentley?

Bentley Systems Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering

September 15, 2020 rockman Comments Off

EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – September 15, 2020 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (“Bentley”) today announced the launch of the initial public offering of 10,750,000 shares of its Class B common stock. The shares of Class B […]

Video: Anchored Bored Pile Wall in Lisbon, Portugal

September 9, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Keller posted a very cool drone video of a anchored bored pile wall in an urban area of Lisbon, Portugal. I don’t speak Portuguese, so I can’t read the captions, but the video speaks for […]

Bubble 3D stress and settlement calculator

New Geotechnical Freeware for Stress and Settlement – Bubble 3D

September 8, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Novo Tech has released Bubble 3D, a new freeware application for visualizing foundation stress and settlement distribution. It does not use Finite or Discrete elements, but instead, it discretizes the model into many soil elements […]