News, announcements, policy updates, spotlighted websites, software updates and other info that may be of interest to practicing geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, geophysicists, hydrogeologists and related professions.
There is a great video of a massive slope failure event at Niagara Falls Prospect Point from 1954. It’s amazing footage in it’s own right, and the vintage feel of the video is interesting as […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Boring Company’s tunnel boring machine is nearly complete with the first half of the dual tunnel people mover system servicing the Las Vegas Convention Center. The secretive tunnel project is reported to cost $52.5M […]
The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released an Interim Policy that requires any rebuilding after an emergency to comply with a number of consensus-based codes and standards as a prerequisite for receiving emergency funds. […]
Geotechnical software company Rocscience will be hosting three free webinars on 3D slope stability modeling using their Slide3 program. Part 1 of the free webinar series will demonstrate the features of the new Slide3 software […]
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