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Webinar: SLOPE/W Stability Analysis using 3D Seepage Results, March 18

March 11, 2020 rockman Comments Off

Geo-Slope will be offering a free webinar on using three-dimensional seepage results in SLOPE/W analyses on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 12 pm EDT or 8 pm EDT. This webinar will review a complex three […]

1954 Niagara Falls Slope Failure

March 3, 2020 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

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 […]

Boring Company TBM for Las Vegas People Mover Project

Tunnel for Las Vegas Convention Center Nearly Half Done

February 11, 2020 rockman Comments Off

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 […]

Rebuilding With FEMA Funds after Emergencies Requires New Standards

February 10, 2020 rockman Comments Off

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. […]