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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

Failure of MSE retaining wall on US 36 between Denver and Boulder

Apparent Foundation Failure of MSE Wall on US 36 Impacts Busy Denver-Boulder Route

August 1, 2019 rockman Comments Off

An MSE retaining wall at a bridge approach on US 36 suffered a failure that closed the entire highway for several days until a bypass around the destroyed eastbound lanes of the highway could be […]

View of Lunar Module footpad, subject of much geotechnical analysi

Geotechnical Engineering on the Moon? 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Landing

July 16, 2019 rockman Comments Off

You might not think that geotechnical engineering would have anything to do with the Apollo 11 mission that put the first humans on the surface of the moon, but you would be wrong. The landing […]

COOLR landslide points (in orange) and NASA landslide susceptibility (blue = low susceptibility, red = high susceptibility), in Central America. Image by NASA.

NASA Building Crowd-sourced Landslide Inventory

July 15, 2019 rockman Comments Off

NASA scientists are building an open global inventory of landslides with the goal of improving predictive models for landslides. The data is crowd-sourced and some are scraped from news sources as well. Anyone can download […]

Video: California SR-2 Slide Repair and Spider Excavator

July 11, 2019 rockman Comments Off

In February of 2019 a rockslide on California SR-2, the Angeles Crest Highway, buried the road in 30 feet of rubble and closed the road indefinitely. Caltrans worked to clear the remaining landslide debris and […]

Keller is integrating all its foundation businesses in North America into one unified company, and rebranding to Keller, effective 1 January, 2020.

Keller to Restructure in North America

July 11, 2019 rockman Comments Off

“We have a very proud history of success and market leadership in North America,” explains James Hind, President, North America. “Combining our capabilities will strengthen our position and give us the platform for further growth […]

Three Apartment Buildings Partially Collapse from Landslide in Mizoram, India

July 11, 2019 rockman Comments Off

A large landslide occured on the hillside above a complex of apartment buildings last week, partially collapsing 3 buildings and killing at least 3 people and injuring more. Dave Petley of the Landslide Blog notes […]

Marc Basnight Bridge in the Outer Banks, North Carolina

DFI Announces 2019 Outstanding Project Award Winners

June 20, 2019 rockman Comments Off

Hawthorne, N.J. (June 19, 2019): The winner of the 2019 DFI Outstanding Project Award (OPA) is the team of HDR (engineer), PCL Civil Constructors (general and foundation contractor) and North Carolina Department of Transportation (owner) […]

Jean-Louis Briaud after giving a lecture to a Geo-Institute group in St. Louis in 2016

ASCE Election Results: Briaud to Be 2020 President-Elect

June 20, 2019 rockman Comments Off

Jean-Louis Briaud will be the next President-Elect of ASCE. He is a well-known figure in geotechnical engineering and has been a dedicated servant of our profession. He will serve as President-Elect for 2020, and his […]

Team members from GSI evaluate one of the massive boulders that fell on Highway 145

Colorado Highway 145 Rockslide Mitigation

June 20, 2019 rockman Comments Off

GeoStabilization international helped Colorado DOT get highway 145 reopened after two massive rocks rolled down the slope cutting an 8 foot trench across both lanes. GSI had a team of scalers helicoptered up to the […]

Video: Rockfall Mitigation on Vermont’s Interstates

June 13, 2019 rockman Comments Off

This is a great video by Vermont DOT that describes how scaling is used as part of their mitigation efforts for rockfall. If you have never seen how high scaling works, this gives you a […]