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There was a major flash flood and debris flow event in the Swiss Town of Chamoson and the video is unreal. The videos below are pretty crazy!
This video pretty much speaks for itself! I don’t have any details on the incident, but it is reportedly from India and it hit social media outlets in the past week.
A preliminary investigation report notes that “land subsidence” was the cause of a June 7th pipeline explosion near Moundsville, West Virginia, in other words, a landslide. An 83-foot section of the 36-inch diameter pipeline was […]
Hanover, Md., July 3, 2018 – Hayward Baker, Inc., North America’s leader in geotechnical construction, releases Geotech Solutions. Geotech Solutions is the first augmented reality (AR) app to be developed by a geotechnical construction firm. […]
Burlington, Mass., July 24, 2018 – Haley & Aldrich, an engineering and environmental consulting company, today announced that R. Jeffrey Dunn, Ph.D., is consulting with the firm as a Principal Consultant, bringing more than 40 […]
Carolina Sunrock constructed a new primary crusher and needed a 51 foot tall retaining wall to create the grade separation. They went with a Redi-Rock faced wall, and were in the unique position to buy […]
One of SRK Consulting’s three founding members, Dr. Oskar Steffen, passed away on Wednesday, June 27, in Johannesburg. He was 77 years old. Engineers outside of the mining sector may not be familiar with Dr. […]
The iconic Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is undergoing a $1.8 billion expansion, with a gleaming 36-storey, guitar-shaped hotel as its stunning centerpiece. Such a unique and challenging project requires a wide range of specialist […]
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura New Zealand in 2016 caused over 50 landslides along State Highway 1, north and south of the Town. The team of engineers tasked with reopening the corridor to road and rail traffic […]
A new version of the Keynetix HoleBASE SI Extension for Civil 3D will revolutionise ground modelling, dynamically updating AutoCAD 3D models when users change sections and fence diagrams. Rather than building a ground model and […]
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