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[ 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
[ January 27, 2026 ] Registration Open for DFI’s 51st Annual Conference Conferences
[ January 27, 2026 ] Yangtze River TBM Rescue Project Related

Top 500 Design Firms - With a Geo Emphasis

Geo-Companies in ENR’s 2018 Top 500 Design Firms

July 3, 2018 rockman Comments Off

ENR’s top 500 design firms of 2018 is out and I’m continuing a tradition I started a few years ago by listing the geo-companies that made the list. These rankings are based on revenue for […]

DFI Announces New Chair of Women in Deep Foundations Committee

July 3, 2018 rockman Comments Off

Hawthorne, NJ (July 2, 2018): Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Maysill Pascal, P.E., senior regional engineer/sales manager for USW, a Menard Group USA Company, is the new chair of the DFI Women in Deep […]

Nicholson - Giving You the Shaft, All Over the Country

Nicholson Gives You The Shaft & The T-Shirt at NAT 2018

June 26, 2018 rockman Comments Off

Geotechnical contractor Nicholson Construction has brought out a hilarious marketing slogan for the NAT 2018 tunneling conference happening this week in Washington D.C. If you are at the conference, go visit them in Booth 505 and maybe […]

Italian Church Survives Massive Rockfall

June 26, 2018 rockman Comments Off

A 5,000 cubic meter rockfall is seen on cell phone video enveloping a 420 year old Italian church in dust, but the church and its bell tower miraculously escaped serious damage. The Santuario di Gallivaggio (Sanctuary […]

Keller in Canada Announces Recent Hires in Management

June 26, 2018 rockman Comments Off

Hanover, Md., June 20, 2018 – Keller announces two additions to the company’s British Columbia office – Brian Wilson as Vice President and Jim Coull as General Manager. As vice president of the Pacific Region, Wilson will focus on cutter […]

Malcolm Drilling at Rainier Square in Seattle

Malcolm Drilling Working on Seattle’s Second Tallest Tower

June 19, 2018 rockman Comments Off

Malcolm Drilling is currently working on shoring for the foundation excavation of a new tower at Rainier Square in downtown Seattle. The structure will be a 58-story mixed-use skyscraper topping out at 850 feet, which […]

Embarcadero seawall is in need of repair and hardening against sea level rise

San Francisco’s Embarcadero Seawall At Risk from Earthquakes, Sea-Level Rise

June 1, 2018 rockman Comments Off

The iconic San Francisco waterfront area known as Embarcadero is in dire need of a new seawall system to harden the area against sea level rise and to prevent damage from major earthquakes. Projections are that the […]

Ground subsidence in Merced County, CA - USGS/Justin Brandt

Congress Passes FY 2018 Omnibus With Record Funding of Geoscience Agencies

June 1, 2018 rockman Comments Off

The American Geosciences Institute has an interesting article on the recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 which provides record funding for geoscience agencies. This includes a $63M or 6% increase for the USGS compared […]

Earthquake-induced landslide in Japan in April 2016

New Research on Earthquake Induced Landslides

May 17, 2018 rockman Comments Off

Some new research on the Newmark Displacement Method for earthquake-induced landslides indicates that the method may be on the unconservative side. The Landslide Blog provides a short summary of the paper by Li et al. (2018) that was recently […]

Hawaii braces for volcano’s explosive steam eruption

May 17, 2018 rockman Comments Off