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Site effects in Mexico city: recordings from the 1985 earthquake

New ASCE 7-16 Seismic Design Standards – More Site-Specific Design?

March 23, 2018 rockman Comments Off

ASCE/SEI’s 7-16 publication, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, was published last year and contains some new seismic design standards. According to an analysis by one group of industry professionals […]

Location of a March 2018 fatality on a rockfall scaling project in Colorado on US 6 in Clear Creak Canyon

Man Killed After Fall During Rock Scaling Work in Colorado

March 21, 2018 rockman Comments Off

A man was killed on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 when he fell 50 to 70 feet while working on a rock scaling project in Clear Creek Canyon on US 6 in Colorado. The man, 40-year-old Jaime […]

DFI Educational Trust Announces the Fred H. Kulhawy Memorial Scholarship Fund

March 21, 2018 rockman Comments Off

Hawthorne, NJ (March 16, 2018): The Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust (www.dfitrust.org), the charitable arm of DFI, announces the establishment of the Fred H. Kulhawy Memorial Scholarship Fund. The fund, which honors Professor Kulhawy’s […]

Tailings Dam Failure – Cadia Mine in NSW Australia

March 20, 2018 rockman Comments Off

On March 9, 2018 a “limited breach” of the tailings dam at the North Tailings Facility of the Cadia Mine tailings impoundment occurred in New South Wales, Australia. The area of the failure is approximately […]

Vasan Srinivasan, P.E. Named GEI’s New Chief Operating Officer

March 7, 2018 rockman Comments Off

GEI is pleased to announce that Vasan Srinivasan, P.E. has been hired as Chief Operating Officer. He will oversee the operations of GEI’s 38 offices, 800 staff and multiple service lines and market sectors across the […]

Photo from GHD Report taken before the landslide

NZ Landslide – Agency Rejected Recommended Monitoring

March 7, 2018 rockman Comments Off

An article by the NZ Herald reports that recommendations for slope monitoring and early warning made by a geotechnical consulting firm in a report 2 years before the initial failure were not adopted by Auckland Transport. The […]

Regional Connector Transit Corridor - Group Delta Consultants

Group Delta Launches new Website

March 7, 2018 rockman Comments Off

California geotechnical and environmental engineering firm, Group Delta, has announced the launch of a new website. And it is worth the time to visit! They have worked on some of the most high-profile projects in […]

Excavation shoring retaining wall failure in Rome swallows 6 cars

Shoring Wall Fails in Rome, Swallows 6 Cars

February 20, 2018 rockman Comments Off

A shoring retaining wall at a Rome construction site failed at around 5:30 pm local time on February 14, 2018, and swallowed 6 parked cars from the adjacent street and required evacuation of some 20 […]

Cellular concrete backfill behind an MSE retaining wall

Webinar: The Design of MSE Walls with Low Density Cellular Concrete (LDCC)

February 20, 2018 rockman Comments Off

Cellular Concrete provider, Aerix Industries, is presenting a free webinar on March 7, 2018 at noon EST presentation by Susan Rafalko, PE of the Reinforced Earth Company entitled “The Design of MSE Walls with Low-Density […]