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Slope failure on Khanh Le Pass claims six lives

A major landslide along the Khanh Le pass in central Vietnam buried a passenger bus late Sunday, resulting in six fatalities and 19 injuries. The 33-kilometre mountain road, known for its steep terra...

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Ground improvement at the city of Hamilton bus maintenance and storage facility

After discovering differing ground conditions, Keller provided an alternative design for the new bus maintenance and storage facility at the City of Manilton. The City of Hamilton constructed a new b...

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Bridge collapse at Congo copper-cobalt mine kills at least 32

A bridge collapsed on 15 November 2025 at the Kalando mine, a copper and cobalt mining site in Mulondo, in the province of Lualaba Province in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), res...

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Progress accelerates on Rocchetta Tunnel in Apice–Hirpinia

Excavation on the Rocchetta Tunnel along the Apice–Hirpinia section of the future Naples–Bari high-speed and high-capacity railway has reached an important stage. The project team has completed the f...

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Tel Aviv Metro enters pre-qualification stage for $20 billion project

The NTA – Metropolitan Mass Transit Systems Ltd has launched the pre-qualification stage for the Tel Aviv Metro Programme, Israel’s largest-ever infrastructure project. Valued at approximately NIS 65...

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Dewatering and earth retention solutions at Atlantic Park Surf

Keller provides dewatering and earth retention solutions at a new wave park, located just two blocks from where the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay converge. A 2.67-acre surf lagoon joins the beac...

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Deep foundations and excavation support for the Parcel 12 project

Keller provides deep foundations and excavation support for the first air rights development project over the Massachusetts Turnpike since the 1980s. The project, Parcel 12, earned the 2025 DFI Outst...

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Introducing Lab Reporting Capabilities in OpenGround

OpenGround’s latest release makes it easier to generate typical lab reports that combines charts, text and tables helping you present lab data clearly and consistently. You can now create lab data re...

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New release: PLAXIS 2025.1

The latest PLAXIS release features a new database for calculation inputs and results. This upgrade offers faster output, improved data accessibility, and more consistent results, enabling users to pu...

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The Rise of Offshore Wind Energy and the Role of Geotechnical Modelling with PLAXIS and SACS

Offshore wind energy has emerged as a cornerstone in the global transition toward sustainable energy solutions. As nations seek to reduce carbon emissions and address the challenges posed by climate...

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New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and & Monitoring 2025

On November 17-20 2025, UC Berkeley Faculty and collaborators will be offering again a short course on "New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring". The course was offere...

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Driven Piles

Driven piles are prefabricated structural elements (e.g., steel H-piles, steel pipe, open or closed end, and prestressed/precast concrete piles) that are installed by impact or vibratory driving t...

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Numerical Analysis of a Cooling Tower Foundation Using FEM

This case study presents the application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) to design a ring foundation for a 185-meter-tall cooling tower located in Opole, Poland. The project faced notable geotechn...

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Practical Examples

This article showcases a practical example of FEA application in line with Eurocode 7 (EC7) requirements, focusing on the ultimate limit state (ULS) design of a deep multi-propped retaining wall in C...

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Considerations and Applications of FEA

Setting up an FE model in geotechnical engineering is a process that requires careful consideration of many factors including the need for FE analysis, the objectives of the modeling effort, and the...

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Numerical Insights into Piled Foundations Partially Embedded in Rock

Understanding the behavior of piled foundations embedded in rock is critical for safe and optimized geotechnical design and in particular when traditional soil-based assumptions fall short. While pil...

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The Mameyes, Puerto Rico, landslide, 1985

The Mameyes Landslide was a catastrophic rock-block slide that occurred at about 3:30 a.m. on Monday, October 7, 1985, in the Mameyes residential area on the outskirts of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Trigg...

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Permeation Grouting

Permeation or pressure grouting is a ground improvement technique involving the injection of low-viscosity grout materials, such as particulate suspensions, colloidal mixes, or chemical solutions,...

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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

This fully updated second edition provides an introduction to geotechnical earthquake engineering for first-year graduate students in geotechnical or earthquake engineering graduate programs with a l...

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2024 Geotechnical Business Directory

This unique annual business directory is published by GeoWorld, the professional network for geotechnical engineers, which currently includes 37,000+ professionals and 1,000+ companies and organizatio...

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2025 Special Edition USA & Canada Geotechnical Business Directory

This unique annual business directory is published by GeoWorld, the professional network for geotechnical engineers, which currently includes 40,500+ professionals and 1,100+ companies and organizatio...