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How to prevent copper wire theft from light poles
- Apr, 07, 2026
- News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry Foundation Design / Construction Shallow Foundations Transportation Geotechnics
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Copper wire theft from light poles is a growing problem for municipalities, utilities, and contractors, resulting in millions of dollars in repair costs and serious public safety risks. Thieves target...
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Understanding Cableway Performance: New Insights From Torque Testing
- Mar, 04, 2026
- Foundation Design / Construction Shallow Foundations Laboratory Testing Risk & Reliability News On Research / Academia News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Hubbell Power Systems recently completed an extensive field and laboratory study to better understand why some customers were experiencing premature failures of cableway slots in concrete‑collar stre...
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YII Envision Award Winner | GeoStruxer’s digital twin cuts piles by 70% and CO2 by 44%
- Feb, 26, 2026
- Foundation Design / Construction Deep Foundations Shallow Foundations Soil Structure Interaction News On Projects / Industry News On Software
- Saudi Arabia, Jazan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Jazan, located on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia, is home to a vital 12,000-square-meter operational grain warehouse that serves as a critical food security hub. The original foundation, a slab-on...
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Estimating Settlement of Shallow Foundations on Granular Soils
- Apr, 10, 2025
- Shallow Foundations Soil Mechanics Settlements News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Shallow foundations often give the illusion of simplicity—concrete blocks resting on firm ground, carrying the weight of entire buildings. But what lies beneath, particularly in granular soils like s...
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Geoengineering Resilience: Building a Fire Station Over an Abandoned Mine in Colorado
- Feb, 17, 2025
- Foundation Design / Construction Shallow Foundations Mining News On Projects / Industry
- United States, Colorado
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Frederick-Firestone Fire Station No. 5 in Colorado stands as a remarkable case study in geoengineering. Constructed over an abandoned coal mine, the project faced significant subsidence risks—a c...
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Underground tunnel and Yonge Station project in downtown Toronto
- Apr, 11, 2024
- Groundwater & Seepage Foundation Design / Construction Deep Foundations Pile Foundations Shallow Foundations Shaft Foundations News On Projects / Industry
- Canada, Toronto
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The C$13 billion Eglinton Crosstown is a new 19km light-rail line that extends Toronto’s public transport system west, adding 25 stations and creating commuter links with the city’s subway and bus ro...
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PLAXIS 2023.1 New release is out!
- Mar, 01, 2023
- Shallow Foundations Underground Structures Tunneling Rock Engineering Slope Stability Retaining Walls Deep Foundations Geosynthetics Finite Element / Finite Difference Ground Improvement Soil Mechanics News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The latest releases of PLAXIS marks our definitive transition to becoming part of Seequent, The Bentley Subsurface Company, with some minor cosmetic changes and a change to the version numbering. Ben...
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Naval Station Mayport Missile Magazine Foundation Project
- Aug, 23, 2022
- Foundation Design / Construction Shaft Foundations Shallow Foundations News On Projects / Industry
- United States, Florida, Jacksonville
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Square shaft helical piles with an added grout column were the ideal foundation to support two missile magazines in one of America's largest Naval bases. Located on the Atlantic coast near Jacksonvil...
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Mine Subsidence Repair Project at West Virginia Case Study
- Jun, 20, 2022
- Foundation Design / Construction Shallow Foundations News On Projects / Industry
- United States, West Virginia, Wheeling
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In this case study, engineers and contractors work to stabilize a new home with damage caused by a shallow foundation resting atop a long-wall coal mine. A new house was constructed in West Virginia,...
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Model Structures and Visualize Structural Forces
- Jun, 08, 2021
- Foundation Design / Construction News On Software Numerical & Constitutive Modeling Soil Structure Interaction Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Shallow Foundations Deep Foundations Mining Tunneling Underground Structures Visualization
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Soil-structure interaction is a crucial aspect for both geotechnical and structural fields. There is always an interaction between a structure and its foundation … and its proper investigation is an...
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